Eventually, after a series of religious wars, the Christian church confessed its negation of Christian charity.
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You have just imagined the relationship between the Christian Church and her seminaries.
Luther, he pointed out, had always wanted the Christian church to unite.
Texas Christian University, for example, tried and failed where it was determined less than 50% of its board of directors were members of the Christian Church.
The Christian church was far too comfortable and conservative for him, and his militant attitude was more in tune with political groups than with his co-religionists.
Yes it indeed, it is the heartbeat, in fact I'd want to say this is the reason why the Church exists, this is the event which created the Christian Church.
The Christian Church is now the official religion of the Roman Empire, many of its early doctrinal struggles were settled at the Council of Nicea, and the Church itself had a mighty philosopher in the form of Augustine, the Bishop of Hippo, who had successfully waged a theological battle against the Donatist heresy, among others.
Most of the participants come from churches with Calvinist roots, such as the Reformed Church in America and the Christian Reformed Church.
Though some fundamentalists appear to believe that the Bible was written in English, for the more thoughtful (or pious) Christian, serious study of the New Testament or the early Christian church is impossible without first knowing alpha from omega.
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Mr Morsi denounced the violence in a phone call to Pope Tawadros II, the head of the Coptic Christian Church.
They point to the New Testament description of the first Christian church as an ethnic stew -- it deliberately broke social divisions by uniting groups that were traditionally hostile to one another, they say.
Just over 20 years ago, Baldo discovered the foundations of an early Christian church in the undergrowth near his home.
The six Christian sects sharing the church have come to blows before.
It was in the sixth century that Dionysius Exiguus, now famous for creating the Christian millennium, turned the church's attention away from gazing at the crucifixion to pondering the birth of its victim.
President Vladimir Putin extolled the virtues of the Church in a Christian message to the nation.
Hill met his future wife, Theresa Bennett, at the Riverside Avenue Christian Church, in Jacksonville, in 2005.
Hardeep ends his visit by attending a service at the City Temple evangelical Christian church, and wonders whether this vibrant form of Christianity is the future of worship.
"This decree at this moment of time is really the wrong signal by the German bishops who know that the Catholic church is in a deep crisis, " Christian Weisner from the grassroots Catholic campaign group We are Church told the BBC.
India's armed forces have had dozens of Christian generals, admirals and air marshals, members either of the Catholic church, or of the 40 or so other Christian denominations in India.
"It is breaking the law of the Church in the sense of Christian teaching... the teaching still is that active homosexual practice is not compatible with the teaching of scripture, " he said.
DeYoung, the "United by Faith" co-author, says the first-century Christian church grew so rapidly precisely because it was so inclusive.
Other Biennial-related highlights include Bertrand Ivanoff's neon installations on the old Orthodox Palestinian Christian Church and Johan Tahon's milky ceramic figures set in a 15th-century tiled kiosk in walls of the Topkapi Palace.
On Thursday, however, Kan Baoping, secretary-general of the China Christian Council, said Christian church leaders should take immediate action to shield their congregations from the Almighty God.
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The Turkish Cultural Association of Austria complained that the Lego set resembled Hagia Sophia, a 4th Century Orthodox Christian church in Istanbul that the Ottoman Turks converted into a mosque, and is now a museum.
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Just as architects' drawings of the mosque emerged, Britain's largest church, the Kingsway International Christian Centre in nearby Hackney, was told it would have to make way for the Olympic village.
The pontiff, 85, shocked the world's biggest Christian Church on Monday when he announced his resignation.
We move on to a Christian church in the center of town that at first glance seems typical.
It was a modest interlude, like its Christian counterpart, the church coffee hour.
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