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The Church of God in Christ (COGIC) is an international Holiness–Pentecostal Christian denomination, [2] [4] and a large Pentecostal denomination in the United States. [5] Although an international and multi-ethnic religious organization, it has a predominantly African-American membership based within the United States.
The Church of God in Christ (COGIC) is a Holiness-Pentecostal Christian denomination, [1] [2] with a predominantly African-American membership. The denomination reports having more than 12,000 churches and over 6.5 million members in the United States. [3]
Incarnation refers to the act of a pre-existent divine person, the Son of God, in becoming a human being. While all Christians believed that Jesus was indeed the Unigenite Son of God, [5] "the divinity of Christ was a theologically charged topic for the Early Church." [6] Debate on this subject occurred during the first four centuries of ...
The history of Christianity is part of the history of a great many civilizations. Its influence has been both vast and inextricably intertwined with the histories of the many cultures it has inhabited. Throughout its history, Christianity has been a source of social services; it has introduced and furthered literacy and education, created and ...
One true church. The expression " one true church " refers to an ecclesiological position asserting that Jesus gave his authority in the Great Commission solely to a particular visible Christian institutional church—what is commonly called a denomination. This view is maintained by the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the ...
Christology (from the Greek Χριστός, Khristós and -λογία, -logia), literally 'the understanding of Christ', [11] is the study of the nature (person) and work (role in salvation) [note 1] of Jesus Christ. [1][4][3][web 1][web 4][note 2] It studies Jesus Christ's humanity and divinity, and the relation between these two aspects; [5 ...
Christianity. In Christianity, God is the eternal, supreme being who created and preserves all things. [5] Christians believe in a monotheistic, trinitarian conception of God, which is both transcendent (wholly independent of, and removed from, the material universe) and immanent (involved in the material universe). [6]
The Churches of Christ, also commonly known as the Church of Christ, is a loose association of autonomous Christian congregations located around the world. Typically, their distinguishing beliefs are that of the necessity of baptism for salvation and the prohibition of musical instruments in worship. Many such congregations identify themselves ...