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The Nazarenes (or Nazoreans; Greek: Ναζωραῖοι, romanized: Nazorēoi) [1] were an early Jewish Christian sect in first-century Judaism. The first use of the term is found in the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 24, Acts 24:5) of the New Testament, where Paul the Apostle is accused of being a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes ("πρωτοστάτην τε τῆς τῶν ...
The Church of the Nazarene makes a distinction between new members who come to the church through a new profession of faith in Christianity, and those entering from another denomination. According to their internal statistical reporting an average of 455 join the Nazarene Church per day.
In Christian circles, the term "Nazarene" later came to be used as a label for those Christians who were faithful to Jewish law; in particular, it was used as a label for a certain sect of Christians. At first, these Jewish Christians, originally the central group in Christianity, were not declared unorthodox but they were later excluded from ...
The Apostolic Christian Church is an Anabaptist Christian denomination aligned with the holiness movement. [1] [2] It is a branch of the Apostolic Christian Church formed in the early 1900s as the result of separating from the Apostolic Christian Church of America. The faith is widely spread across the globe, with congregations in Western ...
In Christian circles, Nazarene later came to be used as a label for those faithful to Jewish Law, in particular for a certain sect. These Jewish Christians, originally the central group in Christianity, generally holding the same beliefs except in their adherence to Jewish law, were not deemed heretical until the dominance of orthodoxy in the ...
Nazarene University (disambiguation) List of Church of the Nazarene schools; Nazirite, one who voluntarily took a vow described in Numbers 6:1–21 in the bible; Nasranis, or Saint Thomas Christians, an ethnoreligious group from Kerala, India; Black Nazarene, a statue of Christ venerated in the Philippines; Impaled Nazarene, a Finnish metal band
The Christian Tradition: The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (100–600). University of Chicago Press (1975). ISBN 0-226-65371-4. Pritz, Ray A., Nazarene Jewish Christianity From the End of the New Testament Period Until Its Disappearance in the Fourth Century. Magnes Press – E.J. Brill, Jerusalem – Leiden (1988). Richardson, Cyril Charles.
The Galilean faith (or Galilaean faith) is a term used by some people of the ancient world [1] (most notably emperor Julian) to designate Christianity. The town of Nazareth (the place of Jesus' childhood) is located in Galilee. Christ's followers were thus called Galileans. Galilee was part of the province of Judea. The reason for this term was ...