No texts survive from this area, though the written text Vita Ansgari (" The life of Ansgar ") by Rimbert ( c. 865 ) describes the missionary work of Ansgar around 830 at Birka, and Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum ( Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church ) by Adam of Bremen in 1075 describes the archbishop Unni, who died at Birka in 936.

The Branch Davidians ( also known as " The Branch ") are a Protestant sect that originated in 1955 from a schism in the Davidian Seventh Day Adventists (" Davidians "), a reform movement that began within the Seventh-day Adventist Church (" Adventists ") around 1930.

In computability theory, the Church – Turing thesis ( also known as the Turing-Church thesis, the Church – Turing conjecture, Church's thesis, Church's conjecture, and Turing's thesis ) is a combined hypothesis (" thesis ") about the nature of functions whose values are effectively calculable ; or, in more modern terms, functions whose values are algorithmically computable.

Recent historic ecumenical efforts on the part of the Catholic Church have focused on healing the rupture between the Western (" Catholic ") and the Eastern (" Orthodox ") churches.

Etymologically it is related to Avestan √ dar-(" to hold "), Old Persian √ dar-(" to hold, have "), Latin frēnum (" rein, horse tack "), Lithuanian derė ́ ti (" to be suited, fit "), Lithuanian dermė ( agreement ), darna (" harmony ") and Old Church Slavonic drъžati (" to hold, possess ").

A similar declaration was issued with regard to Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo's conferring of episcopal ordination on four men-all of whom, by virtue of previous Independent Catholic consecrations, claimed already to be bishops-on 24 September 2006: the Holy See, as well as stating that, in accordance with Canon 1382 of the Code of Canon Law, all five men involved incurred automatic (" latae sententiae ") excommunication through their actions, declared that " the Church does not recognise and does not intend in the future to recognise these ordinations or any ordinations derived from them, and she holds that the canonical state of the four alleged bishops is the same as it was prior to the ordination.

Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, and the Church of the East teach that the reality ( the " substance ") of the elements of bread and wine is wholly changed into the literal body and blood of Jesus Christ, while the appearances ( the " species ") remain.

Erasmus ’ s Sileni Alcibiadis (" The Sileni of Alcibiades ") is one of his most direct assessments of the need for Church reform.

" Orthodox ", from Greek orthos (" right ", " true ", " straight ") + doxa (" opinion " or " belief ", related to dokein, " to think ") was adopted by the Church in order to distinguish itself from what was becoming a larger and larger body of non-orthodox Christian denominations.

The Eastern Orthodox Church considers ordination ( known as Cheirotonia, " laying on of hands ") to be a Sacred Mystery ( what in the West is called a sacrament ).

The Eastern Orthodox Church also has ordination to minor orders ( known as cheirothesia, " imposition of hands ") which is performed outside of the Divine Liturgy, typically by a bishop, although certain archimandrites of stavropegial monasteries may bestow cheirothesia on members of their communities.

Hesychasm (, hesychasmos, from, hesychia, " stillness, rest, quiet, silence ") is an eremitic tradition of prayer in the Eastern Orthodox Church, and some of the Eastern Catholic Churches, such as the Byzantine Rite, practised ( Gk:, hesychazo: " to keep stillness ") by the Hesychast ( Gr., hesychastes ).

Thus accounts such as that of the miraculous " Image Not Made by Hands ", and the weeping and moving " Mother of God of the Sign " of Novgorod are accepted as fact: " Church Tradition tells us, for example, of the existence of an Icon of the Savior during His lifetime ( the " Icon-Made-Without-Hands ") and of Icons of the Most-Holy Theotokos immediately after Him.

The teaching of the Roman Catholic Church expressed in the Catechism of the Catholic Church is that " Baptism is necessary for salvation for those to whom the Gospel has been proclaimed and who have had the possibility of asking for this sacrament " and that, since " God has bound salvation to the sacrament of Baptism, but he himself is not bound by his sacraments ," " Baptism of blood " ( as in the case of the martyrs, who are understood to include the Holy Innocents ) and, for catechumens at least, the explicit desire for Baptism, " together with repentance for their sins, and charity ," (" Baptism of Desire ") ensure salvation for those unable to receive Baptism by water.

It listed over 150 perceived " misdeeds " of Charles ' reign including the Church ( under the influence of foreign papists ) and royal advisers ( also " have engaged themselves to further the interests of some foreign powers ") the second half of the Remonstrance proposed solutions to the " misdeeds " including church reform and Parliamentary influence over the appointment of royal ministers.

" In 2005 the New York Times published ( as a part of their series " Modern Love ") the testimony of former Unification Church member Renee Watabe about her arranged marriage in which her husband was selected for her by Moon.

* The Catholic doctrine of the indefectibility of the Church, which appeals to Christ's promise to the Apostle Peter in (" You are Peter ( the Rock ), and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it ") excludes the possibility that the Catholic bishops around the world and the Pope with whom they are in communion would succumb to heresy and fall from office.

However, the Roman Catholic Church believes that, when Jesus made that declaration, the underlying reality ( the " substance ") of the bread was converted to that of his body.

However, because of Church laws, lately more stringently enforced, which forbid the marriage of cousins closely related consanguineously, a means of facilitating the goal of in-group relations may be that of recourse to illegitimate unions.

What that spirit and attitude were we can best understand if we see more precisely how it contrasts with the communist tradition with the longest continuous history, the one which reached Christianity by the way of Stoicism through the Church Fathers of Late Antiquity.

Every family of Riviera Presbyterian Church has been asked to read the Bible and pray together daily during National Christian Family Week and to undertake one project in which all members of the family participate.

For while the past needs of the Church in this country may have been adequately met by collegiate institutions, which in temper and tone closely resembled junior colleges and finishing schools, it would seem that today's need is for the college which more closely resembles the university in its `` pursuit of excellence ''.

An amazing article in the Manchester Guardian of last November, entitled `` Fate Of Redundant Churches '', states than an Archbishops' Commission `` reported last month that in the Church of England alone there are 790 churches which are redundant now, or will be in 20 years' time.

But Theodore Parker, commencing his mission to the world-at-large, disguised as the minister of a `` twenty-eighth Congregational Church '' which bore no resemblance to the Congregational polities descended from the founders ( among which were still the Unitarian churches ), made explicit from the beginning that the conflict between him and the Hunkerish society was not something which could be evaporated into a genteel difference about clerical decorum.

The Anglican Communion is an international association of national and regional Anglican churches ( and a few other episcopal churches ) in full communion with the Church of England ( which is regarded as the mother church of the worldwide communion ) and specifically with its principal primate, the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The Church of England ( which until the 20th century included the Church in Wales ) initially separated from the Roman Catholic Church in 1538 in the reign of King Henry VIII, reunited in 1555 under Queen Mary I and then separated again in 1570 under Queen Elizabeth I ( the Roman Catholic Church excommunicated Elizabeth I in 1570 in response to the Act of Supremacy 1559 ).

Thus the only member churches of the present Anglican Communion existing by the mid-18th century were the Church of England, its closely linked sister church, the Church of Ireland ( which also separated from Roman Catholicism under Henry VIII ) and the Scottish Episcopal Church which for parts of the 17th and 18th centuries was partially underground ( it was suspected of Jacobite sympathies ).

At about the same time, in the colonies which remained linked to the crown, the Church of England began to appoint colonial bishops.

Even his old literary home, Punch, where the When We Were Very Young verses had first appeared, was ultimately to reject him, as Christopher Milne details in his autobiography The Enchanted Places, although Methuen continued to publish whatever Milne wrote, including the long poem ' The Norman Church ' and an assembly of articles entitled Year In, Year Out ( which Milne likened to a benefit night for the author ).

Despite popular opinion, Limbo, which was elaborated upon by theologians beginning in the Middle Ages, never entered into the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, yet, at times, the church incorporated the theory in its ordinary belief.

Articles of faith are sets of beliefs usually found in creeds, sometimes numbered, and often beginning with " We believe ...", which attempt to more or less define the fundamental theology of a given religion, and especially in the Christian Church.

Arianism is defined as those teachings attributed to Arius which are in opposition to mainstream Trinitarian Christological doctrine, as determined by the first two Ecumenical Councils and currently maintained by the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Churches, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, and most Reformation Protestant Churches.

but his principal theme is that the intrigues of the Tories, `` our Popish or Jacobite Party '', pose an immediate threat to Church and State.

This is the principal point made in this final section of Englishman No. 57, and it caps Steele's efforts in his other writing of these months to counteract the notion of the Tories as a `` Church Party '' supported by the body of the clergy.

The New Testament offered to the public today is the first result of the work of a joint committee made up of representatives of the Church of England, Church of Scotland, Methodist Church, Congregational Union, Baptist Union, Presbyterian Church of England, Churches in Wales, Churches in Ireland, Society of Friends, British and Foreign Bible Society and National Society of Scotland.

But when you write to Congresswoman Church, bless her heart, your letter is answered fully and completely.

First of all, it is now known that Pope John sees the renewal and purification of the Church as an absolutely necessary step toward Christian unity.

Far from being irrelevant to the ecumenical task, the Pontiff believes that a revivified Church is required in order that the whole world may see Catholicism in the best possible light.

Secondly, a whole series of addresses and actions by the Pope and by others show that concern for Christian unity is still very much alive and growing within the Church.

`` That is the answer the ungodly will always make when the Church points its fingers at their sins.

And John's reply was always the same: `` Anything that affects souls is the concern of the Church!!

Indeed, it is even surprising in the Canon of Christ Church and Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History, who fathered this most peculiar view, and in the brilliant Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge, who inherited it and is now its most eminent proponent.

It would doubtless be greatly surprised to be told that in failing to be ecumenical it is really failing to be the Church of Christ.

There is much talk in theological circles about the `` Church as Mission '' and the `` Church's Mission '' ; ;

Emory is affiliated with the Methodist Church.

More than 300 teenagers last Sunday proved there is and as many more are expected to prove it again for Jim Kern and his wife Lynn from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday at First Presbyterian Church.

According to a newspaper report of the 1961 statistics of the Church of England, the `` total of confirmed members is 9,748,000, but only 2,887,671 are registered on the parochial church rolls '', and `` over 27 million people in England are baptized into the Church of England, but roughly only a tenth of them continue ''.

The general tone of articles appearing in such important newspapers as the Manchester Guardian and the Sunday Observer implies a kindly recognition that the Catholic Church is now at least of equal stature in England with the Protestant churches.

One can even argue -- though this is a delicate matter -- that every justification existed for their returning the Public Lecture to the First Church, and so to suppress it, rather than let Parker use it as a sounding board for his propaganda when his turn should come to occupy it.

When they fall by the wayside and fail to achieve Christian stature, it is an indictment of the Church.

It is important that persons desiring to unite with the Church be prepared for this experience so that it may be meaningful and spiritually significant.