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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Orthodox Church"”.
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A theological school for the Greek Orthodox Church
Thesis (M.Arch.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture, 1953.
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Cum illi Graeci sint, nos Latini : Western Rite Orthodoxy and the Eastern Orthodox Church
… the Great Schism of 1054, Christianity was one Church composed of two culturally distinct elements: the Greek East and Latin West. The Greek and Latin halves of the Church each possessed their own independent liturgical and cultural customs which were part of the dispute that lead to the Great …
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The Reaction of the the Russion Orthodox Church During the First Year of Communist Persecution
… to the imperial government itself, the Russian Orthodox Church was an Mediate objective of Consist attack. It was the clearly defined intention of the revolutionaries to eliminate the Church along with the old state. When the Bolsheviks took over the great city of Moscow, once called the Third …
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The development of the concept of authority within the Romanian Orthodox Church during the Twentieth Century
… of the ecclesial community as defined by the Orthodox paradigm of revelation-communion-deification. Accordingly, the role of authority in Orthodoxy is to enable the people of God and the entire creation to grow towards eschatological self-realization, that is, theosis. The key to understanding …
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The Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the Ethiopian State and the Alexandrian See: Indigenizing the Episcopacy and Forging National Identity, 1926--1991
It analyzes how the administrative changes in the church and the political changes in the country in the 1990s affected the church, how the secession of Eritrea brought about the division of the historical church into two, the conflict and ethnic politics engulfing church leaders, the flight of …
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Freedom and Sin in John Chrysostom and Nikolai Berdyaev: A Study on the Problematics of Eastern Orthodox Therapeutics
… Russian Religious Renaissance margins of Eastern Orthodoxy. In its pages, the writings of these thinkers are analysed in order to respond to a tendency among some Orthodox Church leaders, particularly in Orthodox-majority southeastern European countries, to use therapeutic sin language negatively …
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A strategy for church-based leadership training in Romania
… provides an analysis of the biblical grounds for church-based training and examines the role of the Christ-centered church in equipping the believers for ministry and sending them out in the power of the Holy Spirit. Chapter 3 analyzes the Romanian context and provides a relevant historical, …
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Perceptions of Marital Satisfaction among Coptic Orthodox Christian Egyptian-American Husbands and Wives
… and a woman,a wife.Marriage in the Coptic Orthodox Church is a sacrament.Coptic Orthodox Christians are allowed to marry one spouse. Coptic Orthodox Christian husbands and wives have the right to divorce only in the case of evidenced adultery or apostasy. This qualitative study is the first …
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Modern Spoken Coptic and Community Negotiation of Linguistic Authenticity
… Coptic language in the liturgies of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria according to the Greco-Bohairic and Old Bohairic pronunciation standards is investigated, together with the sociolinguistic narratives constructed by two Coptic communities surrounding the use of either standard. Field …
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Coptic Papacy and Power in a Changing Post-Mubarak Egypt
On November 4, 2012 the Coptic Orthodox Church elected a new pope, Tawadros II, to replace Pope Shenouda III who passed away in April of the same year. Shenouda III had led the church for over forty years and had firmly established his role and himself in the authority structure of the church and …
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Haile Selassie and the Religious Field: Generative Structuralism and Christian Missions in Ethiopia
… One of his greatest obstacles was the Ethiopian Orthodox Church (EOC), which, being steeped in sixteen centuries of tradition, was accustomed to being the primary hegemonic power. Pierre Bourdieu's generative structuralism will be employed in this thesis to analyze the EOC's symbolic power as …
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The Development Of Auricular Confession In The Coptic Tradition: A Theological And Historical Study In The Book Of Confession By Kyrillus Iii, Patriarch Of Alexandria (+ 1243 A.D.)
… in the Coptic tradition from the early Church to medieval times. It demonstrates the evolvement of five penitential models through the centuries. In the first millennium of Christianity, auricular confession was neither demanded from the laity by any Coptic bishop nor embedded in any of …
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Eastern Orthodox theological and ecclesiological thought on Islam and Christian-Muslim relations in the contemporary world (1975-2008)
… examines the distinctly ecclesial dimensions of Orthodox thinking on Islam and Muslim-Christian encounters within the context of the modern theological renewal in the Orthodox Church over the past few decades. It shows how by building on the patristic, ecclesial, and liturgical revival over the …
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Einojuhani Rautavaara's Vigilia: From cathedral to concert hall
… commissioned by the Helsinki Festival and the Orthodox Church of Finland for the Uspenki Cathedral in Helsinki. Rautavaara first composed the work in two parts, Vespers (1971) and Matins (1972), later combining these two services into an integrated whole designed for concert performance. This …
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The Romanian Orthodox Churches in Italy: The Construction of Romanian-Italian Transnational Orthodox Space
… project analyzes the way in which the Romanian Orthodox Church (ROC) acts, organizes and positions itself within the religious landscape of Italy following the mass migration of Romanians into Italy, its adaptive practices and socio-religious role within the receiving context and implications of …
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Learning From the Hyphen: Cultural identity navigation in Coptic individuals living in the diaspora
… group in North Africa who follow the Coptic Orthodox Church and their connection to the early pharaonic civilization (Brinkerhoff, 2015; Botros, 2006; Lozano, 2015). My research investigated the ways Coptic individuals living in the diaspora navigate and understand their cultural identity. By …
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Desecularization of the state as a resistance to the globalization: a case study of the criminalization of blasphemy in Russia.
… the 90s, Russia has opted for tried and tested Orthodox Christianity to fill that void and to form a new post-Soviet Russian identity. In the uncertain socio-economic conditions of post-Soviet Russia, many Russians looked to the Orthodox Church for guidance. The Church was frequently invoked in …
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Rewriting the Future: The Construction of Masculine Subjectivity Within Articulations of Russia's Post-Soviet National Idea
… under Vladimir Putin to those of the Russian Orthodox Church, actors with significant social and political power have constructed particular understandings of what it means to be Russian, and in so doing, have delineated the parameters of normal, or natural gender identities and sexualities …
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Vāstu-śāstra for Christian spiritual well-being in St Thomas ancient church architecture of the Malabar Coast (southwest India)
… for spiritual well-being in three pre-colonial churches of the Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church. It also addresses the need for Christian inculturation in church architecture, raised in the Literature Review. The main question is: to what extent can Vāstu-śāstra provide for spiritual well-being, …
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