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Christianity is a monotheistic religion centered on the New Testament accounts of the life, teachings, and actions of Jesus of Nazareth, known by Christians as Jesus Christ. ...
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This article outlines the history of Christianity and provides links to relevant topics. ...
Timeline of Christianity (1 AD/CE-Present) The purpose of this chronology is to give a detailed account of Christianity from 1 AD/CE to the present. ...
Jesus (8-2 BC/BCE– 29-36 AD/CE),[1] also known as Jesus of Nazareth, is the central figure of Christianity. ...
The Twelve Apostles (in Koine Greek απόστολος apostolos [1], someone sent forth/sent out, an emissary) were probably Galilean Jewish men (10 names are Aramaic, 4 names are Greek) chosen from among the disciples, who were sent forth by Jesus of Nazareth to preach the Gospel to both Jews and Gentiles...
In Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy, an ecumenical council or general council is a meeting of the bishops of the whole church convened to discuss and settle matters of Church doctrine and practice. ...
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This article is about the medieval crusades. ...
The Protestant Reformation was a movement which emerged in the 16th century as a series of attempts to reform the Roman Catholic Church in Western Europe. ...
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The Holy Spirit For other uses, see Trinity (disambiguation). ...
In many religions, the supreme God is given the title and attributions of Father. ...
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In Christian theology, One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church is a phrase describing the nature of the Christian community and/or Christian Church, in the various meanings it has. ...
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Divine grace is believed by Christians to be the sovereign favor of God exercised in the bestowment of blessings upon those who have no merit in them. ...
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The Sermon on the Mount by Carl Heinrich Bloch. ...
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The Bible (Hebrew: ×ª× ×´×š tanakh, Greek: η Βίβλος hÄ“ biblos) (sometimes The Holy Bible, The Book, Word of God, The Word Scripture, Scripture), from Greek (τα) βίβλια, (ta) biblia, (the) books, is the name used by Jews and Christians for their (differing but overlapping) canons of sacred texts. ...
Note: Judaism commonly uses the term Tanakh, but not Old Testament, because it does not recognize the concept of a New Testament. ...
See New Covenant for the concept translated as New Testament in the KJV. The New Testament (Καινή Διαθήκη), sometimes called the Greek Testament or Greek Scriptures, and sometimes also New Covenant, is the name given to the part of the Christian Bible that was written by various authors c. ...
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Protestantism A denomination, in the Christian sense of the word, is an identifiable religious body, organization under a common name, structure, and/or doctrine. ...
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Orthodox Christianity is a generalized reference to the Eastern traditions of Christianity, as opposed to the Western traditions which descend from the Catholic Church. ...
Protestantism is a movement within Christianity, representing the splitting away from the Roman Catholic Church during the mid-to-late Renaissance in Europe—a period known as the Protestant Reformation. ...
Christian movements
Christian movements are theological, political, or philosophical intepretations of Christianity that are not generally represented by a specific church, sect, or denomination. ...
| Progressive Christianity is the name given to a movement within American Christianity which promotes social justice as a Christian imperative, and opposes the notion that Christians must necessarily take a politically conservative or 'right-wing' stance on issues such as poverty, racism, and the environment. In doing this, it focuses on biblical injunctions that God's people should live correctly and fight injustice, and seeks to act on those injunctions in the public sphere. Social Justice is a philosophical definition of the justice found operating in any given societys systems of social control. ...
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An African-American man drinks out of the colored only water cooler at a racially segregated streetcar terminal in the United States in 1939. ...
The Bible (Hebrew: ×ª× ×´×š tanakh, Greek: η Βίβλος hÄ“ biblos) (sometimes The Holy Bible, The Book, Word of God, The Word Scripture, Scripture), from Greek (τα) βίβλια, (ta) biblia, (the) books, is the name used by Jews and Christians for their (differing but overlapping) canons of sacred texts. ...
This movement is by no means the only significant movement of progressive thought among Christians (see the 'See also' links below), but it is currently a focus of such issues within the United States.
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A priority of justice and care for the down-trodden are a recurrent theme in the Hebrew prophetic tradition inherited by Christianity. This has been reflected in many later Christian traditions of service and ministry, and more recently in the United States of America through Christian involvment in political trends such as the Progressive Movement and the Social Gospel. Christianity is a monotheistic religion centered on the New Testament accounts of the life, teachings, and actions of Jesus of Nazareth, known by Christians as Jesus Christ. ...
Progressive Movement is the term used to refer collectively to several various movements around the world that adhere to progressivism. ...
The Social Gospel movement is a Protestant movement that was most prominent in the late 19th and early to mid-20th century. ...
Since the 1900s, progressive Christianity has been influential in determining what constitutes the values by which a good society is run. It stressed fairness, justice, responsibility, and compassion, and condemns the forms of governance that wage unjust war, rely on corruption for continued power, deprive the poor of facilities, or exclude particular racial or sexual groups from fair participation in national liberties. Just War theory is an international law doctrine that postulates that a war can be just only if it satisfies a set of moral or legal rules. ...
Progressive Christianity was most influential in the US mainline churches. It has also been an important influence on student activism globally. Mainline is also rail terminology for the main and often most transited portion of a railroad, which is usually double- or more track. ...
Students occupying Sheffield town hall over the introduction of higher education fees Student activism is work done by students to effect political, environmental, economic, or social change. ...
Progressive Christians have been active in the ecumenical movement, for example the World Student Christian Federation and the World Council of Churches internationally, and at the national level through groups such as the National Council of Churches in the USA and Australian Student Christian Movement. Christian ecumenism is the promotion of unity or cooperation between distinct religious groups or denominations of the Christian religion, more or less broadly defined. ...
The World Student Christian Federation (WSCF) is a federation of individual national Student Christian Movements (SCMs) forming the youth and student arm or the global ecumenical movement. ...
The World Council of Churches (WCC) is the principal international Christian ecumenical organization. ...
The National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA (usually identified as National Council of Churches, or NCC) is a religious organization currently (2006) consisting of 35 Protestant, Anglican, Orthodox, African-American and historic peace Christian denominations in the United States, and is widely regarded as a leading...
The Australian Student Christian Movement (ASCM) is a Christian group with an ecumenical focus working with University students. ...
Current situation The ascendancy of Evangelicalism, particularly in its more socially reactionary forms in the US has challenged many people in mainline churches. The word evangelicalism usually refers to a tendency in diverse branches of Protestantism, typified by an emphasis on evangelism, a personal experience of conversion, biblically-oriented faith, and a belief in the relevance of Christian faith to cultural issues. ...
Jim Wallis, a progressive evangelical Christian, of Sojourners has provided a focus for many progressive Christians to talk and act to challenge this ascendancy. Jim Wallis Reverend Jim Wallis (born June 4, 1948 in Detroit, Michigan) is a Christian writer and political activist, best known as the founder and editor of Sojourners magazine and of the Washington DC based Christian community of the same name. ...
Sojourners is a Christian organization founded in 1971 and based in Washington, D.C.. While known for its monthly magazine Sojourners, it is also a community of people describing themselves as Christians who believe in the biblical call to integrate spiritual renewal and social justice. It also produces the SojoMail...
At the onset of a new movement to organize Progressive Christians, the single largest force holding together was a webring, The Progressive Christian Bloggers Network. At the same time, dozens of online chat-rooms proliferate, where Progressive Christians find each other by denomination, by locality, or by online network. A WebRing is a collection of websites from around the Internet joined together by a NavBar in a basic ring fashion. ...
CrossLeft, the first nationwide campaign for a united movement, is trying to find them, organize them, introduce them to each other's events. CrossLeft maintains a shared calendar and an aggregated RSS feed that joins headlines from hundreds of progressive Christian bloggers, news sources, and columnists. The first nationwide campaign for a nationwide movement for Progressive Christianity. ...
CrossLeft joined with Via Media and Reclaim the Blessing in October 2005 to stage a major conference, Path to Action, at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC. Among the speakers were E. J. Dionne, Richard Parker, Jim Wallis, Senator Danforth, and David Hollinger. The first nationwide campaign for a nationwide movement for Progressive Christianity. ...
Washington National Cathedral was the site of two Presidential state funerals: for Dwight D. Eisenhower and Ronald W. Reagan, and a presidential burial in the cathedral mausoleum: Woodrow Wilson. ...
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Richard Bordeaux Parker (1923-) served as deputy chief of mission in Rabat from 1970-74, as ambassador to Algeria from 1974 to 1977, and finally as ambassador to Morocco from 1978 to 1979. ...
Jim Wallis Reverend Jim Wallis (born June 4, 1948 in Detroit, Michigan) is a Christian writer and political activist, best known as the founder and editor of Sojourners magazine and of the Washington DC based Christian community of the same name. ...
Danforth may refer to: Danforth, Illinois Danforth, Maine Thomas Danforth The Danforth - a neighbourhood in Toronto with a large Greek community This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
Examples of statements of contemporary Progressive Christian beliefs come from The Center for Progressive Christianity (TCPC, Cambridge, MA) and Crosswalk America (Phoenix, AZ): The Center for Progressive Christianity (TCPC) was founded in 1996 by a retired Episcopalian priest, James Adams, in Cambridge, MA. It currently represents the most liberal established Christian group within Christianity. ...
- TCPC has given out the Eight Points - a statement of agreement about Christianity as a basis for tolerance and human rights
- CrossWalk's Phoenix Affirmations - include twelve points defining Christian love of God, Christian love of neighbor, and Christian love of self.
See also The Christian Left encompasses those who hold a strong Christian belief and share left-wing or socialist ideals. ...
Evangelical left is a term used to describe those who are part of the Christian evangelical movement but who generally function on the left wing of that movement, either politically or theologically, or both. ...
Sojourners is a Christian organization founded in 1971 and based in Washington, D.C.. While known for its monthly magazine Sojourners, it is also a community of people describing themselves as Christians who believe in the biblical call to integrate spiritual renewal and social justice. It also produces the SojoMail...
The first nationwide campaign for a nationwide movement for Progressive Christianity. ...
FDR may refer to: Franklin Delano Roosevelt - The 32nd President of the United States, Flight data recorder - device used to record aircraft and pilot behavior in order to analyze accidents (usually called black boxes by the news media). ...
Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: New Deal The New Deal is the name given to the series of programs implemented between 1933-37 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt with the goal of relief, recovery and reform of the United States economy during the Great Depression. ...
Historically, the Civil Rights Movement was a concentrated period of time around the world of approximately one generation (1960-1980) wherein there was much worldwide civil unrest and popular rebellion. ...
Liberation theology is an important, sometimes controversial school of theological thought. ...
For Christian theological modernism in the Roman Catholic Church, see Modernism (Roman Catholicism). ...
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