Williams had been a Methodist, though he spent much of his life struggling with Christianity's teachings on homosexuality.

" And he argued for the superiority of Christianity's concepts of death and life.

Though Genghis was at first seen as a scourge of Christianity's enemies, he proved to be surprisingly tolerant of religious faiths among those subjects that did not resist the empire, and was the first East Asian ruler to invite clerics from three major religions ( Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism ) to a symposium so that he might learn more about their beliefs.

The formless aspect of the Amesha Spentas dual-functionality, might more easily be compared with Christianity's Holy Trinity or celestial Thrones but this in no way disqualifies them from being both divine hosts and archangelic archetypes.

They insist that their conception of the Godhead is true to early Christianity's strict monotheism, contrasting their views not only with Trinitarianism, but equally with the Arianism espoused by the Latter-day Saints ( who believe that Christ was a separate " god " from the Father and the Spirit ) and Jehovah's Witnesses ( who see him as a lesser deity than his Father ).

Springing out of Second Temple Judaism, from Christianity's earliest days, Christians accepted non-Jews ( Gentiles ) without requiring them to fully adopt Jewish customs ( such as circumcision ).

* Western Christianity's most prolific 20th century essayist, F. W. Boreham in ' Life at Thirty ' (' Cliffs of Opal ') mentions that in addition to Jesus commencing ministry at 30 ( Luke 3: 23 ), Joseph was 30 when he stood before Pharaoh, King of Egypt ( Genesis 41: 46 ), King David was 30 when he began to reign ( 2 Samuel 5: 4 ), and the Levites were numbered from the age of 30 and upward ( 1 Chronicles 23: 3 ).

" Such hatred results from Christianity's decadence, according to Nietzsche.

" And time has been reckoned from that dies nefastus, the beginning day of this disaster, from Christianity's first day!

Other criticism is politcally focused coming from members of the Christian right who disagree with socially liberal aspects of Center for Progressive Christianity's political stances.

Some experts predict the shift of Christianity's center from the European industrialized nations to Africa and Asia in modern times.

Christianity's view of salvation as a result of selflessness is seen as potentially prescriptive of women who need, in Saiving's opinion, to be encouraged rather than discouraged from asserting themselves as individuals.

At some of the mithraeums which have been found below churches, for example the Santa Prisca mithraeum and the San Clemente mithraeum, the ground plan of the church above was made in a way to symbolize Christianity's domination of Mithraism.

Chaumette valued education as key for producing virtuous republican Frenchman who would no longer " fall for " Christianity's unreasonable teachings.

*" Searching for Christianity's Most Sensitive Remnant " in Toronto Star

He also authored The First Hundred Years A. D. 1-100: Failures and Successes of Christianity's Beginning and Thirst for Independence: The San Diego Water Story.

One of the Center for Progressive Christianity's goals involves creating a very broad tent.

This is most likely because of Christianity's affinity for Platonic concepts.

In 1291 Pope Nicholas IV wrote two letters inviting John II to convert to Catholicism, join in a new crusade for the recovery of the Holy Land and be Christianity's envoy to the Mongols.

Major focuses for these theologians during the period are in chronological order: Christianity's relationship with Judaism ; the establishment of the New Testament Canon ; Apologetics (' defense ' or ' explanation ' of Christianity ); and doctrinal discussions that sought to achieve consistency of faith, in particular within the Christianised Roman Empire.

In it, she responds to the emerging liberation theology which argues for Christianity's preferential option for the poor.

* Christianity's scramble for India and the failure of the secularist elite ( New Delhi: Hindu Writers ' Forum, 1999 ) ISBN 81-86970-09-6.

Throughout most of Christianity's history, corporate Christian worship has been liturgical, characterized by prayers and hymns, with texts rooted in, or closely related to, the Scripture, particularly the Psalter ; this form of sacramental and ceremonial worship is still practiced by the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Anglican churches, as well as some Protestant denominations such as Lutheranism and Methodism.

Many Humanists also celebrate the winter and summer solstice, the former of which ( in the northern hemisphere ) is the root of the celebration of Christmas, and the equinoxes, of which the vernal equinox is associated with Christianity's Easter and indeed with all other springtime festivals of renewal.

* Jesus had an intimate relationship with Mary Magdalene which may or may not have resulted in marriage, and / or children ; their continued bloodline is then said to be Christianity's deepest secret.

Augustine wrote the treatise to explain Christianity's relationship with competing religions and philosophies, as well as its relationship with the Roman government, with which it was increasingly intertwined.

Boswell, in his essay The Church and the Homosexual, attributes Christianity's denunciations of " homosexuality " to a supposedly rising intolerance in Europe throughout the 12th century, which he claims was also reflected in other ways.

The same buildings were used again in 1988 ( Tambaram 1988 ) to commemorate this landmark event which focused contemporary thought into ecumenism, Christianity's engagement with world religions and traditions.

From Eliade's perspective, Christianity's " trans-historical message " may be the most important help that modern man could have in confronting the terror of history.

In another type of example, it is recorded that there are three Dogrib prophets who had claimed to have been divinely inspired to bring the message of Christianity's God to their people.

In The Last Trial, Shalom Spiegel argues that these commentators were interpreting the Biblical narration as an implicit rebuke against Christianity's claim that God would sacrifice His own son.

Jesus ' statement that God had forsaken him ( Matt. 27: 46 ) and Christianity's history of martyrdom are mentioned as examples of this.

However, while Islam relegates Jesus to a lesser status than God — " in the company of those nearest to God " in the Qur ' an, mainstream ( Trinitarian ) Christianity teaches without question that Jesus is God the Son, one of the three Hypostases ( common English: persons ) of Christianity's Holy Trinity, equally God as are God the Father and the Holy Spirit.

The Christian God reflects Christianity's decadence.

were very much holy wars waged to maintain Christianity's theological and social control.

As the first major intra-Christian conflict after Christianity's legalization, the struggle between Nicenes and Arians left a deep impression on the institutional memory of Nicene churches.

Heinrich Zimmer also notes Christianity's emphasis on linear time ; he attributes this emphasis specifically to the influence of Saint Augustine's theory of history.

In the middle of the 2nd century, an edited version of the Gospel of Luke was the only gospel accepted by Marcion, a heretic who rejected Christianity's connection to Jewish scripture.

Julian was succeeded by the short-lived Emperor Jovian who reestablished Christianity's privileged position throughout the Empire.

He states that there is at least the possibility of another type of nihilist in the wake of Christianity's self-dissolution, one that does not stop after the destruction of all value and meaning and succumb to the following nothingness.

Rosicrucianism, one of the most celebrated of Christianity's mystical offshoots, has lent aspects of its philosophy to most Christian-based occultism since the 17th century.

Soon after, on the road to Damascus, Paul of Tarsus converted to Christianity based on a vision of Jesus and later, became one of Christianity's foremost missionaries and theologians.

* Anthony F. Buzzard and Charles F. Hunting, The Doctrine of the Trinity: Christianity's Self-Inflicted Wound ( Lanham, Maryland, 1998 ) ISBN 1-57309-309-2.

The Doctrine of the Trinity: Christianity's Self-Inflicted Wound.

In Western Christianity's original area Latin was the principal language.

Publicly, he affected to deplore Christianity's degeneration owing to Jewish influence.

To Christians, the destroyed Temple was a symbol of Christianity's triumph over Judaism, and Julian, was an opponent of Christianity.

Many Christians have used it as an example of Christianity's opposition to racial, ethnic and sectarian prejudice.

Similarly to Christianity's Lucifer, Kosst Amojan (" The Evil One ") was a Prophet who was forced out of the Celestial Temple after a failed attempt to seize control, with the other Pah Wraiths.