Kent and Story, the great early American scholars, repeatedly made use of this phrase, or of `` Christian nations '', which is a substantial equivalent.

We are concerned not with the genus communism nor with other species of the genus: Platonic, Stoic, early Christian, monastic, canonist or theological communism ; ;

Theodosius had just been baptized, by bishop Acholius of Thessalonica, during a severe illness, as was common in the early Christian world.

Many Christian denominations have been influenced by Arminian views, notably the Baptists ( See A History of the Baptists Third Edition by Robert G. Torbet ) in the 16th century, the Methodists, the Congregationalists of the early New England colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries and the Universalists and Unitarians in the 18th and 19th centuries.

It has been noted that Ambrose's theology was significantly influenced by that of Origen and Didymus the Blind, two other early Christian universalists.

The Nordendorf fibula ( early 7th century ) clearly records pagan theonyms, logaþorewodanwigiþonar read as " Wodan and Donar are magicians / sorcerers ", but this may be interpreted as either a pagan invocation of the powers of these deities, or a Christian protective charm against them.

The Lesbian or Aeolic school of poetry " reached in the songs of Sappho and Alcaeus that high point of brilliancy to which it never after-wards approached " and it was assumed by later Greek critics and during the early centuries of the Christian era that the two poets were in fact lovers, a theme which became a favourite subject in art ( as in the urn pictured above ).

), Anatho ( Isidore Charax ), Anatha ( Ammianus Marcellinus ) by Greek and Latin writers in the early Christian centuries, Ana ( sometimes, as if plural, Anat ) by Arabic writers.

Most, however, interpret the genre as epic stories of early Christian miracles and conversions.

A number of at least partly neo-Assyrian kingdoms existed in the area between in the late classical and early Christian period also ; Adiabene, Hatra and Osroene.

Other early Christian writers wrote about Atlantis, though they had mixed views on whether it once existed or was an untrustworthy myth of pagan origin.

The early Christian apologist writer Arnobius also believed Atlantis once existed but blamed its destruction on pagans.

This lineage of ordination is traceable, according to " apostolic " churches, to the original Twelve Apostles, thus making the Church the continuation of the early Apostolic Christian community.

Most Protestants deny the need for this type of continuity and the historical claims involved have been severely questioned ; Eric Jay comments that the account given of the emergence of the episcopate in chapter III of Lumen Gentium " is very sketchy, and many ambiguities in the early history of the Christian ministry are passed over " Their reasons are given in detail below.

Titus was an early Christian leader, a companion of Saint Paul, mentioned in several of the Pauline epistles.

They found the baptistry of the 6th century cathedral and large amounts of pottery dated to the 6th and 7th centuries AD ; in other words, the early Christian town.

This is the only evidence so far of a Roman city continuous with the early Christian one.

** Arian controversy, several controversies which divided the early Christian church

"), the concept of the Virgin Birth of Jesus had not been developed or elucidated at the time of the writing of this early Christian text.

It is now accepted by most scholars that the Arian Party was not a monolithic group, holding drastically different theological views that spanned the early Christian theological spectrum.

The Apostles ' Creed ( Latin: Symbolum Apostolorum or Symbolum Apostolicum ), sometimes titled Symbol of the Apostles, is an early statement of Christian belief, a creed or " symbol ".

Because of the early origin of its original form, it does not address some Christological issues defined in the later Nicene and other Christian Creeds.

There is a third view that sees merit in both arguments above and attempts to bridge them, and so cannot be articulated as starkly as they can ; it sees more than one Christianity and more than one attitude towards paganism at work in the poem, separated from each other by hundreds of years ; it sees the poem as originally the product of a literate Christian author with one foot in the pagan world and one in the Christian, himself a convert perhaps or one whose forbears had been pagan, a poet who was conversant in both oral and literary milieus and was capable of a masterful " repurposing " of poetry from the oral tradition ; this early Christian poet saw virtue manifest in a willingness to sacrifice oneself in a devotion to justice and in an attempt to aid and protect those in need of help and greater safety ; good pagan men had trodden that noble path and so this poet presents pagan culture with equanimity and respect ; yet overlaid upon this early Christian poet's composition are verses from a much later reformist " fire-and-brimstone " Christian poet who vilifies pagan practice as dark and sinful and who adds satanic aspects to its monsters.

Christian attitudes to Judaism and to the Jewish people developed from the early years of Christianity, the persecution of Christians in the New Testament, and persisted over the ensuing centuries, driven by numerous factors including theological differences, competition between Church and Synagogue, the Christian drive for converts decreed by the Great Commission, misunderstanding of Jewish beliefs and practices, and a perceived Jewish hostility toward Christians.

The term " fundamentalism " was originally coined by its supporters to describe a specific package of theological beliefs that developed into a movement within the Protestant community of the United States in the early part of the 20th century, and that had its roots in the Fundamentalist – Modernist Controversy of that time.

Apart from the several theological discourses, Gregory was also one of the most important early Christian men of letters, a very accomplished orator, perhaps one of the greatest of his time, and also a very prolific poet, writing several poems with theological and moral matter and some with biographical content, about himself and about his friends ( one short poem, " Eis ta Emmetra ", actually lays down some rules for the composition of poetry ).

Are Mishnaic disputes distinguishable along theological or communal lines, and in what ways do different sections derive from different schools of thought within early Judaism?

He sketched biographical treatises on Europe and Asia, and in early and middle life produced numerous tracts on the political and theological controversies of his day, as well as on ethical subjects.

There was no theological study that could be called " Shinto " during medieval and early modern Japanese history, and a mixture of Buddhist and popular beliefs proliferated.

For example, Taxila was an early centre of Vedic learning, possible from the 6th century BC or earlier ; the Platonic Academy founded in Athens in the 4th century BC seems to have included theological themes in its subject matter ; the Chinese Taixue delivered Confucian teaching from the 2nd century BC ; the School of Nisibis was a centre of Christian learning from the 4th century AD ; Nalanda in India was a site of Buddhist higher learning from at least the 5th or 6th century AD ; and the Moroccan University of Al-Karaouine was a centre of Islamic learning from the 10th century, as was Al-Azhar University in Cairo.

) Eck, irritated all the more because early in the year he had induced Erasmus to caution, the young theological student against precipitating himself into the religious conflict, retorted that Melanchthon knew nothing of theology.

In early English dramas Justice was personified as an entity which exercised “ theological virtue or grace, and was concerned with the divine pronouncement of judgment on man ”.

The early sessions lasted until 17 July 1438 with each theological issue of the Great Schism ( 1054 ) hotly debated, including the Processions of the Holy Spirit, Filioque clause in the Nicene Creed, Purgatory and Papal Primacy.

For the early Christians the reason was theological — that Christ had already defeated the powers of evil.

In early 1519, Bucer received the baccalaureus degree, and that summer he stated his theological views in a disputation before the faculty at Heidelberg, revealing his break with Aquinas and scholasticism.

The international Potter's House Church ( CFM ) was birthed out of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, a church movement based in Los Angeles where Chuck Smith, the pastor of Calvary Chapel, received his early theological training.

He was apparently one of the Cambridge men who gathered at the White Horse Tavern for Bible-reading and theological discussion in the early 1530s.

Tabbaa explains the development and spread of muqarnas domes throughout the Islamic world beginning in the early 11th century as the visual expression of a theological idea of the universe propounded by the Ash ' arites ( a modification of the Atomism of Aristotle with Occasionalism ), which rose to prominence in Baghdad at this time.

As early as 1834 he published a strictly theological work, Gegensatz des Katholicismus und Protestantismus nach den Prinzipien und Hauptdogmen der beiden Lehrbegriffe, a strong defence of Protestantism on the lines of Schleiermacher's Glaubenslehre, and a vigorous reply to J. Möhler's Symbolik ( 1833 ).

He early devoted himself to theological studies and the service of the church, while at the same time cherishing and developing broad " humanistic " tendencies which found expression in many ways and especially in an enthusiastic admiration for the writings of Herder.

In its early years under the presidency of James Strong, Carleton reflected the theological conservatism of its Minnesota Congregational founders.

The early bands ' use of tritonus, a " dissonant sound of the medieval ‘ Devil ’ s chord ’", led to heavy metal being " cast as dumb, crass, and, on occasions, satanic ; music hardly fit for intelligent debate, let alone theological reflection.

In another of his theological works, Swedenborg wrote that eating meat, regarded in itself, " is something profane ", and was not practiced in the early days of the human race.

In his writings of the early 1970s, he rejects what he regards as theological underpinnings of both Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud: " In Freud, it is judaical, critical sombre ( forgetful of the political ); in Marx it is catholic.