churches

9 subentries

• churches. See also Christian church, early; Christianity; fellowship of believers; Roman Catholic Church; temples; worship
• authority derived from invocation of sacred books (88:2.10)
• avoid union of church and state (70:1.14) (70:12.6) (71:8.4) (72:3.6) (178:1.9)
• church buildings
• open air arenas of worship in light and life (55:5.5)
• should be houses of beauty, appealing simplicity (55:5.5) (167:6.5-6)
• function in shaping cultural progress (98:2.7)
• primitive man’s response to illusory ghost environment (86:6.1)
• secret societies evolved into (70:7.19)
• true church is Jesus brotherhood; invisible, spiritual, characterized by unity, not uniformity (195:10.11)

Cross-references

• See also Christian church, early
• See also Christianity
• See also fellowship of believers
• See also Roman Catholic Church
• See also temples
• See also worship

Cited alongside

Headwords that cite the same paragraphs as this one, commonest first. The number is how many subentries each has.

• government 133
• religion 371
• temples 38
• nature 23
• sacred books 27
• worship 74
• beauty 24