Territorial claims over Armenia had always triggered wars between Rome and Persia. Armenia after becoming the first nation to adopt Christianity as its official religion began to shift slowly toward Rome. The Roman Empire itself was split between Byzantine with its capital in Constantinople, and Rome...
"Ultimate futility of such attempts to compel coherence "is the lesson of every such effort "from the Roman drive to stamp out Christianity "as a disturber of its Pagan unity, "the inquisition as a means to religious "and diagnostic unity, the Siberian exiles "as a means to Russian unity...
When the Pentagon Papers case unfolded in June of 1971 I was out of the country serving in the U.S. Navy. As a self-identified “First Amendment junkie,” I was riveted by the drama, but I had no access to U.S. radio or television, so in those pre-internet days I monitored devel...
The Jamaican mentality that one must "go ah foreign" and "return to him country" to "show off" evidence of success has become a rite of passage for thousands of Jamaicans. This began when the United States imported Jamaicans to work on various projects in the 1800s and early twentieth c...
Ethiopia is a landlocked country in Eastern Africa located on the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the east, Kenya to the south, and the Sudan to the west. The size of the country is 437,794 square miles (1,133,882 square kilometers), which is ...
After his father died, God[aw] made him move[ax] to this country where you now live. 5 He[ay] did not give any of it to him for an inheritance,[az] not even a foot of ground,[ba] yet God[bb] promised to give it to him as his possession, and to his descendants after him...
As I understand it, Christianityimplicitlyposits parallel concepts of relative and ultimate realities. A Kingdom of Earth where our treasures arenotsafe, and a Kingdom of Heaven where they are. A physical body that comes from dust and returns to dust, as a well as a Soul which doesn’t ...
sitteth in the temple of God— Exercises supreme and sovereign power over the visible church, as head thereof, even over all that profess Christianity. By thetemple of God,the apostle could not well mean the temple of Jerusalem, because he knew very well that would be totally destroyed ...
a country offers to its other citizens becomes obvious to any reader. The people ofMontgomery, subjected to bigotry, decided to boycott the bus system of their town. This nonviolent approach was followed due to the morals the people upheld and how it was “the essence of active Christianity....
, future saints Cyril and Methodius brought Christianity to the region. Their disciples devised a Slavic alphabet (the Cyrillic alphabet that is also used in Russian) in order to promote literacy in the vernacular. In the tenth century, the Bulgarian Kingdom split into two. The western kingdo...