Encyclopedic Dictionary of Bible and Theology

Church, Presbyterian SEE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Church Polity SEE ECCLESIASTICAL POLITY. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

Church, Pilgrim Holiness Formerly the International Holiness Church, organized at Cincinnati, Ohio by the Reverend Martin W Knapp, 1897. Knapp withdrew from the Methodist Episcopal Church because he believed this body “was no longer completely Wesleyan in teaching or practise.” They emphasize “belief in the Trinity and faith in the Holy Scriptures as divinely and … Continue reading “Church, Pilgrim Holiness”

Church, Pentecostal Holiness Organized in August 1898, at Anderson, South Carolina. Their doctrine is almost the same as that of the Methodists. They recognize baptism and the Lord’s Supper. They are in general accord with the Methodists. Foreign missionary work is carried on in South Africa, South China, and Guatemala, Central America. Fuente: New Catholic … Continue reading “Church, Pentecostal Holiness”

Church, Peace of the A term describing the condition of the Church after Constantine’s Edict of Milan, 313 , had ended the centuries of persecution. Independence of the civil authority was accorded to the Church, a new idea replacing the former concept of society where religion was subservient to the absolute state. Full and complete … Continue reading “Church, Peace of the”

Church, Orthodox (Greek: orthodoxos, right believer) Name appropriated, some time before the 9th century, by the Christians of the largest group of the Non-Uniat or schismatical churches, to distinguish themselves from heretics. Originally comprising the four Eastern patriarchates, Alexandria, Antioch, Constantinople, and Jerusalem, they were separated from the West in the schism of the 9th … Continue reading “Church, Orthodox”

Church Ordinance, Apostolic Third-century pseudo-Apostolic collection of moral and hierarchical rules and instructions, which served as a law-code for the Egyptian, Ethiopian, and Arabian Churches, rivaling the Didache , under which name it often went. Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary

CHURCH ORDER 1Co 7:17; 1Co 11:34; 1Co 14:23; 1Co 14:40; Tit 1:5 Fuente: Thompson Chain-Reference Bible

Church of the Nazarene Formerly Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene A religious movement which began in the United States towards the close of the 19th century , in New England, in New York City, and in Los Angeles, California. The founders were dissenters from the Methodist churches because they believed that full liberty to emphasize … Continue reading “Church of the Nazarene”

Church Of The Messiah a religious sect established in 1863, in Maine, by a person named Adams, who previously had been a Mormon elder. The founder of the sect claimed to have visions and special inspirations. Among the peculiar points of the new faith were, that its members are of the tribe of Ephraim, and … Continue reading “Church Of The Messiah”