After the 11th century, however, denominational interests dominated higher learning, and the Islamic sciences achieved preeminence.
Other denominational interests were served by the formation of additional societies with similar specialized concerns, such as the American Baptist Home Mission Society and the American Baptist Publication Society.
Burke's argumentative stance always benefited Roman Catholics, but he never found a kind word for the Pope: his was a position which emphasized the priority of civil interests over denominational claims in civil society.
The question touches deeper interests than those excited by mere denominational pride.
This volume provides a balanced picture of these activities and, more specifically, describes and interprets three interrelated trends that obtained during this period the transformation of diverse groups into a public, the shift from religious to secular interests, and the sequence of revivalistic fervor and denominational consolidation.
Burke's presumptions about the priority of civil interests and a sense of the possible irrelevance of denominational opinion to civil society suggest a reading of Locke's Letter concerning Toleration and Two Treatises of Government, the latter of which was common, though not prescribed reading at Trinity.
But among more self-consciously conservative believers, too, constant church-shopping is commonplace (just ask Marco Rubio), national political causes often excite more interest than local social engagement, and the glue of confessional and denominational traditions is much weaker than in generations past.
Conservative evangelicals, uniting in pursuit of political influence, played down old denominational differences.
Be denominational or nondenominational.
There were unmistakable denominational cultures.
What is the denominational breakdown?
