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In the United Methodist Church Book of Discipline, the phrase appears in the doctrinal history section as "In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; and in all things, charity." A few lines later, the mandate is emphasized as "the crucial matter in religion is steadfast love for God and neighbor, empowered by the redeeming and ...
Act of Uniformity 1548. An Acte for the unyformytie of Service and Admynistracion of the Sacramentes throughout the Realme. [2] 2 & 3 Edw. 6. c. The Act of Uniformity 1548, [1] the Act of Uniformity 1549, [3] the Uniformity Act 1548, [4] or the Act of Equality was an act of the Parliament of England, passed on 21 January 1549.
Religious uniformity was common in many modern theocratic and atheistic governments around the world until fairly modern times. The modern concept of a separate civil government was relatively unknown until expounded upon by Roger Williams, a Christian minister, in The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution (1644) shortly after he founded the American colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in ...
c. The Act of Uniformity 1551, [1] sometimes referred to as the Act of Uniformity 1552, [3] [4] or the Uniformity Act 1551 [5] was an Act of the Parliament of England. It was enacted by Edward VI of England to supersede his previous Act of Uniformity 1548. [6] It was one of the last steps taken by the 'boy king' and his councillors to make ...
The Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification (JDDJ) is a document created and agreed to by the Catholic Church 's Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity (PCPCU) and the Lutheran World Federation in 1999 as a result of Catholic–Lutheran dialogue. It states that the churches now share "a common understanding of our ...
He established a Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity (SPCU) [1] on 5 June 1960 as one of the preparatory commissions for the council, and appointed Cardinal Augustin Bea as its first president. The secretariat invited other churches and world communions to send observers to the council.
The Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church of Ireland is a founder of, and active within the Irish Council of Churches and the European Liberal Protestant Network (ELPN). Today, the denomination has thirty-four congregations (thirty-three churches) on the island of Ireland, divided into three Presbyteries, with a total of about four thousand members.
The Church of the United Brethren in Christ is an evangelical Christian denomination with churches in 17 countries. It is Protestant, with an episcopal structure and Arminian theology, with roots in the Mennonite and German Reformed communities of 18th-century Pennsylvania, as well as close ties to Methodism. It was organized in 1800 by Martin ...