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Christadelphians believe that God, Jehovah, [28] [Note 1] is the creator of all things and the father of true believers, [32] that he is a separate being from his son, Jesus (who is subordinate to him). They reject the doctrine of the Trinity. [33] [34] Christadelphian Hall in Bath, United Kingdom
Churches of Christ hold to the priesthood of all believers. [59] No special titles are used for preachers or ministers that would identify them as " clergy ". [ 21 ] : 106 [ 28 ] : 112–113 Many ministers have undergraduate or graduate education in religion, or specific training in preaching through a non-college school of preaching.
In contrast, Community of Christ has de-emphasized its traditional tenet that it is the one true church and has adopted a viewpoint that all faith traditions can offer a pathway to divine illumination. [82] Barbara McFarlane Higdon has called Community of Christ a "unique member of the body of Christ, the universal community of believers."
The Council of Trent, held 1545–1563 in reaction to the Protestant Reformation and initiating the Catholic Counter-Reformation, promulgated the view of the presence of Christ in the Eucharist as true, real, and substantial, and declared that, "by the consecration of the bread and of the wine, a conversion is made of the whole substance of the bread into the substance (substantia) of the body ...
The Lutheran churches, although commonly adopting the Apostles' Creed, still in their original confessions, either pass over in silence the communion of saints or explain it as the Church's "union with Jesus Christ in the one true faith" (Luther's Small Catechism), or as "the congregation of saints and true believers" (Augsburg Confession, ibid ...
Some of these denominations consider themselves as part of True Orthodoxy or the Old Believers. True Orthodoxy, or Genuine Orthodoxy, separated from the mainstream church over issues of ecumenism and calendar reform since the 1920s; [63] and the Russian Old Believers refused to accept the liturgical and ritual changes made by Patriarch Nikon of ...
Stained glass window in a Catholic church depicting St. Peter's Basilica in Rome sitting "Upon this rock," a reference to Matthew 16:18. The Catholic Church teaches that Christ founded only "one true Church", and that this one true Church is the Catholic Church with the bishop of Rome (the pope) as its supreme, infallible head and locus of communion. [8]
Shakers believed that Jesus, born of a woman, the son of a Jewish carpenter, was the male manifestation of Christ and the first Christian Church; and that Mother Ann, daughter of an English blacksmith, was the female manifestation of Christ and the second Christian Church (which the Shakers believed themselves to be).
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