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The group issued a statement in September 2002, "A Sacred Obligation: Rethinking Christian Faith in Relation to Judaism and the Jewish People", which states, in part: "For most of the past two thousand years, Christians have erroneously portrayed Jews as unfaithful, holding them collectively responsible for the death of Jesus and therefore ...
This category consists of articles which discuss historical Christian creeds, confessions or statements of faith. These texts would have been written over a period of time by a number of contributors and officially adopted by the church involved.
The Statement has also received opposition from some same-sex marriage opponents. Catholic intellectual Ryan T. Anderson "[feared] that 'evangelical leaders either don't know what the word chastity means or don't defend its requirements in marriage.'" [ 23 ] Some evangelicals were sympathetic to the statement's theology, but critical of what ...
Baptist confessions, like the congregationalists, are statements of agreement rather than enforceable rules. They "have never been held as tests of orthodoxy, as of any authoritative or binding force; they merely reflect the existing harmony of views and the scriptural interpretations of the churches assenting to them."
The Lausanne Covenant is a July 1974 religious manifesto promoting active worldwide Christian evangelism. [1] One of the most influential documents in modern evangelicalism , it was written at the First International Congress on World Evangelization in Lausanne , Switzerland, where it was adopted by 2,300 evangelicals in attendance.
LSM holds to the following statement of faith: Holding the Bible as the complete and only divine revelation, we strongly believe that God is eternally one and also eternally the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, the three being distinct but not separate. We hold that Christ is both the complete God and the perfect man.
The Christian Science Hymnal includes both traditional Christian hymns and hymns unique to the Christian Science hymnal. The hymnal includes tunes from a variety of styles and nationalities. [ 1 ] It gives metronomic markings to help musicians, but never a fixed tempo, so that the musicians may find the appropriate speed for the building ...
The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (CBMW) is an evangelical Christian organization promoting a complementarian view of gender issues. [1] [2] [3] According to its website, the "mission of The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood is to set forth the teachings of the Bible about the complementary differences between men and women, created equally in the image of God, because ...