He applied this knowledge as preacher, concentrating especially on exegesis of the Old Testament, and his rhetorical abilities impressed Augustine of Hippo, who hitherto had thought poorly of Christian preachers.

Present-day Christian religious bodies known for conducting their worship services without musical accompaniment include some Presbyterian churches devoted to the regulative principle of worship, Old Regular Baptists, Primitive Baptists, Plymouth Brethren, Churches of Christ, the Old German Baptist Brethren, the Eastern Orthodox Christian Church and the Amish, Old Order Mennonites and Conservative Mennonites.

The Apostles ' Creed was based on Christian theological understanding of the Canonical gospels, the letters of the New Testament and to a lesser extent the Old Testament.

A table comparing the canons of some of these traditions appears below, comparing the Jewish Bible with the Christian Old Testament and New Testament.

The books of the Old Testament, showing their positions in both the Tanakh ( Hebrew Bible, shown with their names in Hebrew ) and Christian Bibles.

It is not clear why the present order of the books in the Tanakh does not match the order given in the Talmud ( nor does it match that of the Christian Old Testament ).

In all Christian canons of the Old Testament ( Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant ), it is divided into two parts, 1 & 2 Chronicles — immediately following 1 & 2 Samuel and 1 & 2 Kings — as a summary of them with minor details sometimes added.

In Christian Bibles, Chronicles 1 and 2 are part of the Old Testament, following Kings and before Ezra.

( The order is somewhat different in the Christian Old Testament ).

( The order of the subsequent books differs somewhat in Christian Old Testament ).

The Book of Judges ( Hebrew: Sefer Shoftim ספר שופטים ) is the seventh book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament.

The Book of Esther is a book in the Ketuvim (" writings "), the third section of the Jewish Tanakh ( the Hebrew Bible ) and is part of the Christian Old Testament.

( The order is somewhat different in the Christian Old Testament ).

These are during 853 – 841 BC when Jerusalem was invaded by Philistines and Arabs during the reign of Jehoram ( recorded in 2 Kings 8: 20-22 and 2 Chronicles 21: 8-20 in the Christian Old Testament ) and 605 – 586 BC when Jerusalem was attacked by King Nebuchadnezzer of Babylon, which led to the Babylonian exile of Israel ( recorded in Psalm 137 ).

In the Christian ordering, the grouping of the Prophetic Books is the last section of the Old Testament, making Malachi the last book before the New Testament.

The Book of Zechariah, attributed to the prophet Zechariah, is included in the Twelve Minor Prophets in the Hebrew Bible and is the penultimate book of the Old Testament of the Christian Bible.

As well as stories from the Old Testament, John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, she grew up with Aesop ’ s Fables, the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies, the folk tales and mythology of Scotland, the German Romantics, Shakespeare, and the romances of Sir Walter Scott.

The Torah ( Jewish Law ), also known as the Pentateuch ( the first five books of the Christian Old Testament ), lays down the death penalty for murder, kidnapping, magic, violation of the Sabbath, blasphemy, and a wide range of sexual crimes, although evidence suggests that actual executions were rare.

Old Cairo, located south of the centre, holds the remnants of Fustat and the heart of Egypt's Coptic Christian community, Coptic Cairo.

The Council is considered by the Roman Catholics, Eastern Catholic Churches, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Old Catholics, and various other Western Christian groups to have been the Fourth Ecumenical Council.

According to the Christian doctrine of Universal Reconciliation, the Greek New Testament scriptures use the word " eon " to mean a long period ( perhaps 1000 years ) and the word " eonian " to mean " during a long period "; Thus there was a time before the eons, and the eonian period is finite.

Opponents of musical instruments in the Christian worship believe that such opposition is supported by the New Testament and Church history.

Simple accounting is mentioned in the Christian Bible ( New Testament ) in the Book of Matthew, in the Parable of the Talents.

Saint Apollos ( Ἀπολλώς ; contracted from Apollonius ) is an apostle who is also a 1st century Alexandrian Jewish Christian mentioned several times in the New Testament.

Because of the seemingly highly symbolic and even cryptic language of this one New Testament passage, some Christian scholars conclude that Mount Armageddon must be an idealized location.

A bishop ( English derivation from the New Testament Greek ἐπίσκοπος, epískopos, " overseer ", " guardian ") is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight.

The Book of Revelation, often simply known as Revelation or by a number of variants expanding upon its authorship or subject matter, is the final book of the New Testament and occupies a central part in Christian eschatology.

A Christian with a knowledge of the New Testament of the Bible would say that although God ’ s grace and forgiveness abound in situations, there are consequences which result from bad decisions.

Prophetic movements in particular can be traced throughout the Christian Church's history, in expressions such as Montanism, Novatianism, Donatism, Franciscanism, Anabaptism, Camisard enthusiasm, Puritanism, Quakerism, Quietism and Pietism.

A landmark was set by the Christian Prophetic Chronicle ( 883-884 ), a document stressing the Christian and Muslim cultural and religious divide in Iberia and the necessity to drive the Muslims out.

as some of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, Charles Dickens ' " Christmas Books ", and Lewis Carroll's Alice books.

* De La Torre, Miguel A., " Doing Christian Ethics from the Margins ," Orbis Books, 2004.

* Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, California is a Catholic Christian college with a Great Books curriculum.

* The Torrey Honors Institute at Biola University is a Christian Great Books program.

A " Gospel according to Barnabas " is mentioned in two early Christian lists of apocryphal works: the Latin Decretum Gelasianum ( 6th century ), as well as a 7th-century Greek List of the Sixty Books.

* See Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, " Notification on the book Toward a Christian Theology of Religious Pluralism ( Orbis Books: Maryknoll, New York 1997 ) by Father Jacques Dupuis, S. J.

Christian Batchelor Books, 1997, ISBN 0-9530631-0-0

Though different Christian denominations have slightly different versions of the Old Testament in their Bibles, the Torah as the " Five Books of Moses " ( or " the Mosaic Law ") is common among them all.

* Lead Follow or Get Out of the Way: The Story of Ted Turner by Christian Williams ( Times Books, 1981 ) ISBN 0-8129-1004-4

* Waite, Arthur Edward, The Hidden Church of the Holy Grail: Its Legends and Symbolism Considered in Their Affinity with Certain Mysteries of Initiation and Other Traces of a Secret Tradition in Christian Times, Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Fredonia Books, 2002.

* Parenti, Christian The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America From Slavery to the War on Terror, Basic Books, ISBN 978-0-465-05485-5

Comdata, Sigma Pi Fraternity, EMI Christian Music Group, Howard Books and the Tractor Supply Company are among the companies based in Brentwood.

The congregation thus placed on the conscience of the individual Christian the responsibility to avoid all writings dangerous to faith and morals, while at the same time abolishing the previously existing ecclesiastical law and the relative censures, without thereby declaring that the books that had once been listed in the various editions of the Index of Prohibited Books had become free of error and danger.

* Y. Stoyanov, The Hidden Tradition in Europe: The Secret History of Medieval Christian heresy, Penguin Books 1994

* 1978 – Hold Fast ISBN 0-88899-579-2 ( nominated: Books in Canada First Novel Award ; winner: Governor General's Award, Book-of-the-Year CACL, Ruth Schwartz Award ; placed on Hans Christian Honour List )

In 1968, " Papelucho the Missionary " was a candidate for the Hans Christian Andersen award from the International Board on Books for Young People ( IBBY ) in Amrisville, Switzerland.

* TSI: The Gabon Virus by Paul McCusker and Walt Larimore, M. D., Christian suspense fiction published by Howard Books ( USA ), 2009

* Bannerman, James, The Church of Christ: A treatise on the nature, powers, ordinances, discipline and government of the Christian Church ', Still Waters Revival Books, Edmonton, Reprint Edition May 1991, First Edition 1869.

# R. Nash, Christianity and the Hellenistic World as quoted in Baker's Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics, Norman Geisler ; Baker Books, Grand Rapids, Mich .; 1999, p. 492.

Goleta, Calif .: Christian Books, 1973.

* An Embassy Besieged: The Story of a Christian Community in Nazi Germany, Emmy Barth, 2010 Cascade Books

* Books on Christian anarchism at the Open Library

* Christian Bruun, " Gunde Rosenkrantz: Et Bidrag Til Danmarks Historie Under Frederik Den Tredie ", 2008, ISBN 0-559-24640-4 Google Books edition