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Church Unions
CHURCH UNIONS AND REUNIONS A Decade of Mergers The 1930s saw a series of unions among Protestant groups, usually bringing together people of different ethnic backgrounds who shared a religious tradition. In 1931 members of the Lutheran Synod of Buffalo joined the Evangelical... Read more |
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Evangelical and Reformed Church
Evangelical and Reformed Church Protestant denomination formed by the merger (1934) of the Reformed Church in the United States and the Evangelical Synod of North America. Both of these bodies had originated in the Reformation in Europe. Their churches in America were established by immigrants from... Read more |
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Reformed churches
Reformed churches in a general sense, all Protestant churches that claim a beginning in the Reformation. In more restricted and more usual historical usage, Reformed churches are those Protestant churches that had their ecclesiastical origin in the doctrines of John Calvin, as distinct from those... Read more |
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National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America cooperative agency of 35 Protestant, Orthodox, and Anglican denominations. Formed in 1950, with headquarters in New York City, the National Council of Churches is the chief instrument of the ecumenical movement in the... Read more |
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Moravian Church
Moravian Church Renewed Church of the Brethren, or Unitas Fratrum , an evangelical Christian communion whose adherents are sometimes called United Brethren or Herrnhuters. It originated (1457) near Kunwald, Bohemia, among some of the followers of John Huss and was originally known as the... Read more |
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National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A
NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHURCHES NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHURCHES. The National Council of Churches (NCC), formally known as the National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America, was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1950. Conceived as an umbrella association exerting no formal control... Read more |
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Consultation on Church Union
CONSULTATION ON CHURCH UNION Merger Proposal On 4 December 1960, on the eve of the triennial convention of the National Council of Churches of Christ in America, Eugene Carson Blake, the stated clerk (chief executive officer) of the United Presbyterian Church (Northern), gave... Read more |
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Philip Schaff
Philip Schaff , 1819-93, biblical scholar and church historian in America, b. Switzerland. He went to the United States in 1844 to teach in the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church, Mercersburg, Pa. His importance as an interpreter of German theology and (in his writings) as a conveyor of the... Read more |
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Pentecostalism
Pentecostalism worldwide 20th-21st-century Christian movement that emphasizes the experience of Spirit baptism, generally evidenced by speaking in tongues ( glossolalia ). The name derives from Pentecost , the Greek name for the Jewish Feast of Weeks, which falls on the fiftieth day after... Read more |
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Socialist Party of America
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ELCA LEADERS TO REVISE 2010 CHURCHWIDE BUDGET, TO CREATE RESTRUCTURING PLAN.
...Church Council, the ELCA Conference of Bishops...plan for action by the ELCA Church Council at its...institutions, agencies and ecumenical partners. I continue...income due to the 2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly...anticipated in the budget proposal and is unfavorable to... |