Finally, it did seem clear as day to these clergymen, as Gannett's son explained in the biography of his father, they had always contended for the propriety of their claim to the title of Christians.

In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, interest in Aristotle revived and Latin Christians had translations made, both from Arabic translations, such as those by Gerard of Cremona, and from the original Greek, such as those by James of Venice and William of Moerbeke.

After Constantius ' death in 361, his successor Julian the Apostate, a devotee of Rome's pagan gods, declared that he would no longer attempt to favor one church faction over another, and allowed all exiled bishops to return ; this had the objective of further increasing dissension among Christians.

When the Germanic peoples entered the Roman Empire and founded successor-kingdoms in the western part, most had been Arian Christians for more than a century.

Moyers was inspired to focus on the song's power after watching a performance at Lincoln Center, where the audience consisted of Christians and non-Christians, and he noticed that it had an equal impact on everybody in attendance, unifying them.

In the great raid of 1125, he carried away a large part of the subject Christians from Granada, and in the south-west of France, he had claims as usurper-king of Navarre.

In Tabriz, André de Longjumeau met with a monk from the Far East, named Simeon Rabban Ata, who had been put in charge by the Khan of protecting the Christians in the Middle-East.

He had many interesting disputes with the Christians of his day ( Shab.

He issued a decree by which the Christians were forbidden to seek martyrdom, and he had a Christian synod held to forbid martyrdom.

Those powerful families were supported by Iberians who were openly or secretly Christians and had acted with the rebels.

" While Disraeli did not argue that the Jews did the Christians a favour by killing Christ, as he had in Tancred and would in Lord George Bentinck, his speech was badly received by his own party, which along with the Anglican establishment was hostile to the bill.

Gladstone, however, saw the issue in moral terms, for Bulgarian Christians had been massacred by the Turks and Gladstone therefore believed it was immoral to support the Ottoman Empire.

In the Ottoman Empire, the Patriarch of Constantinople, for example, had de facto administrative, fiscal, cultural and legal jurisdiction, as well as spiritual, over all the Christians of the empire.

Bernard Lewis states that the Muslim laity and Islamic authorities have always had great difficulty in accommodating post-Islamic monotheistic religions such as the Bahá ' í Faith, since the followers of such religions cannot be dismissed either as benighted heathens, like the polytheists of Asia and the animists of Africa, nor as outdated precursors, like the Jews and Christians.

This discovery has shed much light on the differences between the two versions ; while it was previously maintained that the Greek Septuagint ( the version used by the earliest Christians ) was only a poor translation, professor Emanuel Tov, senior editor of the Dead Sea Scrolls ' publication, wrote that the Masoretic edition either represents a substantial rewriting of the original Hebrew, or there had previously been two different versions of the text.

For American Christians, The Oxford Handbook of Religion and American Politics notes: " The GSS ... has asked a born-again question on three occasions ... ' Would you say you have been ' born again ' or have had a ' born-again ' experience?

The use of the definite article before the word " Christ " and its gradual development into a proper name show the Christians identified the bearer with the promised Messiah of the Jews who fulfilled all the Messianic predictions in a fuller and a higher sense than had been given them by the Rabbis.

The God who raised Jesus from the dead would also give new life to the " mortal bodies " of Gentile Christians, who had become with Israel the " children of God " and were therefore no longer " in the flesh ".

By the 12th century, the Mishneh Torah ( i. e., Rabbi Moses Maimonides ) was criticizing Christianity on the grounds of idol worship, in that Christians attributed divinity to Jesus who had a physical body.

Before Maimonides concluded this, Sunni Muslims officially prohibited mutah ( i. e. temporary marriage ) relationships ; some commentators ' suggest that Maimonides changed his view in response to this development, similar to Gershom ben Judah's ban on polygamy being made after Christians had prohibited it.

The Nicene Creed reflects the concerns of the First Council of Nicaea in 325 which had as their chief purpose to establish what Christians believed.

Following the lead of Yale scholar John Boswell, it has been argued that a number of Early Christians entered into homosexual relationships, and that certain Biblical figures had homosexual relationships, despite Biblical injunctions against sexual relationships between members of the same sex.

Early Christians found themselves confronted with a set of new concepts and ideas relating to the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, as well the notions of salvation and redemption, and had to use a new set of terms, images and ideas to deal with them.

Furthermore, as early Christians ( following the Great Commission ) had to explain their concepts to a new audience which

Some Christians thought that Hypatia's influence had caused Orestes, the Praefectus augustalis of the Byzantine Diocese of Egypt | Diocese of Egypt, to reject all reconciliatory offerings by Cyril.

Christians explain that such selectivity is based on rulings made by early Jewish Christians in the Book of Acts, at the Council of Jerusalem, that, while believing gentiles did not need to fully convert to Judaism, they should follow some aspects of Torah like avoiding idolatry and fornication and blood, including, according to some interpretations, homosexuality.

We, adhering faithfully to the tradition received from the beginning of the Christian faith, to the glory of God, our Saviour, the elevation of the Catholic religion and the salvation of Christian peoples, with the approbation of the sacred Council, teach and explain that the dogma has been divinely revealed: that the Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra, that is, when carrying out the duty of the pastor and teacher of all Christians by his supreme apostolic authority he defines a doctrine of faith or morals to be held by the universal Church, through the divine assistance promised him in blessed Peter, operates with that infallibility with which the divine Redeemer wished that His church be instructed in defining doctrine on faith and morals ; and so such definitions of the Roman Pontiff from himself, but not from the consensus of the Church, are unalterable.

The Jewish Publication Society translation of 1917, in online versions does use Jehovah once at in order to explain its use among Christians.

In 2008 Philip Cooney attempted to explain the causes of Norman's problems with some Christians:

Designed to explain his teachings to Lutheran Christians, it was the most concrete of his works.

Use of the tract is widespread and continues today in various forms and multiple languages by Evangelical Christians in their efforts to explain their faith to non-Evangelical Christians.

Stark points to a number of advantages that Christianity had over paganism to explain its growth: While others fled cities, Christians stayed in urban areas during plague, ministering and caring for the sick ; Christian populations grew faster, due to the prohibition of abortion, infanticide and birth control ; Christians did not fight against their persecutors by open violence or guerrilla warfare.

He chastises those Christians who point to the things that science can not yet explain —" gaps which they will fill up with God "— and urges them to embrace all nature as God's, as the work of "... an immanent God, which is the God of Evolution, is infinitely grander than the occasional wonder-worker, who is the God of an old theology.

However, he says it is the Christians who are more offended by his views: " When I write things about Islam I get letters and emails from Muslims, which with great politeness and erudition explain why they think I'm wrong and wish me the best.

But like most suggestions coming from Europe, Cabral and Valignano chose to tactfully ignore them, especially because, as Valignano would explain later, the town quickly became a haven for displaced and persecuted Christians.

Though the trials of Christians, and of all subjects for that matter, were under the governor ’ s procedural method of cognitio extra ordinem, that still does not explain the lack of a formal legal accusation and sentence.

Suetonius mentions passingly that: " Nero's reign Punishments were also inflicted on the Christians, a sect professing a new and mischievous religious belief " but he doesn't explain for what they were punished.

Louis Feldman has stated that there is " no necessary contradiction between Josephus and the gospels as to the reason why John was put to death " in that the Christians chose to emphasize the moral charges while Josephus emphasized the political fears that John stirred in Herod.

' However, the above quote is in the context of a section in Gardner's book examining why the Templars were executed by the Christian Church, so it is entirely possible that the reference is not to Gardner's own opinion of homosexuality but that of earlier Christians.

The Gnostics ( see Sethian, Ophites ) believed that God ( the deity worshiped by Jews, Greek Pagan philosophers and Christians ) was really an evil creator or demiurge that stood between us and some greater, more truly benevolent real deity — although there is no reason given why the higher deity is not a creator-god as well, nor why the higher deity allows the realm of the evil demiurge as flawed and unjust to continue to exist.

There has been debate about the reason why Christians came to choose the 25 December date to celebrate the birth of Jesus.

In 1498, Vasco da Gama became the first person to reach India by sailing around Africa ( see Age of Discovery ); asked by Arabs in Calicut ( who spoke Spanish and Italian ) why they had come, his representative replied, " we seek Christians and spices ".

* Why did the majority of the Jewish world reject Jesus as the Messiah, and why did the first Christians accept Jesus as the Messiah?

Easter Sunday is the main reason why Christians keep Sunday as the primary day of religious observance.

The homeless man has difficulty understanding why, in his view, so many Christians ignore the poor:

This is precisely the reason why Christians believe the Bible is God-inspired ; because its teachings are believed to be universally applicable and can therefore be used to resolve any problem.

This is why Christians pray to hasten Christ's return by saying to him " Maranatha!

Since the Christians believed that Jesus could be born without being begotten, why could He not also suffer without being born?

Another view, for example, is that the biblical text Gen. 1: 28 " Be fruitful and multiply ," is really not a command but a blessing formula and that while there are many factors to consider as far as people's motives for remaining childless, there are many valid reasons, including dedicating one's time to demanding but good causes, why Christians may choose to remain childless for a short time or a lifetime.

' The woman who was photographed as Pontius Pilate was quoted as saying, ' Christians believe the Jews killed Jesus ; that is why there is so much anti-Semitism in the world.

It explains also why many evangelical Christians view the Bible so highly-for to remove sola scriptura is to essentially remove everything we can know about God.

Jeff Shalda of The Simpsons Archive used the episode as an example of one of the " good qualities present in The Simpsons ," while analyzing why some other aspects of The Simpsons make Christians upset.

When the emperor asked, why the Hungarians are so cruel against the Christians, they replied, " We are the revenge of the highest God, sent to you as a scourge.

The mind seeks to understand the why and how of the Christian life, in order to adhere and respond to what the Lord is asking " ( Catechism section # 2705 ) and that Christians owe it to themselves to develop the desire to meditate regularly (# 2707 ).

The trouble with The Decline of Eastern Christianity is that in spite of the gathering of an enormous amount of historical material, and although she has raised an issue that well deserves study, Bat Ye ' or has written a polemical tract, not responsible historical analysis. Meanwhile, the historical question remains to be answered: why is it that from the mid-7th century to the 20th century the number of Christians in the Islamic world has dwindled from a majority in many areas of the Middle East to virtual insignificance in terms of demography?

Later, King Alfonso X referred to the 1231 battle as follows: " It is fitting that you who are hearing this story know that the thing in the world that most broke the Moors, why they had to lose Andalusia and the Christians gain it from them, was this battle of Jerez.

As part of that process, he decided to write this book, expressing his views on why, for Christians, virginity should remain sacred before marriage.