Lord's Prayer
(proper noun)
The prayer taught by Jesus Christ to his disciples in the Sermon on the Mount.
Examples of Lord's Prayer in the following topics:
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The Social Gospel
- Theologically, the Social Gospellers sought to operationalize the Lord's Prayer (Matthew 6:10): "Thy kingdom come.
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The Religious Right
- Christian television programs, such as Pat Robertson’s The 700 Club and Jim Bakker’s The PTL (Praise the Lord) Club, proved enormously popular and raised millions of dollars from viewer contributions.
- It also engaged in battles over pornography, obscenity, abortion, state-sanctioned prayer in public schools, textbook contents (concerning evolution vs. creationism), homosexuality, and sexual education.
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The Founding of Carolina
- The Province of Carolina was created when Charles II rewarded the Lords Proprietor lands that include the modern day Carolinas and Georgia.
- They named their colony Carolina, and they themselves were called the Lords Proprietors.
- The Province of Carolina was controlled from 1663 to 1729 by these lords and their heirs.
- The most active in the colonies was Lord Anthony Ashley Cooper, the 1st Earl of Shaftsbury.
- The Earl of Clarendon was one of eight Lords Proprietor given title to the Province of Carolina.
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The First Emancipation
- Lord Dunmore's Proclamation was the first mass emancipation of enslaved people in United States history.
- In November 1775 Lord Dunmore, Royal Governor of Virginia, issued a controversial proclamation, later known as Lord Dunmore's Proclamation.
- The governor formed them into the Ethiopian Regiment, also known as Lord Dunmore's Ethiopian Regiment.
- Lord Dunmore's Ethiopian Regiment was probably the first black regiment in the service of the Crown during the revolution.
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The Revolution and Churches
- The Book of Common Prayer offered prayers for the monarch, beseeching God "to be his defender and keeper, giving him victory over all his enemies".
- Patriotic American members of the Church of England, loathing to discard so fundamental a component of their faith as The Book of Common Prayer, revised it to conform to the political realities of the time.
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The Carolinas
- The 1663 charter granted the Lords Proprietor title to all of the land from the southern border of the Virginia Colony to the coast of present-day Georgia.
- Another region, near present-day Charleston, South Carolina, was settled under the Lords Proprietors in 1670.
- The Lords Proprietors, operating under their royal charter, were able to exercise their authority with nearly the autonomy of the king himself.
- This period culminated in Cary's Rebellion when the Lords Proprietors finally commissioned a new governor.
- This circumstance, coupled with hostilities with American Indian tribes and the inability of the Lords Proprietors to act decisively, led to separate governments for North and South Carolina.
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The Anglican Class
- Some ministers solved their problems by encouraging parishioners to become devout at home, using the Book of Common Prayer for private prayer and devotion (rather than the Bible).
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Maryland
- The province began as a proprietary colony of the English Lord Baltimore and as a haven for English Roman Catholics in the New World.
- Maryland's foundational charter created a state ruled by Lord Baltimore, who directly owned all of the land granted in the charter.
- The charter created an aristocracy of lords of the manor who bought land from Baltimore and held greater legal and social privileges than the common settlers.
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Women and Church Governance
- Women's prayer was seen by leaders such as Charles Finney as a crucial aspect in preparing a community for revival and improving the revival's efficacy.
- Women's prayer groups were an early and socially acceptable form of women's organization.
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The Aftermath of Saratoga
- The British government of Lord Frederick North came under sharp criticism when the news of Burgoyne's surrender reached London.
- This defeat prompted Lord North to issue a proposal for peace terms in Parliament.
- Following the Patriot victory at Saratoga, Lord North's government was heavily criticized for their management of the war effort.