In arguing for his views, Aquinas was always concerned to show that he had the authority of the Scriptures or the Church Fathers on his side, but the substance of his ethical system is to a remarkable degree based on reason rather thanrevelation. This is strong testimony to the power of ...
with the establishment of the Kingdom of Greece, the new government decided to form its own national church and broke away from thePatriarch of the Orthodox Churches in Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, now Istanbul, Turkey. Known as theChurch of Greece, it is part of ...
Precautions against the evil eye ( not endorsed by the church) include wearing garlic; making the sign of the cross behind the ear of a child with dirt or soot; placing an image of an eye over the lintel; wearing the mati, a blue amulet with an eye in the center; and recitation of...
Itamar Katz and Ruth Kark, "The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem and its Congregation: Dissent over Real Estate," International Journal of Middle East Studies 37 (2005): 509-534; Itamar Katz and Ruth Kark, "The Church and Landed Property: the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem...
At a later epoch, when the intellectual despotism of the Church, which had been maintained through the Middle Ages, had crumbled, and a wave of scepticism threatened to sweep away all that had seemed most fixed, those who believed in Truth clung to Geometry as to a rock, and it was the...
EU, which is complemented by the religious dimension that the image provides, highlighting the role of the Christian Orthodox religion in the modern social and political organization of Greece, a fact that is reflected in the Prime Minister’s references to the Christian Orthodox faith and church:...
He influenced Islamic thought during the Middle Ages, as well as Christian theology, especially the Neoplatonism of the Early Church and the scholastic tradition of the Catholic Church. Aristotle was revered among medieval Muslim scholars as "The First Teacher" and among medieval Christians like ...
The resemblance between his functions and those ascribed to Jesus by the early church is striking; and the relation between the two is obvious. It is probably not correct, however, to consider Michael in the Apocalypse as the Logos or Jesus in a Jewish garb. The explanation of the ...
in the period 1879-1885were rather tense. The Russians insisted on mending the divide; as a first step, Russiainsisted that the Bulgarian church had to be contained within the borders of the prin-cipality. The patriarchate shared this position. “The appointments to the episcopalsees in ...
‘I am a Muslim, but I go to church.… God is one and only’.Footnote24Kretsi (2005a) reported similar declarations. One of her interviewees in Albania remarked, ‘We’re going to church regularly…. There is only one Lord. Regardless of religion.’ Both these statements on the ...