Calvary Baptist Church in Manhattan was founded in 1847. It is located at 123 West 57th Street in Manhattan, between 6th and 7th Avenues, near Carnegie Hall. Calvary is an independent, non-affiliated church. The senior pastor is Rev. David Paul Epstein.
On that date, Martin Luther nailed to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, his 95 Theses "for the purposes of eliciting truth." This defiant action by an Augustinian monk was partly a disagreement over doctrine and partly a reaction against the political ambitions—and scandals—of Pope Alexander VI and the Borgia family.
Baptists traditionally have asserted "the soul's competency before God, freedom in religion, and the priesthood of the believer."[23] And theoretically each congregation is autonomous.
From its privileged position, the church pontificated on issues ranging from the nature of God to the intervals in the musical scale.[29] It claimed a frightening level of authority and, over long periods, was able to enforce it with an effectiveness that the world’s secular dictators and tyrants could only envy.
Six denominations could be not distinguished from denominations with similar names, four were non/interdenominational churches, one was non- Christian and one was identified, but could not be characterized [Endnote 3].
Several denominations have gained reputations as being liberal or fundamentalist from being compared to their sister denominations when in fact on an absolute scale they may not be either particularly "liberal" or "fundamentalist" (Hadaway, 1978).
For the few churches with conflicting assignments, the denominations were examined in the standard reference sources and in every case the assignment with the preponderance of votes was agreed to after evaluating information on the history and beliefs of the denomination.
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