He terms this early enthusiasm `` Romantic Christianity '' and concludes that its similarity to democratic beliefs of that day is so great that `` the doctrine of liberty seems but a secular version of its counterpart in evangelical Protestantism ''.

Fox seems to have had no desire to found a sect but only to proclaim what he saw as the pure and genuine principles of Christianity in their original simplicity, though he afterward showed great prowess as a religious legislator in the organization he gave to the new society.

He knows of a division among the orthodox only on the question of the millennium and on the attitude toward the milder Jewish Christianity, which he personally is willing to tolerate as long as its professors in their turn do not interfere with the liberty of the Gentile converts ; his millenarianism seems to have no connection with Judaism, but he believes firmly in a millennium, and generally in the Christian eschatology.

Sometimes Christianity seems to him to be just too good to be true, but when this sort of doubt arises he says to himself, " All right then, deny it ," and writes that he knows this is something he could never do.

He seems to have taken advantage of Edward's death to encroach south, but in 926 he came to an agreement with Æthelstan, accepting Christianity and marrying his only known full sister, thus implicitly accepting Æthelstan's superiority.

While this precise terminology —" by faith alone "— does not appear in English Bible translations other than in where it has been claimed that the author seems to reject the notion that a person is justified by God solely on account of faith, other Catholic authorities also used " alone " in their translation of Romans 3: 28 or exegesis of salvation by faith passages, and it is claimed to summarize the teaching of the New Testament, and especially the Pauline epistles such as, which systematically reject the proposition that justification before God is obtained due to the merit of one's obedience to the Law of Moses ( see also Biblical law in Christianity ), or Abraham's circumcision and works.

The crosses often, though not always, feature a stone ring around the intersection, forming a Celtic cross ; this seems clearly an innovation of Celtic Christianity, perhaps at Iona.

Christian commentators note the superficiality of Agathias ' nominal Christianity: " There are reasons for doubting that he was a Christian, though it seems improbable that he could have been at that late date a genuine pagan " ( Catholic Encyclopedia ).

Patterson argues that this can be interpreted as a criticism against the school of Christianity associated with the Gospel of Matthew, and that " his sort of rivalry seems more at home in the first century than later ", when all the apostles had become revered figures.

He seems also to have doubted the wisdom of Spener's plan of not separating from the Lutheran Church, and began to think that true Christianity could be best promoted by free associations of Christians, which in the course of time might grow into churches with no state connection.

Since Nonius does not mention Christianity and calls himself a peripatetic, he seems not to have converted.

In this case, the author seems to aim to demonstrate that Jewish understanding of the Mosaic legislation ( Torah ) is completely incorrect and can now be considered superseded, since in the author's view the Jewish scriptures foreshadowed Jesus and Christianity when rightly understood.

Later it was to have an important place in Christian liturgy (' In Paradisum deducant te Angeli '), which seems to be one of the ancient inheritances from Jewish Christianity.

Christianity seems to have been introduced very early into Mopsuestia and during the 3rd century there is mention of a bishop, Theodorus, the adversary of Paul of Samosata.

In Constantinople he seems to have early won the notice of Justinian I, one of the main objects of whose policy was the consolidation of Eastern Christianity as a bulwark against the Zoroastrian power of Persia, through persecution of all the remaining pagans of the empire.

King Ezana ( c. 321 – c. 360 ), indeed, helping the work of his childhood tutor Frumentius, introduced Christianity in Axum, precluding the pagan practice of erecting burial stelae ( it seems that at the feet of each obelisk, together with the grave, there was present a sacrificial altar ).

In the early church, one sponsor seems to have been the norm, but in the early Middle Ages, there seems to have been two, one of each sex, and this practice has been largely maintained in Orthodox Christianity.

The period sees the slow emergence of orthodoxy ( the idea of which seems to emerge out of the conflicts between catholic Christianity and Gnostic Christianity ), the establishment of a Biblical canon, debates about the doctrine of the Trinity ( most notably between the councils of Nicaea in 325 and Constantinople in 381 ), about Christology ( most notably between the councils of Constantinople in 381 and Chalcedon in 451 ), about the purity of the Church ( for instance in the debates surrounding the Donatists ), and about grace, free will and predestination ( for instance in the debate between Augustine of Hippo and Pelagius ).

Svyatoslav's successor, Yaropolk I ( r. 972-980 ), seems to have had a more conciliatory attitude towards Christianity.

As disbelief later gradually crept over Darwin, he could " hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true ; for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my Father, Brother and almost all my best friends, will be everlastingly punished.

As disbelief later gradually crept over Darwin, he could " hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true ; for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my Father, Brother and almost all my best friends, will be everlastingly punished.

: " I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true ; for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my Father, Brother and almost all my best friends, will be everlastingly punished.

We have aligned ourselves with that `` liberal '' tradition in Protestant Christianity that counts among the great names in its history those of Schleiermacher, Ritschl, Herrmann, Harnack, and Troeltsch, and more recently, Schweitzer and the early Barth and, in part at least, Bultmann.

Although they have also been concerned to stand squarely within the tradition of the apostolic church, they have exhibited no willingness whatever to sacrifice their modernity to their Christianity.

Colonialism alone would have been able to make these difficulties serious, for Christianity is so closely tied to colonialism in the minds of these people that repudiation of the one has tended automatically toward the repudiation of the other.

Presumably those who did not have a formal church connexion had also felt the influence of Christianity to a greater or lesser extent.

We have already hinted at the fashion in which Christianity contributed to education and so to intellectual life.

Christianity depicts a sharp distinction between angels, divine beings created by God before the creation of humanity and are used as messengers, and saints, the souls of humans who have received immortality from the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ of Nazareth, who dwell in Heaven with God.

Since the 1970s, self-help books, psychology, and some modern expressions of Christianity have viewed this disparity in terms of grace being an innate quality within all people who must be inspired or strong enough to find it: something to achieve.

Unlike the later Christianization of the Saxon and of the Slavs, the Alemanni seem to have adopted Christianity gradually, and voluntarily, spread in emulation of the Merovingian elite.

In Brazil, a number of modern religious movements based on the use of ayahuasca have emerged, the most famous of them being Santo Daime and the União do Vegetal ( or UDV ), usually in an animistic context that may be shamanistic or, more often ( as with Santo Daime and the UDV ), integrated with Christianity.

Despite the shared name of " Adoptionism " the Spanish Adoptionist Christology appears to have differed sharply from the Adoptionism of early Christianity.

Arius ’ theological views appear to have been firmly rooted in Alexandrian Christianity, and his Christological views were certainly not radical at all.

While not considered orthodox Christian, the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica uses roles and titles derived from Christianity for its clerical hierarchy, including bishops who have much the same authority and responsibilities as in Roman Catholicism.

In the second century Christianity was criticized by the Jews on a various grounds, e. g. that the prophecies of the Hebrew Bible could not have been fulfilled by Jesus, given that he did not have a successful life.

The second noteworthy characteristic is that the country borders on very different parts of the African continent: North Africa, with its Islamic culture and economic orientation toward the Mediterranean Basin ; West Africa, with its diverse religions and cultures and its history of highly developed states and regional economies ; Northeast Africa, oriented toward the Nile Valley and Red Sea region ; and Central or Equatorial Africa, some of whose people have retained classical African religions while others have adopted Christianity, and whose economies were part of the great Congo River system.

: Behind the scenes, Rockies quietly have become an organization guided by Christianity – open to other religious beliefs but embracing a Christian-based code of conduct they believe will bring them focus and success.

In a historical or geopolitical sense the term usually refers collectively to Christian majority countries or countries in which Christianity dominates or was a territorial phenomenon .“ Christendom is originally a medieval concept steadily to have evolved since the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the gradual rise of the Papacy more in religio-temporal implication practically during and after the reign of Charlemagne ; and the concept let itself to be lulled in the minds of the staunch believers to the archetype of a holy religious space inhabited by Christians, blessed by God, the Heavenly Father, ruled by Christ through the Church and protected by the Spirit-body of Christ ; no wonder, this concept, as included the whole of Europe and then the expanding Christian territories on earth, strengthened the roots of Romance of the greatness of Christianity in the world .”

A later edict issued by Constantius after becoming sole emperor decreed that a person who was proven to have converted from Christianity to Judaism would have their entire property confiscated by the state.

* A person who is proven to have converted from Christianity to Judaism shall have their property confiscated by the state.

Several creeds have originated in Christianity.