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- 582. How did the first Christian congregations come into being?
- 583. How did the gospel come to the Gentiles?
- 584. Which Apostle primarily proclaimed the gospel to the Gentiles?
- 585. Where did the designation “Christian” come into being?
- 586. How long were the Apostles active?
- 587. How did the activity of the Holy Spirit reveal itself after the death of the early Apostles?
- 588. How was salvation imparted throughout this period?
- 589. How did Christendom develop after the second century AD?
- 590. Who handed the teachings of the early Apostles down to posterity?
- 591. Who were the “Church Fathers”?
- 592. When did Christianity become the state religion in the Roman Empire?
- 593. How did Christianity develop in the time before the Middle Ages?
- 594. What else did the Christians have to contend with starting in the seventh century?
- 595. What developments led to the efforts to reform the church?
- 596. What is the Reformation?
- 597. Who are the most significant of the Reformers?
- 598. How did the Roman Catholic Church react to the Reformation?
- 599. What were the consequences of the conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism?
- 600. What was the condition of Christendom in the Europe of the eighteenth century?
- 601. What was the condition of Christendom in the nineteenth century?
- 602. What important developments occurred in the Christendom of the nineteenth century?
- 603. How did the renewed occupation of the Apostle ministry in the nineteenth century come about?
- 604. How did the Catholic Apostolic Church come into being?
- 605. When did the first sealings take place?
- 606. What happened when some of the Apostles died?
- 607. How did the New Apostolic Church come into being?
- 608. What happened in the time following?
- 609. How did the name “New Apostolic Church” come into being?
- 610. How long was the prophet ministry active?
- 611. Who was the first Chief Apostle?
- 612. What other individuals have occupied the Chief Apostle ministry?
608. What happened in the time following?
Priest Carl Wilhelm Louis Preuß (1827- 1878), and a little later on, Friedrich Wilhelm Schwartz were called as Apostles. Apostle Preuß worked in Northern Germany while Apostle Schwartz took on the Netherlands as his working area. Other Apostles were called soon after. The newly established community called itself the Allgemeine Christliche apostolische Mission (“General Christian Apostolic Mission”).
In the year 1872, Friedrich Wilhelm Menkhoff (1826-1895) was called as an Apostle for Westphalia and the Rhineland. Carl Wilhelm Louis Preuß Friedrich Wilhelm Schwartz Friedrich Wilhelm Menkhoff In 1884, Apostle Menkhoff established the Church magazine Der Herold (“The Herald”) in Germany. Under his influence, Apostle Schwartz—beginning in his working area—did away with the liturgical vestments and many other elements of liturgy that had been assumed from the Catholic Apostolic Church. In the year 1885, these changes were then implemented in all other congregations as well.
The term ‘liturgy’ is used to describe the way in which the sequence of the divine service is defined.