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  Waldenses - Facts from the Encyclopedia - Yahoo! Education   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Their distinctive pre-Reformation doctrines are set forth in the Waldensian Catechism (c.1489).
At the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685), the Waldensian leader, Henri Arnaud, led a band into Switzerland; he later led them back to their valleys.
A group of Waldensians settled in the United States at Valdese, N.C. The Waldensian Church is included in the Alliance of Reformed Churches of the Presbyterian Order.
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 General Distribution of the Sabbath-keeping Churches (No. 122)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Irenæus was a Unitarian, as was Justin Martyr and all the Ante-Nicene Apologists.
Observance of the Sabbath by ceasing from worldly labours is enjoined.
The Roman-British Church was only a very small part of Christian Britain and was confined to the Romanised and urbanised south and south-east from the Wash to Exeter, with the second area being from York, north-west to Carlisle and the Cumbrian coast or the western end of the military zone (Edwards, p.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Waldenses
The organization of the Waldenses was a reaction against the great splendour and outward display existing in the medieval Church; it was a practical protest against the worldly lives of some contemporary churchmen.
The present Waldensian Church may be regarded as a Protestant sect of the Calvinistic type.
The most conspicuous centre of Waldensian activity in France during the later middle ages was Dauphiné and the western slope of the Cottian Alps.
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 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Waldenses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Waldensian Immigration to Algeria and the Impact on Indigenous Moslems from 1880 to 1920.
Albert Henry Newman: with a bibliography of writings that encompasses at least twenty-one pages, Albert Henry Newman (1852-1933) ranks as one of the most prolific and competent church historians Baptists have ever produced.
The modern religious objection to mandatory flag salute in America: a history and evaluation.
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 The Principle of Nonresistance
The Christian Church in general has in all ages of its history recognized the fact that our Lord taught the principle of nonresistance, and yet, excepting the earliest Christian centuries, the great majority of Christian professors have always found a way to circumvent the practical requirements of this principle.
The answer is that during the Reformation period the Waldenses yielded to influences of one of the leading Protestant churches which defended the rightfulness of a union of church and state and of war.
In the perfection of Christ, however, church discipline alone is used for the correction and exclusion of those who have sinned, not indeed for the destruction of the flesh but as an admonition and injunction to sin no more.
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 protestant mccammon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
orthodox church vs catholic and protestant church beliefs
contributed to the nominalism in the Protestant churches
CHICAGO (AP) _ The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America says its membership dropped 1.6 percent to 4.85 million last year.
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 Order of Nazorean Essenes
Some Waldenses claimed for their churches an Apostolic origin.
The noble Manichaean faith influenced the later Bogomil sect that arouse in the 12th Century
The monastic life in the eastern orthodox Church by A.J.Philippou (non Nazorean monastic life)
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 Way of Life Literature - Electronic Baptist History Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
A History of the Christian Church by William Jones (1812)
Is There a Visible Succession of Baptist Churches?
Some Remarks on the Ecclesiastical History of the Ancient Churches of Piedmont by Peter Allix (1690)
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