Protestantism, Christian religious movement that began in northernEuropein the early 16th century as a reaction tomedievalRoman Catholicdoctrines and practices. Along with Roman Catholicism andEastern Orthodoxy, Protestantism became one of three major forces inChristianity. After a series of European religi...
CHRISTIANITYRELIGIONSCHRISTIAN lifeRELIGIOUS doctrinesThis article imagines how the discipline of comparative theology might sound in a decolonial key. Focusing on implications for Hindu‐Christian comparative theology, this article puts the sacramental theological approach of Indian Christian artist and ...
Why study a vocabulary on Biblical Christianity? R. C. Trench said, "The words of the New Testament are eminently the rudiments or elements of Christian theology, and he who will not begin with a patient study of those, shall never make any considerable, least of all any secure, advances ...
Ecclesiastes 2:3I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what [was] that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life. ...
It was an uprooting of old doctrines and a planting of new doctrines.It was an upheaval! I certainly never knew any of these teachings all the years I was a Jehovah’s Witness,and I know the vast majority of JW’s have no clue.They are taught that to question or look at any out...
in 1054 this severing of relations divided medieval Christianity into the already distinct Eastern (Greek) and Western (Latin) branches, which later became known as the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church, respectively. Relations between East and West had long been embittered by po...
Palmer,David A.(2010):“Heretical Doctrines, Reactionary Secret Societies, Evil Cults: Labeling Heterodoxy in Twentieth-Century China”. In:Chinese Religiosities: Afflictions of Modernity and State Formation. Edited byMayfair Mei-HuiYang.Berkeley, CA:University of California Press,113–134.Search in...
and understand the framework of theThe Constitution of Manand hisStates of Consciousness. In all these are teachings on which the doctrine of Human Perfectibility rests. When one has an overall sense of the process outlined therein, he can begin to study with benefit the doctrines onChelaship...
Drawing on six months' ethnographic research in Lagos from January to June 1991, the author focuses briefly on the origins and extent of, and divisions within, pentecostalism in Nigeria, but her main argument concerns the ways in which foreign doctrines and institutions are 'set to work' by ...