Levine also noted that the victory " gave encouragement to isolationist and conservative strains that were deeply rooted in Ethiopian culture, strengthening the hand of those who would strive to keep Ethiopia from adopting techniques imported from the modern West-resistances with which both Menelik and Ras Teferi / Haile Selassie would have to contend "

All types of Judaism except for Orthodox Judaism and some conservative strains ordain women and lesbian and gay people as rabbis and cantors.

This was further compounded by the financial strains the company was experiencing around 1990 and 1991, making the company less enthusiastic about untested technology and preferring a more conservative approach.

New methodology and the inclusion of approaches based on the studies of conservative macromolecules have reclassified many strains.

In Victorian times, these points were the pre-eminent strains of conservative thought in the British Empire, and were advanced by many in the Tory faction of Sir John A. Macdonald's conservative coalition in the Canadas.

A history of the different strains of conservative ideology from 1945 until 1976, updated to 1996 in the second edition.

There are many other plausible and coherent explanations of the causes of the rise of the subjective self, but whatever the prime cause, poets showed the strains of the development as a largely conservative set of voices argued for a social person and largely emergent voices argued for the individual person.

The introduction of recruitment for the Levy in the Vendée, a politically and religiously conservative region, added to local discontent over other revolutionary directives emanating from Paris, and on 11 March the Vendée erupted into civil war — just days after France declared war on Spain and adding further strains on the French armies ' limited manpower.

There were, in addition, strains between the more liberal New Deal supporters and the conservative wing of the Democratic party centered in the Southern states.

These strains were exacerbated by an effort led by President Roosevelt to target certain conservative senators for defeat in Democratic primaries, including Walter George of Georgia, Millard Tydings of Maryland and Ellison Smith of South Carolina, along with the chairman of the House Rules Committee, John J. O ' Connor of New York.

There were, in addition, strains between the more liberal New Deal supporters and the conservative wing of the Democratic party centered in the Southern states.

These strains were exacerbated by an effort led by President Roosevelt to target certain conservative senators for defeat in Democratic primaries, including Walter George of Georgia, Millard Tydings of Maryland and Ellison Smith of South Carolina, along with the chairman of the House Rules Committee, John J. O ' Connor of New York.

New methodology and the inclusion of approaches based on the studies of conservative macromolecules have reclassified many strains.

" The unified opposition shown in Britain was in fact motivated by long-term strains of liberal and conservative thought, with the desire to protect small nations and the balance of power in Europe, respectively, a factor in coming to the government's decision.

Romanticism in France defied political affiliation: one finds both " liberal " ( like Stendhal ), " conservative " ( like Chateaubriand ) and socialist ( George Sand ) strains.

He says: `` beside the Protestant philosophy of Progress, as expressed in radical or conservative millenarianism, should be placed the doctrine of the democratic faith which affirmed it to be the duty of the destiny of the United States to assist in the creation of a better world by keeping lighted the beacon of democracy ''.

John A. Macdonald's successful leadership of the movement to confederate the provinces and his subsequent tenure as prime minister for most of the late 19th century rested on his ability to bring together the English-speaking Protestant oligarchy and the ultramontane Catholic hierarchy of Quebec and to keep them united in a conservative coalition.

From the late 20th century onwards, such conservative Protestant Christians, and their churches and social movements, have often been called evangelical to distinguish them from other Protestants.

Baptism received by adults or younger people who have reached the age of accountability where they can make a personal religious decision is referred to as believer's baptism among conservative or evangelical Protestant groups.

The Douay-Rheims Challoner Bible is still often preferred by more conservative or Traditionalist Catholics, and holds a status in the Catholic world equivalent to that held by the Authorized King James Version in the Protestant world.

Comparatively, the UMC stands to the right of liberal and progressive Protestant groups such as the United Church of Christ and the Episcopal Church on certain issues ( especially regarding sexuality ), but to the left of historically conservative evangelical traditions such as the Southern Baptists and Pentecostalism, in regard to theological matters such as social justice and Biblical interpretation.

At that time the " mainline " Protestant denominations weakened sharply in both membership and influence while the most conservative religious denominations ( such as the Southern Baptists and Missouri Synod Lutherans ) grew rapidly in numbers, spread across the United States, had grave internal theological battles and schisms, and became politically powerful.

* Christian Union ( ChristenUnie ), a Christian-democratic party made up by mostly orthodox Protestant Christians, with conservative stances on abortion, euthanasia and gay marriage.

* The Political Reformed Party ( SGP ), the most orthodox Protestant party with conservative policies: government is only to serve God.

This was followed by the Bishops ' Book in 1537, a combined effort by numerous clergy and theologians which, though not strongly Protestant in its inclinations, showed a slight move towards Reformed positions and was unpopular with conservative sections of the Church and quickly grew to be disliked by Henry also.

Progressive Chinese officials, with support from Protestant missionaries, persuaded Emperor Guangxu to institute reforms, which alienated many conservative officials by their sweeping nature.

The Swiss Federal Democratic Union is a small conservative Protestant party with about 1 % of the vote.

Fundamentalism is a movement, rather than a denomination or a systematic theology, which gained ascendance after the release of a ten-volume set of essays, apologetic and polemic, written by many well-known conservative Protestant theologians to defend what they saw as Protestant orthodoxy — covering a wide range of topics, from defenses of the Divinity of Jesus Christ, his Virgin Birth, of the historicity of Biblical narratives, Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch, and of Biblical inerrancy against the prevalent higher-critical theories of the day, to the falsity of theological systems such as Christian Science, " Millennial Dawnism ", Mormonism, to the errors of " Romanism "— over the course of 1910-1915, called The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth, from which the movement receives its eponymous name.

For most of its history it had this conservative Protestant image.

Actual collection procedures vary from church to church, from the common, strictly voluntary practice of " passing the plate " in Catholic and mainline Protestant churches, to formal, church-mediated tithing in some conservative Protestant churches ( as well as LDS Church ), to membership fees as practiced in many Jewish congregations.

Although its strongly conservative views on theology and ethics might seem to make the LCMS politically compatible with Protestant evangelicals and fundamentalists in the U. S., the LCMS largely eschews political activity, partly out of concerns to keep the denomination untainted with potential heresies and also because of its strict understanding of the Lutheran distinction between the Two Kingdoms ( see above ), which repudiates the primarily Calvinist presuppositions about the totalizing rule of God that informs much, if not most, of U. S. evangelical understanding of politics and Christianity.

His savage onslaught in public reflected his conservative Catholic origins and the relative immaturity of his mid-thirties, as he revengefully destroyed a wealthy Protestant squire.

He is an outspoken bigot, seemingly prejudiced against everyone who is not a U. S .- born, politically conservative, heterosexual White Anglo-Saxon Protestant male, and dismissive of anyone not in agreement with his view of the world.

In the last weeks of the reign Seymour and Dudley played their parts in Henry's strike against the conservative House of Howard, thus clearing the path for a Protestant minority rule.

Merrill was the product of a conservative, wealthy, Protestant upbringing.

Although he was a national conservative and initially a supporter of Adolf Hitler, he became one of the founders of the Confessional Church, which opposed the nazification of German Protestant churches.

Like most Protestant pastors, Niemöller was a national conservative, and openly supported the conservative opponents of the Weimar Republic.

Some historians define and minimize the Arian conflict as the exclusive construct of Arius and a handful of rogue bishops engaging in heresy ; but others recognize Arius as a defender of ' original ' Christianity, or as providing a conservative response against the politicization of Christianity seeking union with the Roman Empire.

In this, Islam resembles socially conservative interpretations of other Abrahamic religions such as Judaism and Christianity.

* Christianity. com Bible Study Tools For-profit, conservative religious site with links to translations, as well as to mostly out-dated and non-critical commentaries, concordances, and other reference works

While she would later hold the reformist position that the papacy was a corrupting influence on Christianity, her conservative tendencies could be seen in her devotion to the Virgin Mary.

His media and financial resources make him a recognized, influential, and controversial public voice for conservative Christianity in the United States.

Jews for Jesus is a conservative, Christian evangelical organization that focuses on the conversion of Jews to Christianity.

Initial accusations were made in the context of the rising political power of conservative Christianity within the United States, and religious fundamentalists were enthusiastic in promoting rumors of SRA.

* Targeting Jews and other non-Christians for conversion to conservative Christianity

Moon has emphasized the similarity between Unification views of sexuality and evangelical Christianity, " reaching out to conservative Christians in this country in the last few years by emphasizing shared goals like support for sexual abstinence outside of marriage, and opposition to homosexuality.

By the time of Divine's birth in 1945, the Milsteads were relatively wealthy and socially conservative, adhering to the Baptist denomination of Christianity.

This study may be undertaken from a conservative Muslim perspective, which often sees Judaism and Christianity as having been originally similar to Islam, and later developing away from the root monotheist religion.

Nevertheless, Sunday continued to preach and remained a stalwart defender of conservative Christianity until his death.

Further, Chapman encouraged Sunday's theological development, especially by emphasizing the importance of prayer and by helping to " reinforce Billy's commitment to conservative biblical Christianity.

According to Amy Schindler, " the discourse of masculinity found within conservative religious movements, such as the Promise Keepers and the Victorian era movement ' muscular Christianity ,' is inherently political.

After 1945, the threat of pro-nazi " German Christianity " abated, providing several conservative Lutheran theologians a fresh new era in which to speak out against Barmen for having challenged four tenets of traditional Lutheranism: their Orders of creation, natural revelation, the doctrine of the two kingdoms, and the relationship between Law and Gospel.

Machen is considered to be the last of the great Princeton theologians who had, since the formation of the college in the early 19th century, developed Princeton theology: a conservative and Calvinist form of Evangelical Christianity.

The book compared conservative and Protestant Christianity to the rising popularity of Modernist ( or " Liberal ") theology.

He is an outspoken figure within the Christian countercult movement where he has established a reputation for his criticisms of non-Christian religions, new religious movements or cults and heresies within conservative Christianity.

In 1956 the magazine was challenged by the establishment of the evangelical Christianity Today by Carl F. H. Henry, which sought to present a theologically conservative Christian viewpoint, while restoring many social concerns abandoned by fundamentalists.

* Author and conservative columnist John Derbyshire has stated publicly that although formerly professing Christianity, he now considers himself to be a mysterian.

Charles Darwin was born during the Napoleonic Wars and grew up in their aftermath, a conservative time when Tory dominated government closely associated with the established Anglican Church of England repressed Radicalism, but when family memories recalled the 18th century Enlightenment and a multitude of Non-conformist churches held differing interpretations of Christianity.

Delicate in health and with his mother dying while he was still young, he was home-schooled by his father in a conservative interpretation of Christianity as well as via the classics such as the Iliad-the former put him off conventional religion for life, whilst the latter was a continual influence on his art.