History of religion in the United States

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History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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Prohibition in the United States

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Alcohol in the Bible

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Christadelphians

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Philipp Melanchthon

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New Covenant

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Asceticism

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Education

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Berean Christadelphians

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Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy

— The Fundamentalist Modernist Controversy was a religious controversy in the 1920s and 30s within the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. The major American denomination was torn by conflict over the issues of theology and… …



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Christian views on alcohol

— Jesus making wine from water in The Marriage at Cana, a 14th century fresco from the Visoki Dečani monastery. Christian views on alcohol are varied. Throughout the first 1,800 years of church history, Christians consumed alcoholic beverages as …



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Methodism

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Joseph Pomeroy Widney

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Christian views on slavery

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ethics

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