These ended in disaster when Penda, the pagan king of Mercia, killed the newly Christian Edwin of Northumbria at the Battle of Hatfield Chase in about 632.

These include the appearance of a number of figures and images which have become important in Christian eschatology, such as the Whore of Babylon and the Beast, and culminate in the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

These are during 853 – 841 BC when Jerusalem was invaded by Philistines and Arabs during the reign of Jehoram ( recorded in 2 Kings 8: 20-22 and 2 Chronicles 21: 8-20 in the Christian Old Testament ) and 605 – 586 BC when Jerusalem was attacked by King Nebuchadnezzer of Babylon, which led to the Babylonian exile of Israel ( recorded in Psalm 137 ).

These could be the classical virtues — courage, temperance, justice, and wisdom — that promoted the Greek ideal of man as the " rational animal ", or the theological virtues — faith, hope, and love — that distinguished the Christian ideal of man as a being created in the image of God.

These readings are the weekly Lesson-Sermon, which is read aloud at all Sunday services in all Christian Science churches worldwide, and is studied by individuals at home throughout the preceding week.

These critics state that Mary Baker Eddy's interpretation of Christian scripture diverges too greatly from basic tenets of Christianity.

These include the largest, the Swiss People's Party ( SVP ), the Christian Democratic People's Party ( CVP ), represented in the Federal Council or cabinet by Doris Leuthard ( in 2011 ), and the Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland ( BDP ), which is a spliter of the SVP created after a failed attempt to expel Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf from the SVP.

These attitudes were reinforced in Christian preaching, art and popular teaching over the centuries containing contempt for Jews.

These Christian countercult activists stem from Evangelical or fundamentalist backgrounds.

These gentile churches developed along a different trajectory from the Christian circles that grew out of Jewish synagogues.

These combined elements have led to the cross as being described as " syncretic art "; a mixture of pagan and Christian beliefs.

These women continued to adhere to traditional practices such as Christian burials and naming their children after saints in spite of revolutionary decrees to the contrary.

These claimed that Rosicrucianism had originated with a Mediaeval figure known as Christian Rosenkreuz who had founded the Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross ; however there was no evidence for the existence of Rosenkreuz or the Brotherhood.

These scholars note parallels with a series of Morisco forgeries, the Sacromonte tablets of Granada, dating from the 1590s ; or otherwise with Morisco reworkings of Christian and Islamic traditions, produced following the expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain.

These rituals were based on the tradition of the tomb of Christian Rosenkreuz, and a Vault of Adepts became the controlling force behind the Outer Order.

These two tracts may be from the same source, which may have been an early Christian Apology.

These copies joined works that had been preserved directly by Christian monks from Greek and Roman originals, as well as copies Western Christian monks made of Byzantine works.

These are the Syriac-Aramaic quotation by the Nestorian Christian Theodore bar Konai, in his Syriac " Book of Scholia " (" Ketba de-Skolion ", eighth century ), and the Middle Persian sections of Mani's Shabuhragan discovered at Turpan ( a summary of Mani's teachings prepared for Shapur I ).

These people are known as Christian anarchists.

These depictions of punishment may have influenced medieval perceptions of the inferno in hell via early Christian and Coptic texts.

These schools were to have a lasting effect on Norwegian Catholic spirituality and history, even after King Christian III of Denmark ordered the Reformation in his kingdom.

These are essentially the duties of every Christian and are mainly Scriptural either in letter or in spirit.

These rulers avoided religious wars within the empire by allowing the different Christian faiths to spread without coercion.

These Vikings were Hispanised in all Christian kingdoms, while they kept their ethnic identity and culture in Al-Andalus.

These wars largely ended with Arab defeats, with a fairly well-known commander, Abd ar-Rahman ibn Rabiah, perishing in one instance.

These various controversies have led to William being seen by some historians either as one of the creators of England's greatness or as inflicting one of the greatest defeats in English history.

These defeats in the east and the west of the island proved decisive for the Turks and they abandoned their siege and departed.

These external factors began with crushing military defeats at Byzantium, Toulouse and Tours, which led to the Great Berber Revolt of 740 in Iberia and Northern Africa.

These defeats progressively led to disenchantment of the population with the regime, that already was in an awkward position because it was also brushed with the tar of the depredations of the French " sister republic " that mainly viewed the Batavian Republic as a milch cow, both collectively ( in its demands for loans at very low interest rates ) and individually ( in the demands of French officials for bribes and other extortions ).

These electoral defeats partly accounted for the party's financial problems.

These two defeats undermined the French confidence that had greeted the success at Yorktown.

These defeats deeply hurt Byzantine prestige in the region and even Ochrid, seat of the Bulgarian archbishopric, submitted to the Normans.

These defeats helped provoke an internal rebellion ( the Tây Sơn rebellion ) which would soon sweep the Nguyễn out of power.

These tapestries were woven in Tournai between 1465 and 1470, and taken as plunder from Charles the Bold after one of his defeats during the Burgundian Wars against the Swiss.

These defeats were arguably caused by recklessness on Masamune's part.

These defeats were due to a debt in public finance and the number of seats in the city council.

These include battles such as Frederick the Great ’ s victories at Mollwitz in 1741, Hohenfriedeberg in 1745, Leuthen ( 1757 ) and Zorndorf ( 1758 ), and his defeats at Gross-Jägersdorf in 1757 and Kunersdorf in 1759.

These efforts at creating military institutions followed military defeats in the Seven Years ' War ( 1756-1763 ).

These defeats were stricken from public record by the Emperor's order, yet surviving crewmen and colonial defenders brought stories back to Centauri Prime.

These defeats set the tone for most of the following outings of the team, who are regarded as whipping boys in the qualifying sections of the European Championship and the World Cup.

These losses were followed by two defeats by Italy, and a 3 – 0 home win over Serbia and Montenegro was little consolation, as the Finns finished fourth in the group.

These two operations were colossal defeats for the German army and completely destroyed a large number of German formations.

These defeats undermined Dutch morale and prestige.

These triumphs healed the wound of two successive Yorkshire Cup final defeats in 1955 and 1957.

These devastating defeats ended Persian control over Mesopotamia, and left the Persian capital Ctesiphon unguarded and vulnerable to Muslim attack.

These two families suffered heavy defeats at the hands of Nobunaga and his chief general Hideyoshi Toyotomi, so in 1571 they sought a stronger alliance with the temples.

These minor triumphs were a Republican honour granted for unspectacular victories or defeats of slave revolts.

These defeats led Flaithbertach to call in the naval help of the men of Dál Riata but their fleet was destroyed at the mouth of the Bann in 734.