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..., with One sitting on the throne . . . andAnd the Ancient of Days took his seat; around the throne were twenty-four ... ...s (e.g., Ps 98:6; Jos. 6:3–8), a practice still familiar to laterJews in a liturgical context. The semantic linkage is implicit in the text ofDaniel, ... ...tative texts. From this point on,Revelation had only a tenuous grip on the eastern churches. When the Montanist contagion spread beyond Asia Minor, t... ... course of several centu-ries, Revelation gradually reasserted its hold on eastern Christianity. The tidebegan to turn in 367 CE, when Athanasius, the... ... Equally important, these cities wereinhabited by Greeks from all over the eastern Mediterranean, with conflictingregional allegiances, now much atten... ...d spread to“many peoples of every nation.”11 As late as the fifth century, orthodox bish-ops felt it necessary to warn their congregations to be wary ... ..., but rather a curated anthology, limited to those documents thoughtto be “orthodox” or “right-thinking.” The books that were excluded repre-sent a mu... ...timately dominate Christianity.56 Chapter TwoAmong proto-orthodox Christians, the central concept of “faith” meant muchmore than gen... ...y related questions. The first—“Who is like the Beast?”—draws on astandard liturgical format. In the ancient world, rhetorical questions of thistype c...

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...tury Yunanistan’da Bektaşiler 20. Yüzyılın Başından 21. Yüzyılın Başına Giorgos Mavrommatis 293 The Montenegrin-Turkish Relations before the Great Eastern Crisis As Reflected in Publications Crnogorac and Glas Crnogorca Crnogorac ve Glas Crnogorca Yayınlarında Yansıtıldığı Üzere Büyük Doğu Krizinden Önce Karadağ-Türk İlişkileri Ivan Tepavčević 323 Rites and Traditi...

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...inden Zihniyet TemsilineThe Montenegrin-Turkish Relations before the Great Eastern Crisis As Reflectedin Publications Crnogorac and Glas CrnogorcaCrno... ...y by the establishment of Ottoman administration, were the regionsof south-eastern Albania, which included the provinces of Korça, Përmet andKonica. T... ...wincluded in the Ottoman state.22 The invasion of northern and the north-eastern Albania by the Ottomans (asevidenced by land records of the year 14... ...of the Patriarchates of Peja in 1766 andOhrid in 1767, responsible for the Orthodox Albanian believers in north-eastern,middle and south-eastern Alban... ...tian) commu- nities; on the one hand, with the members of the Christian- orthodox clergy, and on the other hand with the members of the surrounding... ...uments maintaining some kind of life during the 1985-2015 period - having liturgical life for the Bektashi com- munities, or becoming some kind of “... ...mation’ of dervishes and babas into a ‘clergy’, byanalogy to the Christian Orthodox and Catholic clergy. The situation in Thrace was different, sinc... ...mber of buildings, the most promi-nent being the meydan/ main hall for the liturgical services and the ash evi/ cook-house. Outside and adjacent to th... ... death of baba Seit marks the end of the Bektashi community and thetypical liturgical life in the Durbali Sultan tekke. The place, however, still keep...

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...rganic unity The Kingdom of Names Implications Church and State in the secondary literature The reception of the message Early days Secondary Bahai literature Recent western Bahai literature Bahai literature in French Bahai literature in German Summary of the Bahai secondary literature Recent non-Bahai authors Academi...

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... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 Early days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...d’ in the case of these Protestant movements outside of theestablished and orthodox churches, and by self-appointed evangelists rather thanby the cler... ...NTRODUCTION 25 Similarly, the post-communist Roman Catholic countries of Eastern Europeare feeling the renewal of direct political influence from th... ...tianintegrism on the one hand, and the historic reluctance of Catholic and Orthodoxchurches to embrace a modernity which, to be fair, was less than wi... ...ue for human societies in general, for theantagonists in the clash between eastern and western cultures (or religious andmodernist visions of society)... ...ranslated in C.E.Bosworth, The Ghaznavids: Their Empire in Afghanistan and Eastern Iran, Edinburgh,1963.2 Lewis, Political Language 50.36 RELIGION AN... ...n extent that the regime has been described as a “dual[Muslim-Zoroastrian] orthodoxy.”1 Opposition to the regime took the forms ofsyncretic religious ... ...uch as writing prayers for particular purposes, choosing suitable hoursand days for particular actions, and divining by means of bibliomancy. Majlisi ... ...THE BAHAI WRITINGS 245 community, in which doctrinal, administrative and liturgical institutions are separated.- Governments are responsible for pr...

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...alkanlar The Turks and the Balkans Halil İnalcık 9 X - XIV. Yüzyıllarda Orta ve Doğu Avrupa’da İslâm Varlığı The Presence of Islam in Central and Eastern Europe in the X – XIVth Centuries Tasin Gemil 41 Balkanlarda İslam’ın ve Türklüğün Yayılmasında Bir Öncü: Sarı Saltuk A Precursour in the Extension of Islam and Turkishness into the Balkans: Sarı Saltuk Şükrü Halû...

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...X - XIV. Yüzyıllarda Orta ve Doğu Avrupa’da İslâm VarlığıThe Presence of Islam in Central and Eastern Europe in the X – XIVth CenturiesTasin Gemil ...... ...on by the Otto- mans are better understood with the policy that was pursued against the Orthodox church. With the exception of a poll tax the Ot... ...University of California Press, 1989, s. 131-176; Chirot (Ed.), “Origins of Backwardness in Eastern Europe”; H. İnalcık, Tanzimat ve Bulgar Mesele... ...ournal of Turkish Studies, X, Harvard, 1986.CHİROT, Daniel (Ed.), “Origins of Backwardness in Eastern Europe”.İNALCIK, H., “Gelibolu”, Encyclopedia of... ...te the richness offolklore motifs and the legends, being narrated among the peopleuntil these days and those about the convents in Macedonia. ... ...he Bogomil movement bet- ween the centuries. Bogomils after Jesus Christ as God and one Orthodox of eastern Arians against the ideology of the C... ...s took advantage of the disunity of Balkan people and of the religious emnities bet-ween Orthodox and Catholics. The cooperation between the Ot-t... ... Also their denomination wasnot supporting in terms of maintaining the Tatar language, as the liturgical lan-guage of Islam is Arabic. From the 18th c... ...to use the Polish language inreligious life, imams could not deliver sermons in Polish or use liturgical booksin that language in mosques30; on the ot...

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...f the remainder living inEurope.The largest Jewish religious movements are Orthodox Judaism 3(Hareidi Judaism and Mod... ... Judaism 3(Hareidi Judaism and Modern Orthodox Judaism), ConservativeJudaism and Reform Judaism. A major s... ... source of difference betweenthese groups is their approach to Jewish law. Orthodox Judaismmaintains that the Torah and Jewish law are divine in origi... ...any rabbis and scholarswho interpret these texts.Unlike other ancient Near Eastern gods, the Hebrew God is portrayedas unitary and solitary; consequen... ..." (masorti) is most common as a self-descriptionamong Israeli families of "eastern" origin (i.e., the Middle East, CentralAsia, and North Africa). Thi... ... whether prayers are recited 19in the traditional liturgical languages or the vernacular. In general,Orthodox and Conservativ... ...ts).Jewish holidaysMain article: Jewish holidayJewish holidays are special days in the Jewish calendar, whichcelebrate moments in Jewish history, as w... ...night to nightfallSaturday night, commemorates God's day of rest after six days ofcreation. It plays a pivotal role in Jewish practice and is governed... ...erent geographic areas — amongst others, the Ashkenazi Jews (ofcentral and Eastern Europe), the Sephardi Jews (of Spain, Portugal,and North Africa), t...

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...ple were consulted, including thedirectors of a Buddhist Center and of the Eastern Orthodox theologicalinstitute at two major universities, a Vedanta ... ... consulted, including thedirectors of a Buddhist Center and of the Eastern Orthodox theologicalinstitute at two major universities, a Vedanta Society ... ...ism, behavior and worship may vary among movements:Conservative, Hasidism, Orthodox, and Reform. Mahayana Buddhists rely onguidance of others and pray... ...self-reliance and good works;Vajrayana has secret rituals and metaphysics. Eastern Orthodox, Protestant, RomanCatholic, and other Christians differ of... ...iance and good works;Vajrayana has secret rituals and metaphysics. Eastern Orthodox, Protestant, RomanCatholic, and other Christians differ often on g... ...m of Platonic contemplative asceticism integrated withdevotional and often liturgical activities. In its multifarious historical occurrences,Christian... ...e union with God in the complete surrender of the bodyand the world.”Note: Eastern Orthodox mysticism seeks union with the Godhead through the three p... ...or divine union often comes in the third stage of life, after theirstudent days and lives as a householder.There are, of course, converts from all rel... ...ss?” Then you only lost a few moments ofyour life. We often waste hours or days in activities which got us nowhere. Haveyou ever thought about opportu...

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... the confiscation anddestruction of all works that challenged “orthodox” Christianteaching. Five years later Constantine commission... ...al author of the Acts of Thomas, was born atEdessa in Syria (now Urfa in south-eastern Turkey) in 154 CE. His parentswere wealthy Persian aristocrats ... ...tter tongue a widely spoken Aramaic dialect thatwas the Christian literary and liturgical language of Edessa up to theseventh century, when it was sup... ...s master Valentinus, the founder ofGnostic schools in Alexandria and Rome, and orthodox Christians havecursed him bitterly for it. Ephraim of Edessa, ... ...s, in The Gnostic Religion, argues that the Acts is a “Gnosticcomposition with orthodox reworkings” originally written in Syriac. ButMontague Rhodes J... ... a vague termwhich might stand for almost any region beyond the Empire’s south-eastern frontiers. ... To the fourth century fathers India is the place... ... turn was closely linked to the Church of Edessa.Eugene Cardinal Tisserant, in Eastern Christianity in India, gives the dateof this event as about 450... ...is church dignity is of noconsequence but it affords the archbishop some minor liturgical privileges.Diogo Fernandez’s “St. Thomas” relics still remai... ...sia, and spoke the Semitic Middle Aramaic dialect of Syriac. Syriac remainsthe liturgical language of Syrian Christians today.2. See “Christian Author...

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...g “Thouart my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased.” He then spent forty days alone in thewilderness, contemplating his future, after which his prea... ... kinds: the testimony of the apostles, and the empty tomb.In the couple of days after Jesus' crucifixion on a Friday his followers were, understandabl... ...ar-old rampage had run out of steam; all that was left was the rump of the Eastern Empire,centered on Byzantium (which he re-named Constantinople.) Ro... ...municating the other. After 1054 there was the Roman church and theEastern Orthodox church, though the Roman one continued to call itself “catholic” -... ...hem yet in this book. The namecomes from the feast of Pentecost, namely 50 days after Easter in the church calendar, and isthe day noted in Acts 2 whe... ...om among the Presbyterian and Reformed denominations.(G) A “ceremonial” or liturgical style means a church that in its worship services lays anemphasi... ...mons, Jehovah's Witnesses andChristian Scientists.The SDA Church is pretty orthodox on the main doctrines of Christianity. They practiceworship and re...

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...tenth year since hisGreat Departure, we dedicate this book to Gurudeva, an Eastern soul in aWestern body, a man who loved all that is modern and used ... ...tenth year since hisGreat Departure, we dedicate this book to Gurudeva, an Eastern soul in aWestern body, a man who loved all that is modern and used ... ...ec- a modern historian’s understanding of life in that region in those days. ond-story studio, Rajam worked at his easel up to ... ...Who turns from their search to guide hundreds of mil- orthodox, while others may not. The form of the teaching is not the ... ...Who turns from their search to guide hundreds of mil- orthodox, while others may not. The form of the teaching is not the ... ...is power and pres- ence sleeps within them. Their lives run on in the orthodox ways, but the depths of things are closed to them. They have ... ...gal, and its priests were banned from the country; on the eastern coast near Nuwara Eliya and was away most of the time. Page 132 urg... ...# “Doctrine of power.” The religion followed by those who wor- as a liturgical, literary and scholarly language, but no longer as a spoken vern... ...# “Doctrine of power.” The religion followed by those who wor- as a liturgical, literary and scholarly language, but no longer as a spoken vern...

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... celebration, often conductedduring significant liturgical seasons likeEaster. This development ... ...inations thatpractice infant baptism, such as the RomanCatholic, Orthodox, and some Protestantchurches, where baptism is administered toinfa... ...ations, each bringing itsown theological emphasis and liturgicalpractice. Despite these differences, the coresignificance of the ... ...traditions,reflecting different theological emphasesand liturgical practices. The term "Eucharist"is derived from t... ...iewedin some Christian traditions, particularlywithin Catholic, Orthodox, and certainProtestant churches, as means by which God... ...gnificant, particularly in relation toAncient Near Eastern legal traditions. Thelaws given to the Israelites were not createdi... ...s of the 123surrounding cultures. Ancient Near Easternsocieties, such as Babylon and Assyria, hadtheir own codified laws, ... ...ature of these laws. Thehistorical context of Ancient Near Easternlegal traditions and the central role of theLaw in Israelite society... ...While many Christiandenominations, such as Roman Catholics,Orthodox Christians, and various Protestantgroups, celebrate Sunday as thei...

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...yasından Saha Çalışması Motivasyonları Fotini Tsibiridou 317 The sociopolitical transformation in Greece and Turkey from the perspective of State, Orthodoxy and Islam Yunanistan ve Türkiye’de Devlet, Ortodoksluk ve İslâm Açısından Sosyopolitik Dönüşüm Christos Teazis 351 Medeniyet ve Aidiyet Merkezliği Temelinde Türk-Yunan İlişkilerinde Din The Religion in Turkish-...

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...olitical transformation in Greece and Turkey from the perspective ofState, Orthodoxy and IslamYunanistan ve Türkiye’de Devlet, Ortodoksluk ve İslâm Aç... ...ing been threatened a number of times especially by pan- Slavic and pan-Orthodox tendencies which imagine a pre-Ottoman Balkan. Today, at the ti... ...Yıkan Zihniyetin Yıkılışıa reaction to the pressure by two great churches (Orthodox and Catholic), with anote that the process among Albanians was als... ...t thebeginning of this year two contradictory things happened within a few days: onepositive that was the approval by the Greek parliament for a mosqu... ... modernity, triggering in people a search for old memo-ries turning to the Eastern part of their identity.19 Shortly, the appeal of TSO liesin their c... ...at Turkey aims secretly to gainback the sovereignty over Balkan and Middle Eastern lands; as he states: Turks have conquered us with their armies fo... ...etnologiju i folkloristiku), Vol. 48, No. 2, 2011, p. 63-82, Central and Eastern European Online Library, http://hrcak.srce.hr/ file/111474 (Acces... ...rified of Turks.A genocidal massacre of 8372 Bosniaks followed in the next days of July 1995. Because of this dormant victimized identity of Kosovo ... ...e its owner to greet the angels in a sitting position. Some of the Tatar liturgical books45 containing religious texts and prayers (socalled kitabs)...

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...re of Mary is a gentlepresence in the book. There is a form of icon in the Eastern Orthodoxchurches called Hodegetria (from the Greek, ‘female guide’)... ...ry is a gentlepresence in the book. There is a form of icon in the Eastern Orthodoxchurches called Hodegetria (from the Greek, ‘female guide’). In it ... ...I am indirectly telling myown story.Visions of beauty helped me in my dark days and remain with me onmy journey. One of the artists who inspired me wi... ...rue theologian is the one who prays. This is a saying that iscloser to the Orthodox Church than to the Latin Church. Thérèse spokeof finding a Friend ... ... he remembers that we are dust. As for mortals, their days are like grass; they flourish like a flower of the field;... ...way I could have foreseen any of this. Needless tosay there were many dark days in-between and in the face ofdepression, much confusion, but like St. ... ...olling the king’s love more than wine is zkr. This is the same wordused in liturgical prayer in which we recall the good deeds of God andthey become p...

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... all photos: thomas kelly in the giant cauldron above is kept burning for 10 days, consuming... ... the only “official” swami in the swami maintains an orthodox ... ...er forces. for the 10th World Saiva Conference, held by the World Saiva These days a few more... ...il legislators, the mayor, city Hindu renaissanCe Team B y v a m s e e J u l u r i Eastern equival... ...s also difficult be- Krittika Dipam occurs annually in the lunar month for ten days, which req... ...to our mission: produc- Language learning:. MeeraMasi’s Khushe Manäo series of nursery rhymes, both Eastern ... ... chanted from memory by priests and laymen daily Rig and Yajur and Sama Veda, sacrifice, the nobil- 2,000 verses, are mainly liturgical sele... ... meant he had no new teaching to rious earnestness.”incidentally, carried on a lengthy and influ- anism as part of their interest in Eastern or four...

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...ll thus beshown that the claims to antiquity of the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern OrthodoxChurch are fraudulent, especially when they depart f... ...beshown that the claims to antiquity of the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern OrthodoxChurch are fraudulent, especially when they depart from the ... ...iptural and historicaldefense of the Trinity against those who deny it in our own days. We will also see how theancient church stood against many evil... ...ndeed-james-white-vs-mark-bonocore-vintage/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=th53 De Fide. Orthodox. Lib I. c.1. tom 1. 13heretics. Ma... ...slator., John Chrysostom: Eight Sermons on the Book of Genesis [Boston: HolyCross Orthodox Press, 2004], Homily 7, p. 123-124112 John Chrysostom, Hom... ... the very idea of there being such a thing as Roman Catholic or CopticCatholic or Eastern Catholic or any other term wich may be attached to the word ... ...e badlymisrepresenting the church fathers.605 I could say many things against the Eastern OrthodoxChurch and the Roman Catholic Church for abusing chu... ...otal interpretation of the Christian ministry. In the course of a discussion of liturgical problems, Cyprian laid down the axiom: 'If Jesus Christ... ...ce of Good Friday and in 'celebration with a legitimate consecration.' In other liturgical discussions, too, Cyprian made it clear that 'sacrifice...

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... Gospel passage of each day of the liturgical year ... ...not contained in Mark. Christ’s eschatological discourse ascontained in Luke is read at the end of the liturgical year. Thiscontinuous reading is of... ...ding is often interrupted by the Gospels of solemnitiesand feast days, and of course during the special liturgical seasons. Forinstance, the Gospel o... ...romCatholic belief to Unitarianism is traced. Newman saw Blanco White'slife as a tragedy of the loss of orthodox Christian belief. At its heartwas the... ... Christ. Newman himselfwent on to be England's intellectual champion of Christianity asexpressed in its orthodox Creed, at the heart of which is the d... ... in Solomon'sColonnade.” Solomon's Colonnade was an open roofed walkwayrunning along the Temple’s eastern wall, in the Court of the Gentiles. It... ...human rights in the assumption that man is a creatureof God. Thomas Jefferson (who diverged widely from orthodoxChristianity, and who once wrote to hi... ... 1465writers such as Cicero, Seneca, the Cynics and the Stoics. I have readthat eastern Buddhism and Taoism also share (somewh... ...apacy during the tenth century are almost incredible,and more was to come from within and from without. EasternOrthodoxy cleaved from Western Catholic...

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...rate. He never rented dirty movies - hadn’t bought a Playboy orPenthouse since his college days. More to the point, there were scads of desirable woma... ...uby?” “Sinus infection. Won’t be back until the end of the week.” For the next three days, Dr. Gilford ate all his meals at the hospital cafeter... ... He handed her his business card. “You can catch me at the office anytime after noonmost days.” She thrust the card into her jeans pocket without... ...-pollinate their Cabalist theology with Sufi metaphysics, sotoo would Miriam Applebaum, an orthodox Jewish woman who followed the precepts ofHalakha, ... ... the ones he had seenthe other Jewish women wearing as they walked back and forth from the Orthodox synagogue onSaturday mornings. Mark sauntered to t... ... were a mile from homeas the car pulled up at a traffic light. “We’re Hasidic Jews. The Eastern European tradition goes back to two hundred years.”... ...t choir practice all week.” In response to her questioning look, Tom explained, “I sing liturgical music in a churchchoir. We’re getting ready for ... ...e?” She blurted the words with such force thathe took a full step backwards. “You’re an Orthodox Jew. I figured - ” “Well maybe you figured wron... ...ndmuscular with a sharp, realistic edge. In one of the stories, a Mongol chieftain from an easternprovince staged an uprising against the local ruler ...

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...79,when interest rates were up at 21%. My brother and I worked sixteenhour days. We never saw the wonderful Florida sunlight. Mom and Dadworked with u... ...eral inches of water flooded the restaurant forcing us to closefor several days for repairs. The bad news did not stop. Our 1... ...ough to be ableto counter this threat. I was clueless. Yet, throughout the days of mysales training and religious indoctrination, I became increasingl... .... John the Evangelist in CenterMoriches, Long Island. Oh, the open land of eastern Long Island. Eventoday, I long for those expansive green views with... ...ering the CALL to serve, I attended ameeting being held at the local Greek Orthodox Church. It was prettycrowded and I was more than happy to voluntee... ...the car, and get lost in prayer and meditation forseveral hours.I lived in Eastern Long Island and the basic route to get to New YorkCity is by the Lo... ... (men and women) were the social workers totoday where they perform mostly liturgical and sacramental functions. 77I didn’t k... ...opportunity to attend a retreat a men’s only retreat ata wonderful spot in eastern Long Island. Long Island, like the claw of acrab, has a top fork an...

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...e of God and invitesworshippers into the divine communion.Liturgical practices, prayers, and sacramentsoften explicitly acknowledge t... ...sm. It alsoaddresses the responses to these heresiesand the development of orthodox doctrine.In the early centuries of the church,... ...ated at thiscouncil, became a foundational statement ofChristian orthodoxy. It articulated the beliefin "one God, the Father Almighty," "one... ...early church period, severalheresies challenged the orthodoxunderstanding of the Trinity. Among themost significant were Ariani... ...rness to be tempted bythe devil, as described in Luke 4:1-13. Forforty days, Jesus fasted and enduredtemptations that tested His ... ...mitting His spirit intothe Father's hands.The resurrection of Jesus, three days afterHis crucifixion, is a cornerstone of Christianfaith. As Paul writ... ...r youngmen shall see visions. Even on the male andfemale servants in those days I will pour outmy Spirit.” This prophecy speaks ... ...ight. Thismodel is commonly found in RomanCatholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Anglicantraditions. Bishops are seen as successors to... ... and localcongregations. For example, many churchesobserve the liturgical calendar, celebratingsignificant events in the life of Christ an...

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...e of God and invitesworshippers into the divine communion.Liturgical practices, prayers, and sacramentsoften explicitly acknowledge t... ...sm. It alsoaddresses the responses to these heresiesand the development of orthodox doctrine.In the early centuries of the church,... ...ated at thiscouncil, became a foundational statement ofChristian orthodoxy. It articulated the beliefin "one God, the Father Almighty," "one... ...early church period, severalheresies challenged the orthodoxunderstanding of the Trinity. Among themost significant were Ariani... ...rness to be tempted bythe devil, as described in Luke 4:1-13. Forforty days, Jesus fasted and enduredtemptations that tested His ... ...mitting His spirit intothe Father's hands.The resurrection of Jesus, three days afterHis crucifixion, is a cornerstone of Christianfaith. As Paul writ... ...r youngmen shall see visions. Even on the male andfemale servants in those days I will pour outmy Spirit.” This prophecy speaks ... ...ight. Thismodel is commonly found in RomanCatholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Anglicantraditions. Bishops are seen as successors to... ... and localcongregations. For example, many churchesobserve the liturgical calendar, celebratingsignificant events in the life of Christ an...

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...ristic of the empire is strongly reflected in the policy applied bythe Ottomans regarding the Orthodox Church. The Ottomans applied the law recognized... ...ofailed. The reason for this was that the Ottomans applied a protective policy in terms ofthe Orthodox Church of the State. When the Ottomans were est... ...ue that the status of zimmi (dhimmi) is a fact of Islambut the view of the Ottomans regarding Orthodox Christianity and their relations withChristians... ...ewgovina” Nationalities Papers 28, no. 1 (2000),s. 165-80.GHODSEE, Kristen, Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe (Princeton, 2009).GÖKBİLGİN, Tayyip, Rume... ...lah and regards this as a part of divine wisdom and apart of the test for humanity. Since the days of Prophet MuhammadIslamic societies have set certa... ...rs and Avars arrivedfrom the region of Volga River, as well as in all the vast space of north-eastern1 P. M. Barford, The Early Slavs:Culture and Soc... ...e of north-eastern1 P. M. Barford, The Early Slavs:Culture and Society in the Early Medieval Eastern Europe, London,, British Museum press, 2001, p... ...l membersof the three religions were respectful of each others feasts, celebra-tions and holy days and from time to time celebrated them together.Ther... ... spite of the place of theresidence, however, believers are free to visit Holy Mass and other liturgical acts,seminaries and community events in any R...

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...nly improved relations with the Soviet Union, but empowered dissidents throughout Eastern Europe. There’s no simple formula here. But ... ...essons weren’t lost on the architects of the US Constitution. During the earliest days of the American Revolution, spir- ited discussi... ...tangled in each other’s domain. Because when they do, beware. Since those early days of American history, much has changed. But when it ... ...ased view and poten- tially confound the goal of this volume. During our earliest days, Jefferson and Adams recognized that the succes... ... different faiths, or persons of no faith, con- stitutes proselytizing is absurd. Orthodox Christian theology teaches that Jesus is Go... ...e individual’s right to believe against government coercion or government-supported orthodoxy, even when the individ- ual’s beliefs are st... ...tices. There continue to be theological differences separating Roman Catholics from Eastern Orthodox as well. Likewise, there are significant di... ...here continue to be theological differences separating Roman Catholics from Eastern Orthodox as well. Likewise, there are significant differ- ... ...r- ences in theological beliefs and practices within Protestantism, such as between liturgical denomi- nations (e.g., Episcopalians, Luthe...