Sentence examples for established denominations from inspiring English sources

But Christians from more established denominations aren't impressed.

Skousen argued that the First Amendment's prohibition on a federal establishment of religion wasn't intended to separate church and state but to prevent the federal government from disestablishing religion in the seven states that had officially established denominations during the founding era.

Previously, through the old, established denominations, many may have felt that religious belief had a presence in the public square.

Devout African Americans declared their fidelity to the Bible, and even to fundamentalism, although the presence of established denominations and the absence of modernist theology hindered the spread of organized fundamentalism in the African American community.

In New York, like many transplanted Southerners, he built his own church in a storefront rather than joining an established denomination or existing congregation.

But Mr. Stoll was a minister of an established denomination — a liberal one, often so diverse as to seem post-Christian, but nonetheless one with Christian roots.

In response to these controversies, most fundamentalists withdrew from the established Protestant denominations, which they regarded as hopelessly liberal, and retreated from the larger society, which they viewed as both corrupt and corrupting.

Zumunta Mata is found across all established Christian denominations in Northern Nigeria today; 'To be a Christian woman in the north is to be a member of Zumunta Mata' (Enwerem 1995).

Most early American colleges were established by religious denominations, and most eventually evolved into full-fledged universities.

9. (C) Ho Chi Minh City has registered at least 91 Protestant house churches, serving 7,225 parishioners from many different denominations established before and after 1975.

WITH its problems, Asbury Park might cause despair to its founder, a devout Methodist industrialist named James Adam Bradley, who named the city for Francis Asbury, an 18th-century circuit-riding preacher credited with establishing the denomination in the Americas.