[307] According to data from the 2012 European Social Survey, around a third of European Christians say they attend services once a month or more,[308] Conversely about more than two-thirds of Latin American Christians; according to the World Values Survey, about 90% of African Christians (in Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa and Zimbabwe) said they attended church regularly. [497][498] Another famous apologist, G. K. Chesterton, wrote in the early twentieth century about the benefits of religion and, specifically, Christianity. Concise doctrinal statements or confessions of religious beliefs are known as creeds. Give us today our daily bread. [188][37] Nicaea was the first of a series of ecumenical councils, which formally defined critical elements of the theology of the Church, notably concerning Christology. [27], While Christians worldwide share basic convictions, there are also differences of interpretations and opinions of the Bible and sacred traditions on which Christianity is based.[28]. But still, God still existed as three persons in each of these times. sexual abstinence), and continued his criticism of Christianity to the end of his life. [99] In the early church, Christians and those yet to complete initiation would separate for the Eucharistic part of the service. All who have died will be resurrected bodily from the dead for the Last Judgment. [226], In the revival of neoplatonism Renaissance humanists did not reject Christianity; quite the contrary, many of the greatest works of the Renaissance were devoted to it, and the Catholic Church patronized many works of Renaissance art. "The death that Adam brought into the world is spiritual as well as physical, and only those who gain entrance into the Kingdom of God will exist eternally. The New Testament mentions several post-resurrection appearances of Jesus on different occasions to his twelve apostles and disciples, including "more than five hundred brethren at once",[1Cor 15:6] before Jesus' ascension to heaven. [335][336] Like Eastern Orthodoxy, the Catholic Church, through apostolic succession, traces its origins to the Christian community founded by Jesus Christ. This restores the relation with God, who is loving and reaches out to humanity, and offers the possibility of theosis c.q. The cross, today one of the most widely recognized symbols, was used by Christians from the earliest times. [20], The design uses only a small number of different color blocks. [64] In the words of the Athanasian Creed, an early statement of Christian belief, "the Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God, and yet there are not three Gods but one God". [106], In addition to this, the Church of the East has two additional sacraments in place of the traditional sacraments of Matrimony and the Anointing of the Sick. [17], Because of the nature of the production process, the final work was usually the result of a collaboration in which the painter generally did not participate in the production of the prints. 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Lutheranism spread into the northern, central, and eastern parts of present-day Germany, Livonia, and Scandinavia. [347] The 2,834 sees[348] are grouped into 24 particular autonomous Churches (the largest of which being the Latin Church), each with its own distinct traditions regarding the liturgy and the administering of sacraments. [162], Protestants stress the meaning conveyed by the words of Scripture, the historical-grammatical method. 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[461], The ecumenical, monastic Taizé Community is notable for being composed of more than one hundred brothers from Protestant and Catholic traditions. [14][260][385][386] The majority of Protestants are members of just a handful of denominational families, i.e. Some versions of the Bible include a separate Apocrypha section between the Old Testament and the New Testament. The Virgin Mary is venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the God-bearer, honoured in devotions. King Tiridates III made Christianity the state religion in Armenia between 301 and 314,[82][180][181] thus Armenia became the first officially Christian state. Mark the Evangelist is claimed to have started the Church of Alexandria in about 43 CE; various later churches claim this as their own legacy, including the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. And they who are well to do, and willing, give what each thinks fit; and what is collected is deposited with the president, who succours the orphans and widows and those who, through sickness or any other cause, are in want, and those who are in bonds and the strangers sojourning among us, and in a word takes care of all who are in need. [161] Related to this is "efficacy", that Scripture is able to lead people to faith; and "sufficiency", that the Scriptures contain everything that one needs to know in order to obtain salvation and to live a Christian life. Notable early Fathers include Ignatius of Antioch, Polycarp, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria and Origen. Others, including the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Evangelical Christian Church in Canada,[394][395] Churches of Christ, and the Christian churches and churches of Christ, have their roots in the contemporaneous Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement, which was centered in Kentucky and Tennessee. The print is one of the most reproduced and most instantly recognized artworks in the world.[24]. Some Protestant interpreters make use of typology. The two most widely accepted sacraments are Baptism and the Eucharist; however, the majority of Christians also recognize five additional sacraments: Confirmation (Chrismation in the Eastern tradition), Holy Orders (or ordination), Penance (or Confession), Anointing of the Sick, and Matrimony (see Christian views on marriage). [260][261][262] The so-called popular Protestantism[note 6] is one of the fastest growing religious categories in the world. [90], Some Christian groups, such as Seventh-day Adventists, hold to mortalism, the belief that the human soul is not naturally immortal, and is unconscious during the intermediate state between bodily death and resurrection. Some, but not all Anglicans consider themselves both Protestant and Catholic. The Christian concept of messiah differs significantly from the contemporary Jewish concept.