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| | Western Christianity |
 | | These churches, which came to be known as Protestant, sought to return to the early style of Christianity practiced by the churches of the New Testament and to rid themselves of the non-biblical accretions which they believed to have sullied the church. | | | In the Nicene-Constantinopolitan creed, which is accepted by almost all Christian traditions as a valid formulation of the Christian faith, the Holy Spirit is described as one "who proceeds from the Father, who together with the Father and Son is worshipped and glorified". | | | The effect of the excommunication was to establish the independence of the Greek church from the Latin church and to permanently divide Christian Europe. |
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| | Christian denomination - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Since Christianity is the largest religion in the world (making approximately one-third of the population), it is necessary to understand the various faith traditions in terms of commonalities and differences between tradition, theology, church government, doctrine, language, and so on. | | | Christianity of Kerala Indian Christianity and The Malankara Church | | | The multiplicity of communities of faith may be partly accounted for by the definition of Christianity according to specific points of indispensable doctrine, the denial of which sets the heretic, or apostate, outside of the "Church", where perhaps he is accepted by another "Church" holding doctrines compatible with his own. |
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| | Mr. Dowling's Judaism Page |
| | Christians believe that Jesus Christ was both a man and the son of God. | | | Christians worship in churches led by ministers and priests. | | | Christian holy days include Christmas (the birth of Jesus), Easter (when Christians believe Jesus rose from the dead and ascended to heaven), and Lent, a forty-day holy period of penitence and self-denial. |
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| | Mr. Dowling's Western Religions Page |
| | The faiths are often called western religions to distinguish them from the eastern religions practiced primarily in Asia. | | | While western religions are centered on the belief in one God, many believers of eastern religions seek to find enlightenment by looking within themselves. | | | Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are monotheistic faiths practiced by about half of the world’s population. |
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http://www.mrdowling.com/605westr.html
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| | A House of Cards by Ryan McMaken |
| | The Christians in the South who live daily with the possibility of real violence and religious strife are not willing to sit back and decide that all religions are pretty much made the same. | | | Another distinguishing characteristic of the Christianity of the South is its lack of regard for the virtues of religious pluralism. | | | The evangelical and Pentecostal churches of the South will be bastions of Christian conservatism as well, although, it appears that due to a lack of an international hierarchy, their influence is not as immediate on the West as with the Anglicans and Catholics. |
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| | News from Agape Press |
| | Christianity in the West appears to be in the process of retreating everywhere under the advancing assault of secularism and New Age spirituality. | | | After all, Christians in Europe, North America and Oceania already have their hands full with spiritual problems at home: they are stinging from cultural setbacks over the last 50 years on issues ranging from abortion to homosexuality, and fighting to keep secularism from capturing even larger swaths of the populace. | | | If Christianity were mainly a religion of the peoples of Europe and North America, as secularists have always thought, then Jenkins says it made sense that "the growing secularization of the West [could] only mean that Christianity is in its dying days." |
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| | Eastern Catholic |
| | Eastern Catholic Churches are groups of Christians whose traditions are based on the style of Constantinople but are in union with the church of Rome. | | | The Eastern Christians are most often called "Greek" because of the Greek empires in the eastern Mediterranean, but a more accurate term would be Byzantine Christians since their style of worship was patterned after the church at Byzantium. | | | Some of these churches are self-governing, some of these churches are members of larger bodies, some consider themselves to be a part of the Catholic Church and others consider themselves to be of the Orthodox faith. |
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| | I know Western Catholicism does affirm the divinity of Christ but this tendency is there among Roman Catholics, which is frightening. | | | Westerns, in spite of being caught up at times in the humanity of Christ, never forget His divinity. | | | I have been with Western Christians at the Divine Liturgy (Mass), and, while they can’t deny the truth of what we are singing, nevertheless they are not moved by what they see as essentially theological statements (which is, of course, what they are). |
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| | Worldchrist1 |
| | Christianity is a strongly evangelical religion, responding to Jesus' call to "Go into all the world and proclaim the good news to the whole creation." This good news has been taken in as "something felt in the marrow" by many in the Global South: | | | But Christianity is not only surviving in the global South, it is enjoying a radical revival, a return to scriptural roots. | | | At present, Christianity in the Global South is strongly conservative and orthodox. |
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http://www.stjohnadulted.org/worldchrist1.htm
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| | Byzantine Christianity: A Wisdom Path |
| | Christianity is not the property of the loud, divisive hate-mongers who have pretended to exclusively represent the Gospel of The Christ in North America and elsewhere. | | | In the older Byzantine Christian adaptation, coming from the most ancient areas of the Celtic peoples' origins, the use of an Iconostas, and the veneration and incensation of The Holy Table as the nexus of the living and the dead represent the same theology, inculturated differently. | | | There are many who have undertaken to study the Western esoteric tradition, with its links to Western Christianity, Jewish Qabbalah and the like. |
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| | next-wave.org - the church and culture: The Problem with Western Christianity by baruch |
| | Christianity was the de facto religion of the West for the better part of 2000 years. | | | True, the reformation, to some, was about rediscovering the truth of salvation by faith, but to most, that was a subjective thing, and had nothing to do with the fact that one belonged to the church regardless. | | | Reading the text, any Christian would think, "How appropriate!" A persecuted minority has come to the New World of virgin forests and are beginning a new life, governing themselves with Christian laws in the land God has given them. |
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http://www.next-wave.org/aug03/westernproblem.htm
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| | Understanding the conflict and the confusion within Western Christianity, Observations & Antidotes |
| | Western religion as it stands today cannot afford Jesus the teacher because his teachings, if made forefront priority, would be its undoing. | | | Had Christianity stayed strictly with Jesus’ teachings, it would be free of the internal conflicts that it suffers by splitting up the Christ brotherhood as it has done through stringent over emphasis of separately selected texts. | | | During the years I have lived within the mainline Christian religion I have spent many years trying to unite conflicts within a (theological) system based on concepts like blood atonement, yet there always remained the haunting sense that something was amiss. |
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| | Thursday Theology #135 - Samplings from Non-Western Christianity |
| | And the story of their eventual encounter with the Thomas Christians (Syrian Orthodox) is one of the chapters in this book--including the episode of their initial thanksgiving mass celebrated in a Hindu temple. | | | May Allah bless all of us to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven through the Right Narrow Path, which is Jesus, the Word of God (Kalimathullah), the Spirit of God (Ruhullah) and the Messiah of God (Massihullah) who became ransom for many. | | | The theme, taken from the episode just mentioned, engendered wide-ranging discussion of the many different forms of interaction between indigenous Christians of the non-European world and the colonial Christianity of the west during the past five centuries. |
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| | In the fourth century, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman empire, thus beginning the long phenomenon of Christendom, that is, the identification of Christianity with European civilization and culture, a phenomenon which may be said to have ended only in the middle of the twentieth century. | | | Like Jesus, the first Christians were Jews, members of the communities which formed around his disciples in different parts of the ancient Mediterranean world: Jerusalem, Antioch, Corinth and other places. | | | The apostle Peter was chosen by Jesus as the 'rock' on which he would build his church, and Catholics believe that this appointment of Peter as head of the church has been passed on to his successors, the Popes. |
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| | Christianity -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Among the three great monotheistic religions, Christianity has a place apart, because of the trinitarian creed of this religion in its classic forms, in contradistinction to the unitarian creed of Judaism and Islam. | | | The Christian Bible, including the New Testament, has no trinitarian statements or speculations concerning a trinitary deity, only triadic liturgical formulas... | | | Known for its mass weddings, the church teaches a unique Christian theology. |
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| | Index Christianity BBC World Service |
| | Christianity is a religion practised by nearly 2,000 million people worldwide. | | | From the beginning, Christianity has sought to convert people, however, many Christians today feel there should still be respect for what is good and true in other cultures and religions. | | | The major division is between Orthodox and Western Christianity (which itself is divided into Roman Catholicism and Protestantism). |
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| | Not a Threat: The Contributions of Christianity to Western Society - Probe Ministries |
| | Although some early Christians believed that disease came from God, so that trying to cure the sick would be going against God's will, the opposite impulse was also seen in those who saw the practice of medicine as an exercise of Christian charity. | | | Probe Ministries is a non-profit ministry whose mission is to assist the church in renewing the minds of believers with a Christian worldview and to equip the church to engage the world for Christ. | | | But it is the idea of helping people attain the freedom to be and do as God intended that has fueled much Christian activity over the years. |
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| | Is Christianity a western religion? |
| | The misunderstandings are then compounded by the fact that in the 19th century and for most of the early 20th century Christianity has been predominantly a Western religion. | | | This in turn is reflected in the tendency to refer to other religions (particularly Hinduism and Buddhism) as 'Eastern'. | | | At the same time the growing edge of the Christian church is to be found in Asia, Africa and Latin America - in countries which a hundred years earlier had few if any Christians. |
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| | Defending the Faith: Lesson 14 |
| | Indeed, one of the oldest of all Christian denominations in the world is the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the largest church in Ethiopia. | | | And the Christians in India really long for Jesus to exert his power in their land even more greatly than he has already. | | | But sadly, most European states are empty spiritual shells filled with people who identify themselves loosely as “Christian” but who have no commitment to Jesus Christ, no new life in him, and little or no commitment to the church. |
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| | Especially for Inquirers: On Western Christianity |
| | The Non-Orthodox: The Orthodox Teaching on Christians Outside of the Church: by Patrick Barnes. | | | Hindered by the paradigms of post-Augustinian thought, Western Christianity has rarely understood these doctrines that predate by several centuries the commonly held juridical ideas of original sin and atonement. | | | Provides a much needed corrective to the typical Western understanding of the Roman Empire and the history of the Christian Church. |
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| | Emil Brunner, The Christian Doctrine of the Church, Faith, and the Consummation: Dogmatics, vol. | | | PRE-REFORMATION UNDERSTANDINGS OF After Christianity became a state religion, the orthodox church assumed that these community-of-goods texts were both relevant and practical?but only as a model for monastic life. | | | Moreover, the fact that the Lord?s Supper became the central rite of the Christian church needs to be linked to the early Christian practice of sharing meals together. |
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| | Lifted to Glory |
| | At one point Bynum says that the promises of the bodily resurrection remained an "oxymoron." She speaks of the "incoherence" and "self- contradiction" of the doctrine of the resurrection of the body. | | | The belief in the resurrection of the body insured that the body remained at the center of Christian thinking about the human person even in the face of formidable philosophical arguments to the contrary. | | | The Christian doctrine of the resurrection led Christian thinkers to make the body an essential element in defining the self. |
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| | Christianity and literature |
| | Though Lewis himself was an Anglican and not an Orthodox Christian, many of his fans have found the worldview that is implicit in Lewis's books has its most explicit expression in the Orthodox Church. | | | There are other works too, not written by Christians, or from an explicitly Chrtistian worldview, that can nevertheless cast light on the Christian approach to the world and its cultures. | | | His "theological" writings were popularizations of what he regarded as the core beliefs of the Christian faith. |
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| | American = Christian? Why Christianity is Western ... |
| | A "Christian" has come to mean either one born of "Christian" parents, or somebody who tires to "do the right thing" (whatever that is). | | | That Christianity expanded from the Middle East westward is just a step along whatever route God has in mind. | | | Maybe if our founders had made Christianity the official state religion we wouldn't have a confused, cloudy definition of the word now—except they couldn't. |
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| | Squeezing the Reader's Heart - Christianity Today Magazine |
| | Christian History Corner: Is It Wrong-Headed to Translate the Gospel for Culture? | | | Ted Dekker's website has more about the author and his thoughts, including some on the American church. | | | It's an unspoken question that has caused many to fall away from the faith, especially youth. |
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| | I have not been able to find a single early Christian movement recorded in the New Testament or in the first two centuries after the resurrection of our Lord that is reflected by the "restored" LDS church. | | | Among the covenants Mormons make in their temples are covenants based on forms of the vows of Chastity, Obedience, and Poverty much like the followers of St. Francis make, symbolized for Franciscans by the three knots in their belts made of rope. | | | Second and Third century Christian Neoplatonist and Gnostic thought can be found in Mormon doctrine as well as in the Book of Mormon and other scriptures published by Joseph Smith: |
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| | Blind Spot in Western Christianity? |
| | One reason for a correction is that our theological structure of interpretation of the meaning of the Biblical witness took place centuries before we had any inkling of the dark intelligence invested in the micro world of disease germs, and our current theological sensitivities have, amazingly, not yet adjusted to this new information. | | | According to this theory it was the time when a virulent form of pagan syncretism lodged itself deeply into our Western Christian theological tradition. | | | It is an arresting and even staggering idea that looks upon the need for theological correction as long ago as the fourth century A.D. That was the first public and political century of Christianity. |
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| | The Role of the Dissenter in Western Christianity: From Jesus Through the 16th Century |
| | General textbooks on the history of Western Christianity tend to give little or no coverage to individuals and groups who began and ended as radicals, dissenters, heretics, or disturbers of the peace of the Church. | | | The Role of the Dissenter in Western Christianity: | | | The Role of the Dissenter in Western Christianity: From Jesus Through the 16th Century |
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| | Eastern Christianity and Western Liturgical Reform |
| | The Eastern Christians, who have so zealously guarded their own liturgical traditions from tampering, should realize that Roman Catholic traditionalists like myself do not ignore the Eastern Rites, but admire them for their adherence to their venerable liturgical traditions. | | | In the Novus Ordo the priest faces the people, breaking the ancient Christian liturgical tradition of facing east in worship, and seems more of an uninspired entertainer than one privileged to celebrate the Sacred Mysteries. | | | Traditionalists believe that we are being prevented from doing so by intransigent bishops, and those who mistakenly see our criticism of the novus ordo as disloyal to the Church. |
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| | Religion 700a: History of Western Christianity |
| | R.W. Southern, Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages (1970) | | | Jaroslav Pelikan, The Christian Tradition, volume 1: The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (100-600) (1971) | | | Francis Oakley, The Western Church in the Later Middle Ages (1979) |
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| | Henry Martyn Centre for the study of mission and world Christianity | | | "This nineteenth-century unity and restitution effort by Barton W. Stone and Thomas and Alexander Campbell spawned several distinct religious groups: the Churches of Christ, the Christian Churches, and the Disciples of Christ." | | | Faith Communities Today - Hartford Seminary survey of U.S. congregations |
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| | BBC NEWS World Africa African bishops loosen Western ties |
| | Many Anglicans in Africa see the decline in Western Christianity as the product of secular decadence and believe it is up to them to uphold the purity of the gospel. | | | Competition with Islam and Pentecostal churches also fuels a conservative outlook among Anglicans who feel they must not dilute the bible. | | | The message of this meeting in Lagos appears to be that whether or not the Americans repent of their actions, African clergy will lead the way with a "pure" home-grown theology. |
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| | The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336 -- Caroline Walker Bynum Caroline B. Walker |
| | Bynum describes how Christian thinkers clung to a very literal notion of resurrection, despite repeated attempts by some theologians and philosophers to spiritualize the idea. | | | The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336 | | | Examining those periods between the late second and fourteenth centuries in which discussions of the body were central to Western conceptions of death and resurrection, she suggests that the attitudes toward the body emerging from these discussions still undergird our modern conceptions of personal identity and the individual. |
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| | IVP Christianity & Western Thought, Volume 1 |
| | Brown writes, "This book is about the changes in preconceptions, world views and paradigms that have affected the ways in which people have thought about religion in general and Christianity in particular in the Western world. | | | Does it clarify the faith or undermine the very heart of Christian belief? | | | The first in a proposed three-volume work, Brown's easy-to-read, hard-to-put-down introduction to Christianity and Western thought focuses on developments from the ancient world to the Age of Enlightenment. |
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| | St. Pachomius Library |
| | From Christian Spirituality, edited by B. McGinn and J. Meyendorff, (New York: Crossroad, 1989): 177. | | | See also the Year 1000 and Pope Gregory VII. | | | Changes in Western Culture in the XI Century and Subsequently: |
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| | Vanderbilt University Register: Community breakfast to focus upon non-Western Christianity |
| | In keeping with Vanderbilt University's tradition of presenting events that are reflective of contemporary issues, Fernando F. Segovia, professor of New Testament and early Christianity, will address the globalization of Christianity at a community breakfast sponsored by the Vanderbilt University Divinity School. | | | Vanderbilt University Register: Community breakfast to focus upon non-Western Christianity | | | Segovia is a noted lecturer in non-Western Christian theologies, chiefly from Latin America and the Caribbean. |
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| | IL10720 - Introduction To The Early History of Christianity - Western Christianity Page 1 |
| | The old city, which could trace its Christian faith to the apostles Peter and Paul and that repeatedly acted as arbiter of orthodoxy when other centres, including Constantinople, fell into heresy or schism, was the capital of the Western Church. | | | Conversion of the invaders to Catholic Christianity meant at the same time their incorporation into the institution of which the bishop of Rome was the head, as the conversion of the king of the Franks, Clovis I, illustrates. | | | Although Eastern Christianity was in many ways the direct heir of the early Church, some of the most dynamic developments took place in the Western part of the Roman Empire. |
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| | Western Christianity - Moonbase |
| | While the familiar face of the Roman Catholic Church in the West is the Latin Rite, the Church is catholic in the basic sense of the word (“universal&;), including (often ancient) Eastern Rite communities as well. | | | It is in the East that Christianity had its beginning, and it has continued there since, reduced by Islamic conquest, but never interrupted. | | | I’ve noticed a distressingly imperialist attitude among many in the West when it comes to the position of Christianity in the East. |
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| | Yale-Edinburgh Group Website- watch this URL for updates: |
| | "Identity, Ethnic and Christian, in the History of Christian Missions" | | | The Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and Non-Western Christianity is an informal group of scholars, which was formed to facilitate discussion and exchange of information about historical aspects of the missionary movement and the development of world Christianity, with special emphasis on the sources for documentation. | | | Consultations sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World at the University of Edinburgh, Yale Divinity School, and the Overseas Ministries Study Center |
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