Search results for "Western Christianity" - New World Encyclopedia
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- concept is usually contrasted with Western Christianity that developed in ... The Eastern churches' differences from Western Christianity have ...12 KB (1,717 words) - 17:40, 12 February 2024
- akin to that found in the writing of Western theologians, especially ... Today, however, the Athanasian Creed is rarely used even in the Western ...10 KB (1,699 words) - 18:41, 19 August 2023
- Similar concepts are found in non-western traditions, such as Dao ... logos as the intermediate being. In Christianity, various doctrines about ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 21:00, 3 November 2022
- today. It is celebrated on November 1st in Western churches and the first Sunday ... So far as the Western Church generally is concerned, the November ...6 KB (918 words) - 13:36, 17 May 2021
- E.), and continues through the rise of Christianity and the fall of the Western ... to a millennium, until the rise of Christianity. It is considered by most ...12 KB (1,801 words) - 12:38, 5 May 2024
- as well as often being depicted in western art. The correct plural ... beings). Since the Renaissance, in Western Christianity cherubim have sometimes ...13 KB (1,935 words) - 18:30, 8 December 2023
- tones. Plato’s influence on medieval Christianity was mediated by Neoplatonism ... dualistic Manichaeism and convert to Christianity. Three or four years after ...11 KB (1,605 words) - 16:18, 11 November 2022
- who aspired after virtue to Christianity. He expressed the concept ... in which the appalling conditions of the Western Front led to apathy, or ...9 KB (1,363 words) - 05:58, 11 August 2023
- The mystery religions are possibly one of the origins of Western mystery ... After Christianity became the state religion of Rome, dissident Christian ...12 KB (1,732 words) - 21:30, 20 March 2024
- priority over Buddhist teachings and Christianity was discouraged. Under ... The expansion of Christianity brought an influx of Western priests ...11 KB (1,646 words) - 07:55, 13 January 2023
- "Nestorian" Christianity reached China by 635 C.E., and ... Marco Polo in the 1200s and other medieval Western writers indicate many Nestorian ...10 KB (1,525 words) - 16:23, 11 November 2022
- was very concerned by the situation of Christianity in the contemporary secular ... In this context, he produced works on Christianity’s claim to absolute truth ...9 KB (1,343 words) - 21:23, 20 March 2024
- , was affixed to the cross. Within Western Christianity, many crucifixes and ... with the various traditions of Christianity. A monogram is a motif ...11 KB (1,534 words) - 20:14, 29 March 2024
- in the history of Scottish and Celtic Christianity. It is renowned as the ... renowned for its ancient connection to Celtic Christianity. ...12 KB (1,880 words) - 11:11, 6 March 2024
- Eastern Orthodox view rather than the western, such as Roman Catholic ... Eastern Orthodox view rather than the western, that is Roman Catholic ...10 KB (1,588 words) - 12:08, 24 January 2023
- were made to endure. In Japan, where Christianity is the faith of but a ... Endo’s eternal theme was “the Japanese and Christianity.” When ...12 KB (1,864 words) - 18:33, 13 February 2024
- Christianity in Japan is a religious minority, which constitutes about ... Nearly all known traditional denominations of Christianity, including ...21 KB (2,903 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- The Apostles' Creed (Latin: Symbolum Apostolorum) is an early statement of Christian belief, that is widely accepted in western Christianity ...15 KB (2,172 words) - 15:52, 11 August 2023
- Rome at a crucial era in the history of Christianity, during the reign of Constantine ... During Sylvester's pontificate, Christianity became the favored ...12 KB (1,832 words) - 04:06, 26 November 2022
- to its increasing use, the rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire may ... In Western culture, the codex gradually replaced the scroll. From ...13 KB (1,930 words) - 22:22, 7 January 2024
- born in present Spain or Portugal in the Western Roman Empire, he was raised ... highly influential in the history of western Christianity. ...13 KB (2,066 words) - 18:08, 24 January 2024
- he later turned to Eastern Orthodox Christianity, and was the first Bulgarian ... His embrace of Christianity may have been his attempt to unite the ...16 KB (2,422 words) - 19:42, 20 November 2023
- account of the Coromandel coast by any Western European (1291) and an eloquent ... Commissioned by Pope Nicholas IV to preach Christianity in the Nearer ...11 KB (1,769 words) - 14:51, 15 December 2022
- the title of his lectures being Christianity and Civilization. ... strongly interested in a dialog between Christianity and secular life. He, ...12 KB (1,746 words) - 08:14, 31 December 2020
- Peter. He was renowned for bringing Christianity to Romania, Ukraine, and ... its patron saint. In both the Eastern and Western churches, the feast of Saint ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 20:47, 17 April 2023
- groups within the Catholic tradition of Christianity including Anglicans, Independent ... Even the earliest Western forms have no trace of the phrases "Mother ...12 KB (1,964 words) - 16:45, 21 January 2024
- 039;s France) and an eminent doctor of the Western Christian Church. A sometimes ... in the West. While he was still young, Christianity became the officially ...12 KB (1,797 words) - 13:14, 22 January 2024
- In Western Christianity, based on the Gregorian calendar, Easter falls ... ===Western Christianity=== In Western Christianity, Easter marks the ...23 KB (3,508 words) - 17:05, 10 October 2020
- as Byeonginyangyo (Korean: 병인양요, Western Disturbance of the byeong ... Qing court in the eighteenth century, Christianity began to enter Korea and ...15 KB (2,312 words) - 10:51, 11 April 2024
- though they are defined by the UN as western Asia. The term "Eastern ... cultural division of Europe between Western Christianity, on the one hand, ...17 KB (2,344 words) - 17:40, 12 February 2024
- and East Asia. "Nestorian" Christianity reached China by 635, ... theology which is held by most Western and Orthodox churches, the ...19 KB (2,813 words) - 16:23, 11 November 2022
- priest and missionary who introduced Christianity and Western ideas to the ... in Peking. In addition to establishing Christianity in China, he showed Chinese ...19 KB (2,924 words) - 16:54, 7 November 2022
- |venerated_in=Eastern Christianity and Western Christianity ... death. Maximus is venerated in both Western Christianity and Eastern Christianity ...20 KB (3,077 words) - 01:06, 9 November 2022
- have shaped the development of various Western philosophies and inspired ... will, although Plotinus never mentions Christianity in any of his works. Emanation ...12 KB (1,813 words) - 08:05, 24 November 2022
- Christianity stands as India's third largest religion, following ... followed by arrival of Christianity around 2000 years ago. ...24 KB (3,424 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- from 379-395. Reuniting the eastern and western portions of the empire, ... He is also known for making Christianity the official state religion ...21 KB (3,189 words) - 18:01, 30 April 2023
- Church. Historically, the early Christianity began as a sect within ... ecclesiology came to the fore, and Christianity came to be an essentially ...17 KB (2,554 words) - 18:54, 11 March 2024
- Catholics, Old Catholics, and a number of Western Christian groups. ... that the Monophysite branches of Christianity could be reconciled to ...13 KB (2,025 words) - 17:39, 25 January 2023
- the East, he was declared a Doctor of the Western Church in 1920. ... legalized and promoted the practice of Christianity, died. Seizing on this ...16 KB (2,465 words) - 19:05, 13 February 2024
- Whereas the principle of almsgiving in Christianity is not a legal ... "emerges unchallenged in early Christianity" (10), promotes almsgiving ...12 KB (1,965 words) - 08:19, 23 July 2023
- "Ad Scapulam," IV). Christianity thus made great advances ... major split between eastern and western Christianity had thus begun. ...14 KB (2,181 words) - 04:06, 26 November 2022
- Bartholomew is reputed to have brought Christianity to Armenia in the first ... The feast of St. Bartholomew is celebrated on August 24, in the western ...11 KB (1,622 words) - 19:13, 22 December 2022
- if love (agape) is best served for in Christianity 'Love is the ultimate ... of prefabricated moral rules or laws. Many western religions, such as Judaism ...14 KB (2,274 words) - 22:41, 29 January 2023
- prayer that developed in Eastern Orthodox Christianity. ... Though not well known or understood in other branches of Christianity ...15 KB (2,357 words) - 11:44, 22 January 2024
- church after the legalization of Christianity by Emperor Constantine ... doctrine in all major branches of Christianity. Arius taught that although ...25 KB (3,876 words) - 06:26, 12 August 2023
- with Matteo Ricci he translated several Western texts, including the first ... During this time he experimented with Western-style irrigation methods ...16 KB (2,411 words) - 14:32, 20 May 2023
- merely individual entities as in most modern Western philosophy; they are already connected in an organic unity. He replaced epistemological individualism ...12 KB (1,405 words) - 04:12, 15 November 2022
- Culture (1951), and Radical Monotheism and Western Culture (1960). He taught ... Churches and The Absoluteness of Christianity and the History of Religions ...24 KB (3,589 words) - 18:47, 29 July 2023
- The period extending from the beginning of Christianity through the ... all the conceivable questions about Christianity and cross-referencing ...14 KB (1,990 words) - 17:20, 25 January 2023
- Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity (New York: Harper & ... Key to Unlocking the Secrets of Early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls ...19 KB (2,894 words) - 18:00, 12 February 2024
