For instance, we cannot know whether even for church members the degree of conformity to Christian standards of morality increased or declined as the proportion of church members in the population rose.

For Bede, Mercia was a traditional enemy of his native Northumbria and he regarded powerful kings such as the pagan Penda as standing in the way of the Christian conversion of the Anglo-Saxons.

For instance, Jones, Jr. once said that Catholicism was " not another Christian denomination.

For example, the word " God " which used to be " Cheon-joo " was altered to " ha-nu-nim " according to the Public Christian translation.

For Irenaeus, salvation was achieved by Christ restoring humanity to the image of God, and he saw the Christian imitation of Christ as a key component on the path to salvation.

For instance, the phrases " if it be lawful to call him a man " suggests that Jesus was more than human and is likely a Christian interpolation.

For his actions on board Flight 93, Homer received many awards and citations posthumously, including honorary membership in the historic Tuskegee Airmen ; the Congress of Racial Equality's Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Award ; the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Drum Major for Justice Award ; and the Westchester County Trailblazer Award.

For his contemporaries, he was the quintessential example of the Christian prince, and embodied the whole of Christendom in his person.

For example, proverbs have been used for teaching foreign languages at various levels., In addition, proverbs have been used for public health promotion, such as promoting breast feeding with a shawl bearing a Swahili proverb “ Mother ’ s milk is sweet ”, also for helping people manage diabetes, for to combat prostitution, and for community development The most active field deliberately using proverbs is Christian ministry, where Joseph G. Healey and others have deliberately worked to catalyze the collection of proverbs from smaller languages and the application of them in a wide variety of church-related ministries, resulting in publications of collections and applications ,.

For full membership, the Puritan church insisted not only that its congregants lead godly lives and exhibit a clear understanding of the main tenets of their Christian faith, but they also must demonstrate that they had experienced true evidence of the workings of God ’ s grace in their souls.

For this reason, the meaning of baptism itself and infant baptism in particular depends greatly upon the Christian tradition to which the baptismal candidate belongs.

For Christian companionship he enjoyed the company of Moravian missionaries and their black converts and preached regularly to the Moravian congregation.

For this victory, Pope Sixtus IV deemed him verus christianae fidei athleta ( true Champion of Christian Faith ).

For the next 80 years, the Kingdom of León suffered civil wars, Moorish attack, internal intrigues and assassinations, and the partial independence of Galicia and Castile, thus delaying the reconquest, and weakening the Christian forces.

For the northern solstice, Christian cultures celebrate the feast of St. John from June 23 to 24 ( see St. John's Eve, Ivan Kupala Day, Midsummer ), while Neopagans observe Midsummer, also known as Litha.

For the vernal ( spring ) equinox, several spring-time festivals are celebrated, such as the Persian Nowruz, the observance in Judaism of Passover and in most Christian churches of Easter.

#* For example, William G. Pollard's studies in Physicist and Christian: A dialogue between the communities

For example, Taxila was an early centre of Vedic learning, possible from the 6th century BC or earlier ; the Platonic Academy founded in Athens in the 4th century BC seems to have included theological themes in its subject matter ; the Chinese Taixue delivered Confucian teaching from the 2nd century BC ; the School of Nisibis was a centre of Christian learning from the 4th century AD ; Nalanda in India was a site of Buddhist higher learning from at least the 5th or 6th century AD ; and the Moroccan University of Al-Karaouine was a centre of Islamic learning from the 10th century, as was Al-Azhar University in Cairo.

For instance, in Germany, theological faculties at state universities are typically tied to particular denominations, Protestant or Roman Catholic, and those faculties will offer denominationally bound ( konfessionsgebunden ) degrees, and have denominationally bound public posts amongst their faculty ; as well as contributing ‘ to the development and growth of Christian knowledge ’ they ‘ provide the academic training for the future clergy and teachers of religious instruction at German schools .’

For others, avoidance of the word " church " indicates a desire to distance itself from traditional Christian theology.

For a more specific discussion of Unitarianism as it evolved into a pluralistic liberal religious movement, see Unitarian Universalism ( and its national groups the Unitarian Universalist Association in the United States, the Canadian Unitarian Council in Canada, the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches in the United Kingdom, and the International Council of Unitarians and Universalists ).

For example, ministers of the Church may follow a traditional Christian belief system, they may follow other world religions, they may blend various faith traditions, or they may be agnostic or atheist.

For example, the sovereign of the United Kingdom was customarily referred to as " Britannic Majesty ", of France as " Christian Majesty ", of Spain as " Catholic Majesty ", of Hungary as " Apostolic Majesty ", of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation as " August Majesty ", etc.

For the first time in since 1958, Belgium had a government that did not include the Christian People's Party ( Christelijke Volkspartij ).

For example, Doug Powell argues as a Christian apologist that even if a monkey accidentally types the letters of Hamlet, it has failed to produce Hamlet because it lacked the intention to communicate.

For instance, in the Russian Orthodox Church Sunday is always observed with an All-Night Vigil on Saturday night, and in all of the Orthodox Churches it is amplified with special hymns which are chanted only on Sunday.

For example, the government suppressed the Greek-Catholic Churches in Ukraine and Belarus in 1839.

For the Paschal triple-candle used in Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches of the Byzantine rite see Paschal trikirion.

* For a full list of individual denominations see List of Christian denominations # Reformed Churches and List of Christian denominations # Presbyterianism

For example, in many Orthodox Churches in Europe, there has grown a custom of blessing pussiwillows on Palm Sunday instead of palm branches, since palms do not grow that far north.

For instance, the Roman Catholic Church sees itself as in partial communion with Protestants, and as in much closer, but still incomplete, communion with the Orthodox Churches.

For the autocephalous Churches that form the Eastern Orthodox Church, see Eastern Orthodox Church organization.

For this reason established Churches and civil authorities fear that the hierarchy on which they depend is undermined by Bogomilism.

For other uses of see Seven Churches ( disambiguation ).

For the Churches of Christ, any practices not present in accounts of New Testament worship were not permissible in the church, and they could find no New Testament documentation of the use of instrumental music in worship.

For their part, the Churches see this work as a natural part of their Christian mission.

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For example, while Buxton notes the existence of a tradition that " Abyssinians invoked the aid of foreigners " to construct these monolithic churches, and admits that " there are clearly signs of Coptic influence in some decorative details " ( hardly surprising given the theological, ecclesiastical, and cultural links between the Ethiopian Orthodox and Coptic Orthodox Churches ), he is adamant about the native origins of these creations: " But the significant fact is remains that the rock-churches continue to follow the style of the local built-up prototypes, which themselves retain clear evidence of their basically Axumite origin.

For the particular Churches within the Catholic Church, whether autonomous ritual churches ( e. g., Coptic Catholic Church, Melkite Catholic Church, Armenian Catholic Church, etc.

For a number of years the body operated as the Federation of Ukrainian Baptist Churches in Canada.

For C & MA educational institutions in the Philippines, see Christian and Missionary Alliance Churches of the Philippines.

For a period of time, the IPBC was a member of the World Council of Churches.

For the consecrations, from 1917 onwards bishops from other Churches were invited as guests.

For the " Litany " as used in the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches, see Ektenia.

For example, in the United States, Catholic Churches in communion with the Holy See often display the Vatican flag along with the American flag, typically opposite sides of the sanctuary, near the front door, or outside.

For example, in the United Methodist Church only two clergywomen have ever led churches with membership numbers within the top 100 of United Methodist Churches in the U. S. The most recent national data ( 2005 ) indicates that there are no clergywomen currently leading top 100 membership UMCs.

* Hymn and Prayer Book: For the use of such Lutheran Churches as use the English Language ( Publisher: Hurtin and Commardinger, 1795 )