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Christianity is NOT Religion James A. Fowler ...

Christianity is NOT Religion James A. Fowler C.I.Y. Publishing P.O. Box 1822 Fallbrook, California 92088 http://www.christinyou. ...

CHRISTIANITY IS NOT RELIGION Copyright ©2008 by James A. Fowler All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduc ...

Table of Contents FOREWORD Chapter One CHRISTIANITY IS NOT RELIGION .............................. 1 Chapter Two CHRISTIANITY IS ...

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FOREWORD The term “Christianity” is used throughout this volume with a positive connotation. As employed in this book, “Christia ...

(primarily European and North American) religion that is inextricably connected with Western civilization and an abundance of cu ...

reverts to utilizing a symbolic “X” (interestingly utilized throughout Christian history as a symbol of the cross) to refer to t ...

In light of the continuing erosion of the positive connotation of the term “Christianity,” the author seriously questioned wheth ...

sequentially for a single treatise. Not only are there numerous redundancies, but the writing style varies from popular to techn ...

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Chapter One CHRISTIANITY IS NOT RELIGION The need of the hour is to distinguish and differentiate between “religion” and Christi ...

Luther, in confronting the sixteenth century religionism of Roman Catholicism, explained, “I have often said that to speak and j ...

“It is always the sign of definite misunderstanding when an attempt is made to systematically coordinate revelation and religion ...

“The central fact of the revelation of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of Jesus Christ, is that God descends to hum ...

Many other statements from Christian writers could be adduced, but these will suffice to represent the awareness of the differen ...

aligned with the root word religo. 19 The prefix re- means “back” or “again,” and the word ligare refers to “binding, tying or a ...

called to freedom, brethren” (Gal. 5:13), Paul exclaims. “Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty” (II Cor. 3:17). Jes ...

Biblical usage of the word “religion” A closer look at the biblical usage of the word “religion” will demonstrate that the word ...

religionism that constantly followed his ministry. He wanted to show the superiority of the gospel of grace in Jesus Christ over ...