• The Schwenkfelder Church (listen) is a small American Christian body rooted in the 16th-century Protestant Reformation teachings of Caspar Schwenkfeld...
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    thus forced to either convert or flee. Because of this, there are Schwenkfelder Church congregations in the United States, which was then the Thirteen Colonies...
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    State religion (redirect from State church)
    Christian denomination was the Armenian Apostolic Church, established in 301 CE. In Christianity, as the term church is typically applied to a place of worship...
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  • The cultivation of saffron in the Americas begun by members of the Schwenkfelder Church in Pennsylvania. In recent decades cultivation has spread to New...
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    cultivation of saffron in the Americas was begun by members of the Schwenkfelder Church in Pennsylvania. In recent decades cultivation has spread to New...
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     70–71. Smith 2016. Daume & Watson 1988, p. 303. "Bibliography", No Jim Crow Church, University Press of Florida, pp. 287–302, 25 August 2015, doi:10.2307/j...
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    needed] Organized religions may include a state's official religion, or state church. However, most political states have any number of organized religions practiced...
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    Americas when immigrant members of the Schwenkfelder Church left Europe with a trunk containing its corms. Church members had grown it widely in Europe...
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  • include the United Church of Canada, the United Church of Christ, the Episcopal Church, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the churches of the Old Catholic...
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    Protestantism Adventism Anabaptism Amish Brethren Hutterites Mennonites Schwenkfelder Church Anglicanism Baptists Calvinism Congregationalism Presbyterianism...
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    tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant...
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  • The Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center is a not-for-profit historical library, archive, and museum located in Pennsburg, Pennsylvania. Its mission...
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    Churches sui iuris, including the Latin Church and 23 Eastern Catholic churches, such as the Maronite Catholic Church. Eastern Christianity, which include...
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    Point, Cedars Village, and Fairview Village. It contains the central Schwenkfelder church. "2016 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved...
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    Maronite Church. The Druze community and feudal leaders came under attack from the regime with the collaboration of the Maronite Catholic Church, and the...
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    religion. These beliefs were ultimately opposed and disavowed by the Catholic Church in the 18th century. The introduction of Nestorian Christianity to China...
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  • the church's ability to "incorporate into herself all that is true, good, and beautiful in the world". This idea was present in the early Church; the...
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    something akin to a church. In a series of books, Coit also began to argue for transforming the Anglican Church into an Ethical Church while holding up the...
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    was owned by German adherents of a Protestant church known as the Schwenkfelder Church. Schwenkfelders, as members were known, were great lovers of saffron...
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    and minister Lloyd Arthur Eshbach. Palm Post Office Palm Schwenkfelder Church Palm Schwenkfelder Cemetery "Palm". Geographic Names Information System. United...
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  • Protestantism Adventism Anabaptism Amish Brethren Hutterites Mennonites Schwenkfelder Church Anglicanism Baptists Calvinism Congregationalism Presbyterianism...
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    Wang Hao-te in 1982, the Haizidao founded by Lin Jixiong in 1984, the Holy Church of China (Zhonghua Shengjiao) founded by Ma Yongchang in 1980, the Guanyindao...
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  • authority. In the 1930s, during the Stalinist period, the government destroyed church buildings or put them into secular use (as museums of religion and atheism...
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  • Protestantism Adventism Anabaptism Amish Brethren Hutterites Mennonites Schwenkfelder Church Anglicanism Baptists Calvinism Congregationalism Presbyterianism...
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    movements in Europe, including Quakers, Moravians, Methodists, Lutherans, Schwenkfelders, Schwarzenau Brethren, and others. Pietists emphasized individual piety...
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    than non-Witnesses. Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) are considered by church leadership to engage in apostasy when...
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  • say that women hold on to their faith more heartily, work harder for the church, and in general practice with more consistency than men. Catherine L. Albanese...
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    Pennsylvania Ministerium. In 1734, followers of what would become the Schwenkfelder Church arrived in Philadelphia and settled in the region. The first American...
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  • Molokans, Dunkard Brethren, Dukh-i-zhizniki, Bruderhof Communities, Schwenkfelders, Moravians, the Shakers, and even some groups within the Pentecostal...
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    on a southwest-to-northeast alignment. Other local roads of note include Church Road, Geryville Pike, Kutztown Road/Knight Road, School House Road, and...
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