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Dissenters, Religious. --- Colman, Benjamin, --- Believers' church --- Conformity (Religion) --- Nonconformists, Religious --- Nonconformity (Religion) --- Protestant dissenters --- Separatism (Religion) --- Congregationalism --- Dissenters --- Established churches --- Free churches --- Liberty of conscience --- Sects

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Evidence of mainstream denominational decline virtually throws itself in our faces--growing religious pluralism in North America; the decline over the last half century in the salience, prestige, power, and vitality of Protestant denominational leadership; slippage in mainline membership and corresponding growth, vigor, visibility, and political prowess of conservative, evangelical, and fundamentalist bodies; patterns of congregational independence, including loosening of or removal of denominational identity, particularly in signage, and the related marginal loyalty of members; emergence of megachurches, with resources and the capacity to meet needs heretofore supplied by denominations (training, literature, expertise); growth within mainline denominations of caucuses and their alignment into broad progressive or conservative camps, often with connections to similar camps in other denominations; widespread suspicion of, indeed hostility towards, the centers and symbols of denominational identity--the regional and national headquarters; migration of individuals and families through various religious identities, sometimes out of classic Christianity altogether. Denominationalism looks doomed and is so proclaimed. It may be. However, viewing the sweep of Anglo-American history, this volume suggests how much denominations and denominationalism have changed, how resilient they have proved, how significant these structures of religious belonging have been in providing order and direction to American society, and how such enduring purposes find ever new structural/institutional expression.

Christian sects --- Methodist Church --- Dissenters, Religious. --- Believers' church --- Conformity (Religion) --- Nonconformists, Religious --- Nonconformity (Religion) --- Protestant dissenters --- Separatism (Religion) --- Congregationalism --- Dissenters --- Established churches --- Free churches --- Liberty of conscience --- Sects --- History. --- United States --- Church history. --- Religion.

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Die frühe christliche Kirche entwickelte sich durch die Auseinandersetzung mit ihrer Umwelt zu ihrer spezifischen Eigenart. Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die Auseinandersetzung zwischen Celsus und Origines, Irenäus und den Gnostikern (unter Heranziehung wichtiger Nag Hammadi-Texte) sowie Plotin und den Gnostikern. Wesentliche Berührungspunkte zwischen platonischer Philosophie und christlicher Theologie werden neu aufgezeigt - zugleich aber auch unüberwindbare Schranken. Erstaunlich und tragisch ist vor allem das Missverständnis zwischen Irenäus und christlichen Gnostikern, deren Anregungen der Kirche verloren gehen. Die Untersuchung ist ein quellenfundierter Beitrag zur Entstehung der frühen Kirche, der sich durch seine Kenntnis der Alten Welt auszeichnet. This study examines the controversy between Celsus and Origen, between Irenaeus and the Gnostics (with reference to important Naghammadi texts) and between Plotinus and the Gnostics. Substantial points of contact between Platonic philosophy and Christian theology are shown as well as the insurmountable barriers between them. Of particular surprise and tragedy is above all the misunderstanding between Irenaeus and the Gnostics, whose initiatives were thus lost for the Church. The study is a source-based contribution to the genesis of the early Church and is distinguished by its knowledge of the Ancient World.

261.2 --- De Kerk en het klassieke heidendom --- 261.2 De Kerk en het klassieke heidendom --- Dissenters, Religious. --- Believers' church --- Conformity (Religion) --- Nonconformists, Religious --- Nonconformity (Religion) --- Protestant dissenters --- Separatism (Religion) --- Congregationalism --- Dissenters --- Established churches --- Free churches --- Liberty of conscience --- Sects --- Apologetic. --- gnostic. --- heresy. --- patristics.

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273 "04/14" --- Schisma's. Ketterijen--Middeleeuwen --- Christian heresies --- Christian sects, Medieval. --- Dissenters, Religious --- History --- History. --- Christian sects, Medieval --- Believers' church --- Conformity (Religion) --- Nonconformists, Religious --- Nonconformity (Religion) --- Protestant dissenters --- Separatism (Religion) --- Congregationalism --- Dissenters --- Established churches --- Free churches --- Liberty of conscience --- Sects --- Medieval Christian sects

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Christian heresies --- Dissenters, Religious --- Christian sects, Medieval --- History --- 27 "11/12" --- 27 "11/14" --- 273 "04/14" --- Believers' church --- Conformity (Religion) --- Nonconformists, Religious --- Nonconformity (Religion) --- Protestant dissenters --- Separatism (Religion) --- Congregationalism --- Dissenters --- Established churches --- Free churches --- Liberty of conscience --- Sects --- Medieval Christian sects --- Kerkgeschiedenis--?"11/12" --- Kerkgeschiedenis--?"11/14" --- Schisma's. Ketterijen--Middeleeuwen --- Christian heresies - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Dissenters, Religious - Europe