This ability of congregations to persist is examined here and an attempt is made to find coherence, if not unity, to the great variety of ways congregations are analyzed and apprehended. (religion-online.org)
There will not be «only one way» of being religious (as Christian exclusivists love to assert) but a great variety of ways. (religion-online.org)
«In the New Testament these terms refer normatively to «serving God,» «doing the will of God,» in a great variety of ways most of which are without cultic significance or form, and which refer principally to that which is done for and among men — not to something done to or for God in a sanctuary. (religion-online.org)