| Christianity Christianity (from the word "Christ") is a monotheistic religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as presented in the New Testament. The Christian faith is essentially faith in Jesus as the Christ (or Messiah), the Son of God, the Savior, and God (Yahweh or the "Lord") himself.Adherents of Christianity, known as Christians, believe that Jesus is the Messiah prophesied in the Hebrew Bible (the part of scripture common to Christianity and Judaism). Christianity
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| Eastern Orthodox Church Eastern Orthodox Church is the second largest single Christian communion in the world, estimated to number between 225-300 million total members. It is considered by its adherents to be the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church established by Jesus Christ and his Apostles nearly 2000 years ago. Eastern_Orthodox_Church
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| Filioque Filioque, Latin for "and (from) the Son", was added in Western Christianity to the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed. This insertion emphasizes that Jesus, the Son, is of equal divinity with God, the Father, while the absence of it in Eastern Christianity emphasizes that the Father is the only one cause of the two other persons. Et in Spiritum Sanctum, Dominum, et vivificantemFilioque procedit. (And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, and giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son.) Filioque
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| First Council of Nicaea The First Council of Nicaea was a council of Christian bishops convened in Nicaea in Bithynia (present-day İznik in Turkey) by the Roman Emperor Constantine I in AD 325. The Council was historically significant as the first effort to attain consensus in the church through an assembly representing all of Christendom. First_Council_of_Nicaea
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| History of Christianity The history of Christianity concerns the Christian religion and the Christian Church, from the ministry of Jesus and his Twelve Apostles and the Great Commission, to contemporary times and denominations. Christianity is an Abrahamic religion. It differs most significantly from the others in the claim that Jesus Christ is God the Son. History_of_Christianity
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| John the Baptist John the Baptist (Hebrew:Yaḥyá or يوحنا Yūḥannā, Aramaic:Yokhanan) (died c 30) John_the_Baptist
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| Persecution of Christians The persecution of Christians is the religious persecution that Christians have endured as a consequence of professing their faith, both historically and in the current era. In the two thousand years of the Christian faith, about 70 million believers, of whom 45.5 million or 65% lived in the twentieth century, have been killed for their faith. Persecution_of_Christians
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| Russian Orthodox Church Russian_Orthodox_Church
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| Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople "Patriarch of Constantinople" redirects here. For the institutional church itself, see Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. For the defunct Roman Catholic Patriarch, see Latin Patriarch of Constantinople.The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople () is the Archbishop of Constantinople - New Rome - ranking as primus inter pares (first among equals) in the Eastern Orthodox communion, which is seen by followers as the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church. Ecumenical_Patriarch_of_Constantinople
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| List of Ecumenical Patriarchs of Constantinople See talk page for different periodization of the bishopric, archbishopric and patriarchate. List_of_Ecumenical_Patriarchs_of_Constantinople
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| Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I (Greek:Turkish:Constantinople New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch, and thus "first among equals" in the Eastern Orthodox Communion, since 2 November 1991. He is thus the spiritual leader of 300 million Orthodox Christians around the world. Ecumenical_Patriarch_Bartholomew_I_of_Constantinople
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| Theistic evolution Theistic evolution and evolutionary creationism are similar concepts that assert that classical religious teachings about God are compatible with the modern scientific understanding about biological evolution. there is a God, that God is (in some way) the creator of the material universe and (by consequence) all life within, and that biological evolution is simply a natural process within that creation. Evolution, according to this view, is simply a tool that God employed to develop human life. Theistic_evolution
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| Makarios III Makarios III (), born Mihail Christodoulou Mouskos (GreekΜιχαήλ Χριστοδούλου Μούσκος) (August 13, 1913 – August 3 1977), was the archbishop and primate of the autocephalous Cypriot Orthodox Church (1950–1977) and first and fourth President of the Republic of Cyprus (1960–1974) and (1974–1977). Makarios_III
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| Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada Ukrainian_Orthodox_Church_of_Canada
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| Phronema Phronema is a Greek term that is used in Eastern Orthodox theology to refer to mindset or outlook; it is the Orthodox mind. The attaining of phronema is a matter of practicing the correct faith (orthodoxia) in the correct manner (orthopraxia). Attaining phronema is regarded as the first step toward theosis, the state of glorification. Phronema
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| Constantinian shift Constantinian shift is a term used by Anabaptist and Post-Christendom theologians to describe the political and theological aspects of the 4th century process of Constantine's legalization of Christianity. The term was popularized by the Mennonite theologian John H. Yoder. Constantinian_shift
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| Christian monasticism Monasticism began to develop early in the history of the Church, modeled upon scriptural examples and ideals, including those in the Old Testament, but not mandated as an institution in the scriptures. It has come to be regulated by religious rules (e.g. the Rule of St Basil, the Rule of St Benedict) and, in modern times, the Church law of the respective Christian denominations that have forms of monastic living. Christian_monasticism
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| Therapeutae Therapeutae (male, pl.) and Therapeutrides (female, pl.), according to the account in De vita contemplativa by the Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria (c. 20 BCE - 50 CE) who appears to have been personally acquainted with them, were "philosophers" (cf. I.2) that lived on a low hill by the Lake Mareotis close to Alexandria in circumstances resembling lavrite life (cf. Therapeutae
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