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the sun around which our planet revolved, not the sun around the earth as was held by the Church (Meeks, 1997). This assertion al...

(AGI) consistently collects higher figures because they survey abortion providers directly (Abortion in the United States: Statist...

holding certain truths? The members of the Church are united, not by their belief in certain men, but by their belief in certain ...

The leading priest of a particular region was elected by his fellow priests to serve as bishop. These bishops became increasingly...

the Bible is "overseer," the implication is that the verse is referring to a position of leadership in which the individual is res...

educator should not be undertaken lightly. Whereas the disciples call is to learn, the Church and the family are called to teach. ...

(Engelsma, 2000). The Reformation Church was and is the one that depends exclusively on Scripture (Engelsma, 2000). In fact, that ...

that the entire Christian movement was galvanized and energized by an unseen agency, the Holy Spirit (Ottati 1044). Believers in J...

holy catholic and apostolic Church" (Mills, 2000, p. 2). Mills (2000) suggests that the earliest identification of the marks of th...

logical that the same sentiment would apply to the post of "elder" as well. While not stated overtly, the clear implication is tha...

it is possible for these breakaway churches to form a communion or fellowship that can participate as a fully-fledged member of th...

us more deeply" in divine association.4 Writer Christina Zaker points out that the references in the Catechism to spiritual matur...

daring to practice their Orthodox faith. What happened in Russia also happened in all of the Eastern Bloc. It was under Presiden...

second fire, it was reconstructed yet again by Justinian I (Justinian the Great) during the sixth century. Due in large part to J...

"Each individual book only becomes biblical in the light of the canon as a whole" (Pontifical Biblical Commission, 1994, Canonical...

is primarily tied to their being a Slavic people. The author indicates that the Slavs settled "beside the Danube, where the Hungar...

to petition the government for a redress of grievances" ("First Amendment")). The idea of the separation of church and state was i...

(Broderick, 2003). Greeley (1998) explains some of the effects of Vatican Council II. Prior to that Council, decisions in the Chu...

on Nixons opponents, as Nixon was convinced that leaks to the press directly threatened the effectiveness of his administration...

lanes of the Mediterranean" (Knox, 1999). The result was that the West lost contact with Egypt and the Holy Land, except for some ...

"unclean spirits knew who Jesus was" (Davies 94). Jesus method of exorcism was to "cast out demons by the spirit of God" (Davies 9...

of the Popes purposes in all he did was to establish Christian unity (Christus Rex, Inc. and Olteanu, n.d.). The special commissi...

patriarchal, this may be argued as reflecting in the policies, specifically in the health policies that concerns a womans health. ...

needed in the public transportation systems to convey the large number of visitors to the different detestation, this may include ...

Working in the church is a challenge. The paper reflects on some pastoral subjects that are important to consider while on probati...

This essay reports different perspectives regarding the nature of the church. The major divisions are the nature of the church as ...

This book review is on Houses That Change the World by Wolfgang Simson. This author argues for a return to the house-churches desc...

This essay focuses on two main topic areas but comments on other issues such as the connexion structure of the Methodist church, w...

This paper discusses our issues about the separation of Church and state. It also discusses the power of the church in the middle ...

in these times of change and forward movement. Will the Catholic Church change its stance? That remains to be seen. This is like e...