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274 matches to Disciples of Christ
Asturias. Former Spanish kingdom. 3-2C BC Rome. 5C Visigoth. 718-910 Only Christian kingdom on Iberia. 910 + León.
Athanasius, St. c296-373. Bishop of Alexandria: advocated Doctine of Trinity (Father, Son, Holy Ghost) vs divinity of Christ. Council of Nicaea.
Augustine, St. 354-430. Author of Confessions, City of God. Bishop of Hippo. “God is omnipotent.” Introduced Neoplatonic Determinism to Christianity. Church should rule state.
Bahamas. Arawak. 1492 Columbus. 1646 English colonize. 1782-3 Spain. 1973 Independent.
Balearic Is. 654BC Phoenicia. 123BC Rome. 426 Vandal. 798 Moor. 1229 Independent Christian. 1349 Aragon. 1713 Brit (Minorca). 1802 Spain.
Baptists. 1608-. Congregationalist Christian church. Baptism for believers only, (not infants).
Barlaam. Legendary monk who converted Indian King Josephat to Christianity.
Barnabas, St. -61. Cyprus Christian. Founded church at Antioch.
Barnard, Christian. 1922-2001. South African surgeon-first human heart transplant 1967.
Barth, Karl. 1886-1968. Swiss Protestant theologian. Can only understand God through word of Christ.
Bartholomew, St. =Nathanael, a disciple of Christ.
Benedictines. 529-. RC monastic order. Spread Christianity. Preserved Latin culture.
Berlin, Irving. 1888-1989. Russian/US popular composer. White Christmas, Annie Get Your Gun 1946.
Bible. Hebrew and Christian sacred scriptures translated from Hebrew and Aramaic. 3C BC Greek translation. 1382 Wycliffe, Rogers, English. 1522-34 Luther, German. 1611 King James version. Vulgate by St. Jerome. Apocrypha.
Bogomils. 9-15C. Slavic ascetic Christian cult. All matter created by the devil.
Boris I. -907. Ruler 852-89. Spread Christianity through Bulgaria.
Brethren, Church. 1708. German/US Pacifist Christian church.
British Virgin Is. Arawak. Carib. 1493 Columbus. 1555 Spain. 1648 Dutch. 1666 British settle. 1960 British Crown Colony.
Buchmanism. 1922-65. Christian revivalist movement stressing honesty, purity, love, unselfishness. =Moral Rearmament 1938. Oxford Group.
Caedman. 7C. First English Christian poet.
Calvin, John. 1509-64. Reformist in Switzerland and France. Predestination, truth by faith. Institutes of Christian Religion 1536, used by others to justify Protestantism. Calvinism.
Cambridge Platonists. 17C. Tried to synthesize Plato and Christianity. Christian Humanists.
Canterbury Christmas. 1647. Parliament bans Christmas celebration.
Cathars. 11-14C. Christian Gnostic heretic sect. Albigens. 1030 burned in Italy.
Chalcedon, Council. 451. Clarified orthodox Catholic beliefs. Sees of Rome and Byzantium established. Christ’s dual nature.