Elijah's offering is consumed by fire from heaven in a stained glass window at St. Matthew's German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Charleston, South Carolina

Stained glass depiction of St. Luke at St. Matthew's German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

Stained glass depiction of St. John at St. Matthew's German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

A stained glass window at St. Matthew's German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Charleston, SC

A stained glass window at St. Matthew's German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Charleston, SC

Mary of Magdala at the Empty Tomb window at St. Matthew's German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

Stained glass of Resurrection with two Marys at a St. Matthew's German Evangelical Lutheran Church | Lutheran Church, South Carolina.

The Second Coming of Christ stained glass window at St. Matthew's German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

St. Matthew's German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Charleston, South Carolina suffered 308 yellow fever deaths in 1858, reducing the congregation by half.

* May 29 – May 31 – The Confessional Synod of the German Evangelical Church meets in Barmen, Germany to write the Barmen Declaration.

The Reformation window at St. Matthew's German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Charleston, South Carolina depicts key events in the Protestant Reformation.

Crucifixion window by Henry E. Sharp, 1872, in St. Matthew's German Evangelical Lutheran Church, Charleston, South Carolina

The Philipp Melanchthon window attributed to the Quaker City Stained Glass Company of Philadelphia, PA at St. Matthew's German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Charleston, South Carolina

A stained glass window at St. Matthew's German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Charleston, South Carolina which depicts the flame of fire upon the heads of the disciples

In Swiss and Southern German Reformed churches, where the Reformed churches are organized as regionally defined independent churches ( such as Evangelical Reformed Church of Zurich or Reformed Church of Berne ), the synod corresponds to the general assembly of Presbyterian churches.

Martin Sasse, bishop of the Thuringian Evangelical Church and leading member of the German Christians movement, published a compendium of Martin Luther's writings shortly after the Kristallnacht ; Sasse " applauded the burning of the synagogues " and the coincidence of the day, writing in the introduction, " On 10 November 1938, on Luther's birthday, the synagogues are burning in Germany.

Treynor began east of Council Bluffs in the late 1880s with the establishment of Fritz Eyberg's General Store, August Olderog's dance hall and saloon, and St Paul's German Evangelical Church.

The church at West Sand Lake known as the Salem German church of the Evangelical Association was founded in 1845, and services began in the old Lutheran church with the Rev.

Trinity was initially called the German Theological Seminary of the Ohio Synod, then renamed to the Evangelical Lutheran Theological Seminary.

Not long afterwards local Evangelical Lutheran and German Reformed congregations joined the Presbyterians in the erection of a church building, which the three congregations shared from 1829 until 1854.

The Elbe Evangelical Lutheran Church, a tiny white church built by the German immigrants who established the community, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 8, 1976.

The Churches of Peace (, ) in Jawor ( German: Jauer ) and Świdnica ( German: Schweidnitz ) in Silesia were named after the Peace of Westphalia of 1648 which permitted the Lutherans in the Roman Catholic parts of Silesia to build three Evangelical churches from wood, loam and straw outside the city walls, without steeples and church bells.

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.

Luther ’ s position on ecumenical councils shifted over time, but in 1520 Luther appealed to the German princes to attack the papal Church, if necessary with a council in Germany, open and free of the Papacy.

Pope Paul III then initiated several internal Church reforms while Emperor Charles V convened a meeting with Protestants in Regensburg, seat of the German diet, to reconcile differences.

In 1522 German diets joined in the appeal, with Charles V seconding and pressing for a council as a means of reunifying the Church and settling the Reformation controversies.

The Church endeavored to become disengaged from the German control.

After the Concordat, the German kings never had the same control over the Church as had existed in the time of the Ottonian Dynasty.

These include the United Church of Canada, and the United Church of Christ., all German Lutheran, reformed and united churches in EKD, all Swiss reformed churches, the Protestant Church in the Netherlands, the Church of Denmark, the Church of Sweden, the Church of Iceland and the Church of Norway.

A diagram of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre based on a German documentary, traditional site of Calvary and the Tomb of Jesus

On 18 April, the Estates decided to call ' a general gathering of the German nation ', to meet at Speyer the following year, and to decide what would be done until the meeting of the general council of the Church which they demanded.

Sapir insisted that the discipline of linguistics was of integral importance for ethnographic description, arguing that just as nobody would dream of discussing the history of the Catholic Church without knowing Latin or study German folksongs without knowing German, so it made little sense to approach the study of Indigenous folklore without knowledge of the indigenous languages.

Traditional Mennonite and German Baptist Brethren Churches such as the Church of the Brethren churches and congregations have the Agape Meal, footwashing and the serving of the bread and wine two parts to the Communion service in the Lovefeast.

Some Catholics, mainly of German language and largely inspired by the historian Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger ( who did not formally join the new group ) formed the separate Old Catholic Church in protest.

It was particularly in Protestant countries such as Switzerland and the German states, which were not under the domination of the Roman Catholic Church, where such grimoires were published.

In Berlin he published his views of the chemical laws of nature in German and this was issued in French translation ( Paris, 1813 ) under the title Recherches Sur l'identite Des Forces chimiques et electriques, a work held in very high esteem by the new generation of research chemists.

Taking the title " Margrave of Brandenburg ", he pressed the " crusade " against the Wends, extended the area of his mark, encouraged German migration, established bishoprics under his protection, and so became the founder of the Margraviate of Brandenburg in 1157, which his heirs — the House of Ascania — held until the line died out in 1320.

Although it does not match the German exactly, Wheen's title has justly become part of the English language and is retained here with gratitude.

The song was first copyrighted in 1835 by the Boston-based music publisher Charles Bradlee, and given the title " The A. B. C., a German air with variations for the flute with an easy accompaniment for the piano forte ".

Its title is a literal English translation of the German name for Mozart's Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major, Eine kleine Nachtmusik.

A 1974 West German television adaptation, titled Nora Helmer was directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starred Margit Carstensen in the title role.

It was never used in the title of a military doctrine or handbook of the German army or air force.

Both the first method for cladistic analysis and the school of taxonomy originated in the work of the German entomologist Willi Hennig, who referred to it as " phylogenetic systematics " ( also the title of his 1966 book ); the use of the terms cladistics and clade was popularized by other researchers.

However, the term " German " in the title was interpreted in the broadest possible sense, and its initial royal patronage made the connection clear between a perceived unity of Germanness in history and 19th century Germanness.

Its title track, though only reaching number 24 in the UK singles chart, gained lasting popularity, and within months had been released in both German and French.

Undergraduate education was given in four or five year programs until 2002, styled along the lines of the German system of education ; graduates of these programs were granted an engineering title and allowed to prefix their name with the title ir.

( Latin title: Ducentae paucorum istorum et quidem clarissimorum Christi verborum: Hoc est Corpus meum ; interpretationes ,; German title: Zweihundert Auslegungen der Worte das ist mein Leib.

The title of Emperor of Austria and the associated Empire were both abolished at the end of the First World War in 1918, when German Austria became a republic and the other kingdoms and lands represented in the Imperial Council established their independence or adhesion to other states.

The government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, conferred the additional title upon her by an Act of Parliament, reputedly to assuage the monarch's irritation at being, as a mere Queen, notionally inferior to her own daughter ( Princess Victoria was the wife of the reigning German Emperor ); the Indian Imperial designation was also formally justified as the expression of Britain succeeding as paramount ruler of the subcontinent the former Mughal ' Padishah of Hind ', using indirect rule through hundreds of princely states formally under protection, not colonies, but accepting the British Sovereign as their suzerain.

The Trial ( Kafka's original German title:, later as and ) is a novel written by Franz Kafka in 1914 and 1915 but not published until 1925.

The name Freyja is in fact a title meaning " lady ", from Proto-Germanic * frawjōn, cognate with West Frisian frou, Dutch vrouw, Low German Fro, Fru, German Frau.

A key authoritarian element of fascism is its endorsement of a prime national leader, who is often known simply as the " Leader " or a similar title, such as Duce in Italian, Führer in German, Caudillo in Spanish, Poglavnik in Croatia, or Conducător in Romanian.

His chief activity, however, centred on the elaboration of his Comparative Grammar, which appeared in six parts at considerable intervals ( Berlin, 1833, 1835, 1842, 1847, 1849, 1852 ), under the title Vergleichende Grammatik des Sanskrit, Zend, Griechischen, Lateinischen, Litthauischen, Altslawischen, Gotischen und Deutschen ( Comparative Grammar of Sanskrit, Zend ( Avestan ), Greek, Latin, Lithuanian, Old Slavonic, Gothic and German ).

On 10 December 1870 the North German Confederation Reichstag renamed the Confederation as the German Empire and gave the title of German Emperor to the King of Prussia as President of the Confederation.