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• Christianity in New Zealand
  ...y a separate institution from its parent) is not an officially established church. ...eration include the [[Uniting Congregations of Aotearoa New Zealand]], and church leaders have issued joint statements on a number of issues (for example, on
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• Early Church Writings Index
  * [[Encyclical Epistle of the Church at Smyrnam]] * [[Justin on the Sole Government of God]]
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• New Zealand
  ...New Zealand under the leadership of the Prime Minister, who is the Head of Government. ...e [[Mormonism|LDS (Mormon) church]]. The New Zealand-based [[Ratana|Ratana church]] has adherents among Māori. According to census figures, other significan
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• Assyrian Church of the East
  topic_name = The Assyrian Church of the East | subtopics = [[Assyrian Church of the East Heirarchy]]
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• Peter Jensen
  ...hbishop]] of [[Sydney]], [[Australia]], and Metropolitan of the [[Anglican Church in New South Wales|Province of New South Wales]]. ...e met in secular Sydney, the result has been an unprecendented increase in church planting with more than 60 new congregations started between 2002 and 2005
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• First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians
  topic_name = The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthian Church | ...ions under Domitian. Confirmation of the date comes from the fact that the church at Rome is called "ancient" and that the presbyters installed by the apostl
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• France
  * {{region_denominations}} - [[Roman Catholic Church in France|Roman Catholicism]] ...ic, 10% Muslim, less than 2% Protestant, and about 1% Jewish. However, the government does not keep statistics on religious affiliation, and according to a Janua
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• Baptist
  ...and evangelic, with a strong focus on the authority of the [[Bible]]. Each church has autonomy with a congregational governance system, however churches ofte * '''A'''utonomy of the local church ([[Matthew 18]]:15-17; [[1 Corinthians 6]]:1-3)
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• John Calvin
  ...He is especially known for his establishment of his Presbyterian system of church governance in [[Geneva]] in [[Switzerland]], as well as his understanding o ...r of reformation, on November 1, 1533. The address enraged both civil and church authorities and compelled Cop to flee Paris. The second was the so-called
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• Impact of Vatican I (G.G.)
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• Christmas
  ...s (or Father Christmas), decoration and display of the Christmas tree, and church services remembering [[Jesus]]. ...bration as "trappings of popery" and the "rags of the Beast". The Catholic Church responded by promoting the festival in a more religiously oriented form. Wh
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• Puritanism
  ...he [[Roman Catholic Church]] and those who justified separation from the [[Church of England]] following the Elizabethan Religious Settlement are commonly ca ...lic models of church organization, the English Reformation had brought the Church under control of the monarchy while leaving many of its religious practices
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• Papacy
  The [[Pope]] is the head of [[Roman Catholicism|Roman Catholic Church]] and [[Eastern Catholic Churches]]. In addition to this spiritual role, th ...e of an antipope is usually due either to doctrinal controversy within the Church, or to confusion as to who is the legitimate Pope at the time.
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• Christianity or Islam in Russian History (G.G.)
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• Jesus is Lord - a call to radical discipleship (Notes compiled by a listener at an address given by John Stott in 2003)
  The question before us is this - who is the Lord? Is it Christ or the church? Who has the right to determine these things, Jesus or us? Jesus says, "Not ...Jesus' lordship had political implications for his followers in the early church. The emperors expected to receive homage as a god. A provincial governor mi
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• Thomas Cranmer
  ...s. After Queen Mary reunited the Church of England with the Roman Catholic Church, he was executed in 1556 for heresy. ...the death of King Henry, Thomas Cranmer became a key figure in the regency government of King Edward VI.
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• Iowa Alliance for Reformation (Rob Pricer)
  ...Revelation]] into the state of [[Iowa]] and bring [[reformation]] into the church. This alliance exists to release [[Revelation]] into the state, encourage e ...echer]], Father of the [[Second Great Awakening]], at [[Charles Finney]]’s church in [[Oberlin, Ohio]]. That word proclaimed that Iowa was the key to the
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• Christianity by country
  ...entecostal]] 7.7%, [[Seventh-day Adventist|Seventh Day Adventist]] 7.6%, [[Church of God]] 7.6%, [[Baptist]] 7.3%, Presbytarian .2%), [[Catholicism|Roman Cat ...stal]] 12.2%, Moravian 8.3%, [[Methodist]] 5.6%, Wesleyan Holiness 4.5%, [[Church of God]] 4.1%, [[Baptist]] 3.6%), [[Catholicism|Roman Catholic]] 8.2%, othe
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• Introductory Note to the Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians
  ...lycarp, to whom he bequeathed his own spirit, and in whom he well knew the Church would recognize a sort of survival of St. John himself If the reader has an ...especially as in this letter we first find the use of the phrase "Catholic Church" in patristic writings. He defines it as to be found "where Jesus Christ is
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• Barrie Doyle
  * Public affairs/government relations ...rst-ever such festival of its kind and was held at [[Bayview Glen Alliance Church]] in Toronto.
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