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Christian Church 
 For many hundreds of years, the Roman Catholic Church has regarded itself as the only Christian Church and has called itself the Catholic (or "universal") church.
Christian Church 
 In other words, only those people who were within the organisation of the Roman Catholic Church were believed to belong to the Universal Church.
Christian Church 
 In the 20th century this view began to change and in the late 20th century there was a strong movement within parts of the Roman Catholic Church to reach out to other denominations.
Christian Church 
 The Eastern Orthodox Church has thought of itself in the same way, but in the late 20th century there has been much more discussion between the Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic, Lutheran and Anglican Churches.
Christian Church 
 Some smaller denominations such as Jehovah's Witnesses also believe that they are the one and only true Christian Church.
Christian Church 
 University of Virginia: Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Christianity in History, retrieved May 10, 2007
Christian Church 
 University of Virginia: Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Church as an Institution, retrieved May 10, 2007
Christian Church 
 Mark Gstohl, Theological Perspectives of the Reformation, The Magisterial Reformation, retrieved May 10, 2007
Christian Church 
 J. Faber, The Catholicity of the Belgic Confession, Spindle Works, The Canadian Reformed Magazine 18 (Sept. 20-27, Oct. 4-11, 18, Nov. 1, 8, 1969) -
Christian Church 
 United States Conference of Catholic Bishops: ARTICLE 9 "I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY CATHOLIC CHURCH": 830-831  : Provides Roman Catholic interpretations of the term catholic
Christian Church 
 Gerd Ludemann, Heretics: The Other Side of Early Christianity, Westminster John Knox Press, 1st American ed edition (August 1996),
Church (disambiguation) 
 Church, a building used for religious services, usually referring specifically to those for Christian worship.
Church (disambiguation) 
 Benjamin Church (1734–1776), the first Surgeon General of the Continental Army and grandson of Captain Benjamin Church
Church (disambiguation) 
 Francis Pharcellus Church (1839–1906), an American writer (famous for the editorial Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus)
Religious denomination 
 A religious denomination (also simply denomination) is a subgroup within a religion that has a common name, tradition, and identity.
Religious denomination 
 The term is often used for several Christian denominations including Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, and the many sorts of Protestantism like Baptist, Methodist, Episcopalian and Pentecostal.
Religious denomination 
 It is also used for the four branches of Judaism (Orthodox, Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionist), and for the main branches of Islam (Sunnism and Shi'ism, Quranism, Ibadism, Sufism, Muwahhidism).
Religious denomination 
 In Hinduism the major deity or philosophical belief functions as the identifier of a denomination and typically each has distinct cultural and religious practices.
Christian denomination 
 The word denomination is used for a large group of Christian people right across the world who use the same name, the same sort of organisation and have the same (or very similar) beliefs.
Christian denomination 
 These groups all branched out at different dates from the early Christianity founded by the followers of Jesus.
Christian denomination 
 The Evangelical and Nontrinitarian branches of Christianity are much more divided up than any of the others.
Christian denomination 
 While the Roman Catholic Church looks to a single earthly leader, the Pope, and has similar beliefs right across the world, the several Protestant denominations do not look to a single leader and sometimes have beliefs that are very different from each other.
Christian denomination 
 Many Christian denomination see themselves as part of the worldwide Church which includes other denominations as well.
Christian denomination 
 Some denominations, such as the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches and some Protestant Churches, believe that they are the only true Christian church.
Christian denomination 
 Some denominations have beliefs which almost all the other denominations would disagree with, very strongly.
Christian denomination 
 There were some movements considered heresies by the early church which do not exist today and are not generally referred to as denominations.
Christian denomination 
 Examples include the Gnostics (who had believed in an esoteric dualism), the Ebionites (who venerated Christ's blood relatives), and the Arians.
Christian denomination 
 The greatest divisions in Christianity today, however, are between Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, and various denominations formed during and after the Protestant Reformation.
Christian denomination 
 For example, some churches are part of a larger church organization or diocese, while in other groups, each congregation is an independent organization.
Christian denomination 
 This issue is further complicated by the existence of groups of congregations with a common heritage that are officially nondenominational and have no centralized authority or records, but which are identified as denominations by non-adherents.
Christian denomination 
 Some groups count membership based on adult believers and baptized children of believers, while others only count adult baptized believers.
Christian denomination 
 Others may count membership based on those adult believers who have formally affiliated themselves with the congregation.
Christian denomination 
 In addition, there may be political motives of advocates or opponents of a particular group to inflate or deflate membership numbers through propaganda or outright deception.
List of Christian denominations by number of members 
 This article gives information about the relative size of denominations, based mainly on claims by the churches themselves.
List of Christian denominations by number of members 
 Catholicism is the largest branch of Christianity with 1.329 billion and the Catholic Church is the largest among churches.
List of Christian denominations by number of members 
 Various denominations self-identifying as Catholic, despite not being affiliated with the Catholic Church.
List of Christian denominations by number of members 
 The main reason for this wide range is the lack of a common agreement among scholars as to which denominations constitute Protestantism.
List of Christian denominations by number of members 
 For instance, most sources but not all include Anabaptism, Anglicanism, Baptists and Independent Nondenominational Christianity as part of Protestantism.
List of Christian denominations by number of members 
 Moreover, Protestant denominations altogether do not form a single structure comparable to the Catholic Church, or to a lesser extent the Eastern Orthodox Communion.
List of Christian denominations by number of members 
 However, several different comparable communions exist within Protestantism, such as the Anglican Communion, World Communion of Reformed Churches, World Baptist Alliance, World Methodist Council and the World Lutheran Federation.
List of Christian denominations by number of members 
 Regardless, 900 million is the most accepted figure among various authors and scholars, and thus is used in this article.
List of Christian denominations by number of members 
 Note that this 900 million figure also includes Anglicanism, as well as Anabaptists, Baptists and multiple other groups that might sometimes disavow a common "Protestant" designation, and would rather prefer to be called, simply, "Christian".
List of Christian denominations by number of members 
 The number of individuals who are members of historical Protestant Churches totals to 300-400 million.
List of Christian denominations by number of members 
 There are about 110 million Christians in Anglican tradition, mostly part of the Anglican Communion, the third largest Christian denomination in the world.
List of Christian denominations by number of members 
 The number of individuals who hold membership in the Baptist denomination totals to 75-105 million, being represented in the following Churches:
List of Christian denominations by number of members 
 The number of adherents in the Lutheran denomination totals to 70-90 million persons, being represented in the following Churches:
List of Christian denominations by number of members 
 Evangelical Church in Germany - 21.1 million (10.5 million United Protestants, i.e. Lutheran & Reformed; 10.3 million Lutherans; 0.3 million Reformed)
List of Christian denominations by number of members 
 The Reformed tradition is represented by 60-80 million people who hold membership in the following Churches:
List of Christian denominations by number of members 
 The number of members in the Methodist denomination totals to 60-80 million people, being represented in the following Churches:
List of Christian denominations by number of members 
 The denominations listed below did not emerge from the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century or its commonly acknowledged offshoots.
List of Christian denominations by number of members 
 Instead, they are broadly linked to Pentecostalism or similar other independent evangelical and revivalistic movements that originated in the beginning of the 20th century.
List of Christian denominations by number of members 
 For this reason, several sources tend to differentiate them from Protestants and classify them as together as Independents, Non-core Protestants etc.
List of Christian denominations by number of members 
 Despite the absence of centralized control or leadership, if considered as a single cohort, this will easily be the second largest Christian tradition after Roman Catholicism.
List of Christian denominations by number of members 
 According to the Center for the Study of Global Christianity (CSGC), there are an estimated 450 million Independents world-wide, as of mid-2019.
List of Christian denominations by number of members 
 The best estimate of the number of Eastern Orthodox Christians is 210–230 million or 80% of all Orthodox Christians worldwide.
List of Christian denominations by number of members 
 Its main body consists of the various autocephalous churches along with the autonomous and other churches canonically linked to them, for the most part form a single communion, making the Eastern Orthodox Church the second largest single denomination behind the Catholic Church.
List of Christian denominations by number of members 
 In addition, there are several Eastern Orthodox splinter groups and non-universally recognized churches.
List of Christian denominations by number of members 
 The Oriental Orthodox Churches are those descended from those that rejected the Council of Chalcedon in 451.
List of Christian denominations by number of members 
 Despite the similar name, they are therefore a different branch of Christianity from the Eastern Orthodox (see above).
List of Christian denominations by number of members 
 These groups are quite distinct from orthodox Trinitarian restorationist groups such as the Disciples of Christ, despite some shared history.
List of Christian denominations by number of members 
 Unitarian Universalist Association – 0.2 million(Unitarian Universalism developed out of Christian traditions but no longer identifies as a Christian denomination.)
Christendom 
 Christendom or the Christian world, in the widest sense, means Christianity as a territorial phenomenon.
Christendom 
 That means: those countries where most people are Christians and because of that are part of Christendom.
Christendom 
 People have used the term Christendom for the medieval and Renaissance understanding of the Christian world as one single Body of Christ with Christ as the head.
Christendom 
 With the rise of Modernity and the Reformation during the early 16th century the understanding changed to a modern idea of a tolerant and diverse society that consists of many different communities.
Creed 
 It is  called symbol (Greek, συμβολον), that means a "token" by which persons of like beliefs might recognize each other.
Creed 
 It is likely that the earliest creed of Christianity that deserves the title in full is the Apostles' Creed.
Creed 
 The Apostles' Creed seems to have been formulated to resist Gnosticism; it emphasizes the birth, physical death, and bodily Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Creed 
 The Nicene Creed is clearly derived from the Apostles' Creed, and represents an elaboration of its basic themes.
Creed 
 The most important additions to this creed are much more elaborate statements concerning Christology and the Trinity.
Creed 
 The Jewish faith recognizes a single creed called the Shmah or Shema Yisrael, a statement of faith in strict unitarian monotheism, the belief in one God.
Creed 
 This creed is embodied in a single prayer recited twice a day: "Hear O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One", also translated as "Hear O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is unique [or alone]."
Creed 
 The most basic attempt to put the religion of Islam in a brief statement of doctrine is the shahada, the proclamation that there is no god but Allah, and Muhammad is His prophet.
Creed 
 Also from the Aqidah of the Salaf is the belief that the faith (i.e. Eemaan) consists of (both) speech and action and that it increases and decreases.
Creed 
 This differs from the Murji’ah a sect who uphold the belief of “Irjaa’”-to hold that sins major and minor, do not affect the faith and that faith neither increases nor decreases.
Creed 
 Since His attributes have been with Him eternally, His Speech cannot be created and therefore, the Quran is not created.
Creed (disambiguation) 
 Masai Creed, a creed composed in about 1960 by Western Christian missionaries for the Masai people of East Africa
Creed (disambiguation) 
 A New Creed, an affirmation of faith used widely in the worship services of the United Church of Canada
Creed (disambiguation) 
 U.S. Soldier's Creed, a set of values and morals that all U.S. Army personnel are encouraged to live by
Shahada 
 The saying is "Lā ʾIlāha ʾIllā Allah, Muḥammadun Rasūl Allah", meaning "There is no deity but God, Muhammad is the messenger of God".
Shahada 
 It  states: "God bears witness that there is no other god besides Him, and so do the angels and those who possess knowledge."
Shahada 
 A single honest recitation of the shahadah in Arabic is all that is required for a person to become a Muslim according to most traditional schools of Islam.
Purgatory 
 According to the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, Purgatory is the "final purification of the elect": "All who die in God's grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven."
Purgatory 
 “In Purgatory there are different levels; the lowest is close to hell and the highest gradually draws near to Heaven.
Purgatory 
 There are in Purgatory, souls who pray ardently to God, but for whom no relative or friend prays on earth.
Purgatory 
 It happens that God permits them to manifest themselves in different way, close to their relatives on earth, in order to remind men of the existence of Purgatory and to solicit their prayers to come close to God who is just, but good.
Purgatory 
 Perhaps the best-known instance of purgatory in the arts is Dante's Purgatorio, the second book of his Divine Comedy.
Purgatory 
 CatholicBridge.com, Purgatory  — Ecumenical article by David MacDonald concerning Evangelical and Catholic belief
Purgatory 
 philvaz.com/apologetics — Readings from the Church Fathers and other sources on Purgatory, by Phil Porvaznik
Purgatory 
 EWTN.com library, Heaven, Hell and Purgatory according to Pope John Paul II  — Article from the newspaper of the Holy See, L'Osservatore Romano, July-August 1999
Purgatory 
 New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Purgatory — Article by C. A. Beckwith in the 19th century Protestant encyclopedia (ed.
Purgatory 
 I Believe in Purgatory... — excerpt from C. S. Lewis's Letters To Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer, chapter 20
William Blake 
 William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, visionary, painter, and printmaker.
William Blake 
 His most famous poem "And did those feet in ancient time" was, over 100 years later, put to music by Hubert Parry.
William Blake 
 The William Blake Archive – A Comprehensive Academic Archive of Blake's works with scans from multiple collections
William Blake 
 The G.E. Bentley: William Blake Collection Special Collections | Victoria University Library in the University of Toronto
William Blake 
 The G.E. Bentley: William Blake Collection Digital Collections | Victoria University Library in the University of Toronto
William Blake 
 William Blake Digital Material From the Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress
Institution 
 An institution is a social structure in which people cooperate and which influences the behavior of people and the way they live.
Institution 
 Marriage- This is how society protects itself by controlling the way people live together, have children and care for them.
Institution 
 Trade- Societies have ways of controlling the way food and other goods pass from one person to another.
Institution 
 These societies have an organised government, schools, hospitals, churches, clubs, armies, markets, courts and places for entertainment.
Institution 
 Some societies have very few of these things, but this does not mean that there are no "institutions".
Institution 
 The way in which the people relate to each other may have just as many "controls" as in a society with schools, markets and a government.
Institution 
 Berger, P. L. and T. Luckmann (1966), The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge, Anchor Books, Garden City, NY.
Institution 
 Greif, Avner (2006), Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Lessons from Medieval Trade , Cambridge University Press.
Race (biology) 
 In biology, races are distinct populations within the same species with relatively small morphological and genetic differences.
Race (biology) 
 The populations are ecological races if they arise from adaptation to different local habitats or geographic races when they are geographically isolated.
Race (biology) 
 If sufficiently different, two or more races may be described as subspecies, which is an official biological taxonomy unit below 'species'.
Race (biology) 
 If not, they are called races, which means that a formal rank should not be given to the group, or taxonomists are unsure whether or not a formal rank should be given.
Race (biology) 
 According to Ernst Mayr, "a subspecies is a geographic race that is sufficiently different taxonomically to be worthy of a separate name"
Race (biology) 
 It became clear that the originally introduced shrubs (now known as Mexican limes) had modified their fruits.
Race (biology) 
 Races may be genetically distinct populations in the same species, or they may be defined in other ways, e.g. geographically, or physiologically.
Race (biology) 
 Genetic isolation between races is not complete (some interbreeding takes place between the groups).
Race (biology) 
 The term race is recognized by some, but is not governed by any of the formal codes of biological classification.
Phenotype 
 This was proposed by Wilhelm Johannsen in 1911 to make clear the difference between an organism's heredity and what that heredity produces.
Phenotype 
 The distinction is similar to that proposed by August Weismann, who distinguished between germ plasm (gametes or their stem cells) and somatic cells (the body).
Phenotype 
 "From Darwin to the present day most evolutionists have considered the individual organism to be the principal object of selection.
Phenotype 
 The interaction between genotype and phenotype has often been conceptualized by the following relationship:
Phenotype 
 The term 'phenotype' must include characteristics that can be made visible by some technical procedure (such as blood types).
Phenotype 
 Another extension adds behaviour to the phenotype since behaviours are also affected by both genotypic and environmental factors.
Phenotype 
 The idea of the extended phenotype has been developed by Richard Dawkins to mean all the effects a gene has on the outside world that may influence its chances of being inherited.
Phenotype 
 For instance, a beaver dam might be considered a phenotype of beaver genes, the same way beavers' powerful incisor teeth are phenotype expressions of their genes.
Phenotype 
 Dawkins also cites the effect of an organism on the behaviour of another organism (such as the devoted nurturing of a cuckoo by a parent clearly of a different species) as an example of the extended phenotype.
Key lime 
 Its Latin name is  Citrus aurantiifolia (often, less correctly: C. aurantifolia), or Citrus x aurantiifolia (Christm.)
Key lime 
 It is smaller, seedier, has a higher acidity, a stronger aroma, and a thinner rind than that of the more common Persian lime.
Key lime 
 Dwarf varieties are popular with home growers and can be grown indoors in winter in colder climates.
Key lime 
 The trunk rarely grows straight, with many branches that often originate quite far down on the trunk.
Key lime 
 Spanish explorers then took it to the West Indies (at some point including the Florida Keys) contemporaneously with Columbus, then tropical and sub-tropical North America including Mexico, Florida, and later California .
Key lime 
 "Key" would seem to have been added some time after the Persian lime cultivar became more important commercially in the United States.
Key lime 
 Since the North American Free Trade Agreement came into effect, many Key limes are grown in Mexico and Central America.
Age of Discovery 
 The Age of Discovery or Age of Exploration was a period from the early 15th century that continued into the early 17th century, during which European ships traveled around the world to search for new trading routes and partners.
Age of Discovery 
 Among the most famous explorers of the period were Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, Pedro Álvares Cabral, John Cabot, Yermak, Juan Ponce de León, Juan Sebastian Elcano, Bartholomeu Dias, Ferdinand Magellan, Willem Barentsz, Abel Tasman, Jean Alfonse, Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain, Willem Blaeu and Captain James Cook.
Age of Discovery 
 Later in the 15th century, Vasco da Gama reached the southwestern tip of Africa and established the city of Cape Town, a Portuguese colony.
Age of Discovery 
 In the next two centuries, the Portuguese created a great trading empire on coasts of Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and India.
Age of Discovery 
 The Portuguese Empire eventually weakened after the Dutch East India Company rose as the major power in Indian Ocean trade.
Age of Discovery 
 In a hurry to compete with Portugal for a colonial empire, Spain sent Christopher Columbus to the opposite route of the Portuguese.
Age of Discovery 
 In the 16th century, Spanish conquistadores gained the whole of what later became Latin America, except some British and French colonies in northeastern South America, and Brazil, which belonged to Portugal.
Age of Discovery 
 They eventually developed a vast colonial empire, in contrast to the Portuguese who ruled a few islands and coastal cities along the Indian Ocean.
Age of Discovery 
 When Spain and Portugal were united under King Philip II of Spain , their combined empire was the largest on earth.
Age of Discovery 
 In the 17th century, political and religious wars with Britain, France, and the Netherlands weakened the Iberian Peninsula.
Age of Discovery 
 These three nations emerged as the main winners of the wars and became major powers like Spain and Portugal.
Age of Discovery 
 The Dutch colonized smaller parts of the Americas, took the former Portuguese trading centers around the Indian Ocean, and conquered Indonesia.
Age of Discovery 
 Eventually, the result was a series of wars that were fought both in Europe and overseas, with Britain emerging victorious.