An Eastern Christianity | Eastern Christian Icon depicting Constantine I and Christianity | Emperor Constantine and the Fathers of the First Council of Nicaea ( 325 ) as holding the Niceno – Constantinopolitan Creed of 381.

* MacCulloch, Diarmaid, A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years.

Icon depicting Constantine I and Christianity | Emperor Constantine ( center ) and the Fathers of the First Council of Nicaea ( 325 ) as holding the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed of 381

One of the most widely used creeds in Christianity is the Nicene Creed, first formulated in AD 325 at the First Council of Nicaea.

In the history of Christianity, the First seven Ecumenical Councils, from the First Council of Nicaea ( 325 ) to the Second Council of Nicaea ( 787 ), represent an attempt to reach an orthodox consensus and to unify Christendom under the State church of the Roman Empire.

* Freyne, Sean, " Galilee and Judea in the First Century ," in Margaret M. Mitchell and Frances M. Young ( eds ), Cambridge History of Christianity.

Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years ( 2011 )

Sometimes called the " First Vision ", Smith's vision of God the Father and Jesus Christ as two separate beings was reportedly the basis for the difference in doctrine between Mormonism's view of the nature of God and that of orthodox Christianity.

Icon depicting Constantine I and Christianity | Emperor Constantine ( center ) and the Fathers of the First Council of Nicaea of 325 as holding the Niceno – Constantinopolitan Creed of 381

The term may refer to any belief about the nature of Jesus Christ that affirms God as a singular entity and rejects the doctrine of the Trinity and is usually distinguished from Arianism, which was rejected by mainstream Christianity, a consensus of Christian bishops at the First Council of Nicaea in 325.

* 325: Constantine I calls the First Council of Nicaea to pacify Christianity in the grip of the Arian controversy.

While theology of the Arians was declared a heresy at the First Council of Nicea in 325 AD, the missionary work of the bishop Ulfilas converted the pagan Goths to Arian Christianity in the 4th Century.

The period covers the beginning of Christianity until before the promulgation of the Nicene Creed at the First Council of Nicaea.

Around the time of the Roman Empire Thessaloniki was also an important center for the spread of Christianity ; the First Epistle to the Thessalonians written by Paul the Apostle is the first written book of the New Testament.

Nestorius and his doctrine were condemned at the First Council of Ephesus in 431, leading to the Nestorian Schism in which churches supporting Nestorius split from the rest of Christianity.

In Australia, fundamentalist Christianity is the base for Fred Nile and his small Christian Democratic party, as well as the Family First Party.

On the United States ' suppression in the First Barbary War of the Muslim Barbary Pirates along the southern Mediterranean coast, who kidnapped Christians for ransom and slavery, Pope Pius VII declared that the United States “ had done more for the cause of Christianity than the most powerful nations of Christendom have done for ages .”

The Ante-Nicene Period ( literally meaning " before Nicaea "), or Post-Apostolic Period, of the history of early Christianity spanned the late 1st century to the early 4th century, with the end marked by the First Council of Nicaea in 325 AD.

While in captivity, she accepted Christianity and married English settler John Rolfe, thus becoming an ancestor to many of the First Families of Virginia.

* The History of Jewish Christianity from the First to the Twentieth Century ( 1936 )

By the 1870 ’ s Mary was telling her students “ Some day I will have a church of my own .” In 1879 she and her students established the Church of Christ, Scientist, “ to commemorate the word and works of our Master, which should reinstate primitive Christianity and its lost element of healing .” In 1892 at Eddy ’ s direction, the church reorganized as The First Church of Christ, Scientist, “ designed to be built on the Rock, Christ ....” Some years later in 1881, she founded the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, where she taught approximately 800 students in Boston, Massachusetts between the years 1882 and 1889.

First, the earliest surviving independent images of the Virgin Mary are found in Rome, the center of Christianity in the medieval West.

Three years he was occupied in campaigns against the Slavic Wends, who as pagans were considered fair game, and whose subjugation to Christianity was the aim of the Wendish Crusade of 1147 in which Albert took part ; diplomatic measures were more successful, and by an arrangement made with the last of the Wendish princes of Brandenburg, Pribislav of the Hevelli, Albert secured this district when the prince died in 1150.

Three angels hosted by Abraham by Ludovico Carracci: The three angels represent the Godhead ( Christianity ) | three persons of God.

He was reportedly a patron of the Three Faiths Forum, a group which aims to encourage friendship, goodwill and understanding amongst people of the three monotheistic faiths of Christianity, Judaism and Islam in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.

Greek: μάγοι, magoi ), also referred to as the ( Three ) Wise Men, ( Three ) Kings, or Kings from the East, were, according to Christianity, a group of distinguished foreigners who visited Jesus after his birth, bearing gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh.

One of his later historical works, Die Mission und Ausbreitung des Christentums in den ersten drei Jahrhunderten ( 1902 ; English translation, The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries, in two volumes, 1904 – 1905 ), was followed by some important New Testament studies ( Beitrage zur Einleitung in das neue Testament, 1906 sqq.

He also produced some highly controversial polemics, including the Treatise of the Three Impostors, in which Christianity, Judaism and Islam are all condemned as the three great political frauds.

* Three Western diplomats, representing eight aid workers on trial for allegedly preaching Christianity, left Afghanistan amid an exodus of foreigners concerned over possible U. S. attacks.

Three events would greatly affect the fortunes of early Jewish Christianity.

* Christianity Today: Three Over-looked Leadership Roles

* Christianity: The First Three Centuries

Three broad groupings can be identified, and whilst some elements are universal, style and content varies greatly due to the history and differing emphases of the various branches of Christianity.

In the 1520s, the Diet of Ilanz declared that citizens of the Three Leagues should be free to choose between Catholicism and the Protestant forms of Christianity rising to the fore.

Consequently, an explicit syncretism is a noticeable feature of these groups, who claim that their teachings aim to unify the " Three Religions " ( Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism ), the " Five Religions " ( the former three plus Christianity and Islam ), or even the " Ten thousand Religions ".

A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, was published in September 2009 with a related 6-part television series called A History of Christianity which first aired on BBC 4 in 2009 and then on BBC 2 and BBC 4 in 2010.

* A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years.

The philosophy of Ten Thousand Villages was inspired by Mennonite Christianity.

He has been quoted in Time magazine, and also has appeared in the television series Mysteries of the Bible and Christianity: The First Thousand Years.

He came into the throne by championing the Protestant cause during the increasingly tense times of religious strife between competing sects of Christianity, which, in just over a decade, would break out as the Thirty Years ' War.

The Years of Rice and Salt ( 2002 ) is an alternate history novel with major Buddhist and Islamic religious elements written by science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson, a thought experiment about a world in which neither Christianity nor the European cultures based on it achieve lasting impact on world history.

By 1648, with the end of the Thirty Years ' War, the official religious balance of established Christianity in Europe was permanently stabilized, but new fields for evangelization were offered by vast regions of Asia, Africa and the Americas then being explored.

Birth of Christianity: Discovering what Happened in the Years Immediately After the Execution of Jesus.

The religious division eventually generated The Thirty Years War ( 1618 – 1648 ) which ultimately led to the Peace of Westphalia ( 1648 ) and the confessional division of Germanic Christianity that exists to this day: most of Austria, Luxembourg, Southern ( especially, Bavaria ) and Western Germany ( notably Saarland and Rheinland part of Nordrhein-Westfalen ) remained Catholic while Northern and Eastern Germany ( notably Prussia ) remained Lutheran.

Some of these composers were Roman Catholic: the Thirty Years War had not yet torn Germany apart, and composers from both branches of Christianity were still mixing freely.

* The Birth of Christianity: Discovering What Happened in the Years Immediately After the Execution of Jesus, 1998, ISBN 0-06-061660-1

They flourished at a time of great trauma in Western Europe during the conflict between the decadent Avignon Papacy and the Holy Roman Emperor, the Hundred Years ' War, the Black Death, the rise of the Cathar heresy and the subsequent Crusade against them, the beginnings of the Inquisition, the fall of the Templars and the internal strife of the Church — all of which helped fuel the appeal of their individualistic and millenarian approach to Christianity and Scripture.

Archbishop of Washington, DC, " Unifying Religious Threads that Provide a Common Ground for Peace " 2009 Rabbi Michael Schudrich, Chief Rabbi of Poland, " A Rabbi ’ s Reflection on the Teachings of John Paul II " 2010 Mona Siddiqui, Prominent Islamic Scholar and Professor of Islamic Studies and Public Understanding at the University of Glasgow, " Islamic Perspectives on Judaism and Christianity " 2011 Professor David F. Ford, a world's renowned Anglican theologian, the Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, England, and director of the Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme, " Jews, Christians and Muslims Meet around their Scriptures: An Inter-faith Practice for the Twenty-first Century " 2012 His Eminence Cardinal Kurt Koch, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and the Commission of the Holy See for Religious Relations with the Jews " Building on Nostra Aetate: 50 Years of Christian-Jewish Dialogue "

** Going South ( 4: 19 ) / 11 Years ( 4: 01 ) / Blood Satisfaction ( 3: 41 ) / Chains ( 4: 58 ) / Christianity ( 4: 33 ) / Derek The Confessor ( 4: 04 ) // So Long Dead ( 4: 16 ) / Executioner ( 3: 11 ) / She's So Soft ( 4: 29 ) / New Glass ( 2: 00 ) / Fallen Not Broken ( 4: 01 ) / People Say ( 4: 10 )

** Initial CD copies with four-track remix bonus disc ( CADD-4016-CD ): Executioner ( Adamson Mix ) ( 7: 10 ) / Christianity ( Sherwood Mix ) ( 8: 33 ) / Going South ( Adrenalin Mix ) ( 4: 18 ) / 11 Years ( Sabres Main Mix 1 ) ( 6: 07 )

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* The Birth of Christianity: The First Twenty Years.

* The Story of Christianity: An Illustrated History of 2000 Years of the Christian Faith.