CHRISTIAN

See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

CATHOLIC

See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

CHURCH  , the name assumed by a religious organization founded at Zion City near Chicago, IIlinois, U.S.A., in 1896, by John Alexander Dowie (q.v.) . Its members added to the usual tenets of Christianity a special belief in faith-healing, and laid much stress on united consecration services and the threefold immersion of believers . To assist Dowie, assistant overseers were appointed, and the operations of the community included religious, educational and commercial departments . Small branches sprang up in other parts of the United States, Mexico, Canada, Europe and Australasia . At the end of 1901 there were nearly 12,000 baptized believers . After 1903 considerable dissension arose among Dowie's followers: he was deposed in 1906; and after his death (1907) the city gradually became a community of normal type .