Both of these predecessor organizations began as Christian Unitarian and Christian Universalist denominations ; but modern Unitarian Universalists define themselves as non-creedal, and therefore they are not limited to Christian beliefs or affinities, but may also draw wisdom from other religions and philosophies as well, such as Humanism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, and Earth-centered spirituality, among others, or different combinations of them.

Unitarian theology, therefore, is distinguishable from the belief system of modern Unitarian and Unitarian Universalist churches and fellowships.

The American Unitarian Conference ( AUC ) was formed in 2000 and stands between UUA and ICUU in attachment to the Christian element of modern Unitarianism.

Rogers and his wife, Abbie Gifford Rogers, another Fairhaven native ( who was the daughter of the whaling captain Peleg Gifford ), donated many community improvements in the late-nineteenth-and early-twentieth-century, including a grammar school, an extraordinarily luxurious high school, the Town Hall, the George H. Taber Masonic Building, the Unitarian Memorial Church, the Tabitha Inn, the Millicent Library, and a modern water-and-sewer system.

The modern Unitarian denomination ’ s origins lay within this group of respectable Protestants who were reluctant to ever become Dissenters, that is the English Presbyterians.

Its roots are in Protestantism, although belief in Christianity is no longer required for adherents to modern Unitarian Universalism.

Most modern Unitarian Universalists ( UUs ) do not consider themselves Christian.

Clark was the only Unitarian Universalist elected to a major office in Pennsylvania in the modern era.

John issued the Edict of Torda, the first broad decree of religious freedom in the modern history of Europe ( 1568 ), and supported the establishment of the Unitarian Church of Transylvania.

This was a move to distinguish the modern Christian Universalist movement from Unitarian Universalism, and to promote ecumenical unity among Christian believers in universal reconciliation.

People who are or have been associated with modern Unitarian Universalism.

Despite its origins, the modern ethno-religious confession of the Karaims and Karaylar currently represents a form of Unitarian Universalism.

Trinitarianism remained the dominant doctrine in all major branches of the Eastern and Western Church and later within Protestantism until modern times.

Some Protestant charismatic and British New Church Movement churches include " apostles " among the offices that should be evident into modern times in a true church, though they never trace an historical line of succession.

Adjacent to the Forum, at the junction of the same cardo, and the other decumanus, Hadrian built a large temple to the goddess Venus, which later became the Church of the Holy Sepulchre ; despite 11th century destruction, which resulted in the modern Church having a much smaller footprint, several boundary walls of Hadrian's temple have been found among the archaeological remains beneath the Church.

The baptismal font at St Bartholomew's Church, Liège in modern Belgium ( before 1117 ) is an outstanding masterpiece of Romanesque brass casting.

Bishops ( as well as other members of the priesthood ) can trace their line of authority back to Joseph Smith, Jr., who, according to church doctrine, was ordained to lead the Church in modern times by the ancient apostles Peter, James, and John, who were ordained to lead the Church by Jesus Christ.

As a national revival occurred towards the end of the period of Ottoman rule ( mostly during the 19th century ), a modern Bulgarian literary language gradually emerged which drew heavily on Church Slavonic / Old Bulgarian ( and to some extent on literary Russian, which had preserved many lexical items from Church Slavonic ) and later reduced the number of Turkish and other Balkanic loans.

The Roman Breviary has undergone several revisions: The most remarkable of these is that by Francis Quignonez, cardinal of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme ( 1536 ), which, though not accepted by Rome ( it was approved by Clement VII and Paul III, and permitted as a substitute for the unrevised Breviary, until Pius V in 1568 excluded it as too short and too modern, and issued a reformed edition ( Breviarium Pianum, Pian Breviary ) of the old Breviary ), formed the model for the still more thorough reform made in 1549 by the Church of England, whose daily morning and evening services are but a condensation and simplification of the Breviary offices.

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.

The history of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is typically divided into three broad time periods: ( 1 ) the early history during the lifetime of Joseph Smith, Jr. which is in common with all Latter Day Saint movement churches, ( 2 ) a " pioneer era " under the leadership of Brigham Young and his 19th century successors, and ( 3 ) a modern era beginning around the turn of the 20th century as Utah achieved statehood.

The Doctrine and Covenants of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a collection of revelations, policies, letters, and statements given to the modern Church by past Presidents of the Church.

The history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) is typically divided into three broad time periods: ( 1 ) the early history during the lifetime of Joseph Smith, Jr. which is in common with all Latter Day Saint movement churches, ( 2 ) a " pioneer era " under the leadership of Brigham Young and his 19th Century successors, and ( 3 ) a modern era beginning around the turn of the 20th century as the practice of polygamy was discontinued.

The Catholic Church has what is claimed to be the oldest continuously functioning internal legal system in Western Europe, much later than Roman law but predating evolution of modern European civil law traditions.

Eero Saarinen's North Christian Church is an example of modern architecture in Columbus.

In computability theory, the Church – Turing thesis ( also known as the Turing-Church thesis, the Church – Turing conjecture, Church's thesis, Church's conjecture, and Turing's thesis ) is a combined hypothesis (" thesis ") about the nature of functions whose values are effectively calculable ; or, in more modern terms, functions whose values are algorithmically computable.

Each year, the Eastern Orthodox Church celebrates the anniversary of the consecration of the Church of the Resurrection ( Holy Sepulchre ) on September 13 ( for those churches which follow the traditional Julian calendar, September 13 currently falls on September 26 of the modern Gregorian calendar ).

The numbers of the sections and versification differ from the edition published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and both modern editions differ from the original 1835 edition numeration.

Thus the modern population of Hungary do not feel that they belong in the Western Siberia that the Hungarian Magyars left 12 centuries ago ; and the English descendants of the Angles, Saxons and Jutes do not yearn to reoccupy the plains of Northwest Germany.

Hungary's modern borders were first established after World War I when, by the terms of the Treaty of Trianon in 1920, it lost more than 71 % of what had formerly been the Kingdom of Hungary, 58. 5 % of its population, and 32 % of the Hungarians.

The national anthem of Hungary describes the Hungarians as " blood of Bendegúz '" ( the medieval and modern Hungarian version of Mundzuk, Attila's father ).

During the 16th and 17th centuries, in particular at the height of its power under the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman Empire was one of the most powerful states in the world – a multinational, multilingual empire that stretched from the southern borders of the Holy Roman Empire to the outskirts of Vienna, Royal Hungary ( modern Slovakia ) and the Polish – Lithuanian Commonwealth in the north to Yemen and Eritrea in the south ; from Algeria in the west to Azerbaijan in the east ; controlling much of southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa.

The war's end triggered the abdication of aging monarchies and the collapse of the last modern empires of Russia, Germany, the Ottomans and Austria-Hungary, with the latter splintered into Austria, Hungary, southern Poland ( who acquired most of their land in a war with Soviet Russia ), Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, as well as the unification of Romania with Transylvania and Moldavia.

* The Magyars begin their conquest of Pannonia ( roughly modern day Hungary, a process that will take several decades to be completed.

* The Lombards invade Pannonia ( modern Hungary ).

* Emperor Probus defeats the Burgundians and Vandals in Raetia and Pannonia ( modern Switzerland and Hungary ).

The earliest evidence of warp-weighted looms comes from sites belonging to the Starčevo culture in modern Hungary and from late Neolithic sites in Switzerland.

* Attila the Hun establishes his residence along the Tisza River ( modern Hungary ) and plans the coming campaign in the Balkans.

Several Romanian historians ( e. g., Vlad Georgescu ) suggest that Thocomerius followed Bărbat ( the latter had been mentioned in a letter of grant of 8 January 1285 issued by King Ladislaus IV of Hungary as the brother and successor of Litovoi, a voivode in modern Oltenia ).

The Hungarian historian István Vásáry suggests that the king must have referred to him as a rebellious vassal because Basarab had occupied the Banate of Severin, a province of the Kingdom of Hungary on the territory of modern Oltenia.

In the beginning of the 4th century, large parts of the Rugii moved southwards and settled at the upper Tisza in ancient Pannonia, in what is now modern Hungary.

It has had a formative influence on the tradition of statute law that has extended to modern times in Central Europe, especially in the German states, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, parts of Italy, Austria and Hungary, Romania, and the Balkans.

From bases in modern day Hungary, the Huns ruled the entire former Sarmatian territory.

Transylvania, when it was part of the historic Kingdom of Hungary ( in the Middle Ages ), an independent Principality or a Habsburg domain ( in the modern era until World War I ) was divided into royal counties ( Latin: comitatus ), headed by comes ( royal counts ) with administrative and judicial functions.

Hungarian nationalist composers, like Bartók, rejected the conflation of Hungarian and Roma music, studying the rural peasant songs of Hungary which, according to music historian Bruno Nettl, " has little in common with " Roma music, a position that is held to by some modern writers, such as the Hungarian author Bálint Sárosi.

At that time the Kingdom of Hungary was split into several de-facto principalities, and young Wenceslaus was only accepted as the King of Hungary by the rulers in modern Slovakia ( Matthew Csák ), in Burgenland ( the Güssings ) and on territory around the capital, Buda.

At that time, the Kingdom of Hungary was split into several de-facto principalities, and Wenceslaus was only accepted as the King of Hungary by the rulers in modern Slovakia ( Matthew Csák ), in Burgenland ( the Güssings ) and on territory around the capital, Buda.

Around that time, according to the Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII, the Hungarians controlled the region on the border of modern Romania and Hungary along the rivers Timiş, Mureş, Criş, Tisa and Toutis.

In 1514 thousands of peasants who had been summoned to Buda ( now Budapest, in modern Hungary ) to join the crusade proclaimed by Pope Leo X against the Ottomans turned the weapons against their masters.

Almost all modern nations in Central and Southeastern Europe have native Vlach minorities: Hungary, Ukraine, Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia, Albania, Greece and Bulgaria.