The Eighteenth Century In the 18th cent. latitudinarians held control in the church; dogma, liturgy, and ecclesiastical organization were subordinated to the appeal to reason, abhorrence of religious enthusiasm, and Erastianism. In 1701 the first Anglican missionary society, the Society for the Pr...
In the liturgical creations of the 1st to the 6th century, diversity rather than uniformity was a commanding feature of the development of worship forms. This diversity is preserved in the Clementine liturgy (Antioch), the Liturgy of St. James of the church of Jerusalem, the liturgy of St. ...
Tradition holds that Ethiopia was first evangelized bySt. MatthewandSt. Bartholomewin the 1st centuryce, and the first Ethiopian convert is thought to have been the eunuch inJerusalemmentioned inThe Acts of the Apostles(8:27–40). Ethiopia was further Christianized in the 4th centuryceby two ...
Jordan. This ancient map, laid out in the 6th century AD, shows the map of the Holy Land, with dozens of illustrated sites, including Jerusalem and the original basilica that once stood there. It has three doors on the front, parts of one of...
‘Cradled in the arms of prophets, apostles’: Elder Rasband dedicates Bangkok Thailand Temple, the first on the Southeast Asia peninsula 2023-10-22 Elder Ronald A. Rasband pays special tribute to the roles… BYU Jerusalem Center students returning home at the end of the month 2023-10-19 ...
In this case, it refers to God's judgment against Jerusalem in the first century, not the final judgment of the world which has yet to happen. In this lesson we will also examine the prophesy of Daniel concerning the "Seventy Weeks of Years", "to finish the transgression, and to make ...
Eddy, while believing firmly that no one person should ever control any institution, especially the church she founded, was one of the most influential women of the nineteenth century. Given the sexism of that time, her church probably received less support than it would have had it been found...
a time to place our feet in the streets of Jerusalem or to walk along the sea and listen to his Word,a time to touch his robe and feel the healing surge through us,a time to ponder and a time to wonder….Lent is a time to allow a fresh new taste of God!Perhaps we’re afraid...
Marcus of Jerusalem: Apostolic successor or apostate? Marcus is claimed to have been the 16th bishop of Jerusalem, but did he get his position from faithfulness or political compromise? Justin Martyr: Saint, Heretic, or Apostate? Justin is considered one of the first Christian theologians and sch...
number of pan-Orthodox councils that were taking place at that time and the so-called “symbolic books”, which include the“Orthodox Confession of the Catholic and Apostolic Church of the East”by St. Peter and the“Confession of the Orthodox Faith”by Patriarch Dositheus of Jerusalem [21]...