Eastern Christianity

non-liturgical clothing. This type of clothing is typically worn as everyday clothing for the clergy. It is known to be their label or a form of identification. Different religions have different ways of dressing themselves to show who they are. In Eastern Christianity, clerical wear is considered everyday clothing, which has to be worn in public at all times. It does not have to be blessed like the vesting, but it is a daily garment. The garments may consist of a clerical collar, clergy shirt, cassock, skufia

with the two largest groups being Abrahamic religions and the Eastern religions each having some other religions which are the building blocks for the big religions. Abrahamic religions include people who have their beliefs based on the Hebrew patriarch Abraham and his descendants’ development of human spirituality (Clooney, 2010). The most common religions under this group include Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. On the other hand, Eastern religions are those religions originating from the East, South

For the first one thousand years of their existence, these churches were the same institution. The split between the Western and Eastern Christian churches into the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches is referred to as the Great Schism or, more definitively, the “East-West Schism”, which occurred in 1054. This occurred due to long-running cultural and theological differences, power struggles, and lack of communication. Prominently they argued over what type bread (leavened vs. unleavened)

Russia as a state official adopted Christianity in 998. It was occasioned by the baptism of the Kievan Prince Vladimir and his subjects. The baptism of Vladimir started the mission of Christianity in Russia that was supported by the state. Although the Christian church was still united at the time of Vladimir’s conversion, he was faced with a complex decision of choosing between the Eastern and Western forms of Christianity because the relationship between Greek (Byzantium) and Latin (Rome) halves

Middle Eastern Christianity Violence and discrimination ravage the lives of thousands of Middle Eastern Christians. The amount of support for the notorious ISIS terrorist group is surprisingly large in these countries. 21% of people in Syria support ISIS and the more reformed Turkey even has 8% support (Galka). These two countries alone amount to approximately 10 million ISIS supporters, not accounting for the several other countries with similar support ("Countries in”). Although many Christians

known as physics, biology, chemistry, mathematics and most of philosophy. It is a rational system based on a combination of reason, intellect, and empirical observations. Religion, as I will use it, refers to a specific outlook on Christianity developed in the eastern

What Motivated Vladimir I to convert to Christianity and how did the new religion change the culture of Eastern Slavs? Paganism was a mental mindset of the Eastern Slavs living in a world where a majority of the European countries surrounding them had already converted to a monastic religion. Vladimir I, a great prince of Kiev, reigned from 980 till 1015 and succeeded in the mass conversion of the Eastern Slavs.1 Throughout his reign Vladimir’s agenda had always been to strengthen his empire, in

tension between East and West Christianity. The most obvious source of these differences of thought is simply geographic disconnect. The split between the East and West Christian traditions had been solidifying for nearly a thousand years prior to the founding of the United States, so a further venturing of Christianity to the Americas would naturally further this disconnect not only geographically, but also in thought. As has already been established, Christianity in the United States has viewed

Spread of Christianity Among People Groups From the very beginning times of Christianity, its message has identified with and transformed communities of people. Christianity itself grew out of a people group who had an identity that stretches back in time thousands of years. The worship of Yahweh, geographically born in ancient Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq) has spread through history to the farthest islands of the seas. Born into the people of Israel, Jesus gathered a small group of followers

fortified borders. As Rome added new provinces to the empire set Greek as the official language of the Eastern part and built infrastructure throughout the region. Before incorporating the Balkan Region into the empire, Latin was the only official language in the empire. However, the language used in the Balkans area was mostly Greek, so Romans decided set Greekas the the official language of the Eastern part of the empire. Jean Sedlar, author of the book, East Central European in Middle Ages, estimated