ellauri092.html on line 225: Baptists believe in the autonomy of the local church, and churches are most often governed by a form of congregationalism, or pastor-led congregationalism. In more recent years, however, many Baptist Churches have adopted an elder-led congregationalism as a preferred form of polity. Although there are many denominational alliances among churches, most Baptist local churches are entirely autonomous in governing their own affairs, choosing their pastors, purchasing and owning their own property, etc..
ellauri092.html on line 227: In contrast, Methodists are mostly hierarchical. Churches are led by conferences with increasing levels of authority. This begins at the local level, with a Local Church Conference, and progresses upward to a denomination-wide General Conference (or some variation of these categories, depending on the specific Methodist group). Most major Methodist denominations own the property of local churches and have a decisive say in assigning pastors to local churches.
ellauri093.html on line 317: The Open Brethren believe in a plurality of eiders (Acts 14:23; 15:6,23; 20:17; Philippians 1:1), men meeting the Biblical qualifications found in 1 Timothy 3:1–7 and Titus 1:6–9. This position is also taken in some Baptist churches, especially Reformed Baptists, and by the Churches of Christ. It is understood that eiders are appointed by the Holy Spirit (Acts 20:28) and are recognised as meeting the qualifications by the assembly and by previously existing eiders. Generally, the eiders themselves will look out for men who meet the biblical qualifications, and invite them to join them as eiders. In some Open assemblies, eiders are elected democratically, but this is a fairly recent development and is still relatively uncommon.
ellauri109.html on line 695: The third part argues that the Tories and the Anglican and Catholic Churches should form a united front against the Nonconformist churches and the Whigs. Taantumuxellinen paska siis. Vrt. T.S. Eliot.
ellauri119.html on line 410: Churches quickly rejected the premises of radical theology, and many pastors and evangelists preached "our-God-is-not-dead" sermons for a decade or more, long after the movement itself had faded from public attention.
ellauri151.html on line 603: Today, Chalcedonian Christianity encompasses the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church and Protestant denominations, while non-Chalcedonian, or Miaphysite, Christianity encompasses the Oriental Orthodox Churches.
xxx/ellauri165.html on line 158: The early centuries of the Christian tradition were silent on the death of Mary. But by the seventh and eighth centuries, the belief in the bodily ascension of Mary into heaven, had taken a firm hold in both the Western and Eastern Churches.
xxx/ellauri186.html on line 92: Subsequent hearings and trial, in the words of Walter A. McDougall, "drove Reconstruction off the front pages for two and a half years" and became "the most sensational 'he said, she said' in American history". On October 31, 1873, Plymouth Church excommunicated Theodore Tilton for "slandering" Beecher. The Council of Congregational Churches held a board of inquiry from March 9 to 29, 1874, to investigate the disfellowshipping of Tilton, and censured Plymouth Church for acting against Tilton without first examining the charges against Beecher. As of June 27, 1874, Plymouth Church established its own investigating committee which exonerated Beecher.Tilton then sued Beecher on civil charges of adultery. The Beecher-Tilton trial began in January 1875, and ended in July when the jurors deliberated for six days but were unable to reach a verdict. In February 1876, the Congregational church held a final hearing to exonerate Beecher.
xxx/ellauri291.html on line 113: Useiden vuosien ajan hän oli kirjeenvaihdossa John M. Gunnin kanssa National Council of Churchesista koskien kristillisten opetusten soveltamista televisiosarjoihin. Gunn kuitenkin lakkasi vastaamasta, kun Roddenberry kirjoitti kirjeessä: "Mutta sinun täytyy ymmärtää, että olen täydellinen pakana ja syön valtavia määriä leipää, koska olen havainnut Sanan enemmän mausteeksi kuin ravinnoksi, joten olen kiinnostunut dollareissa ja senteissä kirjoitetusta lausunnosta ja siitä, mitä tämä merkitsee Roddenberryn kassalle." Roddenberry sanoi kristinuskosta: "Kuinka voin ottaa vakavasti jumalankuvan, joka edellyttää, että kumarran joka seitsemäs päivä ja ylistän sitä? Se kuulostaa minusta erittäin epävarmalta persoonallisuudelta." Ennen kuolemaansa Roddenberrysta tuli läheisiä ystäviä filosofi Charles Musèsin kanssa, joka sanoi, että Roddenberryn näkemykset olivat "kaukana ateismista". Roddenberry selitti kantaansa näin: "Ei ole totta, etten usko Jumalaan. Uskon eräänlaiseen jumalaan. Se ei vain ole apinoiden Jumala. Enemmän kuin jättimäinen kana, tai kärpästen herra. Hylkään uskonnon." Hän hylkäsi kaikki järjestäytyneet uskonnot sanoen, että ne toimivat suurimmaksi osaksi "korvikeaivoina... ja erittäin huonosti toimivina". Lagosin planeetan pyllyaivoisilla miehilläkin oli isommat ja paremmat, niin roistoja ja petkunteriä kuin olivatkin. Roddenberry kritisoi myös sitä, että kun King David -hotellin pommi-isku tapahtui vuonna 1946, amerikkalainen yleisö hyväksyi sen vapaustaistelijoiden toimeksi, kun taas muslimin autopommi Beirutissa tuomittiin terroristitoimexi.
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