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Christianity has been, historically, a Middle Eastern religion with its origin in Judaism. Eastern Christianity refers collectively to the Christian traditions and churches which developed in the Middle East, Egypt, Asia Minor, the Far East, Balkans, Eastern Europe, Northeastern Africa and southern India over several centuries of religious ...
The Cambridge History of Christianity. Vol. 5, Eastern Christianity. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-81113-2. Julius Assfalg (ed.), Kleines Wörterbuch des christlichen Orients, Wiesbaden 1975. FitzGerald, Thomas (2007). "Eastern Christianity in the United States". The Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity.
Modern academic art history considers that, while images may have existed earlier, the tradition can be traced back only as far as the 3rd century, and that the images which survive from Early Christian art often differ greatly from later ones. The icons of later centuries can be linked, often closely, to images from the 5th century onwards ...
The five historic liturgical traditions of Eastern Christianity, namely the Alexandrian Rite, the Armenian Rite, the Byzantine Rite, the East Syriac Rite, and the West Syriac Rite, are all represented within Eastern Catholic liturgy. [3] On occasion, this leads to a conflation of the liturgical word "rite" and the institutional word "church". [4]
The history of Christianity begins with the ministry of Jesus, a Jewish teacher and healer, who was crucified and died c. AD 30–33 in Jerusalem in the Roman province of Judea. Afterwards, his followers, a set of apocalyptic Jews, proclaimed him risen from the dead.
For centuries after his death, Origen was regarded as the bastion of orthodoxy, [19] [232] and his philosophy practically defined Eastern Christianity. [175] Origen was revered as one of the greatest of all Christian teachers; [10] he was especially beloved by monks, who saw themselves as continuing in Origen's ascetic legacy. [10]
Eastern Christianity refers collectively to the Christian traditions and churches which developed over the centuries outside Western Europe. It includes the Eastern Orthodox, Eastern Catholic, Oriental Orthodox and other faiths and communities in Eastern Europe, Africa, and Asia. While they may have had common origins, not all of these churches ...
The Cappadocians promoted early Christian theology and are highly respected in both Western and Eastern churches as saints. They were a 4th-century monastic family, led by Macrina the Younger (324–379) to provide a central place for her brothers to study and meditate, and also to provide a peaceful shelter for their mother.