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	History of Christianity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Christian beliefs state that the preincarnate Christ was involved in the Creation of all things (John 1:3; Colossians 1:16; Hebrews 1:2) and as Angel of Yahweh (Genesis 16:7–14, 24:7; Exodus 14:19; 2 Kings 19:35; 1 Chronicles 21:1–27; Zechariah 1:12–13; 1 Corinthians 10:4).
		Christianity continued to use the Jewish scriptures (the Tanakh became their Old Testament) and accept such fundamental doctrines of Judaism as monotheism (and thus, in turn, Judaism's sole deity YHWH) and the belief in a moshiach (Hebrew term usually rendered "messiah" in English, which is equivalent to the term "Christ"—Christos in Greek).
		Christianity was not restricted to the Mediterranean basin and its hinterlands; at the time of Jesus a large proportion of the Jewish population lived in Mesopotamia outside the Roman Empire, especially in the city of Babylon, where much of the Talmud was developed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Christianity (6032 words)

	Christianity and world religions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Christianity and the pagan religions of classical antiquity are popularly understood to have been rivals, with each seeking to persecute and destroy the other.
		Adherents of Islam have historically referred to themselves, Jews, and Christians (among others) as People of the Book since they all base their religion on books that are considered to have a divine origin.
		Christians however neither recognize the Qur'an as a genuine book of divine revelation, nor agree with its assessment of Jesus as a mere prophet, on par with Muhammad, nor for that matter accept that Muhammad was a genuine prophet.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christianity_and_World_Religions (2145 words)

	Denver Journal - 7:0405 - A Tapestry of Faiths: The Common Threads Between Christianity and World Religions.
		Corduan sets forth his Christian presuppositions and asks whether world religions are in (1) complete continuity with Christianity, (2) complete discontinuity, (3) continuity on the basis of superiority and inferiority or (4) a discontinuity of the whole (i.e.
		Christianity differs from other religions in that redemption involves deliverance from the fallen order, not merely from the order of creation (107).
		Christians presenting the gospel must go through self-inspection to distinguish their cultural factors from the revealed message.
	www.denverseminary.edu /dj/articles2004/0400/0405.php (1874 words)

	World Religions and Christianity
		Christians are spending $740 million per day on all causes.
		There are 10,000 distinct religions in the world located in 238 nations and territories.
		In 1900 Christianity was 81% white--Now in 2000 it is only 45% white (because places like Africa went from 9.2% Christian in 1900 to 45.9% in 2000).
	mywebpages.comcast.net /ad70/encyclopedia.htm (388 words)

	World Religions-Christianity
		Most Christians stick to the Apostles' Creed : Believe in God, the Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and Earth, and Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried.
		Christianity has an unswerving conviction that it is the only true religion, the only path to salvation.
		Most Christians believe that Jesus co-existed with God before the creation of the world, was born of a virgin, and was resurrected three days after his death.
	www.allaboutsikhs.com /religion/christianity.htm (798 words)

	Religions of the world: numbers of adherents; growth rates
		According to David Barrett et al, editors of the "World Christian Encyclopedia: A comparative survey of churches and religions - AD 30 to 2200," there are 19 major world religions which are subdivided into a total of 270 large religious groups, and many smaller ones.
		Many Emails come from Christians who have the impression that Christianity is rapidly growing around the world and that the number of Christian adherents is steadily growing as a percentage of the world's total population.
		Noted Christian author George Weigel notes that: "There were only 558 million Christians in the world in 1900 and there will be approximately 2 billion Christians by the middle of this year [2002], a huge increase." However, Christianity has been in a very slow decline for years as a percentage of world population.
	www.religioustolerance.org /worldrel.htm (1347 words)

	John Hick's response to the Vatican document Christianity and the World Religions
		The newer view, advocated by Karl Rahner, was that the other world religions are responses to the universal divine grace, so that their adherents may, without knowing it, have an implicit faith in Christ which is sufficient for salvation.
		Christianity thus retains its unique priority and normativeness, its higher status, although the difference is no longer the stark difference of salvation versus damnation.
		In other words, since each religion professes to have the final truth, the pluralist denies not only the Christian claim to be the one and only fully true religion, but also the similar claim of each of the other religions.
	astro.temple.edu /~arcc/hick.html (3029 words)

	Major Religions Ranked by Size
		From an academic, comparative religions viewpoint, there is no basis for "prescribing" whether it is better for a religion to be highly unified, cohesive, monolithic, and lacking in internal religious diversity, or whether it is better to be fragmented, schismatic, diverse, multifaceted and abounding in variations on the same theme.
		As is true with all major religions, there are adherents within all branches of Islam who consider some of or all of the other branches heterodox or not actually part of their religion.
		In the Western world, Europe is by far the place with the most self-avowed nonreligious, atheists and agnostics, with the nonreligious proportion of the population particularly high in Scandinavia.
	www.adherents.com /Religions_By_Adherents.html (11821 words)

	Christianity, Cults and World Religions - The Christian Arsenal
		Christians believe that man was totally unable to find God so God in his mercy revealed his will to us in the Bible and later and ultimately through Jesus Christ.
		Christianity is further defined by missionary involvement at home and abroad and by providing aid to those in need: the poor, widows, orphans, and downtrodden.
		Christians believe that Jesus is the Jewish Messiah promised to Israel in the Old Testament.
	www.christianarsenal.com /cults/CultDef.htm (917 words)

	Mr. Dowling's Western Religions Page
		Believers in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are found on every populated continent, but tend to be concentrated in North and South America, Europe, Australia, Western Asia and North Africa.
		While western religions are centered on the belief in one God, many believers of eastern religions seek to find enlightenment by looking within themselves.
		Indigenous religions are practiced throughout the world, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.
	www.mrdowling.com /605westr.html (331 words)

	Survey of Theology 9. Christianity and the World's Religions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In Rahner's defense, the term "anonymous Christian" was perhaps intended to suggest that Christians should give the faithful adherents of non-Christian religions the same "status" in their reflections on the People of God as they give to their fellow Christians.
		The traditional dogma has been that Christianity is the centre of the universe of faiths, with all other religions seen as revolving at various removes around the revelation in Christ and being graded according to their nearness to or distance from it.
		Religions are human responses to "The Real," and are colored by the historical and social contexts in which the religions evolved
	www.stjohnadulted.org /The_09.htm (1230 words)

	'World Religions' in the Context of Christian Faith
		Christian worship, doctrine, and life see the present in the context of the ascended, reigning Christ
		Religions (and thus Christianity) seem stuck in-between these dilemmas; thus our predicament.
		All the world is already related to Jesus as its alpha and omega and his glory.
	www.westmont.edu /~work/lectures/worldreligions.html (411 words)

	Is Jesus the Only Savior?
		In no other religion is there provision of an atonement for sin through the sacrifice of the incarnate Son of God, who gave proof of His person and work by rising from the dead (an event surrounded by a wealth of historical evidence).
		Even where there is sacrifice in other religions, the intent of the sacrifice is unlike that taught in the Bible.
		This handbook on apologetics has two excellent chapters (8 and 9) on world religions and the question of the unevangelized.
	www.northave.org /MGManual/JesusOnly/Savior3.htm (767 words)

	Amazon.com: Christianity and World Religions: Books: Norman Anderson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Christianity and World Religions: Paths of Dialogue With Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism by Hans Kung
		Christianity at the Religious Roundtable: Evangelicalism in Conversation With Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam by Timothy C. Tennent
		However, this stands in sharp contrast to other religions, which have, for example, release from reincarnation as their "salvation." Anderson than classifies religions into two categories; those that are "this worldy" and those that are Hereafter oriented.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0877849811?v=glance (1433 words)

	World Religions in Terms of Christian Faith
		The Christian faith shifts from being a label for something else to being understood on its own terms.
		'world religions in terms of Christian faith' is nearer the bottom.
		Christian worship, doctrine, and life see everything in the context of the ascended, reigning Christ.
	www.westmont.edu /~work/lectures/worldrel.html (641 words)

	World Religions: Comparative Analysis
		A similar syncretistic trend is encouraged by the suggestion to consider the various world religions as alternative paths to the same transcendental finality or, using a known illustration, many paths to the same mountain peak.
		Therefore the other option is that world religions are not pieces of the same puzzle (parts of the same spiritual "elephant") or alternative paths to the same goal.
		Since the domain of comparative religion is so vast, the present analysis had to be limited to a brief account, sacrificing many details and secondary aspects, but with the hope that global relevance will not be affected.
	www.comparativereligion.com (1158 words)

	Syllabus: Lecture Series on Christianity and World Religions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The earliest stratum of human religion, and its modern revivals in channeling and UFO cults.
		The popular religions of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Canaan, and Europe: their impact on Israel and the Church, and modern revivals in Wicca and Neo-paganism.
		Christian and pseudo-Christian cults: How and why they arise, how to distinguish a cult from a church, how to witness and minister to cultists.
	www.jvlnet.com /~jrblack/RC/wrsyllabus.html (253 words)

	World Religions Religion Statistics Geography Church Statistics
		Adherents.com is a growing collection of over 43,870 adherent statistics and religious geography citations: references to published membership/adherent statistics and congregation statistics for over 4,200 religions, churches, denominations, religious bodies, faith groups, tribes, cultures, movements, ultimate concerns, etc. The religions of the world are enumerated here.
		The database has thousands of broad classifications, religions, branches, individual churches, etc., and most people fit under multiple labels, but no individual can be completely categorized by any of these labels.
		If the main database includes a total number of adherents in the world, the highest recent number (but not necessarily the most accurate one) is shown in the index.
	www.adherents.com (1125 words)

	Christianity and World Religions : Christian Courier
		A reflection upon the numerous religions of the world leaves many people with a profound sense of confusion.
		Unlike the mystical and subjective religious systems of the East, Christianity is a body of belief (and practice) that either stands or falls on the basis of its historical claims.
		The sincerity and dedication of many of the devotees of the Eastern religions (that admittedly sometimes puts some “Christians” to shame) can never be a substitute for humble obedience to God through the acceptance of His Son.
	www.christiancourier.com /feature/february99.htm (2625 words)

	Christianity and the World Religions by Hans Kung, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 0385194714
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	www.bookfinder4u.com /detail/0385194714.html (209 words)

	Does Christianity differ from other World Religions
		The question naturally arises as to whether or not Christianity is unique among world religions, or is it only a variation on a basic theme running through all religions?
		In addition, the pantheistic God is incomplete without creation; he is dependent on the creation for the attainment of the perfections that lie latent in his own infinite potentialities..Pantheism is the belief that God is the world and the world is God'.
		The Jewish concept of God is closest of all to the Christian.
	www.ch-of-christ.beaverton.or.us /WORLDREL.htm (1062 words)

	Concilium 1986/1 Christianity Among World Religions Editorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Nobody can deny that we live at a time when the peace of the world and the ability of human beings to live with each other in freedom and justice are constantly undermined by religious tensions.
		The adherents of the different religions of the world would be achieving a great deal already if they merely knew more about each other.
		The Christian point of view on these religions is ensured by Anthony Johns (Canberra, Australia), Paulos Mar Gregorios (Delhi), Aloysius Pieris (Sri Lanka) and Julia Ching (Toronto).
	www.concilium.org /english/edit861.htm (398 words)

	Kung, Hans: Christianity and the World Religions
		For the Christian Church, however, the central issue shifted, over the course of time, to the person of Jesus and his relation to God.
		And the controversy between Christianity and Islam remains wholly concentrated on this question.
		The statement does acknowledge that the Christian belief in the "Son of God, equal in essence to Him" strikes "many Jews as absolutely contradictory.
	www.bible.ca /trinity/trinity-Kung.htm (1535 words)

	Christianity & World Religions" Course (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The great religions of the world uphold an underlying unity and, at the same time, fracture the human family.
		He spent the first 50 years of his life among people of different religions and also did graduate-level studies in world religions.
		In addition to teaching on world religions, he teaches Old Testament studies at Eastern Mennonite Seminary and has been involved in Bible translation work in the Gujarati language, his mother tongue, for more than 25 years.
	www.emu.edu /seminary/worldrelig.html (250 words)

	Christianity vs Pseudo-Christianity and World Religions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		We are living in a time that it has become even more obvious that studying and understanding World Religions is not a leisure time activity anymore, it is a matter of survival.
		Although most people have some sort of religious affiliation, they are woefully ignorant as to the basic beliefs of their own religion, and many times not even aware that what they are doing is a religion.
		Beware of any Group or Religion teaching that you have to be a member of their group in order to be saved.
	www.refuge-outreach.org (481 words)

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	www.bethel.edu /~gscorgie/courses/ts232/theology_world_religions.doc (1296 words)

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