Historically, one of the most important protagonists of the movement was Walter Martin ( 1928 – 89 ), whose numerous books include the 1955 The Rise of the Cults: An Introductory Guide to the Non-Christian Cults and the 1965 The Kingdom of the Cults: An Analysis of Major Cult Systems in the Present Christian Era, which continues to be influential.

Historically, throughout the Christian world and in the context of Christian missionary activity, the New Testament ( or portions thereof ) has been that part of the Christian Bible first translated into the vernacular.

Historically, Samaritans were a large community — up to more than a million in late Roman times, but were then gradually reduced to several tens of thousands a few centuries ago — their unprecedented demographic shrinkage has been a result of various historical events, including, most notably, the bloody suppression of the Third Samaritan Revolt ( 529 CE ) against the Byzantine Christian rulers, and mass conversion to Islam in the Early Muslim period of Palestine.

Historically, Europe has always been a mixture of Latin, Slavic, Germanic, Uralic, Celtic, Hellenic, Illyrian, Thracian and other cultures influenced by the importation of Hebraic, Christian, Muslim and other belief systems ; although the continent was supposedly unified by the super-position of Imperial Roman Christianity, it is accepted that geographic and cultural differences continued from antiquity into the modern age.

Historically, Christian Universalist thinkers and others have criticized Calvinist predestination on the grounds that it reduces the great majesty and sovereignty of God.

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Historically, Christian burials were made supine east-west, with the head at the western end of the grave.

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Historically significant systems of mentorship include traditional Greek pederasty, the guru-disciple tradition practiced in Hinduism and Buddhism, Elders, the discipleship system practiced by Rabbinical Judaism and the Christian church, and apprenticing under the medieval guild system.

Historically, Western medical ethics may be traced to guidelines on the duty of physicians in antiquity, such as the Hippocratic Oath, and early rabbinic and Christian teachings.

Historically the Saint Thomas Christian community was part of the Church of the East, centred in Persia.

Historically, immigrants who came from the Christian provinces of Mindanao, Visayas and Luzon tended to settle in the Northern part of Lanao while the Maranaos inhabited the south.

Historically, Christian mortalists have advanced theological, lexical, and scientific arguments in support of their position.

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Category: Historically African-American Christian denominations

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Historically, the early medieval cloister had several antecedents, the peristyle court of the Greco-Roman domus, the atrium and its expanded version that served as forecourt to early Christian basilicas, and certain semi-galleried courts attached to the flanks of early Syrian churches.

Historically Christian premillennialism has also been referred as " chiliasm " or " millenarianism ".

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Historically, the church had censured Knapp for deviating at several points from Eddy's teaching, and had refused to publish the work.

Historically part of the parish of St Margaret in the county of Middlesex, the name Westminster was the ancient description for the area around Westminster Abbey – the West Minster, or monastery church, that gave the area its name – which has been the seat of the government of England ( and later the British government ) for almost a thousand years.

Historically, the cornett was frequently used in consort with sackbuts ( 2 cornetts, 3 sackbuts ), often to double a church choir.

Historically, the formal indication of status was religious: a city ( gorod ) had a cathedral, a selo had a church, while a derevnya had neither.

Historically the church has taken a strong stance for non-resistance or pacifism.

Historically, the transformation from a small church to the equivalent of a mainland European cathedral was begun in 1309 under Sir John Truesdale, Vicar of St. Botolph's at a time of historical change and upheaval across the continent and England following the arrests of the Templar's by Phillippe the Fair of France on Friday 13 October 1307.

Historically, there was a Slavic community here, centered by a church ( Sts.

Historically part of the parish of Guiseley, the church of St Paul was once the private chapel of the old manor house.

Historically the party had a strong base in the ' free churches ' ( Protestant congregations not part of the state church that turned into powerful grass-roots movements in the late 19th century ), but with the exception of certain regions, that is not a significant feature today.

Historically, public space in the west has been limited to town centres, piazzas, church squares, i. e. nearly always engineered around a central monument, which informs the program of the space.

Historically, it represents a schism from the Coptic Orthodox Church, its adherents having left the Orthodox church to enter into communion with the Bishop of Rome.

Historically this church served the entirely rural parish of Lecropt, west of Bridge of Allan.

Historically, clerestory denoted an upper level of a Roman basilica or of the nave of a Romanesque or Gothic church, the walls of which rise above the rooflines of the lower aisles and are pierced with windows.

Historically, the Strangites maintained stakes in Voree, Wisconsin ; Kirtland, Ohio ; and on Beaver Island, Michigan, but today the church has only a single stake in Voree.

Historically a part of Surrey, at the time of the Norman conquest of England Croydon had a church, a mill and around 365 inhabitants, as recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086.

* Historically, a Methodist church on existed on the Mall, but it has not been used for some years.

Historically the mother church to the area, St Mary's is now one of four churches in the team ministry along with Calmore, Netley Marsh and Testwood.

Historically a number of large houses were constructed, mostly with the appendage of ‘ Mount ’, reflecting the parish ’ s elevation, and their names are remembered today but no longer as houses: Mount Argus, ( church and monastery ) Mount Jerome ( cemetery ), Greenmount House ( the Hospice ), Mount Harold ( the Catholic Church ) and Mount Drummond and Mount Tallant ( Housing ).

Historically Vergers were responsible for the order and upkeep of the house of worship, including the care of the church buildings, its furnishings, and sacred relics, preparations for liturgy, conduct of the laity, and grave-digging responsibilities.

Historically, there have been tensions between house church movements ( along with other restoration and revival movements ) and traditional churches.

Historically, in addition to the established church, Nonconformism – particularly Wesleyanism – was a branch of Christian theology practised in Milnrow by a significant part of the local population.

Historically, Belœil grew as two separate hamlets, one around the Saint-Mathieu-de-Belœil parish church, and the other around the train station.

Historically, Steyr has had a number of well-known residents or visitors, including Franz Schubert who wrote his " Trout Quintet " there while on holiday, composer Anton Bruckner, was the organist at the local pfarrkirche, or parish church.