Christianity

As bishops we remain committed to listening and walking together to the maximum possible degree, despite our deep disagreement on these issues.

The number of Christians rose by 122 million, reaching 2.3 billion.

Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the Bible and the teachings of Jesus.

Since the ancient time the Church has viewed deliberate abortion as a grave sin. The canons equate abortion with murder.

Kimbanguism, (Christianity)

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was a German Jesuit scholar and polymath who published around 40 major works of comparative religion, geology, and medicine.

was a Protestant pastor, born in Nîmes, who initiated the interpretation of the Tarot as an arcane repository of timeless esoteric wisdom with imagined origins in Ancient Egypt in 1781.

was a Latin poet and hymnographer in the Merovingian Court, and a Christian bishop who has been venerated since the Middle Ages.

was an American Mainline Protestant theologian in the Reformed tradition, ethicist, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor at Union Theological Seminary for more than 30 years.

was a Frankish Benedictine monk, theologian, poet, encyclopedist and military writer who became archbishop of Mainz in East Francia.

was a German Benedictine monk and scholar.

was an early Christian saint, writer, theologian and Bishop of Remesiana, which was then in the Roman province of Dacia Mediterranea.

was an American Christian radio broadcaster and evangelist.

was an Italian Catholic priest and composer of the Roman School and brother of Domenico Allegri; he was also a singer.

was an American evangelical writer and television host.

was an American folk painter and distinguished Christian minister of the Society of Friends (a.k.a.

was an Egyptian Christian monk and grazer hermit.

was a Christian saint, ascetic, anchorite, and Desert Mother from Roman Egypt in the 4th century AD (c. 320-400).

was a Christian monk and early Desert Father who is the most quoted Abba (Father) in the Apophthegmata Patrum (Sayings of the Desert Fathers).

was an early Christian monk and bishop of Thmuis in Lower Egypt.

was an Egyptian Christian monk who lived in the desert of Scetes in Lower Egypt during the 4th century.

was a British author, literary scholar and Anglican lay theologian.

was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer.

was a Lebanese Maronite monk and priest.

was a French Jesuit priest, scientist, paleontologist, philosopher, mystic and teacher.

was a Christian monk, theologian, and Neoplatonic scholar.

was a German Catholic bishop and polymath active as a philosopher, theologian, jurist, mathematician, and astronomer.

was an Italian Catholic priest who founded the Congregation of the Oratory, a society of secular clergy dedicated to pastoral care and charitable work.

was a German Benedictine nun and mystic who was a member of the Monastery of Helfta.

was a French Catholic religious brother who served at a Discalced Carmelite monastery, what is now Saint-Joseph-des-Carmes in Paris.

was a Russian Orthodox theologian, priest, philosopher, and economist.

was a 6th-7th century Christian monk at the monastery on Mount Sinai.

was an English Anglo-Catholic writer and pacifist known for her numerous works on religion and spiritual practice, in particular Christian mysticism.

was a Russian Orthodox theologian, priest, philosopher, mathematician, physicist, electrical engineer, inventor, polymath, neomartyr and folk saint.

was an English poet, Anglican cleric, theologian, and religious writer.

was an Italian Franciscan tertiary who became known as a mystic from her extensive writings about her mystical revelations.

was a German Protestant theologian, University of Wittenberg chancellor, a contemporary of Martin Luther and a reformer of the early Reformation.

was a French Roman Catholic scholar, educator, reformer, and poet, Chancellor of the University of Paris, a guiding influence of the conciliar movement and one of the most prominent theologians at the Council of Constance.

was a British Catholic priest and Benedictine monk who lived in ashrams in South India and became a noted missionary.

was an American merchant, tailor, journalist, Quaker preacher, and early abolitionist during the colonial era.

was an influential German Anabaptist leader.

was a Spanish Catholic priest, spiritual director, mystical writer, and the principal figure associated with the controversy later known as Quietism.

was an 18th-century Russian Orthodox bishop and spiritual writer whom the Eastern Orthodox Church glorified (canonized) as a saint in 1861.

was a Dutch Catholic deacon, who was a popular preacher and the founder of the Brethren of the Common Life.

was an Anabaptist, a co-founder of the original Swiss Brethren congregation in Zürich, Switzerland, and an early martyr of the Radical Reformation.

was a Spanish Franciscan friar and author of some of the most influential works on spirituality in Spain in the 16th century.

was an Anabaptist leader and evangelist.

was a German theologian and Anabaptist leader during the Reformation.

was an important Anabaptist leader in the Netherlands before 1540.

was a German preacher and theologian of the early Reformation whose opposition to both Martin Luther and the Catholic Church led to his open defiance of late-feudal authority in central Germany.

was a Roman Catholic theologian and mystic.

was a French Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and writer.

was a French Catholic priest, cardinal and statesman in 17th-century France.

was a Benedictine monk, who served as abbot of Prüm (892-99) and later of Saint Martin's at Trier, and chronicler, whose Chronicon is an important source for late Carolingian history.

was an Arian theologian and bishop of Milan.

or Paul the Anchorite, was an Egyptian saint regarded as the first Christian hermit and grazer, who was claimed to have lived alone

of Sceté or Shishoy; Coptic: ⲁⲡⲁ ϫⲓϫⲱⲓ; died 429 AD) was an early Christian desert father, a solitary monk pursuing asceticism in

John the Prophet, known also as Venerable John, was an Eastern Christian hermit of the Monastery of Seridus and teacher of

he was a prominent mystical theologian, and was prior of the famous Augustinian Abbey of Saint Victor in Paris from 1162 until

The Eastern Orthodox Church, Catholic Church, Oriental Orthodox Churches, Anglican Communion, and the Lutheran Church revere her as a saint.

In 1980, the first Slav pope, Pope John Paul II declared them co-patron saints of Europe, together with Benedict of Nursia.

Malachy was the first native-born Irish saint to be formally canonised.

Karel van Mander had at some point become a Mennonite and was therefore a possible target of these zealots.

Thomas of Celano (Italian: Tommaso da Celano; c. 1185, c. 1265) was an Italian friar of the Franciscans (Order of Friars Minor) as well as a poet and the author of three hagiographies about Francis of Assisi.

Moses the Black (Coptic: Ⲙⲟⲥⲉⲥ; Greek: Μωϋσῆς ὁ Αἰθίοψ, romanized: Mōüsês ho Aithíops; Arabic: موسى الحبشي; 330-405), also known as Moses the Strong, Moses the Robber, and Moses the Nubian , was a Nubian ascetic hieromonk in Egypt in the fourth century AD, and a Desert Father.

Hilarion (c. 291-371), also known by the bynames of Thavata, of Gaza and, in the Orthodox Church, as the Great, was a Christian anchorite who spent most of his life in the desert according to the example of Anthony the Great (c. 251-356).

Ammon, Amun (Coptic: Ⲁⲃⲃⲁ Ⲁⲙⲟⲩⲛ), Ammonas (Ancient Greek: Ἀμμώνας), Amoun (Ἀμοῦν), or Ammonius the Hermit (; Greek: Ἀμμώνιος) was a 4th-century Christian ascetic and the founder of one of the most celebrated monastic communities in Egypt.

Barsanuphius (Greek: Βαρσανούφιος, romanized: Barsanouphios; Arabic: برسانوف, romanized: Barsanūf; Italian: Barsonofio, Barsanofrio, Barsanorio; died after 543), also known as Barsanuphius of Palestine, Barsanuphius of Gaza or Barsanuphius the Great (in Eastern Orthodoxy), was a Christian hermit and writer of the sixth century.

Louis, was an American Trappist monk, theologian, mystic, poet, and social activist.

John of Kronstadt or John Iliytch Sergieff (pre-reform Russian: Іоаннъ Кронштадтскій; post-reform Russian: Иоанн Кронштадтский; 31 October [O.S. 19 October] 1829-2 January 1909 [O.S. 20 December 1908]) was a Russian Orthodox archpriest and a member of the Most Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Silouan the Athonite (Russian: Силуан Афонский, romanized: Siluan Afonskiy; January 17, 1866, September 24, 1938) also sometimes referred to as Silouan of Athos, Saint Silvanus the Athonite or Staretz Silouan was an Eastern Orthodox monk of Russian origin, who was a poet and monk of the St.

Elizabeth of the Trinity, OCD (French: Élisabeth de la Trinité), born Élisabeth Catez (18 July 1880-9 November 1906), was a French Discalced Carmelite, a mystic, and a spiritual writer.

Gerhard Tersteegen (25 November 1697-3 April 1769) was a German Reformed lay preacher, spiritual writer, mystic, translator, and hymnist associated with Pietism on the Lower Rhine.

Philipp Adolf von Ehrenberg (1583-1631) was the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg from 1622 to 1631.

Thomas Becket ( ), also known as Saint Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London and later Thomas à Becket (21 December 1119 or 1120-29 December 1170), was an English cleric and statesman who served as Lord Chancellor from 1155 to 1162, and then as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 until his death in 1170.

He is regarded as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church

he is quoted in the New Testament

Montanus used to be a pagan priest, but converted into Christianity.

In Christian theology, Sabellianism is the belief that there is only one Person

1096-11 February 1141) was a German canon regular and a leading theologian and writer on mystical theology.

1430) was a Russian artist considered to be one of the greatest medieval Russian painters of Orthodox Christian icons and frescoes.

Caspar (or Kaspar) Schwenckfeld (or Schwenkfeld) von Ossig (; 1489 or 1490-10 December 1561) was a German court adviser, theologian, writer, and preacher who became a Protestant Reformer and spiritualist.

George Fox (July 1624 O.S. (July-August 1624 N.S.), 13 January 1691 O.S. (23 January 1692 N.S.)) was a Christian mystic and an English Dissenter, who was a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends.

Giordano Bruno ( jor-DAH-noh BROO-noh; Italian: [dʒorˈdaːno ˈbruːno]; Latin: Iordanus Brunus Nolanus; born Filippo Bruno; February 1548-17 February 1600) was an Italian philosopher, Dominican friar and priest, poet, alchemist, astronomer, cosmological theorist, and esotericist.

Mary of Egypt (Greek: Μαρία ἡ Αἰγυπτία; Coptic: Ϯⲁⲅⲓⲁ Ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ Ⲛⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ; Egyptian Arabic: مريم المصرية/ماريا المصرية; Amharic/Geez: ቅድስት ማርያም ግብፃዊት; Latin: Maria Aegyptiaca) was an Egyptian grazer saint said to have dwelled in Byzantine-era Palestine in the 5th century AD (in late antiquity / Early Middle Ages).

Zosimas of Palestine (Greek: Ζωσιμᾶς; Arabic: زوسيماس الفلسطيني, romanized: Zōsīmas al-Falesṭīnī), is commemorated as a Palestinian saint.

Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev (; Russian: Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Бердя́ев; 18 March [O.S. 6 March] 1874-24 March 1948) was a Russian philosopher, theologian, and Christian existentialist who emphasized the existential spiritual significance of human freedom and the human person.

Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon (commonly known as Madame Guyon, French: [gɥi.jɔ̃]; 13 April 1648-9 June 1717) was a French Christian accused of advocating Quietism, which was considered heretical by the Roman Catholic Church.

Hermas (Greek: Ερμάς) was a freedman and Christian born in Aquileia, who lived in Ancient Rome.

Religions.text: Roman Catholic 24.8%, Protestant 22.6%, Muslim 3.7%, other 5.1%, none 43.8% (2022 est.)

Religions.text: Catholic 77.7%, no religion 10.6%, other Evangelical Churches 7.5%, Jehovah Witness 1.2%; less than 1 percent: Pentecostal, Seventh Day Adventist, Historics, not specified, Latter Day Saints, other religions

Religions.text: Roman Catholic 56.8%, Evangelical 26.9%, none 9.3%, other 4%

Religions.text: Ethiopian Orthodox 43.8%, Muslim 31.3%, Protestant 22.8%, Catholic 0.7%, traditional 0.6%, other 0.8% (2016 est.)

Religions.text: Protestant 46.5%, Roman Catholic 20.8%, Jewish 1.9%, Church of Jesus Christ 1.6%, other Christian 0.9%, Muslim 0.9%, Jehovah's Witness 0.8%, Buddhist 0.7%, Hindu 0.7%, other 1.8%, unaffiliated 22.8%, don't know/refused 0.6% (2014 est.)

The significance of Rome lies primarily in the fact that it is the city of the pope .

It is fair to say that, as a theologian, Thomas is one of the most important in the history of Western civilization, given the extent of his influence on the development of Roman Catholic theology since the 14th century.

Decades after his death, Coltrane remains influential, and he has received numerous posthumous awards, including a special Pulitzer Prize, and he was canonized by the African Orthodox Church.

In Catholic theology, Abelard was condemned for his teaching on the Trinity.

Gustaf Emanuel Hildebrand Aulén (15 May 1879-16 December 1977) was the Bishop of Strängnäs in the Church of Sweden, a Lutheran theologian, and the author of Christus Victor, a work which still exerts considerable influence on contemporary theological thinking on the atonement.

William Paley (July 1743-25 May 1805) was an English Anglican clergyman, philosopher, abolitionist and utilitarian.

Avvakum Petrov (Russian: Аввакум Петров; 20 November 1620/1621-14 April 1682; also spelled Awakum) was a Russian Old Believer and protopope of the Kazan Cathedral on Red Square who led the opposition to Patriarch Nikon's reforms of the Russian Orthodox Church.

David Lipscomb (January 21, 1831, November 11, 1917) was a minister, editor, and educator in the American Restoration Movement and one of the leaders of that movement, which, by 1906, had formalized a division into the Church of Christ (with which Lipscomb was affiliated) and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).

В старообрядчестве на протяжении всей его истории являлся авторитетной и знаковой фигурой и почитается как священномученик и исповедник .

Nikon (Russian: Ни́кон, Old spelling: Нїконъ), born Nikita Minin (Никита Минин; 7 May [O.S. 27 April] 1605-17 August [O.S. 7 August] 1681) was the seventh Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' of the Russian Orthodox Church, serving officially from 1652 to 1666.

Additionally, his contributions to Arminian theology helped provide the seeds for later Arminian-based movements, such as Methodism and Pentecostalism; Grotius is acknowledged as a significant figure in the Arminian-Calvinist debate.