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From: "janet yancey" <>
Subject: Re: [Q-R] Quaker versus Christian Church
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 08:47:37 -0500
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What a great explanation! I certainly agree! What about the Catholic
Church? Janet


----- Original Message -----
From: "K. Haddad" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 8:06 AM
Subject: Re: [Q-R] Quaker versus Christian Church


> Christian Church and Church of Christ were used through history by those
> who did not want a denominational designation but just wanted to be
> Christians only.
>
> If you think about it, most denominations are named either after the
person
> who organized them with their uniqueness, or by their uniqueness. It was
> never the idea of these groups to be given a name; it was always (I think)
> outsiders who named them, often their enemies.
>
> You are familiar with Lutherans named after Luther, Wesleyan Methodists
> named after the Wesleys, Mennonites named after Simon Menno, Waldesians
> named after Peter Waldo, etc. These men got angry at this and said
> Christians should only be named after Christ.
>
> Also, there were Presbyterians named after their belief in a presbytery
> (eldership), Baptists named after their belief in adult baptism, Quakers
> named after their belief in "quaking," etc.
>
> Again, no sincere religious leader who tried to take people back to "just
> the Bible" ever wanted their followers to be known by anything but
> Christians. It was always the outsiders who named them. Eventually there
> were so many different groups claiming they had gone back to "just the
> Bible" that they accepted the names given them by outsiders in order to
> distinguish themselves from the other groups.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: cnt1986 <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 7:09 AM
> Subject: [Q-R] Quaker versus Christian Church
>
>
> > Is there a difference or are they of similiar? I see some sites say
Quaker
> specially and then some genealogy sites when talking of the 1700 and 1800s
> say Christian Church.
> >
> > Kristie
> >
> >
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