Artistic mimesis under Christian influence records the involvement of all persons, however humble, in a divine drama.

First of all, it is now known that Pope John sees the renewal and purification of the Church as an absolutely necessary step toward Christian unity.

Up to the turn of the century, contraception was condemned by all Christian churches as immoral, unnatural and contrary to divine law.

An action once universally condemned by all Christian churches and forbidden by the civil law is now not only approved by the overwhelming majority of Protestant denominations, but also deemed, at certain times, to be a positive religious duty.

Among Christian groups, the Mennonites have commonly been aware more than others of the fact that the nature of divine charity raises decisively the question of the Christian use of all forms of pressure.

`` When and if it can do so without jeopardizing constitutional and statutory tax-exemption privileges essential to the maintenance of its educational program and facilities, Emory University will consider applications of persons desiring to study or work at the University without regard to race, color or creed, continuing university policy that all applications shall be considered on the basis of intellectual and moral standards and other criteria designed to assure the orderly and effective conduct of the university and the fulfillment of its mission as an institution of Christian higher education ''.

Every family of Riviera Presbyterian Church has been asked to read the Bible and pray together daily during National Christian Family Week and to undertake one project in which all members of the family participate.

If to be a Christian means to say yes where I otherwise say no, or where I do not have the right to say anything at all, then my only choice is to refuse to be a Christian.

Yet, even after all these stratagems, the conscience of Christian liberality is still not laid to rest, any more than is the conscience of Harvard University for having done the abject penance for its rejection of Ralph Waldo Emerson's The Divinity School Address of naming its hall of philosophy after him.

We must also remember those who reacted against the dream as a kind of myth -- among them Melville, Hawthorne, and Henry James the elder, all of them out of a Christian background.

Greek Christian scribes played a crucial role in the preservation of Aristotle by copying all the extant Greek language manuscripts of the corpus.

The divine light can still be seen even in the most catastrophic events, and a Christian hope is granted to all.

Christian eschatology is concerned with death, an intermediate state, Heaven, Hell, the Second Coming of Christ, the resurrection of the dead, a rapture, a tribulation, the Millennium, end of the world, the last judgment, a new heaven and a new earth, and the ultimate consummation of all of God's purposes.

Not all Christian sects accept this doctrine, leading many controversies on grace and free will, and the idea of predestination.

Of all the various disagreements within the Christian Church, the Arian controversy has held the greatest force and power of theological and political conflict, with the possible exception of the Protestant Reformation.

* Christian perfection – According to Wesley's teaching, Christians could attain a state of practical perfection, meaning a lack of all voluntary sin by the empowerment of the Holy Spirit, in this life.

Christian perfection ( or entire sanctification ), according to Wesley, is " purity of intention, dedicating all the life to God " and " the mind which was in Christ, enabling us to walk as Christ walked.

The Swiss Psychologist Carl Jung wrote a short Gnostic treatise in 1916 called The Seven Sermons to the Dead, which called Abraxas a God higher than the Christian God and Devil, that combines all opposites into one Being.

Believing that without Christian wisdom there can be neither prosperity nor success in war, Alfred aimed " to set to learning ( as long as they are not useful for some other employment ) all the free-born young men now in England who have the means to apply themselves to it.

He was a harsh and effective ruler, who cleared all Orthodox Christian liturgic remnants in favour of Papal standards.

He was a Latin philosopher and theologian from the Africa Province of the Roman Empire and is generally considered as one of the greatest Christian thinkers of all times.

After much discussion, James the Just, leader of the Jerusalem church, decrees that Gentile Christian converts need not follow all of the Mosaic Law, and in particular, they do not need to be circumcised.

Years later, Lead Me On would be chosen as the greatest Contemporary Christian album of all time by CCM Magazine.

In all three traditions, a canon was originally a rule adopted by a council ; these canons formed the foundation of canon law.

In the early Church, the first canons were decreed by bishops united in " Ecumenical " councils ( the Emperor summoning all of the known world's bishops to attend with at least the acknowledgement of the Bishop of Rome ) or " local " councils ( bishops of a region or territory ).

# States that all canons of previous councils shall remain in force ; specific councils were clarified by Quinisext Council canon 2.

Eastern Orthodoxy typically views the purely doctrinal canons as dogmatic and applicable to the entire church at all times, while the disciplinary canons apply to a particular time and place and may or may not be applicable in other situations.

Marwan Nader questions this and suggests that the canons may not have applied to the whole kingdom at all times.

The canons condemning the Three Chapters were preceded by ten dogmatic canons which defined Chalcedonian Christology with a new precision, bringing out that God the Word is the one subject of all the operations of Christ, divine and human.

By its terms, the Pope recalled his bull of dissolution, and, reserving all the rights of the Holy See, acknowledged the council as ecumenical on 15 December 1433 except for the initial unapproved sessions that contained canons which exalted conciliar authority above that of the pope.

As with all canons of the Goldberg Variations ( except the 27th variation, canon at the ninth ), there is a supporting bass line here.

The editor suggests a complete complement of all fourteen canons.

The new cathedral was also paid for by donations, principally by all the canons and vicars of South East England, who were asked to contribute a fixed annual sum until its completion.

In 1387 however, a site was secured at Windesheim, some north of Deventer, and here was established the monastery that became the cradle of the Windesheim congregation of canons regular embracing in course of time nearly one hundred houses, and leading the way in the series of reforms undertaken during the 15th century by all the religious orders in Germany.

Pope John VII had been sent the canons for approval and instead had sent them back, " without any emendations at all ".

The title reflects its former status as a Collegiate Church, and derives from the requirement that all of the canons of the Cathedral must possess the academic distinction of Doctor of Theology in order to serve there.

Imperial historical documents and philosophical canons such as Classic of History, Records of the Grand Historian, Classic of Rites, and Lüshi Chunqiu all contain Chinese myths.

During all that time, Maaseik was still a dependence of the chapter of canons in Aldeneik.

In all three traditions, a canon was initially a rule adopted by a council ( From Greek kanon / κανών, Hebrew kaneh / קנה, for rule, standard, or measure ); these canons formed the foundation of canon law.

In the early Church, the first canons were decreed by bishops united in " Ecumenical " councils ( the Emperor summoning all of the known world's bishops to attend with at least the acknowledgement of the Bishop of Rome ) or " local " councils ( bishops of a region or territory ).

Some Orthodox canon scholars point out that, had the Ecumenical Councils ( which deliberated in Greek ) meant for the canons to be used as laws, they would have called them nómoi / νόμοι ( laws ) rather than kanónes / κανόνες ( rules ), but almost all Orthodox conform to them.

The Musical Offering ( German title Musikalisches Opfer or Das Musikalische Opfer ), BWV 1079, is a collection of canons and fugues and other pieces of music by Johann Sebastian Bach, all based on a single musical theme given to him by Frederick the Great ( Frederick II of Prussia ), to whom they are dedicated.

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Walsingham gives a lengthy ( and most likely invented ) ' confession ' in which Straw states that the insurgents ' plans were to kill the king, " all landowners, bishops, monks, canons, and rectors of churches ", set up their own laws, and set fire to London.

Though all the critics ' canons grow —