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• Fourth Century
  topic_name = Christianity in the Fourth Century | ...he Roman Empire, after a final burst of severe [[persecution]]. During the century the heresy of [[Arianism]] came to forefront and was addressed at the Counc
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• Timeline of church history
  ...facts should be omitted from this page, and instead be entered in specific century or year pages.}} ===[[First Century]]===
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• Fourth Century
  topic_name = Christianity in the Fourth Century | ...he Roman Empire, after a final burst of severe [[persecution]]. During the century the heresy of [[Arianism]] came to forefront and was addressed at the Counc
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• 1 Esdras
  ...ost likely written anonymously during the late 2nd century BC or early 1st century BC.
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• Latin
  ...onquests of the [[Roman Empire]] throughout the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD.
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• Third Book of Maccabees
  ...century B.C and described Jewish persecution in Egypt from the late third century B.C. Scholars generally agree the book was written in [[Koine Greek]].
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• History of Eastern Orthodoxy
  ====Dawn of the Byzantine Period (4th Century)==== After the schism with the [[Roman Catholic Church]] in the 11th century, Constantinople would be for the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Vatican is
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• Nature of Christ
  ===Christological Controversies of the 4th and 5th century=== ...e earliest major Christological heresies to arise. [[Arius]], in the third century BC, taught that Jesus was human, but not divine. This issue was addressed a
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• Fourth Book of Maccabees
  ...est of the 3 books, having been wrote between the first century and second century AD.
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• Eastern Orthodoxy
  ===='''Chalcedonian Schism''' (5th Century)==== ===='''Schism with the Roman Catholic Faith '''(11th Century)====
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• Epistle to Diognetus
  ...but the language and other textual evidence dates the work to the late 2nd century; some assume an even earlier date and count it among the Apostolic Fathers. ...nuscripts, about two lines of the text are missing in the middle. The 13th century manuscript was obviously damaged in that place and the copies were made onl
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• Theologians and Evangelists
  ...church and society. [[Billy Graham]], for example, in the mid-to-late 20th century travelled the world speaking about the gospel to millions.
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• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  ...ed by Joseph Smith in the United States of America in the early nineteenth century.
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• English translations of the Bible
  ...ack to the end of the 7th century, however it was not until the fourteenth century that a complete translation was finished. There have been hundreds of subse
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• The Way of the Pilgrim
  ...Way of the Pilgrim'' or ''The Pilgrim's Tale'' is the narrative of a 19th century Christian pilgrim traveling through what is now Ukraine, Russia, and Siberi * The author of the 19th Century work is unknown.
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• Hans Urs Von Balthasar
  Hans Urs Von Balthasar was a 20th century theologian who wrote many books. Some of his books included "Love alone
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• Cross
  ...ther. The Cross first became prominent in Christian imagery during the 3rd century.
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• Iowa Alliance for Reformation
  ...to bring revival in Iowa. The see themselves as a continuation of the 19th century evangelical mission, the [[wikipedia:en:Iowa Band|Iowa Band]].
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• Christophobia
  Christophobia has been around since the first century AD and has been directly responsible for the murder of millions of Christia
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• Micah
  Little is known about Micah. He prophesied in the second half of the 8th century BC during the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah.
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• Syriac
  ...s replaced by Arabic in popular use. The literary period ends in the 13th century, when Syria was devastated by the Mongols. However oral use has continued During the 6th century the language began to diverge into Eastern and Western dialects. This was
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• Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians
  [[Polycarp]] was the Bishop of Smyrna in the first half of the second century. He wrote several epistles, including the epistle to the Philippians. The e
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• Heinrich Bullinger
  ...g been underestimated. He was an important Reformed theologian of the 16th century.
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• A great and mighty wonder
  ...ith music dating back to the 16th century and words going back top the 8th century. It thus acts to demonstrate the enduring importance of [[Christmas]] in th
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• Athanasian Creed
  ...ascribed to [[Athanasius]], Archbishop of Alexandria, who lived in the 4th century. Most of today's historians agree that Athanasius was not the original auth
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• Archives of Video of The Week
  ...oster|Henry Koster]]''', and released by [[wikipedia:20th Century Fox|20th Century Fox]]. The screenplay, written by [[wikipedia:Norman Corwin|Norman Corwin]]
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• Matthew George Easton
  '''Matthew George Easton''' (1823-1894) was a famous eighteenth century Presbyterian preacher and writer from Scotland. He is most well known for h
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• Maronite Church
  ...itage reaches back to the [[Christian]] hermit, [[Maron]] in the early 5th century. Most Maronites live in [[Lebanon]] and are [[Arabic]]-speaking, but [[Syri
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• Puritan
  ...ished church following the [[Reformation]] in England in the 16th and 17th century. Today, the word puritan is sometimes used in a derogeratory sense to sugge
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• Codex Vaticanus
  ...n [[Codex Sinaiticus]], both of which were probably transcribed in the 4th century. It is written in Greek, on vellum, with uncial letters.
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• Greek
  ...stly in Greece. Greek has been written in the Greek alphabet since the 9th century BC. An older version of it, known as [[Koine Greek]] (or "New Testament Gre
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• Smith's Bible Dictionary
  ...onary''' is a [[Bible]] dictionary edited by [[William Smith]] in the 19th century. Early editions of Smith's Bible Dictionary are now in the public domain, a
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• Saint Thomas Christians
  ...Nasrani people. Their tradition goes back to the very beginnings of first century Christian thought, and the seven churches that are believed to have been es
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• Seventh-day Adventist
  ...llerite]] movement in the United States during the middle part of the 19th century. Commencing with an exploration of the concept of an "investigative judgmen
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• Idol
  ...worship of hollow forms. The word idol entered Middle English in the 13th century from Old French idole adapted in Church Latin from the Greek [[eidolon]] ("
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• Smith Bible Atlas
  ...a, Ephesus, Laodicea, Rhodes, Patmos and Pisidian Antioch during the first century AD
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• Epistle of Barnabas
  ...f an epistle containing twenty-one chapters, preserved complete in the 4th century Codex Sinaiticus where it appears at the end of the New Testament. It is tr
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• 2 Esdras
  The book is traditionally ascribed to [[Ezra]] in the 5th century AD.
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• Distribution of the Bible
  ...sic form of the printing press) by [[Johannes Gutenberg]] in the fifteenth century, and the Protestant [[Reformation]] really marked the start of widespread d
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• Donatism
  ...of the Roman Empire who broke away from the wider church in the fourth and fifth centuries. They are named after [[Donatus Magnus]]. Donatists held the true ...disappear completely until the Arab conquest of North Africa in the eight century.
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• Europe
  ...y activity spread Christianity into northern Eastern Europe from the eight century onwards. In the twentieth century, Europe saw two major wars. In World War II, millions of Jews were murdered
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• Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible
  ...us verse-by-verse analysis of the entire Bible published in the eighteenth century. Its text can be accessed [[Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible (te
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• Isaiah
  Isaiah was born in the 8th century BC to a man named Amoz. He married a woman known as "the prophetess" ([[Isa Uzziah reigned fifty-two years in the middle of the 8th century BC, and Isaiah must have begun his ministry a few years before Uzziah's dea
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• Major events and movements in church history
  [[Missionary activity in the 18th to 20th century]]
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• Translating the Bible
  ...ack to the end of the 7th century, however it was not until the fourteenth century that a complete translation was finished. There have been hundreds of subse
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• Massachusetts
  Given that Massachusetts was founded and settled by Puritans in the 17th century there has historically been a large [[Protestant]] population, especially o ...o a large Jewish population which came to the area in the early twentienth century, and now almost 300,000 Jews live in Massachusetts.
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• Wisconsin
  ...the Midwest of the United States. Industrialization began in the late 19th century in the southeast, with Milwaukee as the major center. In recent decades ser
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• Marian prayers
  ...earliest known Marian prayer is [[Deipara, Dei Genetrix]], from the fifth century AD, with words "We you for protection, holy Mother of God." Probably the mo
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• Basil the Great
  ...Great, was [[bishop]] of [[Caesarea]], a leading [[theologian]] in the 4th century. The [[Eastern Orthodox Church]] considers him a [[saint]] and one of the T
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• Septuagint
  ...from Hebrew into Greek for the ruler Ptolemy II Philadelphus in the third century before Christ. ...[[Masoretic text]] on the other hand date from the first half of the 10th century AD, although there are also many fragments of the Hebrew text that date to
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• Inquisition
  ...h Americans who refused to convert to Catholicism from the early sixteenth century onward.
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• Easton's Bible Dictionary
  ...contains an extensive set of entries used in the Bible, albeit from a 19th century Christian viewpoint.
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• Christmas carols
  ...as]]. The tradition of Christmas carols goes back as far as the thirteenth century. Some famous carols include [[Hark the Herald Angels Sing (song)|Hark! The
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• Adonai
  ...l pointings to the text of the [[Old Testament|Hebrew Bible]] in the first century A.D., they gave the word YHWH the vowels of ''Adonai'', to remind the reade
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• Gospel of Thomas
  ...e is that the Gospel of Thomas was written by an unknown author in the 2nd Century A.D.
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• Apostles' Creed
  ...nt of [[Christianity|Christian]] belief, probably from the first or second century. It appears to have been written as a response to [[Gnosticism]]. The Apos
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• Gregory Nazianzus
  Gregory Nazianzen (or Gregori Nazianzus) was a 4th century Christian theologian and [[bishop]] of [[Constantinople]].
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• Old Catholic Church
  From the middle of the 18th century onward the Dutch Old Catholic See of Utrecht had increasingly vernacularize Soon after Old Catholicism's momentous events at the end of the 19th century, Old Catholic missionaries came to the United States. Here it has evolved f
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• Codex Sinaiticus
  Codex Sinaiticus is a 4th century uncial manuscript of the [[Koine Greek]] [[Bible]], written between 330–3
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• Westminster Confession, Larger Catechism and Shorter Catechism.
  ...n version. The * indicates that the reference is retained in a nineteenth-century American version. References which are not so marked are suppressed in bot
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• Reformation Day
  ...ally referred to as '''The Festival of the Reformation'''. Until the 20th Century, most Lutheran churches celebrated Reformation Day on October 31st, regardl ...ring the hymn, in memory of its use in the religious wars of the Sixteenth Century. It is also traditional in some Lutheran schools for schoolchildren to hold
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• Natural theology
  ...rl Barth]], one of the most influential Protestant theologians of the 20th century, sought to demonstrate that God can only be known through [[special revelat
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• Oriental Orthodoxy
  ...er Christian churches (such as the churches of Rome and Greece) in the 5th century. The separation resulted because the Oriental Orthodox churches would not
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• Famous Christians
  Christianity became accepted by the ruling classes especially in the 4th century AD, when the Roman Emperor [[Constantine I]] converted to Christianity. During the 20th century a number of prominent evangelists, theologians and writers, for example, [[
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• Yahweh
  ...elohim]] and this lead to the mis-transliteration of Jehovah in the [[19th century]]. The original vocals are known from the the ancient Greek translation the
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• Didache
  ...hristian]] treatise (dated by most scholars to the late first/early second century). The title Didache (pronounced /ˈdɪdəkiː/) is from the [[Koine Greek]]
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• Emerging Church
  ...ith the organized, institutional church as it has existed through the 20th century (whether fundamentalist, liberal, megachurch, or tall-steeple liturgical). ...ith the organized, institutional church as it has existed through the 20th century (whether fundamentalist, liberal, megachurch, or tall-steeple liturgical).
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• Sikhism
  ...region of current [[India]] and [[Pakistan]] by [[Guru Nanak]] in the 15th century. The Sikhs believe in one God called 'Sat Nam'.
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• Gnosticism
  Many Gnostic sects were around in the second century. One of the most influential and powerful "Christian" Gnostics was [[Marcio
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• Hymns
  ...ayer. Traditional Christian hymns became widely popular from the sixteenth century onwards, but in recent decades their popularity has been falling in the wes ...Latin, many have been translated. A familiar hymn of this type is the 11th century plainsong [[Divinum Mysterium]].
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• Christian
  ...ollowers of Jesus were first called Christians in [[Antioch]] in the first century AD. Today, there are over 2 billion people who call themselves Christians w
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• Apologetics: The Qur'an Teaches Jesus' Disciples Overcame (JBJ)
  ...vived for at least some time. Many different groups are known in the first century that claimed to follow Jesus like the [[Gnosticism | Gnostics]]. However, n
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• Moses
  ...Moses was born of the [[Tribe of Levi]] sometime between the 16th and 12th century B.C in [[Egypt]]. When he was born, Hebrews had already been enslaved in Eg
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• St. Linus
  ...nd Paul is falsely attributed to Linus (it was actually written in the 6th century). ...work also claims that Linus was buried on the [[Vatican Hill]]. In the 7th century an inscription was found near the confessional of St Peter, which was belie
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• Hussite
  ...Jan Hus]], in [[Bohemia]] (modern-day [[Czech Republic]]) in the fifteenth century. Their movement was one of the fore-runners of the [[Protestant]] [[Reforma
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• Identificational Repentance
  ...he Crusades and the Reformation/Counter Reformation - and in the twentieth century, the evils committed by Germans and Austrians during the Nazi regime.
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• Armenian Apostolic Church
  ...s Thaddeus and Bartholomew introduced Christianity to Armenia in the first century.
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• Amos
  ...esires justice and that the [[Kingdom of Israel]] would fall in the eighth century BC
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• Protestantism
  ...plit from the [[Roman Catholic Church]] that occurred during the sixteenth century in Europe — a period known as the Protestant [[Reformation]]. The split o There were five Solas, four discussed here. The fifth, Soli deo gloria (to God alone the glory), was intended to underly the othe
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• Jew
  ...of Jacob) who lived in the ancient land of Canaan probably around the 18th century BC.
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• Persecution of the early church
  ...major bout of persecution in the Roman Empire occurred later in the first century under [[Domitian]] who insisted that all people took oaths to him. Where Ch ...sued under [[Galerius]] and [[Diocletian]]. Finally however, in the fourth century, Galerius recognized that he was fighting a losing battle trying to stop Ch
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• Church of the Nazarene
  ...the tradition of evangelical Methodism that was founded in the early 20th century, and is located principally in the [[USA]].
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• Jesus: Our Lord and God
  [[Image:11th_century_image_jesus.jpg|thumb|center|11th century image of Jesus]]|
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• Torah
  ...generally believed a leader like Moses did in fact, exist during the 13th century B.C.
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• Russia
  ...is a country in Eastern [[Europe]] and northern [[Asia]]. Despite almost a century of communist rule that suppressed [[Christianity]] and promoted [[atheism]]
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• Mormonism: Polygamy
  ...y, it set Mormons apart from the rest of the United States during the 19th century. There are accounts indicating that [[Joseph Smith]] himself had 27 wives,
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• Epistle to the Hebrews
  ...o both been suggested. Both cities had Jewish populations during the first century AD, Alexandria more so than Rome. However, it is almost impossible to know
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• Environmentalism (Wahrheit)
  The religion of Environmentalism is a perfect 21st century remapping of traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs and myths. There's an init
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• Christianity in New Zealand
  ...ew Zealand]]''' dates to the arrival of [[missionaries]] in the early 19th Century, and is the country's primary religion. A number of denominations are prese ...first Christian missionaries came to New Zealand at the start of the 19th Century. The [[Church Missionary Society]], an [[Anglican]] organisation, establish
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• Atheism
  ...inkers took up an avowedly atheist position. Among the 18th and early 19th century atheists were D'Holbach, Feuerbach, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. The move towards religious toleration in Europe and the USA in the 19th century first extended such toleration to rival Christian sects, then to [[Jew]]s a
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• Just as I am
  In the latter half of the twentieth century the hymn was popularized as an altar call song in the [[Billy Graham]] crus
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• The Next Level Church (Denver, Colorado)
  ...des biblically-based teaching series that are relevant to life in the 21st Century, worship concerts that allow us to explore what it really means to be in Go
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• Epistle of Barnabas (anon)
  ...f an epistle containing twenty-one chapters, preserved complete in the 4th century Codex Sinaiticus where it appears at the end of the New Testament. It is tr ...arned translators have had before them the entire Greek text of the fourth century, disfigured is true by corruptions, but still very precious, the rather as
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• Abijam
  Abijam was a king of Judah in the 10th century BC. He was also called Abijah.
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• Islam (G.G.)
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• Enuma Elish
  ...s to the 7th century BC. The story itself probably dates to the eighteenth century BC on account of the fact that this is the time when the god Marduk seemed
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• Book of Isaiah
  The first 39 chapters of Isaiah were written in eighth century BC, in the era before the [[Kingdom of Judah]] was exiled, during the reign ...er than the first 39 chapters of Isaiah, in the post-exilic era of the 6th century BC. Isaiah 40 to 66 are certainly written with this historical context in m
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• Colossae
  ...period, the town was of some mercantile importance, although by the first century it had dwindled greatly in size and significance.
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• Off-shoots of Christianity
  In the fourth century, a dispute over the [[deity of Christ]] developed, known as Arianism, after
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• Athanasius
  ...a (Greek: Αθανάσιος) (293 – 373) was a bishop of Alexandria, in the fourth century. He was an instrumental figure in the fight against [[Arianism]]
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• Denominations
  ...ame to a parting of the ways with the remainder of Christianity in the 5th century. The key difference was the views of the Council of Chalcedon in 451. The s ...plit from the [[Roman Catholic Church]] that occurred during the sixteenth century in Europe — a period known as the Protestant [[Reformation]]. The split o
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• Church History (G.G.)
  ...nged over the centuries. They split from the rest of the Church in the 5th century AD over the issue of the nature of Christ's divinity and humanity. ..., are connected with [[Martin Luther]] and the [[Reformation]] in the 16th century, when the teachings of the Catholic Church were seriously questioned. They
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• Quran
  ..., however, most Muslims claim that the Bible was corrupted during the 11th century AD ever since the Quran was revealed. ...was brought forth through the Islamic Prophet, [[Muhammad]] during the 7th century AD. He claims that God gave him a vision when he was 40-years-old in 610 AD
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• Charismatic
  ...he key belief that the manifestations of the Holy Spirit seen in the first century Christian Church are available to Christians today. These manifestations in
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• Apostolic Hermeneutics
  The apostles quoted the Old Testament in a variety of manners. In the first century the Old Testament scriptures existed in 3 forms
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• Islam
  ...ligion based on the belief in [[monotheism|one God]] that began in the 7th century after Christ. An Arab, called [[Muhammed]] founded it. It quickly spread th
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• Notes on the history of the Nasrani Church of the East
  ...the origin of our Blessed Church to the labors of the Apostle in the First Century as well as to the family of the Virgin Marta Miriam (Mary). ...o bring together the richness of the West (the invading church of the 17th Century in India) with that of the traditions and heritage of the East (Saints Pete
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• Christadelphianism
  ...religion that originated in [[Britain]] and [[North America]] in the 19th century. A major difference between [[Christianity]] is the rejection of the [[Trin
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• Reformation
  In the 16th century, the practice of buying [[indulgence]]s for the remission of punishment in
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• St. Raphael Catholic Church (Crystal, MN)
  ...to serve the spiritual needs of over 6,000 parishioners well into the 21st century.
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• New Testament Apocrypha
  ...ritten in the first and second centuries AD (some wrote as late as the 7th century AD) that were not included in the [[New Testament]]. The reasons vary, but
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• Church building
  ...on of Christianity as the state religion by the Roman Empire in the fourth century. A famous example of this is the [[Pantheon]] in [[Rome]], once used for a
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• Apocrypha
  In the mid to late first century AD, at about the same time that the Jews canonized Jewish Scripture (the cu
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• Christianity or Islam in Russian History (G.G.)
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• Christological Controversies and the Chalcedon Definition (G.G.)
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• Counter Reformation
  ...[[Martin Luther]] or before the [[Council of Trent]] (events such as the [[Fifth Lateran Council]], and the sermons on reform delivered by [[John Colet]] in ...d clergy who took over in most places during the course of the seventeenth century were overwhelmingly faithful to the church's rule of celibacy.
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• Trilemma argument
  The argument was popularized by the famous twentieth century Christian theologian and author [[C.S. Lewis]]. He outlined the argument in
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• Ratana
  ...ribal political movement founded by Tahupotiki Wiremu Ratana in early 20th century [[New Zealand]]. The Ratana Church has its headquarters at the settlement o
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• Calvinism
  ...g of [[John Calvin]]. Calvin was a [[Protestant]] [[Reformer]] in the 16th century who formed the Presbetyrian Church in Switzerland. His followers further de Calvinism is named after 16th century Reformer, John Calvin, whose overall theology is contained in his [[Institu
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• Evangelicalism
  ...o some cultural issues. Historically, the movement began in the early 18th century as a response to Enlightenment thinking. It stressed a more personal relati
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• Wiki
  In the final years of the 20th century, wikis increasingly were recognized as a promising way to develop private-
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• Mark 16
  ...gallen]] however believes that they were more likely composed in the first century. ...e writing of Mark, though there is evidence for its adoption in the second century.
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• Book of Hosea
  ...ngdom of Israel]] (also called Ephraim after its largest tribe) in the 8th century BC. Hosea spoke about the inward moral corruption and spiritual adultery of ...history, the period of the Northern Kingdom's decline and fall in the 8th century BC. The apostasy of the people was rampant, having turned away from [[God ]
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• Travelogue: Salt Lake City (G.G.)
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• Dispelling Myths of Roman Catholicism (AmericanCatholic)
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• Jesse
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• English Reformation
  The English Reformation refers to the series of events in sixteenth century England by which the church in England broke away from the authority of the ...Catholicism emerged from its underground existence only in the nineteenth century.
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• Bible
  ...otal books: 39 in the Old Testament (which the Jews agreed upon in the 4th century BC), and 27 in the New Testament.
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• Governmental theory
  ...prospered in traditional [[Methodism]] where it has been detailed by 19th century Methodist theologian [[John Miley]] in his ''Atonement in Christ'' and his
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• Christianity and technology
  Saint Augustine argued in the fourth century that the world is not perfect and should be restored to what it was like be
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• Constantine I
  Constantine was a Roman Emperor in the fourth century AD, famous for ending persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire with hi
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• Christian music
  Traditional Christian hymns became widely popular from the sixteenth century onwards and many are closely tied to [[Protestantism]]. [[Martin Luther]] w
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• Which Bible translation is best? (anon)
  ...which English translation of the [[Bible]] is better has raged for over a century. One Christian scholar of the 1980’s advertised his radio program with th
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• Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  ...man has more than one wife. The FLDS Church emerged in the early twentieth century when its founding members left [[The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day S
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• Prevenient Grace
  ...[[Methodism|Methodist movement]]. Wesley typically referred to it in 18th century language as ''preventing grace''. In modern American vernacular, it might b * The 19th century hymn "I Sought the Lord", with a text by an anonymous writer, reads in part
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• Nestorius
  ...torianism survived and served as the basis for Dyophysite teachings in the fifth and sixth centuries, particularly at Nisibis, which had inherited the mantl ...le. Secured in the Persian Church, it continued to flourish in the seventh century despite persecution from the Sassanids, and after the invasions of the Turk
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• United Kingdom
  ...ed following the legalization of the religion under Constantine in the 4th century, and its promotion by subsequent Christian emperors.
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• Echmiadzin: Extracts from a personal travellogue (G.G.)
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• Ancient Israel and Judah
  ...continued their conquests, invading and conquering Judah in the early 6th century BC, exiling her people, forcing them to leave their country.
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• Encyclical Epistle of the Church at Smyrna
  ...ages, and some refer it to a much later date than the middle of the second century, to which it has been commonly ascribed. We cannot tell how much it may owe
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• Atonement in Romans (G.G.)
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• Koine Greek
  ...modern equivalent of Greek in the 1st century would be English in the 21st century as many of its speakers most likely learned it as their second language.
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• Church history
  In the 16th century, the practice of buying indulgences for the [[forgiveness]] of [[sin]]s bec In the nineteenth century, with this new religious freedom in northern Europe and North America, many
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• Daniel 11
  Daniel 11 describes a vision of events that occurred in the second century BC about the struggle between the Seleucids (the king of the north) and the
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• Albanian Orthodox Diocese of America
  In the first half of the 20th century, the Orthodox Albanian communities in America were loosely affiliated with
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• Apologetics: Women in Islam (JBJ)
  ...chers (e.g., [[Priscilla]], [[Lydia]], and [[Junia]]) existed in the first century of Christian history (and disappeared soon afterwards) eliminating the poss
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• All Souls Anglican Leichhardt
  ...Blacket]] who was a prominent Anglican Church architect of the eighteenth century<ref name="Home page"/>.. The church is designed in the early English gothi
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• Catholicism
  ...tant]] churches split away from the Roman Catholic Church in the sixteenth century based on differences in opinion of [[doctrine]], especially the issue of [[
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• Mormonism (G.G.)
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  ...ependent country of Australia. Throughout the first half of the twentienth century the state slowly grew with most migration coming from the United Kingdom. I
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• Anglican Communion
  The Church of England dates from the 16th Century dispute between King Henry VIII and the Papacy over the divorce of the King
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• Impact of Vatican I (G.G.)
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• Revivalism
  ...ad its roots in the Holiness movement which had developed in the late 19th century.
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• The Da Vinci Code (book)
  ..., build large fortresses. And the Masonic order, founded in the eighteenth century, did seek to rewrite the history of the Templars in this respect. ..., as has been a Christian tradition since at least St Anthony in the third century AD.
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• Martin Luther
  Martin Luther was a [[German]] theologian in the sixteenth century whose teaching against [[purgatory]] and [[indulgence]]s inspired the [[Ref
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• France
  ...of Louis and his successors led to chronic financial problems in the 18th Century. Deteriorating economic conditions and popular resentment against the compl ...to head the government and prevent civil war. Marking the beginning of the Fifth Republic, he became prime minister in June 1958 and was elected president i
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• Elements of DL Moody's revivalism (G.G.)
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• A Biography of Saint Peter (Cpark)
  ..."in his early thirties, born, like Jesus, some time before the turn of the century," (Thiede). Regardless of when he was born his original name was Simon or S ...ceived the standard education that any Jewish male might have in the first century which consisted of education in reading, writing and, of course, memorizati
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• F.F. Bruce
  ...e Bruce was a famous evangelical Protestant Bible scholar of the twentieth century. He was professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis at the University of M
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• Justin Martyr
  ...D.] [ANF1 footnote: "Note this testimony to the ... Church in the second century...."]
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• Theophilus of Antioch
  ...similarity to the language of Theophilus (''ad Autol.'' i. 3). In the next century the book is mentioned by [[Gennadius of Marseilles|Gennadius]] (c. 34) as " ...A Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the Principal Sects and Heresies]'' by [[Henry Wac
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• Books of the Bible
  ...des us with a great historical context of Mediterannean culture in the 1st century. It too shows God's hand in the founding of the Early Church with the Holy
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• Zoroastrianism
  ...erance and even admiration from other religious communities. From the 19th century onward, the Parsis gained a reputation for their education and widespread i
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• Evangelical Christian Church in Canada
  During the early twentieth century, many Restorationist churches not affiliated with the three larger Restora
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• Refuting Sola Scriptura (AmericanCatholic)
  * Why is Sola Scriptura not taught until the 16th century?
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• Papacy
  As early as the third century, the Bishop of Alexandria exercised a high degree of central control of suf ...hin the state, the gradual withdrawal of imperial authority during the 5th century left the Pope the senior Imperial civilian official in Rome, as bishops wer
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• Baptism (G.G.)
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• Church
  ...ped over centuries culminating in a schism in 1054 AD. Later, in sixteenth century, Christians in northern Europe split from the Roman church, an event known
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• Apologetics
  ...sage absorbed by heretical legalists ([[Acts 15:1]],[[Acts 15:5|5]]). 21st century believers can sympathize with their brothers in the ancient world. Our Chri
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• Christmas (carm)
  ...The Roman Church was unable to get rid of saturnalia, so early in the 4th Century, they adopted the holiday and tried to convert it a Christian celebration o
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• Cecil B. DeMill
  ...as one of the most successful filmmakers during the first half of the 20th century. DeMille directed dozens of films, including [[The Ten Commandments (movie)
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• Hudson Taylor
  ...ew dozen missionaries were stationed there. By the time Taylor died a half-century later, however, China was viewed as the most fertile and challenging of mis ...oin other missions, but in 1876, with 52 missionaries, CIM constituted one-fifth of the missionary force in China.
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• First Epistle of Peter
  ...esume some facility in Greek even among Palestinian fishermen in the first century who lacked formal education, the kind of Greek found in this epistle was pr
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• First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians
  ...he year 68; if the latter, we must place it towards the close of the first century or the beginning of the second. We possess no external aid to the settlemen
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• St Andrews Cathedral Sydney
  ...he colonial desire to reproduce England in Australia in the mid nineteenth century".'' <ref>Joan Kerr, ''Edmund Thomas Blacket'' </ref> ...began to expand in 1941 and for many years in the latter part of the 20th century the enrolment stood at 700 and catered for boys from Years 3 to 12. In 1999
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• Puritanism
  The Puritan movement of 16th and 17th century [[England]] was a movement of people seeking "purity" of [[worship]] and [[ ...rends in the Church of England. Meanwhile, in Europe, in the 17th and 18th century, a movement within Lutheranism based on puritan ideology became a strong re
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• Out Of Africa Hypothesis
  ...that humans evolved from earlier pre-human primates. During the early 20th century most scientists believed that humans evolved from separate groups of primat
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• Christianity
  ...ds). This debate was the key issue in the [[Reformation]] of the sixteenth century and lead to the split of the [[Roman Catholic Church]] with the formation o
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• Thomas Aquinas
  In his fifth year he was sent for his early education to the monastery. After studying a ...of avoiding utilitarianism or Kantian deontology. Through the work of 20th century philosophers such as Elizabeth Anscombe (especially in her book ''Intention
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• John Calvin
  ...s [[Protestant]] French and Swiss reformer and theologian of the sixteenth century. He is especially known for his establishment of his Presbyterian system of ...f religious tolerance that only developed in later centuries. In the 16th century, heresy was considered not only an ecclesiastical, but also a serious civil
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• Pilgrim's Progress
  There is also a version with seventeenth century spelling, that is, Bunyan J (1847), "Pilgrim's Progress", Ed Offor G, Hanse
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• Assyrian Church of the East
  In the 15th century, the church decreed that the title of Patriarch could pass only to relative
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• Rapture
  ...coming popular with certain [[Protestant]] denominations in the nineteenth century.
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• Evidence of the resurrection of Christ (G. Jensen)
  ...d that the Gospels are not biography in the strict sense according to 20th century definitions, the following facts give immense weight to the historical accu ...eds of ancient manuscripts, one portion dating to the beginning of the 2nd Century. The New Testament has far better textual support than do the works of Plat
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• Introductory Note to the Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians
  ...assigned them, until at length, from about the beginning of the eighteenth century, the seven Greek Epistles, of which a translation is here given, came to be
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• Problems with pluralism (G.G.)
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• Technology in the Bible
  ...eli exiles to continue rebuilding the Temple in Jerusalem. This was in 5th century BC Babylon and a far cry from today's quick searches on Google! (As a histo ...in such times of prosperity. Perhaps more than ever, humanity in the 21st century thinks that our technological creations are making a perfect life for us. B
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• Gurnall
  ...n. Except the three facts, that he was a puritan divine of the seventeenth century,—that he was minister of Lavenham,—and that he wrote a well-known book ...s of the most thoroughly Protestant district in England in the seventeenth century. In the days of Queen Mary and Elizabeth the inhabitants of Norfolk and Suf
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• Luther's view on the canon of scripture (J.S.)
  ...her Did Not Remove Books From The Bible: Was [[Martin Luther]] a sixteenth century Marcion? Did he publish a Bible missing books? A brief overview on the cons ...story: A look at the scholarly understanding of the canon in the sixteenth century. The opinions of Luther’s Catholic contemporaries Desederius Erasmus and
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• Larry Norman
  Norman's [[eschatology]] reflected twentieth century American [[Protestant]] beliefs about the end of the world. Many of Norman
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• Contraception (Pilhet)
  ...nority of Christians already doing this very thing. But maybe in the next century it will actually come to be considered the ''normal'' view in the mainline
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• Biblical references to technology
  | Government archives in 5th century BC. The first example of this was probably the Hittite archives in 1300 BC
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• A look at justification by faith and good works in Luther's theology (J.S)
  American Catholics in the first half of the twentieth century were guided in their understanding of Luther by an article in the Catholic ...cludes, “Therefore, Luther, the self-constituted Lawgiver of the sixteenth century, allows and recommends what God the supreme Lawgiver of all ages, past, pre
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