The Novatianists suffered perhaps even more fearfully than the orthodox and some of them were stung into a desperate resistance: those of Constantinople removing the materials of their church to a distant suburb of the city ; those at Mantinium in Paphlagonia daring to face the imperial soldiers sent to expel them from their home.

Those who allied themselves with the doctrines of Novatian were called Novatianists.

Because Novatianists ( including Novatian ) did not submit to the bishop of Rome, they were labeled by Rome as schismatics.

Cornelius ’ s next action was to convene a synod of 60 bishops to restate himself as the rightful pope and the council excommunicated Novatian as well as all Novatianists.

* Catholic Encyclopedia: Novatian and Novatianists

Additionally, Rome also labeled Novatianists heretics for denying that the Church had the power to grant absolution in certain cases ( such as to the Lapsi — those who had renounced their Christianity under persecution but later wanted to return to the church ).

After this, Theodosius forbade all sectaries, except the Novatianists, to hold divine services or to publish their doctrines or to ordain clergy, under threat of severe civil penalties.

Steinberg claims that these early years of orchestra participation were of invaluable help to his career.

Cried Wright, showing that automobiles were considered to be a danger as early as the 1920's.

By early June they were a hundred miles off the coast of Ceylon, by which time all four missionaries were hardened seafarers.

If his scholarship and formal musicianship were not all they might have been, Mercer demonstrated at an early age that he was gifted with a remarkable ear for rhythm and dialect.

These early experiments were evidently not altogether satisfying to Patchen.

Over 4 million shares were sold, the highest figures since early June.

Mongi Slim of Tunisia and Frederick Boland of Ireland were early favorites in the running, but France didn't like the former and the Soviet Union would have none of the latter.

He and other Soviet leaders responsible for the document were proud of having brought forward some new formulas, such as the early replacement of the dictatorship of the proletariat by an `` All People's State '', and also of having laid down the lines for a much greater `` democratization '' of the whole hierarchy of Soviets, starting with the Supreme Soviet itself.

And if the foreigners fighting in the Katanga Army are mercenaries then Lafayette and Von Steuben were mercenaries too, as were also the members of the Lafayette Escadrille in the early part of World War 1, and of Chennault's Flying Tigers in the early days of World War 2.

Again among those jubilantly reunited bunkmates, I was shy with Jessie and acted as I had during those early Saturday mornings when we all seemed to be playing for effect, to be detached and unconcerned with the girls who were properly our dates but about whom, later, in the privacy of our bunks, we would think in terms of the most elaborate romance.

During the early part of this century, the Brown & Sharpe works in Providence were unchallenged as the largest single manufacturing facility devoted exclusively to precision machinery and tool manufacture anywhere in the world.

Its early morning patrons were coachmen, who fortified themselves for the day with that delicacy.

Eight years ago while we were going through the mud-sweat-and-tears construction period, we were each solaced by the vision of early morning dips and evening home-comings to a cool family collected around the pool with a buffet table laid out nearby for the lord and master's delectation.

The early works were conceived for a sophisticated, international audience ; ;

Because of the authentic homogeneity of his early Nationalistic materials, and his flair for orchestrations -- his brilliant Petruchka, his savage Sacre Du Printemps, his incisive Les Noces -- the world kept hoping that he could recapture the historical direction for which his native talents were predisposed.

He worked in oil for years before beginning his work in watercolor, and his first public recognition and early honors, including his election to the Academy, were for his essays in the heavier medium.

Here again it seems that useful approximations of the size and geographical distribution of the population were obtained in this way in the late pre-war and early post-war periods.

Indeed, in some periods of our history and in some neighborhoods the job opportunities have been so good that undoubtedly a great many boys who were potential members of the professions quit school at an early age and went to work.

The first cattle the Injuns saw under the white man's control were the ox teams of the early freighters.

Near the southern border, cattle of the early longhorn breed whose coloration was black with a lineback, with white speckles frequently appearin' on the sides and belly, were called `` zorrillas ''.

There were several on the Council who tried to live like Christians.

Catholics who were truly Christians longed for the simple penance of days gone by.

The first Greek Christians to comment extensively on Aristotle were John Philoponus, Elias, and David in the sixth century, and Stephen of Alexandria in the early seventh century.

The contemporary ecclesiastics recorded with wonder many instances of the Visigoths ' clemency: Christian churches saved from ravage ; protection granted to vast multitudes both of pagans and Christians who took refuge therein ; vessels of gold and silver which were found in a private dwelling, spared because they " belonged to St. Peter "; at least one case in which a beautiful Roman matron appealed, not in vain, to the better feelings of the Gothic soldier who attempted her dishonor.

According to Porphyry, the parents of Ammonius were Christians, but upon learning Greek philosophy, Ammonius rejected his parents ' religion for paganism.

This claim presupposes that early Christians were suspicious of Rome or feared Roman authority as a threat to their faith.

Other scholars have even said that Luke wrote this apology in order to support Christians who were becoming allies with local Roman officials.

Christians more often converted to Islam than Jews although there were converted Jews among the new followers of Islam.

He issued a decree by which the Christians were forbidden to seek martyrdom, and he had a Christian synod held to forbid martyrdom.

Those powerful families were supported by Iberians who were openly or secretly Christians and had acted with the rebels.

Both were Hebrew Christians with sufficient intellectual authority.

Some argue that the view of Arianism that exists to this day among most Christians would not have existed were it not for Athanasius.

The Muslims and Christians were organized into separate communities, each having its own leader ; five leaders represented the village in the mid-16th century, three of whom were Muslims.

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.

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.

There were not, in antiquity, as there are today, single-volume collections of all of Sacred Scripture which most Christians have in codex form in their homes and places of worship.

By the mid 1970s, born again Christians were increasingly referred to in the mainstream media as part of the born again movement.

A large number of Old Testament passages were regarded as messianic by the Jews, many more than are commonly considered messianic by Christians, and various groups of Jews assigned varying degrees of significance to them.

The God who raised Jesus from the dead would also give new life to the " mortal bodies " of Gentile Christians, who had become with Israel the " children of God " and were therefore no longer " in the flesh ".

However Batutta reported that Arabs and Christians were safe, as their flesh was " unripe " and would cause the eater to fall ill.

The first Christians were, like Jesus, Israelites resident in Roman Israel who worshiped on occasion in the Temple in Jerusalem and weekly in local synagogues.

This may indicate that Rabbinic or gnostic mythology was popular among the early Christians to whom the epistles were written and that the epistles ' author was attempting to resist that mythology.

The first Christians in Egypt were common people who spoke Egyptian Coptic.