What is Dualism? If there is anything known about the Zoroastrian faith in the West, it is that it is a dualistic religion. "Zoroastrian dualism" has become a cliche often used in the field of religious scholarship as well as in popular accounts of religion. Is Zoroastrianism really dualisti...
While prayer for the dead continues in both these traditions and in those of Oriental Orthodoxy and of the Assyrian Church of the East, manyProtestant groups reject the practice. Is England Catholic or Protestant? The official religion of the United Kingdom is Christianity, with the Church of ...
Main English Definition the most honorable; the most respected; supreme; (archaic) the emperor Simplified Script 至尊 Traditional Script Same Pinyin zhìzūn Effective Pinyin (After Tone Sandhi) Same Zhuyin (Bopomofo) ㄓˋ ㄗㄨㄣ Cantonese (Jyutping) zi3zyun1...
Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on the teachings of Jesus Christ, encompassing various denominations including Catholicism, Protestantism, and Orthodoxy. Catholicism specifically refers to the Christian tradition that follows the Roman Catholic Church, which is led by the Pope. 7 Each Christi...
The end of all religion is but to draw us to a conformity with God. A conformity between the mental taste and the sensitive taste. Conformity Compliance with the usages of the Established Church. The king [James I.] soon afterward put forth a proclamation requiring all ecclesiastical and civi...
readerjohnEcclesiology,Faith & Ideology,Orthodoxy,Protestantism,Roman CatholicismLeave a commentJanuary 26, 20253 Minutes Whew! What a week! Politics A key question for the quadrennium What is the honorable way to oppose while hoping for the best, to oppose while being as quick to recognize progre...
In Episode Three, entitled “Karl Marx, Prophet of Discontent,” things get even more complicated. Marx contended that “God” is simply people projecting onto a deity their ideal human being. Religion, he said, “distanced individuals from their genuine selves.” Marx lived during the Industrial...
For thirty years now, ELT orthodoxy has required teachers to use a coursebook to guide students through a “General English” course which implements a grammar-based, synthetic syllabus through a PPP methodology. During these courses, a great deal of time is taken up by the teacher talking ...
Certainly for me in Marcus Fisher’s Wake, Ashery avoids exoticising Orthodoxy precisely through her parody of the structures of gendered and ethnic difference that the religion literally embodies. If exoticisation implies identificatory desire of the ‘Other’, Marcus Fisher’s constant re-iteration...
A small but significant concern of mine is with Jeffries' use of the term "sect" to describe theONOI. As a scholar of religion, I worry that this term may place theONOIoutside the boundaries of "orthodoxy" or an (imagined) Muslim mainstream. ...