History of the Orthodox Church

Many opinions are being said, about if we should study Byzantium time period, or not. The Byzantine Empire is a very overlooked period in our world history. They influenced many things in our lives today. Byzantium was at the center of the known world and lasted for about one thousand years. It was great location for trade and had lots of protection surrounding the peninsula in which the people lived. Many things happened and started during this time period, like, Justinian’s Code, amazing…

moving forward. When a large part of someone’s life is suddely removed, like a child or religious beliefs, it has an even larger impact, just like the one communism had on the Russian Orthodox Church. By attempting to completly erase religious beliefs just because of opposing views, communists changed Russian history forever. Throughout time all religions have faced disbelievers, but communist put up one of the biggest fights againts Russian orthodoxy and anything involving it. People were made…

Satanism Satanism as a religious topic refers to the collaboration of philosophical and ideological beliefs on the character of Satan. Satanism officially lingered in the public offing in 1966, with the emergence of Church of Satanism. However, prior to the Church of Satanism, history shows that Satanism existed earlier. Earlier, according to historical facts, a group known as Sphite Cultus Satanas established itself in the State of Ohio in 1948. Sloane Arthur Herbert founded the Sphite Cultus…

CE Throughout the recorded history of the Mediterranean, historians have observed multiple changes and continuities in culture due to several political transformations between 200 and 1000 CE. Some of the political transformations include the split between Western Rome and Eastern Rome c. 280 CE, Constantine’s adoption of Christianity in 312 CE, the fall of Western Roman in 476 CE, and the schism of the Christian Church into Western Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox in 1054 CE. Cultural…

SOR Essay Capital punishment Introduction Capital punishment is a serious society issue that has lasted over the long course of history. The debate on this controversial topic has involved many religions providing different perspectives on the issue. This essay will specifically analyse two of the largest religions in the current society, Christianity, and Buddhism. And their perspective on the topic of capital punishment. Both Buddhism and Christianity in the modern era suggests that…

Abanto 1 Pons Abanto Professor Clemens Reinke PHR-121 21 April 2017 Research Paper Distinction between Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant Christianity With over 2 billion followers around the globe, Christianity is the world’s largest religion and encompasses nearly a third of the earth’s total population. However, Christianity is further broken down into numerous denominations that maintain their own distinct ways of practicing their Christian faith. The main branches of Christianity…

Mongols destroyed a numerous amount of monasteries and churches and killed many Christian clergies and followers in Russia. The Mongols concluded they were sent from God and the Russians believed they were too, as punishment for their sins. The Orthodox Church became a way for people to seek comfort and support during this dark time. Also during this time, the economic and political unity was deteriorating. “This loss of political unity allowed the…

In Roman history, there were many leaders treated Christian very bad, they regarded Christian as evil. Because they thought Christian is a threat to their traditional religion and their dominant position. So they started persecute, to frame and even killing Christian. On the basis of Tacitus which is a Rome historian’s record and narrate. Nero deliberately incendiary in Rome city and fabricate it against Christians. Afterwards Galelious did same thing to Christian twice in fifteen days. It…

world as we know it”. Arius resolved this problem by preaching Jesus Christ, as the son of God, to be a separate entity from God, and thus not of the same divine material as God. This deviated from orthodox thought as it denied the divinity of Christ and was thus considered to be a denial of orthodox Christianity. The…

period between 1300-1600 C.E., Eastern Europe, known as Russia, and Western Europe, known as England, became vastly different than each other in several ways. To begin, Russian population fell under the dome of the Eastern Orthodox religion, while the English…