The Way

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The way is the early name for christianity. Early christians in Rome who would join the way were mostly Jewish and wether or not Gentiles, or non-Jews could become part of the way without first converting to Judaism was a big issue. Another big issue was circummsision. In Rome members of the way were persecuted and it was very dangerous for them.

The Way may refer to a spiritual path:

• An early term for early Christianity (see also The Two Ways)
• The Way of the Cross, a Catholic devotion to the Passion of Christ.
• The Way (church) (Japanese: 道会, michikai), a Japanese movement founded by Matsumura Kaiseki in 1907
• The Way International, a religious organization founded by Victor Paul Wierwille.
• The Way of Madonna Della Strada
• The Way of Tao or Taoism
• The Way, or Dō, of any number of spiritual and martial disciplines stemming from Japanese culture.
• The Way of the Buddha Dharma, or Buddhism
• The Way of Shinto
• Christian Conventions, a Christian sect, also known by its membership as The Truth or The Way, referred to by non-members, pejoratively in many cases, as Two by Twos, as well as by other largely pejorative names.

The Way may also refer to:

• The Way (band), a Christian country-rock band of the early 1970s, part of the Jesus Movement
• The Way (Daniel Bedingfield song), a 2005 single from Daniel Bedingfield
• The Way/Solitaire, a 2004 single by Clay Aiken
• The Way (Greg Bear) is a fictional universe concerning the novels Eon, Eternity, Legacy, The Way of All Ghosts. It features the fictional cosmological construct (an artificial universe) called The Way (spacetime continuum).
• The Way (book), a 1939 book on Catholic spirituality, written by Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer
• The Way (song), a 1998 song released by Fastball.

[edit] See also

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