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...[[Christianization|Christianized]]. At that time, Christians were mostly a religious [[wikt:minority|minority]] in the [[Middle East]], [[North Africa]], and pa ...wikt:statement|statements]] or [[wikt:confession|confessions]], usually of religious beliefs. They started as formulas used when someone was [[baptism|baptised] ...

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...dicated in the [[Apostles' Creed]].<ref name= Neville>Robert C. Neville, ''Symbols of Jesus: a Christology of symbolic engagement'', 2002 {{ISBN|0521003539}} ...<ref name=Bromo515 /><ref name=Oxf263 /><ref name=UCP>''Critical Terms for Religious Studies.'' Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998. ''Credo Referenc ...

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...of God continues to give full doctrinal support to members who are led by religious conscience to pacifism. ...is also practiced. The AG believes that the elements that are partaken are symbols of the sharing of Jesus of Nazareth's divine nature; a memorial of His suff ...

...the double-barred cross and perhaps the edge of Christ's hips and [[halo (religious iconography)|halo]], and no background. More sculptural small crucifixes in ...up from the cross, sometimes accompanied by "rays of light", or an [[Halo (religious iconography)|aureole]] encircling his body. He may be robed as a [[prophet] ...

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</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Lentz |first1=Richard |title=Symbols, the News Magazines and Martin Luther King |date=1999 |publisher=LSU Press ...e=Martin Luther King, Jr., as Democratic Socialist |journal=The Journal of Religious Ethics |date=1990 |volume=18 |issue=2 |pages=79–105 |jstor=40015109 }}</ref ...

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