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| | Coptic Christianity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Coptic Church regarded that the ousting of Pope Dioscorus of Alexandria in the council of Chalcedon was in part due to the rivalry between the Bishops of Alexandria and Rome. | | | Coptic Orthodox Christianity is the indigenous form of Christianity that, according to tradition, the apostle Mark established in Egypt in the middle of the 1st century AD (approximately 42). | | | The Coptic Church believes that Christ is perfect in His divinity, and He is perfect in His humanity, but His divinity and His humanity were united in one nature called "the nature of the incarnate word", which was reiterated by Saint Saint Cyril of Alexandria. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_Christianity
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| | Indeed the Coptic liturgy is divided into three parts, namely, the liturgy of the catechumens, the liturgy of the faithful, and the Anaphora. | | | The Coptic Church has a resident bishop in Nairobi. | | | It was on this foundation that the next universal movement could formulate Christian doctrines and dogmas through the official gatherings of the bishops of Christendom in the General Councils of the Church. |
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http://www.coptic.net/articles/CoptsAndChristendom.txt
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| | Coptic Church |
| | The Coptic church is active in talks with other smaller churches, and has also found a basis for solving theological differences with the Eastern Orthodox church, recognizing that political and verbal distinctions throughout history sometimes formed the basis for disunity. | | | The Coptic church is the by far largest Christian group in both Egypt as well as in North Africa/Middle East. | | | The term, Coptic Church, is sometimes used for the Ethiopian church, too, but this bodym now the Ethiopian Orthodox, declared itself independent from its Egyptian heritage in 1959, and does not accept the term 'Coptic' for itself. |
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http://i-cias.com/e.o/coptic_c.htm
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| | In Egyptian Christianity Saint Demetrius, born in 126, was bishop of Alexandria from 189 to 232. | | | Athanasius became bishop of Alexandria in 328 and the passionate champion of Nicene Creed and of the doctrine affirming that Christ was fully one with God. | | | The new Christian faith is said to have been preached at Alexandria by |
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http://kotisivu.mtv3.fi/capa2
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| | Coptic |
| | During that time, the Coptic Church (the official name of the church is The Christian Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt) has had a significant impact on the development of Christianity. | | | The Coptic Church is headed by a Pope who, unlike his counterpart in Rome, does not claim papal infallibility. | | | There is very little conflict between basic Coptic teachings and those of other early Christian churches and, indeed, the Coptic Church was quite vigilant in campaigning against Gnosticism. |
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http://www.worldspirituality.org/coptic-christianity.html
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| | Coptic Egypt: background |
| | Coptic) before the advent of Christianity; Coptic later became the principal script and language of Christian Egypt below the official Greek (then Arabic) level, and it remains alive today in the Coptic Church, for liturgical use. | | | This accusation was rejected by Dioscorus, and the Coptic Church does not consider itself monophysite in the manner portrayed at Chalcedon: the end of the Coptic liturgy declares that the two natures "human" and "divine" are united in one "without mingling, without confusion, without alteration". | | | In AD 451 at the council of Chalcedon the teaching of the archbishop Dioscorus was condemned as monophysite, and so heretical; according to the council, archbishop Dioscorus held the views of Eutyches, whose monophysite or "one nature" teaching maintained that Christ had a single nature, and was not simultaneously human and divine. |
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http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/coptic/coptic.html
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| | The Coptic Bible is incredibly important because of its relationship to the early Church and the evolution of the Greek texts in such close proximity to the time of Christ. | | | Coptic is the Egyptian language written in Greek letters – with some additional letters added to represent sounds not found in Greek. | | | Crum's Coptic Dictionary, combined with the text of the Coptic Bible, a forthcoming addition to Logos, will be a key resource in investigating the text of the New Testament. |
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http://www.logos.com/products/prepub/details/2529
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| | Egyptian Christianity: A History of the Christian Church in Egypt |
| | This resulted in the separation of the Coptic Church from the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches, a separation that has persisted to the present, though discussions which began in 1966 show signs of healing the breach between the Coptic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Churches. | | | In the 8th century marks were burned on the hands of Christians, in order to identify and control them, in the 9th century Christian were forced to wear five pound crosses around their necks, as a means of identification. | | | Alexandria, one of the three dominant churches in the Empire, along with Rome itself and Antioch, became the center of creative Christian theology, turning out a succession of able theologians and defenders of the Christian faith. |
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http://www.bethel.edu/~letnie/AfricanChristianity/EgyptHomepage.html
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| | Egypt: The Hanging Church El Muallaqa, Dedicated to the Virgin Mary |
| | It is the most famous Coptic Christian church in Cairo, as well as the first built in Basilcan style (possibly). | | | Also, Coptic synods were held in the church to determine which day Easter would fall or to judge priests or bishops suspected of heretical teachings. | | | With the reign of the patriarchate of Christodoulus (1047-77), infighting between the Church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus and the El Muallaqa Church broke out due to the wishes of that patriarch's desire to be consecrated in the Hanging Church, a ceremony that traditionally took place at Saints Sergius and Bacchus. |
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http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/hangingchurch.htm
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| | Pilot Guides.com: Coptic Art and Tombs in Egypt |
| | These followers were called Copts, and actually split from the branch of the Byzantine Orthodox church after a dispute erupted over the divinity of Christ; Copts refused to accept Christ as anything but divine and refused to believe, as the Byzantine Church believed, that Christ was both human and divine. | | | Long before it was an Islamic country, Egypt's primary religious belief system was a form of Christianity. | | | Megan McCormick explores tombs with a Coptic Priest |
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http://www.pilotguides.com/destination_guide/middle_east_and_north_africa/egypt/coptic_tombs.php
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| | Both Hellenistic Egypt and the rest of the Hellenistic Christian East knew of the dual observance of Sabbath and Sunday in the 4th century, and had recorded its interpreta- tion of what was meant by "Sabbath observance," in terms of "rest" and idleness. | | | Furthermore, Bishai's reference to "the fact that the Coptic bishop who represented the Copts at Nicea is known to have agreed to hold the Easter festival ["Pascha"?] on Sunday instead of the Jewish passover" (p. | | | The Eastern Christian sources with which we are dealing reflect a compromise position in which both the Passover fast (including Passover Sabbath) and the Easter festal celebration (on Sunday) were observed in commemoration of the Lord's death and resurrec- tion respectively (e.g. |
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http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/gopher/other/journals/kraftpub/Christianity/sabbath
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| | Eastern Orthodoxy |
| | Hymns from the Liturgical Tradition of the Orthodox Christian Church | | | "The Orthodox Christian Education Commission is an agency of the Standing Conference of Canonical Orthodox Bishops in America. | | | An excellent resource for electronic texts: the Bible, commentaries, hymns, sermons, Early Church Fathers (38 vols.), and many texts from the history of Christianity. |
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http://www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu/Internet/orthodox.htm
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| | Christianity in the Land of the Pharaohs |
| | *What caused the Coptic church to break away from the rest of Christianity in the fifth century AD? | | | *How did Christianity succeed, when Egypt already enjoyed a distinctive and successful religious tradition that had lasted for more than 3000 years? | | | *How has Egyptian Christianity influenced the wider church? |
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http://www.aucpress.com/cgi-aucpress/auc99/pager.cgi?catno=730_2
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| | Two Thousand Years of Coptic Christianity - |
| | The Coptic Orthodox Church has flourished ever since, with millions of adherents both in Egypt and in Coptic communities around the world. | | | Since its split from the Byzantine Church in 451, the Coptic Church has proudly maintained its early traditions, and influence from outside has been minimal: the liturgy is still sung to unique rhythms in Coptic, a late stage of the same ancient Egyptian language that is inscribed in hieroglyphs on temple walls and papyri. | | | Christianity arrived early in Egypt, brought–according to tradition–by Saint Mark the Evangelist, who became the first patriarch of Alexandria. |
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http://aucpress.com/cgi-aucpress/auc02/pager.cgi?catno=757_4
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| | MENA: Resources on Orthodox Christianity |
| | COPT-NET is an E-Journal published quarterly that discusses news, activities and services of the Coptic Orthodox Church. | | | Topics include the history of the Church and its leaders, Coptic traditions, art, architecture, and archaeology. | | | Particular attention is paid to the rise of Christianity in Russia and her neighbors.The body of the message should be |
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http://www.cc.utah.edu/~jwr9311/MENA/Religion/Orthodox.html
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| | Al-Ahram Weekly Travel Coptic Christianity recreated |
| | The first displays models of monasteries and Coptic churches throughout Egypt, including a replica of the first school of theology, which was founded in Alexandria in 180 AD. | | | "Egypt was a Christian country for 600 years," said Ragab. | | | A reddish, handmade cloth with the face of virgin Mary, an imitation of the original in the Coptic museum, adorns the dark wooden wall. |
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http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2000/498/tr1.htm
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| | Coptic Christianity |
| | Coptic Christianity developed a markedly monophysite theology after the Council of Chalcedon (451). | | | Early Egyptian Christianity used the ancient Egyptian language, Coptic, rather than Greek. | | | It survived the Islamic conquest in part because it was so strongly embedded in rural rather than urban life and because it was highly indigenized. |
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http://demo.lutherproductions.com/historytutor/basic/early/stories/coptic.htm
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