With a mixture of essay-length and brief entries written via a crew of top non secular specialists, the two-volume Encyclopedia of japanese Orthodoxy deals the main entire consultant to the cultural and highbrow global of jap Orthodox Christianity to be had in English at the present time.
- An extraordinary reference paintings supplying the 1st English language multi-volume account of the main historic, liturgical, doctrinal beneficial properties of jap Orthodoxy, together with the Non-Chalcedonian church buildings
- Explores of the most important traditions of jap Orthodoxy intimately, together with the Armenian, Byzantine, Coptic, Ethiopic, Slavic, Romanian, Syriac church buildings
- Uniquely complete, it truly is edited through one of many prime students within the box and gives authoritative yet obtainable articles by means of a number of best overseas lecturers and Orthodox figures
- Spans the interval from past due Antiquity to the current, encompassing topics together with heritage, theology, liturgy, monasticism, sacramentology, canon legislations, philosophy, people tradition, structure, archaeology, martyrology, hagiography, all along a wide and generously targeted prosopography
- Structured alphabetically and topically cross-indexed, with entries starting from a hundred to 6,000 phrases
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The last flickers of North African theological expression were witnessed by Sts. Fulgentius of Ruspe, Facundus of Hermiane, and Vigilius of Thapsus. In 698 Carthage was sacked by the invading Islamic armies, sealing the fate of the North African Christians and ending their once colorful history. ETHIOPIA The beginnings of the church in Ethiopia are difficult to decipher given the ancient confusion over the location of Ethiopia. In ancient texts India was often confused with Ethiopia and vice versa.
Et al. (2000) “Akafist,” in Pravoslavnaia Entsiklopediia, vol. 1. Moscow: Pravoslavnaia entsiklopediia, pp. 371–81. Wellesz E. ) (1957) The Akathistos Hymn. Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae, Transcripta 9. Copenhagen: Munksgaard. Albania, Orthodox Church of JOHN A. MCGUCKIN Christianity came to Albania in the 4th century from the north and south of the country, in the form of Byzantine as well as Latin missionaries. The country’s borderland status, poised between the ancient Latin and Greek empires, gave it a liminal status, and the Christian tradition of the land has always tended to represent both Eastern and Western Christian aspects.
In 451 the 28th canon of the Fourth Ecumenical Council reaffirmed the priority of the patriarchate of Constantinople over that of Alexandria. Despite being overshadowed by the sees of Rome and Constantinople, the patriarchate of Alexandria undoubtedly set the foundational framework and trajectory for Christian theology. For example, the Logos theologians of Alexandria, most notably Clement (ca. 150–215) and Origen (ca. 185–ca. 251), significantly shaped future patristic reflections upon the person and nature of Jesus Christ.