Sentences with phrase «new denomination»

The Western Protestant experience, which included church splits and the formation of new denominations on the basis of national, ethnic and class differences — as well as differences of doctrine, sacramental practice and biblical interpretation — had been exported to the mission fields, where many of these differences seemed to be of even less enduring significance than they were at home.

Formed in 1961 by a merger of Unitarians and Universalists, this relatively new denomination is small (its membership peaked at slightly above 200,000 during the bulge of the «60s); wealthy (43 per cent of its members earn more than $ 25,000 a year); and highly educated (42 per cent of them have at least a master's degree).

Out of this movement grew innumerable Holiness papers, local camp meetings and associations, missions and colleges; by the turn of the century these began to coalesce into new denominations — the Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) and related groups, the Church of the Nazarene, the Pilgrim Holiness Church, and so forth.

In time new denominations influenced by Azusa Street blended the distinctive Apostolic Faith focus on the experience of the Holy Spirit with traditional evangelical tenets.

The creeds lead from the first fragments confessing the faith of early Christians through the ecumenical councils, the doctrinal debates of both East and West in the Middle Ages, the vast multiplicity of Reformation confessions and catechisms, down to contemporary statements from new denominations, the Third World and ecumenical discussions.

Historians will look back on the half - century between 1973 and 2023 as the time when multiple new denominations and church networks came into existence and remade Protestantism within the United States.

Not only are there new denominations forming, such as the Association of Vineyard Churches (1982), networks of churches are emerging that are quickly becoming a nucleus for local congregations leaving mainline Protestantism.

There are few ecological niches and crannies in the environment that sonic new denomination can not be designed to meet.

Formed in 1961 by a merger of Unitarians and Universalists, this relatively new denomination is small (its membership peaked at slightly above 200,000 during the bulge of the «60s); wealthy (43 per cent of its members earn more than $ 25,000 a year); and highly educated (42...

I have now found a new church, in a new denomination.

Wesley did not intend to found a new denomination, but historical circumstances and his organizational genius conspired against his desire to remain in the Church of England.

Whatever denomination of Christian YOU are, it's the result of a liberal church leader somewhere in your denomination's history who decided that the current status - quo interpretation of the Bible wasn't accurate, so he founded a new denomination, all because his view of interpreting the Bible was «outside the box.»

I think God is challenging me to not only start a church, but practically a new denomination.

External and internal battles over, the new denomination quietly withdrew into isolation, where it would remain for 30 years.

The memoirs begin with Tietjen's election to the presidency of Concordia and conclude in 1987 with the formation of a new denomination, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Disrupted by factions for some years, it split in 1974; a new denomination, the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches, was formed in 1976.

The new denomination — the Presbyterian Church in America — continues to add congregations and members.

In any case, as Cohen documents, Schechter did not seek to found a new denomination though he established a unified set of followers amongst his students and his students largely followed him in this.

The following year, a group of representatives — mostly hailing from Georgia, South Carolina, and Virginia — met in Augusta, Georgia, to consider alternatives: they ended up founding a new denomination.

They simply went off and built Bible Schools, new denominations, and publishing or radio empires, which still survive.

I've encountered people who actually believe this new denomination is actually the «one and only».

It may create a new denomination or denominations.

He never set out to start a new denomination, but felt compelled to reach those whom the church was not reaching and as a result, inevitably generated a separate church, due mostly to practical concerns rather than theological ones.

In 1957 these two Churches merged to form a new denomination, the United Church of Christ.

A minister whose career is suffused with a perception of the «great church,» whose thinking bears the imprint of his or her acquaintance with living members of many church traditions, will be a minister who understands and knows how to welcome people searching for a new church home, those who have married into a new denomination, and those who feel that they must turn away from some aspect of their own history.

If it had, we would not only stop giving, but consider finding a new denomination to become affiliated with.

A new denomination — the Disciples of Christ or Christians — arose on the frontier from Barton W. Stone (1772 - 1844) in Kentucky and Alexander Campbell (1788 - 1866) in Western Pennsylvania.

lt. gave rise to a new denomination, Methodism, quickened some of the dissenting bodies, and was potent in the Church of England.

Maybe you need a new denomination — or religion — completely.

«I think we are in the birth pangs of a new denomination, but the birth pangs have lasted much longer than we would have liked,» said Allen, who presided over «A Consultation of Concerned Baptists» in Atlanta in 1990 that led to the forming of the Fellowship.

«We have been building a new denomination for ten years,» he said, comparing the moderate struggle to the Exodus.

Jimmy Allen of Big Canoe, Georgia, the last moderate elected SBC president (in the late 1970s), tends to agree with Sherman that moderates have been in the process of forming a new denomination for some time.

She goes to the Internet, and connects with the new denomination, and chats online with a female associate pastor.

The new denominations which emerged were created in Brazil by Brazilians.

She goes to the Internet, and studies other denominations, and determines to take her family to a new denomination that already perceives the Bible in the same way she perceives the Bible.

This is going to be the first time a new denomination will be issued under the tenure of the governor, Dr. Abdul Nashiru Issahaku.

First it was the new 718 Boxster, now Porsche has inevitably downsized and turbocharged the Cayman, giving it the new denomination Porsche 718 Cayman.