Arkansas

The three largest Protestant denominations in Arkansas are: Baptist (42% of the total state population), Methodist (9%), Pentecostal (6%). For some, to use the word "Catholic" at all is to appear to give credence to papal claims. The religious affiliations of the people are as follows:. The Orthodox Churches share some of the concerns about Roman Catholic claims, but disagree with Protestants about the nature of the Church as one body. Arkansas, like most other southern states, is overwhelmingly Protestant. Some Protestant Christian Churches avoid using the term completely. The five largest ancestry groups in the state are: American (15.9%), African American (15.7%), Irish (9.5%), German (9.3%), English (7.9%). Texts in Latin generally follow this usage, not the English practice.

Racially, Arkansas is:. For instance, since French normally capitalizes only the first word of the title of an entity, the adjective "catholique", following the noun "Église", has a lower-case initial. 48.8% is male, and 51.2% is female. Translations even of modern texts into English often follow the usage of the original language.
As of 2003, the state's population was 2,725,714 according to Census Bureau estimates. It would be anachronistic to attribute significance to capitalization or lack of capitalization in printings of texts dating from before the last few centuries or in translations of those texts, since the originals were written in unmixed majuscule or minuscule letters. See also: List of people from Arkansas. Capitalization may merely indicate a wish to stress the holy and solemn nature of the spiritual body of believers and a desire for all Christians to be one.

Its industrial outputs are food processing, electric equipment, fabricated metal products, machinery, paper products, bromine, and vanadium. It may indicate formal affiliation with the Roman Catholic Church or it may not. The state's argiculture outputs are poultry and eggs, soybeans, sorghum, cattle, cotton, rice, hogs, and milk. Capitalization is no sure guide to denominational affiliation. Its Per Capita Personal Income for 2003 was $24,384, 50^th in the nation. The epistles in question are James (http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/index.htm#james); First (http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/index.htm#1peter) and Second Peter (http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/index.htm#2peter); First (http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/index.htm#1john), Second (http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/2john/2john.htm), and Third Johnand (http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/3john/3john.htm) Jude (http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/jude/jude.htm). The state's total gross state product for 2003 was $76 billion. It is thus, strictly speaking, not an ecclesiastical term, being employed in the original broad sense of the Greek word from which "catholic" is derived.

Hot Springs National Park and the Buffalo National River can also be found within its borders. "Catholic Epistles" is another term for the General Epistles of the Christian New Testament in the Bible, which were addressed not to a particular city but to all in general. Arkansas is home to many caves, such as Blanchard Springs Caverns. Reformed Churches also consider themselves to be part of the Holy Catholic Church. Both are fertile agricultural areas and home to much of the crop agriculture in the state. These include "High Church" Anglicans, known also as "Anglo-Catholics". The Grand Prairie is slightly away from the Mississippi river in the southeast portion of the state and consists of a more undulating landscape. Others too who do not recognize the primacy of the Bishop of Rome use the term Catholic, but not in an exclusive sense, to describe their position, so as to distinguish it from a Calvinist or Puritan form of Protestantism.

It gets this name from the formation of its rich alluvial soils formed from the flooding of the mighty Mississippi. As well as the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Churches, and the Oriental Orthodox Churches all see themselves as the "one holy catholic and apostolic Church" of the Nicene Creed. The land along the Mississippi river is referred to as the "Delta" of Arkansas. However, there was a span of time exceeding a millennium between the "early Church" and the Reformation during which both Scripture and Christian teaching were maintained. The so called Lowlands are better known as the Delta and the Grand Prairie. Since the time of the Reformation in the 16th century, Protestants (those who protest) have sought to restore a more primitive expression of the Church, whose goals and beliefs they believe to be more consonant with the early Church, based primarily on Scriptural texts. Northwest Arkansas is part of the Ozark Plateau including the Boston Mountains, to the south are the Ouachita Mountains and these regions are divided by the Arkansas River; the southern and eastern parts of Arkansas are called the Lowlands. The Catholic Church holds that there can be no such thing as the Church as an "invisible entity" ONLY.

Arkansas is a beautiful land of mountains and valleys, thick forests and fertile plains. However, the Roman Catholic Church, which normally refers to itself simply as the Catholic Church, and which published a "Catechism of the Catholic Church" in 1992, can be traced historically to be, basically, the continuation of the original Catholic or universal Church, from which other groups broke away at various times in history. Arkansas shares its southern border with Louisiana, its northern border with Missouri, its eastern border with Tennessee and Mississippi, and its western border with Texas and Oklahoma. Those who apply the term "Catholic Church" to all Christians indiscriminately find it objectionable that a term designating the whole Church (as an invisible entity) should be used to refer to one communion only. The eastern Arkansas border is the Mississippi River. Augustine wrote:. Arkansas is the only state in the US where diamonds are found naturally. A millennium before the Protestant Reformation, St.

The capital of Arkansas is Little Rock. Mark's Catholic Church" makes it clear that it is not an Episcopal or Lutheran church. See: List of Arkansas counties, List of cities in Arkansas, List of Arkansas townships.. For example, the name "St. See: List of Arkansas Governors. In countries that have been traditionally Protestant, Catholic will often be included in the official name of a particular parish church, school, hospice or other institution belonging to the Roman Catholic Church, in order to distinguish it from those of other denominations. Each office's term is four years long. Whilst the term is usually associated with the Roman Catholic Church, most Christians also lay claim to the term "catholic", including Eastern Orthodox and those Protestant churches possessing an episcopate (bishops).

In Arkansas, the lieutenant governor is elected separately from the governor and thus can be from a different political party. When divisions arose within the Catholic Church, the Church fathers and the historic creeds used it to distinguish the mainstream body of orthodox Christian believers from those adhering to sects or heretical groups. This arrangement is extremely rare in the modern South, were a majority of state and local offices are held by Republicans. Early Christians used the term to describe the whole undivided Church, the word's literal meaning is universal or whole. The State Legislature is overwhelmingly controlled by Democrats, and a majority of Statewide offices are held by Democrats. Some Anglicans do not consider themselves as part of a broader Catholic Church. Three seats are held by Democrats Marion Berry (District 1), Vic Snyder (District 2), Michael Avery Ross (District 4), and one by Republican John Boozman (District 3). Methodism and Presbyterianism, though Christians who believe themselves as owing their origins to the Apostles and the early Church, do not claim a descent from ancient church structures such as the episcopate.

The state has four congressional districts. Not all Christian denominations view themselves as part of a broad Catholic Church. Senators are Democrats Blanche L. Lincoln and Mark Pryor. Catholic (literally meaning: according to (kata-) the whole (holos) or more generally "universal") is a religious term with a number of meanings:. Arkansas' two U.S. The Nicene Creed is also used by the Roman Catholic Church. Tucker had been lieutenant governor under Bill Clinton and had become governor as a result of Clinton's election to the presidency. The various churches that regard themselves as part of a broad Catholic Church are distinguished by their use of the Nicene Creed which prays for the "one holy catholic and apostolic Church".

This led to a state "Constitutional crisis" when Tucker refused to give up the governor's office for a short period of time, because the Arkansas Constitution does not allow a convicted felon to be governor of the state. Among those members who regard themselves as Catholic but not Roman Catholic are the various Orthodox churches (Eastern Orthodox, Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox),Anglo-Catholics (also known as High Anglicans) and the Old Catholic churches. Huckabee, who had been elected lieutenant governor in a 1993 special election, ascended to the governor's office when Governor Jim Guy Tucker, a Democrat, was convicted of felony mail fraud as part of the Whitewater Scandal. It can be used to refer to those Christian churches who maintain a belief that their episcopate can be traced directly back to the Apostles, and that they are therefore part of a broad catholic (or universal) body of believers. The current governor of Arkansas is Mike Huckabee, a Republican. Most people think of Latin Rite when thinking of the Roman Catholic Church but there are other rites in union with Rome in addition to the Latin Rite. The traditional form "arkanSAW" was made official by the state legislature in 1881. It can refer to the members, beliefs and practices of the Roman Catholic Church in all of its more than twenty rites.

The state is the only one with an official pronunciation. This "universal" interpretation is often used to understand the phrase "One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church" in the Nicene Creed, the phrase "the catholic faith" in the Athanasian Creed, and the phrase "holy catholic church" in the Apostles Creed. Under the Military Reconstruction Act, Congress, by June 1868, had readmitted Arkansas, as well as North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama and Florida. The term can refer to the notion that all Christians are part of one Church, regardless of denominational divisions. Arkansas seceded from the Union on May 6, 1861 during the American Civil War. On June 15, 1836, Arkansas became the 25th state of the United States as a slave state.

Other Native American nations living in present-day Arkansas were Caddo and Osage Nation. The early French explorers of the state gave it its name, which is probably a phonetic spelling for the French word for "downriver" people, a reference to the Quapaw people and the river along which they settled. USS Arkansas was named in honor of this state. It was admitted in 1836.

postal abbreviation is AR, and its Associated Press abbreviation is Ark. Its U.S. The population according to the 2000 census was 2,673,400. Arkansas (pronounced [ˈɑrkənˌsɔ]) is a southern state in the southern United States.

Williams Baptist College. University of the Ozarks. University of Central Arkansas. University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.

University of Arkansas at Monticello. University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. University of Arkansas at Little Rock. University of Arkansas - Fort Smith.

University of Arkansas. University of Arkansas System