The same word in adjectival form ( purgatorius-a-um, cleansing ), which appears also in non-religious writing, was already used by Christians such as Augustine of Hippo and Pope Gregory I to refer to an after-death cleansing.

Moyers was inspired to focus on the song's power after watching a performance at Lincoln Center, where the audience consisted of Christians and non-Christians, and he noticed that it had an equal impact on everybody in attendance, unifying them.

Though pagan, Marcellinus was mostly tolerant of Christians.

He presumably completed the work before 391, since at 22. 16. 12 he praises the Serapeum in Egypt as the glory of the empire, and the temple was destroyed by Christians at the end of that year.

While the precise identity of the author is debated, the consensus is that this work was composed by a ( Koine ) Greek speaking Gentile writing for an audience of Gentile Christians.

The city of Assur was still occupied by Assyrians during the Islamic period until the 14th century when Tamurlane conducted a massacre of indigenous Assyrian Christians.

It also remained the spoken tongue of the indigenous Assyrian / Babylonian citizens of all Mesopotamia under Persian, Greek and Roman rule, and indeed well into the Arab period it was still the language of the majority, particularly in the north of Mesopotamia, surviving to this day among the Assyrian Christians.

At a later period, Paul's epistles place him with Paul and Saint Timothy at Ephesus, whence he was sent by Paul to Corinth, Greece for the purpose of getting the contributions of the church there on behalf of the poor Christians at Jerusalem sent forward.

Unlike the Israelite worship assembly, which was only able to look on during Temple worship as the Levitical Priest sang, played, and offered animal sacrifices, in the New Testament, all Christians are commanded to sing praises to God.

# It was most widely circulated among Western Christians.

* Pictures of the cave where it is believed by Christians that Jesus was buried and from which it is believed he resurrected and a picture of the remains of the walls of the Temple of Venus previously constructed on that site by the Emperor Hadrian

Years later in 1890 Edward Granville Browne described how ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was " one more eloquent of speech, more ready of argument, more apt of illustration, more intimately acquainted with the sacred books of the Jews, the Christians, and the Muhammadans ... scarcely be found even amongst the eloquent.

Support for Arius from powerful bishops like Eusebius of Caesarea and Eusebius of Nicomedia, further illustrate how Arius ' subordinationist Christology was shared by other Christians in the Empire.

" While Disraeli did not argue that the Jews did the Christians a favour by killing Christ, as he had in Tancred and would in Lord George Bentinck, his speech was badly received by his own party, which along with the Anglican establishment was hostile to the bill.

Gladstone, however, saw the issue in moral terms, for Bulgarian Christians had been massacred by the Turks and Gladstone therefore believed it was immoral to support the Ottoman Empire.

The usual form of baptism among the earliest Christians was for the naked candidate to be immersed totally ( submersion ) or partially ( standing or kneeling in water while water was poured on him or her ).

This discovery has shed much light on the differences between the two versions ; while it was previously maintained that the Greek Septuagint ( the version used by the earliest Christians ) was only a poor translation, professor Emanuel Tov, senior editor of the Dead Sea Scrolls ' publication, wrote that the Masoretic edition either represents a substantial rewriting of the original Hebrew, or there had previously been two different versions of the text.

Isaiah 52: 13 – 53: 12, the fourth of the " Suffering Servant " songs, was interpreted by the earliest Christians as a prophecy of the death and exaltation of Jesus, a role which Jesus himself seems to have accepted ( Luke 4: 17 – 21 ).

Antioch, the third-most important city of the Roman Empire, then the capital city of Syria province, today Antakya, Turkey, was where Christians were first called thus.

:"" There are there ," he said, " many great and powerful gods, and in former time a church was built there, and there are many Christians there who worship Christ --"" ( Chapter XIX )

BJU has taken the position that orthodox Christians of the late 19th and early 20th centuries ( including fundamentalists ) agreed that while the KJV was a substantially accurate translation, only the original manuscripts of the Bible written in Hebrew and Greek were infallible and inerrant.

The Church of South India was the first modern Episcopal uniting church, consisting as it did, from its foundation in 1947, at the time of Indian independence, of Anglicans, Methodists, Congregationalists, Presbyterians and Reformed Christians.

* Momigliano, Arnaldo, On Pagans, Jews, and Christians, reprint, Wesleyan University Press, 1987.

* 1987: Faith in Politics: Which Way Should Christians Vote ?, by John Gummer, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, ISBN 0-281-04299-3

* In 1987, the Liverpool group The Christians had a British hit with the song " Hooverville ( And They Promised Us The World )". ll

After politics, from 1980 to 1987, he was CEO of the Canadian Council of Christians and Jews.

Their first three singles all made the Top 40 in Britain, and their debut album The Christians ( 1987 ) entered the UK Albums Chart at number 2.

* The Christians ( 1987 )-No.

In 1987 Naomi Shepherd reported that “ The Armenian and Syrian Orthodox clergy are present and correct, but are not on speaking terms .” At this time she also reported that only 14, 000 Christians lived in the city of Jerusalem.

His books include The Hidden Balance ( Cambridge University Press, 1987 ); The Prism of Piety ( Oxford University Press, 1991 ); Religion in America ( coauthor, Prentice Hall, 1992, 1998 ; 2003 ; 2010 ); Jews, Christians, Muslims ( coauthor, Prentice Hall, 1998, 2010 ); Readings in Judaism, Christianity and Islam ( coeditor, Prentice Hall, 1998 ); Emotion and Religion ( coauthor, Greenwood, 2000 ); Business of the Heart: Religion and Emotion in the Nineteenth Century ( University of California Press, 2002 ); Religion and Emotion: Approaches and Interpretations, ed., ( Oxford University Press, 2004 ), French and Spanish Missions in North America, an interactive electronic book ( co-author, California Digital Library / University of California, 2004 ), The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Emotion, ( ed., Oxford University Press, 2008 ); Religion in American History ( coeditor, Blackwell, 2010 ); Religious Intolerance in America: A Documentary History ( coauthor, University of North Carolina Press, 2010 ); and The Spatial Humanities: GIS and the Future of the Humanities ( co-editor, Indiana University Press, 2010 ).

In order to meet Norman's hospital bills, in November 2002 Solid Rock Records began releasing the Essential Series on CD-R, a set of seven Norman albums, with 142 songs ( including 16 previously unreleased songs ), which comprised: Instigator, which included rough mix versions of two previously unreleased songs, " Butterfly " and " Kulderachna ", both removed from 1973's So Long Ago the Garden ; Agitator, which included three unreleased bonus tracks, " Sweet Silver Angels ", " God, Part 2 ", and " People In My Past "; Liberator, which included songs that were aimed at " liberating Christians who felt trapped inside the church and also providing a cultural doorway to allow those who felt dismissed and isolated by Christianity to find their way into fellowship with Christ regardless of the church's response toward them "; Collaborator, which featured songs representing " the combined efforts of Charles and Larry from lyrics and melodies to arrangements and production ", including three unreleased songs: " Perfect World ", " Don't Wanna Be Like You ", and " Jesus Is God ", recorded about 2000 ; Emancipator, included two unreleased songs of Norman singing with Randy Stonehill: a Christian version of the folk song " He Was a Friend of Mine ", which had been popularized by The Byrds and Bob Dylan, which was re-titled " He is a Friend of Mine ", and " I Love You ", the song Stonehill and Norman co-wrote in 1971 for Stonehill's Born Twice album ; Infiltrator, which sees love as " the most powerful infiltrator in the world ", is a collection of Norman's love songs, and includes two new releases: a cover of David Noble's " Waves of Grace ", and " Stranger, Won't You Change "; and Survivor, included the full 8-minute version of " Dark Passage ", an unreleased third verse of " Baby Out of Wedlock ", and " One Star Remains ", which is Judee Sill's " My Man On Love " from her 1971 eponymous debut album.

The cast included Mady Christians, Oscar Homolka, Joan Tetzel and Marlon Brando, making his Broadway debut as Nels.

Larry Norman, often described as the " father of Christian rock music ", and in his later years " the Grandfather of Christian rock ", who, in 1969 recorded and released Upon This Rock, " the first commercially released Jesus rock album ", challenged a view held by some conservative Christians ( predominantly fundamentalists ) that rock music was anti-Christian.

Keaggy says, " that was a very cool album that ... Christians and Christian bookstores and ... the marketplace ... couldn ’ t make the connection, because it ’ s electric guitar music.

which was a combination of live recordings with hotel tapes and studio stopovers, but was not released by Word as with " songs like " Three Million Gods ," and " Cats Of The Coliseum ," discussing the Hindu religion and the early martyrdom of Christians in Rome, this album was not acceptable because it was considered too " avant garde ".

* In 1988, The Christians on the charity compilation album Sgt.

The story acts as an analogy of the conflict between Christians and Pagans in Early Medieval Scandinavia, and many of the concepts appearing in the album are returned to in the bands later work.

* " Climax ", " Six Eyes From Hell ", and " Liars ( Feed Those Christians To The Lions )" on the album The Worst Of Monte Cazazza ( CD ) ( The Grey Area ) ( 1992 )

The early 1990s saw the band continuing to tour, A greatest hits album, The Best of the Christians was released in 1993, and peaked at number 22.

Consequently, the demographics of Lebanon were profoundly altered, as the territory added contained people who were predominantly Muslim or Druze: Lebanese Christians, of which the Maronites were the largest subgrouping, now constituted barely more than 50 % of the population, while Sunni Muslims in Lebanon saw their numbers increase eightfold, Shi ' ite Muslims fourfold.

This understanding is taught within the works of ascetics like Evagrius Ponticus, and the most seminal ascetic works read most widely by Eastern Christians, the Philokalia and the Ladder of Divine Ascent ( the works of Evagrius and John Climacus are also contained within the Philokalia ).

Robert now resolved to employ Roger's genius in reducing Sicily, which contained, besides the Muslims, numerous Greek Christians subject to Arab princes who had become all but independent of the sultan of Tunis.

Under Muslim rule, Nablus contained a diverse population of Arabs and Persians, Muslims, Samaritans, Christians and Jews.

So he presided at the trial of John Claydon, Skinner and citizen of London, who after five years imprisonment at various times had made public abjuration before the late archbishop, Arundel, but now was found in possession of a book in English called The Lanterne of Light, which contained the heinous heresy that the principal cause of the persecution of Christians was the illegal retention by priests of the goods of this world, and that archbishops and bishops were the special seats of Antichrist.

In the second session, the fathers approved the decree Zelus fidei, which contained no juridical statutes but rather summed up constitutions about the perils of the Holy Land, the means for paying for a proposed crusade, the excommunication of pirates and corsairs and those who protected them or traded with them, a declaration of peace among Christians, a grant of remission of sins for those willing to go on crusade, the intention to deal with the schismatic Greeks and the definition of the order and procedure to be observed in the council.

While both testaments were studied and seen as equally divinely inspired by God, the Old Testament contained discontinuities for Christians — for example the Jewish kosher laws.

At the time of the 2005 elections, the FPM came up with a detailed political program which contained economic and political reform plans and gained the support of many Lebanese Christians.

Although the region's population was dominated by Sunni Muslims, it also contained sizable populations of Shi ' a, Alawite and Ismaili Muslims, Syriac Orthodox, Maronite, Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholics and Melkite Christians, Mizrahi Jews, and Druzes.

But in the long history of the Church, the Papal yoke was only momentary ; for, the feelings of resentment and the desire to regain independence among the St. Thomas Christians which were very real, could not be contained for long.

By its very nature the exclusive faith of the Jews and Christians set them apart from other people, but whereas the former group was in the main contained within a single national, ethnic grouping, in the Holy Land and Jewish diaspora — the non-Jewish adherents of the sect such as Proselytes and God-fearers being considered negligible — the latter was active and successful in seeking converts for the new religion and made universal claims not limited to a single geographical area.