Orthodox Church

leadership of The Patriarchate of Constantinople, the Byzantines stood still as the cornerstone of the Orthodox world. While many churches were built during the empire’s 1120-year life, but most of them vanished over time either getting destroyed or being converted. However, one of them, an old tiny church overshadowed by the mighty Hagia Sophia, stayed where it was despite the powers against it. Church of the Saint Mary of the Mongols was found as a nunnery in the beginning in the 7th century…

which formed unique groups within society. The development of mysticism influenced the creation of women’s communities, especially the Beguines. In Bohemia, Jan Hus sparked the Czech Reformation against the papacy which brought about the Moravian Church. Mysticism led to the Beguine community of unmarried, lay women in the Low Countries. The Beguine movement began in the early 12th century and grew rapidly to the point where houses (Beguinages) within a town or city were common. Beguines…

began. The Church started to gain much more power than the governing bodies. So much that at various times, an intense struggle for religious authority and political power played out. Even as that struggle continued the Church still affected the people at that time and spread throughout the world with great speed. Christianity had effects on the government during the middle ages with religious leaders vs. Kings and Queens. The Church had their own laws and its own courts of justice. The Church…

had a great significant within the societies and each left a significant amount of legacy behind within the Middle Ages. In the Byzantine Empire one of the long lasting legacy was the split amongst the church, which divided into what is now the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. Also, within the Byzantine Empire, architecture was very important within the society, which becomes a prominent impact in the society which carried out to leaving a legacy for other empires,…

coexist with the Father and therefore was not divine (p.184). The Arian controversy also held the question of the relationship Christ had with humans and his ability to save. The conflict was at the very heart of the church as supporters defended both Alexander and Arius and the church was split over who was teaching falsely. Constantine subsequently…

notable similarities amongst the Catholic Church and the Lutheran Church encompassing aspects of historical events and figures, key beliefs and values, practices and authority. Significant historical events and figures in the Catholic Church include the Great Schism (splitting of Western, Eastern and Orthodox Church) and the Great Western Schism (saw the Catholic Church break off into Protestant Churches including the Lutherans, Calvinists and the Church of England). The Renaissance and the…

Theodore Frelinghuysen is a key figure in the history of the Reformed Church in America. Often seen as a dissenter from the Netherlands church, Frelinghuysen is a staunch support of pietistic Calvinism and expected his church to be the same. What Frelinghuysen’s aggressive theology eventually led to was the Conferentie and Coetus schism. The reason for this schism is set on Frelinghuysen’s upbringing in the Netherlands church and his disdain for those who lacked sincerity while worshipping God…

flourish due to the access of trading routes, whereas Western Europe undergoed chaos and more invasions, caused by the lack of political unity. The Schism of 1054 caused the churches to split, because of different beliefs of who should be the head of the church. But despite this split, Christianity remained prominent throughout…

With the birth of the Renaissance in Italy during the 14th century, emerged new and radical ideas which contradicted the orthodox teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. Renaissance writers and artists, such as Machiavelli, da Vinci, and Raphael, blatantly challenged these teachings and values through the use of increasingly influential philosophies such as secularism, individualism, and humanism in their work. Secularism, the idea that religion should not be integrated with matters of the…

The Reformation was a religious revolution that was held in Western church in the 16th century. The most important leaders were Martin Luther and John Calvin. The reformation had political, economic and social effects, thus the reformation was the underlying foundation for the founding of Protestantism. Protestantism is one of the three major branches of christianity. Reformation was introduced mainly to give talks about issues that negatively affected Catholicism, along with others supporting…