A complete picture is impossible -- partly because of the limitations of space, partly because for millions of individuals who professed allegiance to the Christian faith data are unobtainable.

Economist Paul Krugman commented that the incident showed that " the imperatives of crony capitalism trump professed faith in free markets ," at least for the Department of Agriculture at the time.

That oneness is symbolized in the open invitation to communion for all who have professed faith in Christ without regard to church affiliation.

For instance, they interpret the exhortation to defend one ’ s faith “ with gentleness and reverence ” in 3: 15-16 as a response to Pliny executing Christians for the obstinate manner in which they professed to be Christians.

Classical Anglicanism, therefore, like Orthodoxy, holds that Holy Tradition is the only safe guardian against perversion and innovation in the interpretation of Scripture ; in the famous words of Thomas Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells: " As for my religion, I dye in the holy catholic and apostolic faith professed by the whole Church before the disunion of East and West, more particularly in the communion of the Church of England, as it stands distinguished from all Papal and Puritan innovations, and as it adheres to the doctrine of the Cross.

This is the received text of the Eastern Orthodox Church, with the exception that in its liturgy it changes verbs from the plural by which the Fathers of the Council collectively professed their faith to the singular of the individual Christian's profession of faith.

Baptized Members are those who have been baptized as an infant or child, but who have not subsequently professed their own faith.

In his memoirs, Sherman said, " In my official report of this conflagration I distinctly charged it to General Wade Hampton, and confess I did so pointedly to shake the faith of his people in him, for he was in my opinion a braggart and professed to be the special champion of South Carolina.

Following the war, in 1765 Putnam publicly professed his Christian faith and joined the Congregational Church in Brooklyn.

Due to the fact that the Frankish Empire ruled Western Europe for centuries, the word " Frank " became deeply associated, by the Eastern Europeans and Middle Easterners, with Latins who professed the Roman Catholic faith.

Northumberland was instead escorted to St Peter ad Vincula, where he took the Catholic communion and professed that " the plagues that is upon the realm and upon us now is that we have erred from the faith these sixteen years.

Michael Walzer claimed that the growth of religious toleration in Western nations arose amongst other things, from the general recognition that private conscience signified some inner divine presence regardless of the religious faith professed and from the general respectability, piety, self-limitation, and sectarian discipline which marked most of the men who claimed the rights of conscience.

This belief finds expression in the Baptist and Anabaptist practice of believer's baptism, given not to infants as a mark of membership in a Christian community, but to adult believers after they have achieved the age of reason and have professed their faith.

Renan began to see an essential contradiction between the metaphysics which he studied and the faith he professed, but an appetite for truths that can be verified restrained his scepticism.

During his short life, he repeatedly professed his Christian faith and asked for baptism.

His heart was grieved when he saw the confusion concerning matters of religion that prevailed among his contemporaries, finding an unintelligent belief and unenlightened views current among those who professed Judaism, while those who denied the faith triumphantly vaunted their errors.

He no doubt was born in the Catholic faith, which his father probably had already professed.

The Declaration of Faith is the public confession of the faith that is professed by the Iglesia Filipina Independiente.

b ) That Christian Baptism is the immersion in water into the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, of those who have professed repentance towards God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who died for our sins according to the Scriptures ; was buried and rose again the third day.

Watchman Nee was arrested by the Chinese Communists in March 1952 for his professed faith in Christ as well as his leadership among the local churches.

Weinandy, warned of a “ crisis ” in Catholic theology, precipitated by theologians who “ often appear to possess little reverence for the mysteries of the faith as traditionally understood and presently professed within the church .” The Secretariat for Doctrine had previously criticized a book on the Trinity by St. Joseph Sr. Elizabeth Johnson of Fordham University in New York, leading to a defense of Johnson by many theologians as well as Fordham faculty.

Some churches make an announcement before communion begins such as " We invite all who have professed a faith in Christ to join us at the table.

The series heavily explores spiritual themes, attributable to the author's professed Christian faith.

The Ascension of Jesus is professed in the Nicene Creed and in the Apostles ' Creed.

The Ascension of Jesus is professed in the Nicene Creed and in the Apostles ' Creed.

For example, Marcion argued that the Genesis account of YHWH walking through the Garden of Eden asking where Adam was proved YHWH inhabited a physical body and was without universal knowledge ( omniscience ), attributes wholly incompatible with the Heavenly Father professed by Jesus.

Contrastingly, the god that Jesus professed is an altogether different being, a universal god of compassion and love who looks upon humanity with benevolence and mercy.

* Initials used by professed members of the Congregation of Discalced Clerks of the Most Holy Cross and Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ ( Passionist Congregation ), an Order of the Roman Catholic Church

There he professed an interest in legal studies, and in 1575 he travelled to the continent and joined the Society of Jesus.

On 22 April 1541, he pronounced his solemn vows in St. Paul's-Outside-the-Walls basilica as a professed member of the newly-established Society of Jesus.

Elliot professed faith in Jesus at the age of six and grew up in a home where obedience and honesty were enforced.

Ignatius of Loyola obtained authorization for the members of the Society of Jesus to be divided into the professed with solemn vows and the coadjutors with dispensable simple vows.

After seeing Jesus alive and being offered the opportunity to touch his wounds, according to the author of the Gospel of John, Thomas then professed his faith in Jesus.

He was distinguished for Genius in Architecture, Sculpture, and Musick: Modest and sweet Manners rendered him pleasing: Industry, and Integrity respectable: He professed the Religion of Jesus in his entrance on manly life ; and proved its excellence by virtuous Principle and unblemished conduct.

While attending a Methodist revival meeting in 1850 at the age of 13, he first publicly professed faith in Jesus Christ.

He then introduced Eutyches who publicly professed that while Christ had two natures before the incarnation, the two natures had merged to form a single nature after the incarnation.

While he was sick with a fever, he professed his full belief in Christ and asked God to take control of his destiny.

He refused to sacrifice to the pagan deities and firmly professed Christ.

" The Second Vatican Council's dogmatic constitution Lumen Gentium further declares that " the one Church of Christ which in the Creed is professed as one, holy, catholic and apostolic, ... constituted and organized in the world as a society, subsists in the Catholic Church, which is governed by the successor of Peter and by the Bishops in communion with him ".

Nonetheless Haik professed Christ as his personal savior when he was 15.

He professed to teach his community a change in the mode of respiration which was to be the visible sign of possession by Christ and the seal of immortality.

Of the 18, 000 Lisu who lived in Fugong in 1950-3, 400 professed faith in Christ.

At seventeen, after reading an evangelistic tract pamphlet entitled " Poor Richard ", he professed faith in Christ, and in December 1849, he committed himself to going to China as a missionary.

He professed faith in Christ and joined the Campbellsburg Baptist Church at the age of sixteen.

Formally accepted as a candidate for the Franciscan Order at Christ House in Lafayette, New Jersey, in 1970, the following year he entered the novitiate of the Order at St. Francis Friary in Brookline, Massachusetts, where he professed his first vows in 1972.

Of the 18, 000 Lisu who lived in Fugong in 1950-3, 400 professed faith in Christ.