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Roman Catholics Catholic Church
1,537 wordsWhen Christianity began, it was one religion with one denomination. Now it has grown into one of the main world religions with many different denominations. Over the years, as one church split from another and opposition became common, the beliefs began to change, though the core has still remained. Fifteen of the most common Christian denominations follow, with their similarities and differences exposed. In all Christian churches certain rituals are present. However, what they are called and ho...
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Roman Catholic Church Russian Orthodox Church
3,663 wordsTHE SYNODAL THEOLOGICAL COMMISSION STUDIES ISSUES RELATED TO THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE ORTHODOX AND ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHES The commentary on the documents of the Orthodox-Catholic dialogue On April 18, 1997 the Synodal Theological Commission of the Russian Orthodox Church under the chairmanship of Metropolitan Philaret of Minsk and Sluts had a meeting at the Department for External Church Relations to study the document of the VII Plenary session of the Joint International Commission for the The...
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East And West Greek Orthodox
524 wordsThe Greek Orthodox Church The Greek Orthodox Church is one of the three major branches of Christianity, which stands in todays society as one of the communities created by the apostles of Jesus in the region of the eastern Mediterranean, and which spread by missionary activity throughout Eastern Europe (Meyendorff 5). The word orthodox comes from Greek, meaning right-believing. currently the orthodox religion has more than 174 million followers throughout the world. The Greek Orthodox church is ...
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Neighbor Luther
2,948 wordsLutheran Orthodoxy and Pietism? So What? In many contemporary Lutheran circles, the labels? Orthodoxy? and? Pietism? are distinctly uncomplimentary. In popular usage, Orthodoxy means a fossilized over-intellectualized theological system that neglected the life of the people and distorted the heritage of the Reformation, synonymous with? ivory-tower unregenerate reactionary intellectual. ? One congregation, for example, had to listen to a sermon on Matthew 10: 30 (? And even the hairs of your hea...
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Holy Spirit Orthodox Church
1,068 wordsIntroduction In 1054 an important event happened which divide the Christianity and led the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church in collision for matters that had to do with doctrines and disciplinary such as: + The worship of the icons that the Rome defended and struggled the iconoclasts. + The Papal Primacy in which the Eastern Orthodox Church was opposite. + The problem of the clerical celibacy. + The Filioque. + The use of the unleavened bread in the Eucharist from the Cathol...
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