The one institution that Stalin's birthplace shared with the larger Russian Empire was the Orthodox Church which Georgia actually converted more than 500 years before Russia. ... This set the scene for much conflict between the strict Russian Orthodox priests who ran the school and the radical Georgian student body. ...
The revived Russian nationalism movement has recognized the Russian Orthodox Church as an important element in Russian culture. Russian Orthodox Church originated at the end of the 10th century, when missionaries from Byzantium converted the ruler of Kiev an Rus to Christianity. For the past 1,000 years the Orthodox Church has been the dominant faith of the Russian people. There are other Christian denominations as well, though none as large as the Orthodox. ...
The role of religion has played a major part in every aspect of our world's history. Every country, big or small, every person peasant or king, even every time historic or modern has been affected by religion in one way or another. Among all of the regions in the world the most popular is Christianity. And in early European history Christianity spread with an almost fire like pace across much of the continent. With only some resistance Christianity would grow to become the dominate ideology in Europe. ...
The rest was divided into two parts, the Eastern Empire and the Western, which included France, part of Germany, Italy and Britain. ... This Orthodox church was closely aligned to the emperor. ... By conquering much of the Eastern Empire, the Turks left Constantinople open to an attack. ... There was more than one reason why Urban was willing to assist the Eastern Empire. ...
Atheists deny that life will continue for any.6 Even many holding more orthodox views back away from an acceptance of an eternity of punishment.7 Berkhof speaks to this very issue of eternality when he states that the "eternity of the future punishment deserves more special consideration, however, because it is frequently denied. ...
PART 1: TRIP PREPARATION Welcome everyone! We are glad to finally reach our departure date, as it has seemed a lifetime; we are now ready to begin our journey. We hope that everyone is extremely excited, for we are about to embark on a journey that will open doorways to a world that most people w...
In Western, Eastern and Pagan religions, the concept of how to achieve a good or a bad existence after death have remained static for centuries. ... Saving grace comes from accepting Jesus Christ as their Savior; while the Greek Orthodox Church and Catholic Church instruct that the judgment pivots on both faith and works. ...
After learning about the Holocaust, I've asked myself many times how this could have happened. Why would anyone believe it's acceptable to massacre an entire people? This is my reasoning for writing my paper on how Christian theology influenced anti-Semitism. Much of the Holocaust appears to have it's beginning with Christian theology. I will begin my paper with the early writings of Christians and continue chronologically until after World War II. ...
1 "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."" It is one of the most known verses in the Christian Bible. For many, it is interpreted simply as revenge. If someone deliberately takes a person's life, then that person's life should be taken to create justice. But is this really how the verse was meant to be interpreted? ...
Around this time, the Orthodox Church began to believe that incorrupt bodies (i.e. those who died outside the realm of the church, -whether they were never baptized or they had been excommunicated-, those who were born with caul, teeth, or tail, those born on certain "demonic" days, and those who suffered an irregular death) came back as vampires. ...
In the 1st 50 years of the 20th Century, it came to pass that revolutionary turmoil in the name of social progress brought humanity to the gates of destruction. Out of these flames of war arose several huge Political systems that bestrode the globe. One of these, the Union of Soviet Socialist Rep...
