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Christianity and practical
Another factor, more recently pointed out, was the way in which Christianity combined its promise of a general resurrection of the dead with the traditional Greek belief that true immortality depended on the survival of the body, with Christianity adding practical explanations of how this was going to actually happen at the end of the world.
In his opinion, Christianity, along with teleological Aristotelianism that the church had come to accept, allowed practical decisions to be guided too much by imaginary ideals and encouraged people to lazily leave events up to providence or, as he would put it, chance, luck or fortune.
Bismarck opened debate on the subject on 17 November 1881 in the Imperial Message to the Reichstag, using the term practical Christianity to describe his program.
( New York: Crossroad, 1989, ISBN 0-8245-0970-6 ) demonstrates the practical integration of process philosophy with Christianity.
Note also that Gnostic Christianity has a strong mystical current, but shies away from practical magic and focuses more on theurgy.
It describes itself as a " positive, practical Christianity " which " teach the effective daily application of the principles of Truth taught and exemplified by Jesus Christ " and promotes " a way of life that leads to health, prosperity, happiness, and peace of mind.
Unity emphasizes spiritual healing, prosperity and practical Christianity in its teachings.
" This was at odds with many Christian Chartists for whom Christianity was " above all practical, something that must be carried into every walk of life.
The connections and contradictions between the two parts of its purpose — Christianity and Temperance — meant that the women involved confronted ideological, philosophical, political and practical dilemmas in their efforts to improve society around the world.
As forerunners of the Pietists in the strict sense, certain voices had been heard bewailing the shortcomings of the Church and advocating a revival of practical and devout Christianity.
He studied theology at Strasbourg, where the professors at the time ( and especially Sebastian Schmidt ) were more inclined to " practical " Christianity than to theological disputation.
He took a practical, almost business-like view of Christianity, which seemed to High Churchmen and Evangelicals alike little better than Rationalism.
Social Credit is described by Douglas as " the policy of a philosophy "; he called his philosophy " practical Christianity ".
However, they made few decisions that were of practical use as guidelines for the computation, and it took several centuries before a common method was accepted throughout Christianity.
But Nicole's most popular production was his Essais de morale, a series of short discussions on practical Christianity.
The holiness movement seeks to promote a Christianity that is personal, practical, life-changing, and revivalistic.
Emphasising the " exemplary realisation " of Karl Marx's " teaching on building a new, better social order " in the USSR, it was declared that Socialism offered at the time " the best opportunity for the realisation of Christ's demands and for exercising the practical Christianity ".
Apart from his redoubtable powers as a controversialist, Philoxenus is remembered as a scholar, an elegant writer, and an exponent of practical Christianity.
Christian Reconstructionism was originally formulated as a practical expression of Postmillennial Christian Eschatology, though the distinctive tenets of the school of thought ( generally referred to as Theonomic Ethics ) are purported to be compatible with other eschatological viewpoints within conservative Christianity.
Besides opposing at all points the peculiar doctrines of Calvinism, Episcopius protested against the tendency of Calvinists to lay so much stress on abstract dogma, and argued that Christianity was practical rather than theoretical — not so much a system of intellectual belief as a moral power and that an orthodox faith did not necessarily imply the knowledge of and assent to a system of doctrine which included the whole range of Christian truth, but only the knowledge and acceptance of so much of Christianity as was necessary to effect a real change on the heart and life.
Waskow has taught as a Visiting Professor in the religion departments of Swarthmore College ( 1982 – 83, on the thought of Martin Buber and on the Book of Genesis and its rabbinic and modern interpretations ); Temple University ( 1975 – 76 on contemporary Jewish theology and 1985 – 86, on liberation theologies in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam ); Drew University ( 1997 – 1998, on the ecological outlooks of ancient, rabbinic, and contemporary Judaism and on the synthesis of mysticism, feminism, and social action in the theology and practice of Jewish renewal ); Vassar College ( 1999 on Jewish Renewal and Feminist Judaism ); from 1982 to 1989 on the faculty of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College ( contemporary theology and practical rabbinics ); and in 2005 on the faulty of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute for Religion ( the first course on Eco-Judaism in any rabbinical seminary ).
At the world churches conference in Stockholm in 1925, he helped in the realization of the " ecumenical advice for practical Christianity ( Life and Work )".

Christianity and definition
Buber made this theme the basis of a famous definition of the tension between Judaism and Christianity:
The Nicene Creed has been normative for the Anglican Church, the Church of the East, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox churches, the Roman Catholic Church including the Eastern Catholic Churches, the Old Catholic Church, the Lutheran Church and many Protestant denominations, forming the eponymous mainstream definition of Christianity itself in Nicene Christianity.
In the Roman Catholic religion and to some extent in certain other branches of Christianity, there is a somewhat more specific definition of the term and many related terms.
The concept of an explicit, paramount definition of faith does not exist in Judaism as it does in other monotheistic religions such as Christianity.
The definition and consequences vary between religions, cultures, and legal jurisdictions, but the concept is similar in Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism and Islam.
At this conference, intended to allow scholars to arrive at a group consensus concerning the definition of gnosticism, James M. Robinson, an expert on religion, assembled a group of editors and translators whose express task was to publish a bilingual edition of the Nag Hammadi codices in English, in collaboration with the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity at the Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California.
They focused on several key doctrinal points that they considered a return to " primitive Christianity ", derived from their interpretation of the Bible, including a rejection of trinitarianism, the immortality of the soul, and the definition of Hell as a place of eternal torment ; active proselytization ; strict neutrality in political affairs ; abstinence from warfare ; and a belief in the imminent manifestation of the Kingdom of God ( or World to Come ) on Earth.
In 325, the First Council of Nicaea signalled consolidation of Christianity under an orthodoxy endorsed by Constantine, and though this did not make other Christian groups outside the adopted definition illegal, the dissenting Arian bishops were initially exiled.
In the 1940s, the long held opposition by some established Christian denominations to non-Christian religions or / and supposedly heretical, or counterfeit, pseudo-Christian sects crystallized into a more organized " Christian countercult movement " in the United States ( using a doctrinal definition comparing the essential doctrines of established, Bible-based Christianity with the other groups deemed heretical ).
The traditional definition of apostasy only applies to those who are born into one of the legally recognized religions-Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and Zoroastrianism.
* the working definition utilized in Roger Wolsey's book Kissing Fish: Christianity for people who don't like Christianity:
Fanning was an enforcer of strict orthodoxy with regard to Restoration doctrines, seeing anything not specifically authorized by the New Testament as an unnecessary and hence sinful addition to the " primitive " Christianity of the 1st century, which the movement was by definition dedicated to restoring.
In addition, the early Church likely did not yet meet in special buildings dedicated to Christian worship as that came later, as Christianity was legalized — the very definition of the word " church " meaning simply " an assembly " according to the known Greek texts.
Adherence to the practice of Christianity ( or any religion, established or not ) is, by definition, conformity to rules set forth by someone other than the individual for him or herself.

Christianity and love
Lead Me On ( 1988 ) contained many songs that were about Christianity and love relationships, but some interpreted it as not being an obviously " Christian " record.
Although love is central to both Christianity and Judaism, literary critic Harold Bloom ( in his Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine ) argues that their notions of love are fundamentally different.
Invectives asserts that Christianity will overcome imperfect rulers such as Julian through love and patience.
Van Voorst states that this sentence argues for the continuation of Christianity based on the love for its leader, not the reported appearances after his death.
" The rise of Christian Zionism — that is, religiously motivated Christian interest and support for the state of Israel — along with a growth of philo-Semitism ( love of the Jewish people ) has increased interest among American Evangelicals in Judaism, especially areas of commonality with their own beliefs, see also Jerusalem in Christianity.
His most important point is that Christianity mandates that one " love your neighbor as yourself.
In Eastern Christianity the tree of life is the love of God.
# Christianity emphasizes excessive love, while Judaism maintains a balance of justice, God of wrath and love of peace.
" Hope is an essential and fundamental element of Christian life, so essential indeed, that, like faith and love, it can itself designate the essence of Christianity ".
" Haseltine explained the decision to " shy away from ... traditional religious language " as a conscious one, in part to make their music more accessible to those " put off by religion ", and to " love people in a way that isn't exclusive to simply people that understand the language of Christianity.
One of the first works of art to touch upon the subject is the short German poem The Vampire ( 1748 ) by Heinrich August Ossenfelder, where the theme already has strong erotic overtones: a man whose love is rejected by a respectable and pious maiden threatens to pay her a nightly visit, drink her blood by giving her the seductive kiss of the vampire and thus prove her that his teaching is better than her mother's Christianity.
Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken ....( concert recording cuts off at this moment, losing any further context for this particular quote )
In order to meet Norman's hospital bills, in November 2002 Solid Rock Records began releasing the Essential Series on CD-R, a set of seven Norman albums, with 142 songs ( including 16 previously unreleased songs ), which comprised: Instigator, which included rough mix versions of two previously unreleased songs, " Butterfly " and " Kulderachna ", both removed from 1973's So Long Ago the Garden ; Agitator, which included three unreleased bonus tracks, " Sweet Silver Angels ", " God, Part 2 ", and " People In My Past "; Liberator, which included songs that were aimed at " liberating Christians who felt trapped inside the church and also providing a cultural doorway to allow those who felt dismissed and isolated by Christianity to find their way into fellowship with Christ regardless of the church's response toward them "; Collaborator, which featured songs representing " the combined efforts of Charles and Larry from lyrics and melodies to arrangements and production ", including three unreleased songs: " Perfect World ", " Don't Wanna Be Like You ", and " Jesus Is God ", recorded about 2000 ; Emancipator, included two unreleased songs of Norman singing with Randy Stonehill: a Christian version of the folk song " He Was a Friend of Mine ", which had been popularized by The Byrds and Bob Dylan, which was re-titled " He is a Friend of Mine ", and " I Love You ", the song Stonehill and Norman co-wrote in 1971 for Stonehill's Born Twice album ; Infiltrator, which sees love as " the most powerful infiltrator in the world ", is a collection of Norman's love songs, and includes two new releases: a cover of David Noble's " Waves of Grace ", and " Stranger, Won't You Change "; and Survivor, included the full 8-minute version of " Dark Passage ", an unreleased third verse of " Baby Out of Wedlock ", and " One Star Remains ", which is Judee Sill's " My Man On Love " from her 1971 eponymous debut album.
Parsons had identified the redheaded female love interest of the protagonist with Babalon or the " Scarlet Woman ", whom Crowley had prophesied would help to fulfill the Aeon of Horus and announce to the world the end of the Aeon of Osiris represented by Christianity and other patriarchal religions and social institutions.
Barrett incarnated Marcus Superbus, an old Roman patrician of the years of Nero, who falls in love with a young woman and converts to Christianity for her, both sacrificing their lives in the arena to the lions.
From the time of John the Evangelist and Paul of Tarsus there has always been in the Church something like devotion to the love of God, but there is nothing to indicate that, during the first ten centuries of Christianity, any worship was rendered to the wounded Heart of Jesus.
The subjects to which he looked as, the most essential of all — the universality of the divine love, the supreme importance of the moral and spiritual elements of religion, the supremacy of conscience, the sense of the central citadel of Christianity as being contained in the character, the history, the spirit of its divine Founder — have impressed themselves more and more on the teaching and the preaching in the Church.
" They were characterized by his cryptic approach, often dealing with themes of existentialism, love, hedonism, spirituality and Christianity.
" ( often abbreviated to WWJD ) became popular in the United States in the 1990s and as a personal motto for adherents of Evangelical Christianity who used the phrase as a reminder of their belief in a moral imperative to act in a manner that would demonstrate the love of Jesus through the actions of the adherents.
Bob Smietana of Christianity Today links Molly's defence of Ginny in the final book into a wider theme in the series about the strength of parental love, which he feels to carry considerable emotional weight.

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