And a solemn diploma from Christ Church, Canterbury dated 873 is so poorly constructed and written that historian Nicholas Brooks posited a scribe who was either so blind he could not read what he wrote or who knew little or no Latin.

The Minḥat Ḳenaot is instructive reading for the historian because it throws much light upon the deeper problems which agitated Judaism, the question of the relation of religion to the philosophy of the age, which neither the zeal of the fanatic nor the bold attitude of the liberal-minded could solve in any fixed dogmatic form or by any anathema, as the independent spirit of the congregations refused to accord to the rabbis the power possessed by the Church of dictating to the people what they should believe or respect.

In 1994, Yale University Church historian John Boswell argued that adelphopoiesis, a rite bonding two men, was akin to a religiously sanctioned same-sex union.

On August 15, 2007, Sam Porpora, a former historian at the Westminster Church in Baltimore where Poe is buried, claimed that he had started the tradition in the 1960s.

Some, like theologian and ecclesiastical historian John Henry Newman, understand Eusebius ' statement that he had heard Dorotheus of Tyre " expound the Scriptures wisely in the Church " to indicate that Eusebius was Dorotheus ' pupil while the priest was resident in Antioch ; others, like the scholar D. S. Wallace-Hadrill, deem the phrase too ambiguous to support the contention.

In the 19th century Jacob Burckhardt viewed Eusebius as ' a liar ', the “ first thoroughly dishonest historian of antiquity .” Ramsay MacMullen in the 20th century regarded Eusebius's work as representative of early Christian historical accounts in which “ Hostile writings and discarded views were not recopied or passed on, or they were actively suppressed ..., matters discreditable to the faith were to be consigned to silence .” As a consequence this kind of methodology in MacMullens view has distorted modern attempts, ( e. g. Harnack, Nock, and Brady ), to describe how the Church grew in the early centuries.

Some Catholics, mainly of German language and largely inspired by the historian Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger ( who did not formally join the new group ) formed the separate Old Catholic Church in protest.

As the historian Owen Davies noted, " while the Church was ultimately successful in defeating pagan worship it never managed to demarcate clearly and maintain a line of practice between religious devotion and magic ," and the use of such books on magic continued.

In 1985 Classical historian Georg Luck, in his Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds, theorised that the origins of the Witch-cult may have appeared in late antiquity as a faith primarily designed to worship the Horned God, stemming from the merging of Cernunnos, a horned god of the Celts, with the Greco-Roman Pan / Faunus, a combination of gods which he posits created a new deity, around which the remaining pagans, those refusing to convert to Christianity, rallied and that this deity provided the prototype for later Christian conceptions of the Devil, and his worshippers were cast by the Church as witches.

Saint Jerome ( c. 347 – 30 September 420 ; ( also Hierom or Jerom ) (; ) was a Roman Christian priest, confessor, theologian and historian, and who became a Doctor of the Church.

Official LDS Church historian B. H. Roberts removed the quote from his History of the Church compilation, saying he found evidence that W. W. Phelps wrote that paragraph and that it was " based on inaccurate premises and was offensively pedantic.

The historian N. J. Higham speculates that one reason for his attendance may have been to assert the English Church's independence from the Frankish Church.

The most notable leader of the movement, though maintaining a certain distance from the Old Catholic Church as an institution, was the renowned church historian and priest Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger ( 1799 – 1890 ), who had been excommunicated by the pope because of his support for the affair.

A traditional estimate of the historian Calamy is that around 2, 400 Puritan clergy left the Church, in the " Great Ejection " of 1662.

* Socrates Scholasticus, Byzantine Church historian

Since the time of the historian Edward Gibbon, the split between the Church of Rome and the Orthodox Church has been conveniently dated to 1054, though the reality is more complex.

Ecclesiastical dissensions occupy the foreground, for when the Church is at peace, there is nothing for the church historian to relate ( 7. 48. 7 ).

A plan view of the Mission San Juan Capistrano complex ( including the footprint of the " Great Stone Church ") prepared by architectural historian Rexford Newcomb in 1916.

According to Marxist historian Christopher Hill: The Civil War was a class war, in which the despotism of Charles I was defended by the reactionary forces of the established Church and conservative landlords, and on the other side stood the trading and industrial classes in town and countryside.

Xisuthros ( Ξισουθρος ) is a Hellenization of Sumerian Ziusudra, known from the writings of Eusebius of Caesarea, an attendee at the First Council of Nicaea and early historian of the Christian Church.

These changes in the church's practices and beliefs were very controversial, leading to the formation of breakaway churches such as the Remnant Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ; in 1994, former church historian Richard P. Howard estimated that 25, 000 members had left to join such groups.

As noted by historian Lucy Riall, the glorification of Ugo Foscolo in the 1870s was part of the effort of the Italian government of this time — successful in completing the Unification of Italy but at the cost of a head-in confrontation with the Catholic Church — to create a gallery of " secular saints " to compete with those of the Church and sway popular feeling in favor of the newly-created Italian state.

** Matthias the Apostle ( Roman Catholic Church )

In Magdeburg, Matthias Flacius and his companions wrote their anti-Catholic pamphlets and the Magdeburg Centuries, in which they argued that the Roman Catholic Church had become the kingdom of the Anti-Christ.

St. Stephen's Church was consecrated by John Matthias Turner, Bishop of Calcutta, on November 5, 1830.

Cranach is honoured together with Albrecht Dürer and Matthias Grünewald with a feast day on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church ( USA ) on August 5.

St Matthias Old Church is located on Poplar High Street, opposite Tower Hamlets College.

* Saint Matthias Church of England Primary

Although Stoke Newington contains only one Grade I listed building ( St Matthias Church ), it contains a fair number of Grade II * buildings for one London district.

Restoration of St. Matthias Church following Second World War | wartime bombing: The Times, 23 March 1953.

* St Matthias Church, Wordsworth Road

* St Matthias Church, Richmond, London ( 1858 )

The town was named in honor of Matthias F. Cowley their founder, one of the Apostles of the LDS Church at the time.

Fresco of St. Ladislaus in the Matthias Church in Budapest

Matthias Church, Budapest.

Image: Budapestchurchnight100. jpg | Matthias Church in Budapest

Image: Matia Corvin Statue nov 2010. jpg | Statue of Matthias Corvinus in front of St. Michael's Church in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, the city where he was born

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His remains were afterwards reinterred at the Matthias Church in Budapest, with those of his first wife Agnes.

He was buried at St Matthias Old Church, Poplar, and an inscription in Latin verse, written by himself, was placed over his remains and those of his wife.

Matthias F. Cowley, editor of his published journals, observed that Woodruff was ... perhaps, the best chronicler of events in all the history of the Church.

Other apostles claimed by the Church to have preached in Georgia include Simon the Canaanite ( better known in the West as Simon the Zealot ) said to have been buried near Sokhumi, in the village of Anakopia, and Saint Matthias, said to have preached in the southwest of Georgia, and to have been buried in Gonio, a village not far from Batumi.

St Matthias Old Church is the modern name given to the Poplar Chapel built by the East India Company in 1654, in Poplar, one of the " Tower Hamlets " in the East End of London.

St Matthias Old Church is one of the very few extant churches built under the Commonwealth ( others include those at Berwick-on-Tweed, Staunton Harold, Ninekirks and Brougham.

This gives a Dutch flavour to the architecture reminiscent of Hendrick de Keyser who built several churches in Amsterdam in the early seventeenth century. St Matthias Old Church, interior

Following the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the EIC was wound up and Poplar Chapel became St Matthias, an Anglican Parish Church.