An action once universally condemned by all Christian churches and forbidden by the civil law is now not only approved by the overwhelming majority of Protestant denominations, but also deemed, at certain times, to be a positive religious duty.

Africans and Asians tend to consider not only missions but the local churches they have produced as centers and agents of Western culture and ideology if not of direct political propaganda.

Thus the only member churches of the present Anglican Communion existing by the mid-18th century were the Church of England, its closely linked sister church, the Church of Ireland ( which also separated from Roman Catholicism under Henry VIII ) and the Scottish Episcopal Church which for parts of the 17th and 18th centuries was partially underground ( it was suspected of Jacobite sympathies ).

:" for a bad custom has prevailed amongst the clergy, of appointing the most powerful people of a parish stewards, or, rather, patrons, of their churches ; who, in process of time, from a desire of gain, have usurped the whole right, appropriating to their own use the possession of all the lands, leaving only to the clergy the altars, with their tenths and oblations, and assigning even these to their sons and relations in the church.

A farm near Racine, Wisconsin, is the only remaining university facility, although a tiny handful of churches may yet survive in places such as Wichita, Kansas.

Music was much simplified ; and a radical distinction developed between, on the one hand, parish worship where only the metrical psalms of Sternhold and Hopkins might be sung ; and on the other hand, worship in churches with organs and surviving choral foundations, where the music of John Marbeck and others was developed into a rich choral tradition.

Romanesque art owes much to the East, from which it borrowed not only its decorative forms but the plan of some of its buildings, as is proved, for instance, by the domed churches of south-western France.

This limit was respected until 1958, and the list of titular churches modified only on rare occasions, generally due to a building falling into disrepair.

As of 2005, there were over 50 churches recognized as cardinalatial deaconries, though there were only 30 cardinals of the order of deacons.

There are also churches for Roman Catholic, Methodist and other denominations, including Cheddar Valley Community Church, who not only meet at The Kings of Wessex School on Sunday, but also have their own site on Tweentown for meeting during the week.

His review of the literature on gay Christians suggests that these organizations not only represent the interests of Christians who attend their churches, but ( like gay-friendly and gay-affirming churches ) also give these members useful responses to homophobic and heterosexist rhetoric.

The Crucifix, a cross with the corpus ( Body of Christ ), is an ancient symbol used within the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, and Lutheran churches, in contrast with some Protestant groups, which use only a simple cross.

While condoning divorce only under limited circumstances, most Protestant churches allow for divorce and remarriage.

In the era of pipe organs which used hand-pumped blowers, and of churches which were only heated during church services, organists used pedal harpsichords and pedal clavichords as practice instruments ( see also: pedal piano ).

The Westminster Confession of Faith, a Calvinist document that serves as a systematic summary of doctrine for the Church of Scotland and Presbyterian churches worldwide, recognizes only the sixty-six books of the Protestant canon as authentic Scripture.

This applies to the validity and efficacy of the ordination of bishops and the other sacraments, not only of the Independent Catholic Churches, but also of all other Christian churches, including the Roman Catholic Church, Oriental Orthodoxy and the Assyrian Church of the East.

However, the Orthodox churches accept only the first seven general councils as genuinely ecumenical, while Roman Catholics accept twenty-one.

Many of these churches reject the idea that anyone other than the authors of Scripture can directly lead other Christians by original divine authority ; after the New Testament, they assert, the doors of revelation were closed and councils can only give advice or guidance, but have no authority.

There is no standard frequency ; John Calvin desired weekly communion, but the city council only approved monthly, and monthly celebration has become the most common practice in Reformed churches today.

Of all the churches, their contributions ( which Paul gratefully acknowledges ) are among the only ones he accepts.

Once again he was required to compose numerous cantatas, not only for the churches but also for civic ceremonies ; he also gave public concerts, led another collegium musicum, and assumed the directorship of the opera house Gänsemarktoper.

The Anglican Articles of Religion hold that only Baptism and the Lord's Supper are to be counted as sacraments of the gospel, and assert that other rites considered to be sacraments by such as the Roman Catholic and Eastern churches were not ordained by Christ and do not have the nature of a sacrament in the absence of any physical matter such as the water in Baptism and the Bread and Wine in the Eucharist.

Charles Wesley's hymns spread Methodist theology, not only within Methodism, but in most Protestant churches.

They were mostly sold, hand-coloured, by churches, and the smallest sizes ( often only an inch high ) were affordable even by peasants, who glued or pinned them straight onto a wall.

It cannot become the source of a real Atlantic community if it remains organized to deal only with the military threat which first brought it into being ''.

This machinery will not become the instrument of an Atlantic community by fiat, but only when that community evolves from potentiality to reality.

The welfare of citizens, old and young, is the responsibility of the community, not only of that part of it that rides the Aj.

Fortunately, although only a few years ago they held the student at arms length, today the business houses welcome the opportunity to aid the student, not only from an increased sense of community responsibility but also from the realization that the student of today is the interior designer of tomorrow -- that the student already is `` in the trade ''.

Feelings of a community of interest will have to be recreated -- in some of the new nations, indeed, they must be built for the first time -- on a new basis which looks toward the future and does not rely only on shared memories of the past.

but this obligation pertains only to countries which are honestly seeking to become responsible members of a stable and forward-moving world community.

A tsunami in the Hawaiian Islands in 1869 washed away an entire town ( Ponoluu ), leaving only two forlorn trees standing where the community had been.

However, the teacher can only go so far if the attitude of the community and the family is anti-intellectual.

The achievement of the desegregation of certain lunch counters not only by wise action by local community leaders but by voluntary action following consultation between Attorney General Rogers and the heads of certain national chain stores should, of course, be applauded.

In itself there is nothing wrong with this form of `` participation '': the only difficulty on the Catholic campus is that those faculty members who are in a position to implement policy, i.e., members of the religious community which owns and administers the institution, have their own eating arrangements.

Such judgments are meaningful only in so far as persons are members of a world, let us say a community, that embraces Scarsdale or Yonkers, but is also infinitely richer since it is all-inclusive.

He thinks only of his own personal happiness and the unfairness of the situation in which he has been placed but gradually comes to recognize his membership in a larger human community, which makes demands on him that he cannot ignore.

They are subject to change, not only on the basis of new information and discoveries, but also as attitudes and perspectives change within the scientific community.

Sometimes he ruled over only one community, sometimes over several, each of which had its own abbot as well.

By the Rule of St Benedict, which, until the Cluniac reforms, was the norm in the West, the abbot has jurisdiction over only one community.

According to the community, their tragedy is comparable in scale and intensity only with the genocide faced by the indigenous people of the Americas.

For private suits only the victims or their families could prosecute, while for public suits anyone ( ho boulomenos, ' whoever wants to ' i. e. any citizen with full citizen rights ) could bring a case since the issues in these major suits were regarded as affecting the community as a whole.

Abdur Rahman could only succeed in subjugating Hazaras and conquering their land when he effectively utilized internal differences within the Hazara community, co-opting sold-out Hazara chiefs into his bureaucratic sales of the enslaved Hazara men, women and children in 1897, the Hazaras remained de facto slaves until King Amanullah Khan declared Afghanistan's independence in 1919.

The Computerized Bulletin Board System supplied news to the arts and screen printing community not only in Austin, Texas where it was based, but to the world.

Information contained on that BBS never left the system, and users would only interact with the information and user community on that BBS alone.

Universities may try to create community through all freshman reads, freshman seminars, and school pride ; however, Nathan argues students will only form communities based on the attributes, such as age and pop culture, that they bring with them to college.

A community college like the one in Abuyog, Leyte can operate with only PHP 124, 000 annual budget in a 2-storey structure housing more than 700 students.

In England, a community college is a school which not only provides education for the school age population ( 11-18 ) of the locality, but also additional services and education to adults and other members of the community.