History of the Orthodox Church

objected to the fact that the Church controlled what people were able to study, of what people were able to publish, and limited the sorts of things people could even chat to each other. The idea of humanism influenced the way people thought and looked at things in life, which causes people to question their own lives and the authority of the church. Bubonic plague a disease spread by fleas is considered one of the worst pandemics in human history. Huge speculation of the church authority…

in the History of Christianity is an over-arching study of Christianity beginning with the fall of Jerusalem in AD 70. It is organized around fourteen points considered by author Mark Noll to be the most critical to the formation of Christianity as we know it. This book serves those who are researching the topic in an academic manner or who wish to have a survey of Christian history in totality. This book is not for some who have a casual interest in the growth and change that the church has…

their respective roles in the areas of Western Europe, Africa, Middle East and some parts of South and Southeast Asia. As he started with the pre-war military tension between the major powers of Europe, Jenkins moved further onto the point that the church and state did not a have separable relationship even after the famous Thirty Years’ War back in the 17th century. During the course of the war, Christianity greatly declined while part of the institution survived in the old Christian world. The…

Later Christian traditions describe Philip as the apostle who preached in Greece, Syria, and Phrygia. In the Roman Catholic Church, the feast day of Philip, along with that of James the Just, was traditionally observed on 1 May, the anniversary of the dedication of the church dedicated to them in Rome (now called the Church of the Twelve Apostles). The Eastern Orthodox Church celebrates Philip's feast day on 14 November. One of the Gnostic codices discovered in the Nag Hammadi library in 1945…

prejudice to political decisions, in a place where there is no room for biases. However, to answer this question properly, one first has to consider the views of the Founding Fathers themselves on this issue. Were they for or against the separation of church and state? Were they overwhelmingly Deist, Agnostic, Christian, or Atheist? And…

Crusades which include the Children’s Crusade, the motivation of the Crusaders to take the cross to reclaim Jerusalem from the Muslims, and the pope called a Crusade against the Jews (Madden, 2002). The effect of the Crusades are the split of the Church into East and West, that exist today. The Crusades was a war between Christians and Muslims to reclaim the Holy Land. The relationship between the religious group has not fully recovered in the 21st century. The Holy Land which is present-day…

The Church of England states that God creates children and once a fetus is formed it is considered alive. Some believe that abortion is acceptable in such cases where a baby is suffering from a serious disability and would not make it in the world. Protestants…

Abstract A worldview is a theory (or philosophy) of life or conception of the world. A world view is a mental motto of one’s actuality of living. Although our conception of life is sometimes influenced by the people who we watch on television, in our households, or who we associate ourselves with, we all have a sole outlook on the reason we are here. One will ask themselves at some point in their lifetime : why am I here? What is my purpose in life ? What happens after death? Is there a God? At…

school as long as they and their parents lived a “civilized life”, meaning no native traditions were followed, no native language was spoken, and no native rituals were attended. The Russian Orthodox Church created the first alphabet for the Tlingit language and developed a Tlingit literacy program. The Orthodox Church supported bilingual education in its schools, but the Americans discouraged it, and sought to suppress the use of their language. The need to maintain indigenous languages is…

Council on the Representation of Marian Doctrine in the Fifth-Century Church According to Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia (2014), an ecumenical council was “assembly convened to deliberate and decide on ecclesiastical doctrine and on other matters affecting the interests of the Christian church.” In the Early church, ecumenical councils were called to discuss and expound upon the doctrine being formed within the church. They centered around heresy and sought to promote sound doctrine.…