The Eastern Orthodox Church is a result of disagreements between the Eastern churches of Greek descent and the Western churches of Latin descent. ... The patriarch of Constantinople at the time was Michael Cerularius who refused Rome any authority over the Eastern church unwillingly caused mutual recriminations. ... This meant that besides Russia, the Orthodox Church was under the control of the Ottoman Turks, who placed the eastern churches under the administration of the patriarch of Constantinople. In the nineteenth century, the Ottoman empire diminished and the churches belonging to tha...

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Consequently, the Eastern Orthodox faith, one of the major Christian religious denominations, perceives the inclusion of icons within their divine liturgies to offer a window on heaven from which the archetype of the image is able to affect the earthly world. In the practice of its holy rituals, Orthodox theology attests that "the icon [is] the true key to understanding the Orthodox dogma"(Benz 19). ... In fact, to this day the archaic iconophile victory over the iconomache is customarily celebrated on the first Sunday of Lent; the Sunday of Orthodoxy.1 Unlike the many different artworks o...

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This marks a shift from an earlier stance, one that continued in the Eastern tradition, of beginning with God the Father as the source of all that is . ... They sought alternative sources of inspiration, in particular drawing deep from the wells of the Eastern Orthodox tradition. ... How do these differ from the Eastern position and those of current theological communication? ... This does not necessarily mean the exclusion of the economic trinity, the key feature of the eastern tradition, but certainly shifted its focus. ...

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The Russian Orthodox Religion was founded by Prince Vladimir of Kiev in 988. This religion is shared with several Balkan neighbors and is linked with the Russian Orthodox Church. ... Orthodox believers are monotheism, this means they believe in only one God. ... Orthodox believers worship the Holy Spirit as Lord who proceeds from the father. ... The Russian Orthodox Church is the largest Eastern Orthodox Church of the world. ...

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They created the Eastern Orthodox religion, they preserved almost all of the Greek artifacts we have currently, and Justinian's Corpus iuris civilis became the foundation of nearly all European law and legal practice. The Eastern Orthodox Church's members number over 250 million worldwide, many of which are in the United States. There have been many efforts to establish a single American Orthodox church, but no union has been created. In 1950, several Eastern Orthodox denominations joined with Protestant groups in the formation of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in...

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Coptic Orthodox Church The Church that I chose to do my assignment on, is the Coptic Orthodox Church. ... Church services throughout the world of Coptic Orthodox are still said in this traditional Coptic language which dates back to the creation of the church during Mark's era. Countries In 1992 there were over nine million Coptic Orthodox followers throughout Egypt (Not bad considering the population of Egypt at this time was fifty-seven million). ... Australia In Australia and the Pacific there are two Coptic Orthodox Dioceses. ... Feast Days and Holy Days Finding feast days...

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Many Byzantine works of art were produced to serve the Eastern Orthodox Church. ... In the Eastern Orthodox Church a patriarch, or highest Church official, was chosen by the emperor. The Eastern Orthodox Church retained the right for clergy to marry. ... The Eastern Orthodox Church's creed states that the Holy Spirit proceeds "From the Father." ... In 1054 a permanent split between the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church took place. ...

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When the Mongol army approached a clan on the eastern Kievan Rus border, the clan asked the princes for assistance. ... While ruling their territories from the Mongol's eastern capital, darugi had to implement a procedure so they could adequately tax a territory based on their population. ... Such apparent hopelessness opened the window for the Orthodox Church. ... Basically, the Mongols exempted the Orthodox Church from any and all taxation. ... Originally, pre-Mongolian invasion, the hub for the Orthodox Church was in Kiev. ...

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The Eastern civilizations of long ago are much different than the cultures of today. ... Religion plays an enormous role in the moral standards in the eastern civilizations whereas nowadays religion does not contribute quite as much. ... Confucianism was the orthodox religion of the country, which is family oriented. ... These Eastern Civilizations revolved greatly around sex. ...

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Since the permanent dividing of the Roman Empire in 395 ad, eastern rulers viewed themselves as the emperors of Rome. ... During the years of the Byzantine Empire, differences occurred between the eastern and western parts of the church. ... Well in 730 Emperor Leo 3rd banned the use of religious images used by eastern Christians. ... Therefore they split and had the Roman Catholic Church in the west, while the Orthodox Church was in the east. ... Slavs were people on the Black Sea that were converted by the Orthodox Christians....

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The Ukraine is a country in South Eastern Europe, which borders on the Black Sea. ... The religion in the Ukraine is mostly Ukrainian Orthodox. ... People who are Ukrainian Orthodox celebrate Christmas on January 7. ... The leader of the Orthodox church is not the Pope. The Orthodox church is led by the Bishops. ...

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Discuss in detail how this is so for German and Eastern European Jews. ... As I see it, those who founded Reform Judaism did it as a backlash to the "extremism" of Orthodox Judaism. ... It seems that Conservative Jews probably wanted something a little more than the liberal Reform, but less than Orthodox. ... Reform would not suffice for both groups because many saw Reform as a way to lenient practice and they needed something more closely to Orthodox. ...

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This article about Christianity, taken from The Illustrated World's Religions, begins with the bonding elements which holds the religion together and then takes a brief look at the differences between its three major offspring: Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Protestantism. ... Today, the Church is divided into three major branches: Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Protestantism. ... The Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church are very similar, but differ on a few matters. ... The Eastern Orthodox Church only views those that are mentioned in the scrip...

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This document served to increase the gap between Roman Catholics and both Protestants and Eastern Orthodox. ... Being that there was a Revolution taking place in Italy, and especially in Rome, and still the struggles against and threats of Protestantism and Eastern Orthodoxy, this document, heavily rooted in Roman Catholicism was something that must be accepted by all Catholics. ...

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After the war he also established communist regimes through Eastern Europe. ... He enrolled in the local orthodox parochial school in Gori in 1888 Joseph won a free scholarship in 1894 to the Orthodox theological seminary in Tiflis. ...

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Turkmenistan is a small country with 4,603,244 people. The population is growing at 1.85%. Currently, the life expectancy is 61 years. The literacy rate is 98%. The ethnicity of the Turkmen (the nationality) is made up of Turkmen 77%, Uzbek 9.2%, Russian 6.7%, Kazakh 2%, other 5.1%. 89% of Tur...

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McNeill, Herbert Feis, and Thomas Bailey blamed the start of the Cold War on the USSR's resolution to pursue a path of expanding the ideas of communism and a essentially wanting a socialist revolution come alive throughout Eastern Europe and eventually the world. They pointed to evidence of the Soviets objective to support and set up governments in Eastern European countries that reflected not only their communist views, but also the Soviet way of running those governments through a " return to doctrinal belligerence by Russian leaders. ... As the 1950's ended and the world entered t...

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The people that weren't killed migrated to the eastern and northern parts of the land. ... In contract Justinian's stance in the mosaic shows him holding a piece of bread which the Orthodox believed could be transformed in to the Body of Christ at Mass (HR. 305), and he is dressed in purple and gold which are considered regal colors. ... Procopius also has a disdain for how Justinian left the Eastern Roman empire, places of worship were destroyed the common hard working people "far quitted the land of their fathers, and fled the country"(Atwater). ... His truth would hav...

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Although the country has been a tourist destination for Europeans for several years, the majority of people in the United State still know very little about this Eastern European country. ... Albania is located on the Adriatic and Ionian Seas and is surrounded on its northern, eastern, and southern sides by Yugoslavia, Kosova, Maqedonia, and Greece. ... Seventy percent of the people are Muslim; twenty percent are Orthodox; and ten percent are Catholic. ... The political changes due to the fan of the communist governments in Eastern Europe and Russian have given Albania many challenges. ...

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The Byzantine Empire, the Greek eastern section of the old Roman Empire, survived the disintegration of the Latin West by approximately a thousand years. ... Instead, the Crusaders of Western Europe invaded and sacked the Christian city of Constantinople, capital of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire. ... The city itself remained prosperous as the Muslim capital in the Ottoman period, but the Christian Eastern Orthodoxy period ended at this time. ... The Hagias Sophia served as the Eastern Orthodox cathedral and seat of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. This church once served as the Or...

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It's a mixture of either eastern or western religions. ... In the Christians, 59% is Protestants, 27% is Catholic, and 1% is Eastern Orthodox. ... Catholics mainly came from eastern European countries, like Romania, Hungary, etc. People who believe in Eastern Orthodox mainly came from Russia. ...

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(Sacred Destinations, 2005) Orthodox Jews maintain that God gave the Torah, in its entirety, to Moses at Mount Sinai. ... (International Fellowship of Christians and Jews of Australia, 2014) Praying at the Wall is the primary activity for Orthodox Jews, particularly men and with the belief that the divine presence is still resident in some ways behind the stones, they often place written prayers and petitions in the cracks in the walls. ... (Sinclair, 2009) Often classified as "pure" pilgrims, Orthodox and Ultra-Orthodox Jews consider the Wall as a focal point to observe and partic...

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However, some converted Jews, especially those converted by non orthodox rabbis, face barriers, as do those who have converted from Judaism to another religion. ... Most of the immigrants were from Eastern Europe and specially the former Soviet Union. ... nic: Ashkenzis-Sephardi-Mizarhi-Russian-Ethiopian-Arab; political: left-right-center; religious: ultra orthodox-Orthodox-Conservative-Reform-Cabalist-secular; economic: rich-middle class-poor; philosophical: western-eastern and modern traditional; and, cutting across all the above categories, peace process approaches that are hawakish-moderat...

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