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 a time he took into his family the young student Antoine-Frédéric Ozanam ( 1813 – 1853 ), one of the founders of the Conference of Charity, later known as the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul.

For example, on Saint Lucia, harvesting mangrove for timber and clearing for fishing reduced the mangrove forests, resulting in a loss of habitat and spawning grounds for marine life that was unique to the area.

For example, Saint Hermann Joseph had his veneration confirmed by Pope Pius XII.

For other uses, see Columba ( disambiguation ), Saint Columba ( disambiguation ) and St Columb.

For example, names containing " St ." ( short for the English word Saint ) are often ordered as if they were written out as " Saint ".

Saint Paul wrote ' For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil :' ( 1 Timothy 6: 10 ( ASV )).

For nearly three years, at the age of 14, he accompanied Francis Dana as a secretary on a mission to Saint Petersburg, Russia, to obtain recognition of the new United States.

For example, Papa Legba is alternately St. Peter or St. Lazarus, Ayizan is Saint Clare, and so on.

For the first few years the Dolphins full-time training camp and practice facilities were at Saint Andrew's School, a private boys boarding prep school in Boca Raton.

* For travel to the French islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon directly from Canada, Canadians and foreign nationals holding Canadian identification documents are exempted from passport and visa requirements for stays of maximum duration of 3 months within a period of 6 months.

For other saints with this name, see Saint Urban ( disambiguation ).

For example: an apparition of John Wayne is a recurring character and serves as a sort of spiritual guide or conscience for Custer ; Monument Valley and The Alamo serve as backdrops to various legs of the journey ; for a time, Jesse acts as the sheriff of a small town in Texas, and must protect the inhabitants from harm ; the image of the Saint of Killers, a reformed bounty hunter-turned-killer-once-more in the tradition of Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven character, William Munny, is a nod to the classic Western notion of nemesis, straight and true and terrible.

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For example, the charter of the city of Saint John, New Brunswick was amended in 1785 specifically to exclude blacks from practicing a trade, selling goods, fishing in the harbour, or becoming freemen ; these provisions stood until 1870.

For sixteen years Putin was an officer in the KGB, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, before he retired to enter politics in his native Saint Petersburg in 1991.

For Saint Mark the fourth-century Pope, see Pope Mark

For instance, many of the later books in The Saint adventure series were not written by Leslie Charteris, the originator of the series.

: For other saints with this name, see Saint Eleutherius.

For he laughed at and ridiculed all notions of Publick virtue, and the love of one's Country, calling them the Chimerical school boy flights of Classical learning ; declaring himself at the same time, No Saint, no Spartan, no reformer.

For example, Saint Illidius is praised for his purity of heart, St Brachio the abbot for his discipline and determination in study of the scriptures, St Patroclus for his unwavering faith in the face of weakness, and St Nicetius, bishop of Lyon, for his justice.

For many decades the heads of the church of Rome opposed this ambition, not because anyone thought of disputing their first place, but because they defended the ' Petrine principle ' by which all Patriarchates were derived from Saint Peter and were unwilling to violate the old order of the hierarchy for political reasons.

For example, Papa Legba is considered by Haitian Vodou practitioners to be closest to Saint Peter, although in Brazilian Quimbanda it is not uncommon to see Exu closely associated with demonic entities such as Lucifer, clad in Mephistophelean attire and bearing a trident.

Saint Cyril of Jerusalem, in his Catechetical Homilies says: " For we explain not what God is but candidly confess that we have not exact knowledge concerning Him.

For example, when the hitherto unknown profession of photography appeared in the 19th Century and needed a patron saint, this role was assigned to Saint Veronica.