[permalink] [id link]
While the Calvinist congregations in formerly-Prussian East Frisia had a common roof organization with the Lutherans there (" Coetus ") and the Reformed Church in the former County of Bentheim, then being the state church, had fully established church bodies for Bentheim only (, ), the Calvinist congregations elsewhere in Hanover were in a somewhat sorry state.
from
Wikipedia
Some Related Sentences
While and Calvinist
While remaining confessionally Calvinist, the religious character of the church is now less cohesive and more difficult to assess.
While Arminius pointed to the Bible to defend his positions, the Calvinist views set forth by " the Genevan patriarchs gradually acquired the force of Res judicata, so that resistance against it was no longer tolerated.
While Berlin's other churches, subject to Lutheran city-council jurisdiction, remained Lutheran, the Supreme Parish Church of St. Trinity, the Hohenzollern's house church, became Berlin's first, and until 1695 only Calvinist church, serving from 1632 on as the parish for all Calvinists in town.
While Lutheranism had weakened after the Schmalkaldic War and Interim controversies, the Calvinist Reformation on the other hand was spreading across Europe.
While this may seem a harsh judgement-especially considering Taylor's support of revivalism and the ensuing " conversion " experience that accompanies it-the fact was that Taylor and other proponents of New Haven theology had deliberately abandoned teachings that were, up to that time, considered an essential part of traditional Calvinist Theology.
While little remains of the Radziwiłł castle, the crypt of the Calvinist church ( 1631 ) houses the family mausoleum, including the tombs of Krzysztof Radziwiłł and his son Janusz.
While and congregations
While the name of the organization is the Canadian Unitarian Council, the CUC includes congregations with Unitarian, Universalist, Unitarian Universalist and Universalist Unitarian in their names.
While an official movement exists in Lutheran congregations celebrate Eucharist weekly, using formal rites very similar to the Roman Catholic and " high " Anglican services, it was historically common for congregations to celebrate monthly or even quarterly.
While some congregations and their pastors might still follow this old calendar, the Revised Common Lectionary, with its naming and numbering of Days in the Calendar of the Church Year, is used widely.
While there he took a prominent part in the consultations of the various congregations of which he was a member.
While these were written to govern congregations, not individuals, many UUs use them as guides for living their faith.
While Sunday services in most congregations tend to be spiritual in nature ( as different from theological ), it is not unusual for a part of a church's membership to attend pagan, Buddhist, or other spiritual study or worship groups as an alternative means of worship.
While many United Methodist congregations operate in the evangelical tradition, others reflect the mainline Protestant traditions.
While many of the students and all the professors have a background in the Christian Church / Churches of Christ congregations, students from various denominational backgrounds are encouraged and welcomed.
While most OPC congregations allow women only to teach children and other women in Sunday school, some churches in the PCA allow women to do anything a non-ordained man can do.
While individual congregations are supposed to hold guidance from the general synod " in the highest regard ", the UCC's constitution requires that the " autonomy of the Local Church is inherent and modifiable only by its own action ".
While Archbishop of Cincinnati, Bernardin maintained dialogues with local congregations of Jews, Presbyterians, Episcopalians and Lutherans.
While local church congregations use the name Seventh Day Adventist Reform Movement, those affiliated with the International Missionary Society General Conference also combine the designation " International Missionary Society " into their name to distinguish themselves from SDARM General Conference Units.
While in general these groups will not have formal legal ties between individual congregations and consider themselves non-denominational, outsiders often describe them as denominations in and of themselves due to their close associations, equivalent doctrine, similar worship practices, and the ease of using one name to cover a larger group of churches.
While St Clement's was spared, the 19th century saw many other City churches being destroyed, particularly following the Union of Benefices Act ( 1860 ), which sought to speed-up the reduction in the number of City parishes as a response to rapidly declining congregations ; the result of the resident population moving in ever larger numbers from cramped City conditions to the more spacious suburbs.
While congregations are concentrated along the West Coast, the denomination is well distributed across the United States, The states with the highest membership rates are Oregon, Hawaii, Montana, Washington, and California.
While the angels had full authority within their congregations, it was expected that, having received the apostles, they would acknowledge the apostles ' oversight, doctrine and forms of worship.
While many of Capitol Hill's churches began as suburban congregations serving to establish the newest neighborhood of young Seattle, they have changed with the neighborhood to reach out to the poor and homeless and those living with HIV, as well as continuing their work of encouraging the faithful.
While the one-cup, non-class, and mutual edification congregations are almost always non-institutional, they became independent well before the main division among congregations over institutions.
While they were gone, the churches and the congregations suffered in their absence.
While allowing that, " The overwhelming majority of Muslims are outstanding citizens ," he also claimed that some Islamic clerics were telling their congregations to ignore extremism and to refrain from helping investigators.
While the majority of the members are in India, congregations exist in Sri Lanka where a full diocese is organized, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
While and East
While obliged to concede governments in East Europe allied with the Soviet Union instead of opposed to it, we thought we had preserved our social and economic system in East Europe.
While still in New York, in 1917 he was the founding president of the East Coast chapter of the Motion Picture Directors Association.
While in the East, he traveled to the Troad to perform rites at his brother's tomb, an event recorded in a moving poem.
While the kingdoms of East Anglia, Mercia and Northumbria were under attack, other Viking armies were active in the far north.
While the Roman Empire and its new Christian religion survived in an increasingly Hellenised form in the Byzantine Empire centered at Constantinople in the East, Western civilization suffered a collapse of literacy and organization following the fall of Rome in AD 476.
While Bannister was well known in the artistic community of his adopted home of Providence, Rhode Island and admired within the wider East Coast art world ( he won a bronze medal for his large oil " Under the Oaks " at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial ), he was largely forgotten for almost a century for a complexity of reasons, principally connected with racial prejudice.
While the previous seven ecumenical councils are recognized as ecumenical and authoritative by both East and West, many Eastern Orthodox Christians recognize the council of 879 as the Eighth Ecumenical Council, arguing that it annulled the earlier one.
While the term grimoire is originally European, and many Europeans throughout history, particularly ceremonial magicians and cunning folk, have made use of grimoires, the historian Owen Davies noted that similar such books can be found all across the world, ranging from Jamaica to Sumatra, and he also noted that the first such grimoires could be found not in Europe but in the Ancient Near East.
While East German propaganda was based on the benefits of the GDR's social programs and the alleged constant threat of a West German invasion, many of her citizens looked to the West for political freedoms and economic prosperity.
While military efforts were directed to the East, the situation in Italy took a turn for the worse.
While there, he studied world culture, including Islam and the Middle East.
While on the East Berlin side painting was not allowed, artists painted on the Western side of the Wall from the 80s until the fall of the Wall in 1989.
While the civil power in the East controlled the church and the bishop of Constantinople, the capital, wielded much power, in the West the Bishops of Rome were able to consolidate the influence and power they already possessed.
While the Belgian interest soon concentrated on the Congo River, the British and Germans focused on Eastern Africa and in 1886 partitioned continental East Africa between themselves ; the Sultanate of Zanzibar, now reduced to the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba, remained independent, for the moment.
While, the East Pakistan was established on the basis of country having the socialist system, and state secularism was proclaimed in 1954.
While East Malaysia is less populated and less developed than West Malaysia, its land mass is larger and it has notably more natural resources, chiefly oil and gas reserves.
While it had a significant presence in the Central Asia, it did not gain any significance in China and East Asia until modern missionaries from Europe and North America arrived in the 19th century.
While not linked to measurements of skin tone variation directly, dopachrome tautomerase ( DCT or TYRP2 rs2031526 ), melanocortin 1 receptor ( MC1R ) Arg163Gln ( rs885479 ) and attractin ( ATRN ) have been indicated as potential contributors to the evolution of light skin in East Asian populations.
While proso millet is not a member of the Neolithic Near East crop assemblage, it arrived in Europe no later than the time these introductions did, and proso millet as an independent domestication could predate the arrival of the Near East grain crops.
While the Alexandrian empire did not survive its creator's death intact, the cultural implications of the spread of Hellenism across much of the Middle East and Asia were to prove long lived as Greek became the lingua franca, a position it retained even in Roman times.
While the see of Constantinople became dominant throughout the Emperor's lands, the West looked exclusively to the see of Rome, which in the East was seen as that of one of the five patriarchs of the Pentarchy, " the proposed government of universal Christendom by five patriarchal sees under the auspices of a single universal empire.
While Belarus National Republic faced off with Litbel, foreign powers were preparing to reclaim what they saw as their territories: Polish forces were moving from the West, and Russians from the East.
While the republican government was amenable to reparation payments or transfer of colonial territories in Africa or in South East Asia to Prussia, Jules Favre on behalf of the Government of National Defense declared on 6 September that France would not " yield an inch of its territory nor a stone of its fortresses.
0.419 seconds.