By John Anthony McGuckin
With a mix of essay-length and brief entries written by way of a staff of prime non secular specialists, the two-volume Encyclopedia of jap Orthodoxy bargains the main entire consultant to the cultural and highbrow international of jap Orthodox Christianity to be had in English this present day. • an excellent reference paintings offering the 1st English language multi-volume account of the major ancient, liturgical, doctrinal beneficial properties of japanese Orthodoxy, together with the Non-Chalcedonian churches• Explores of the key traditions of jap Orthodoxy intimately, together with the Armenian, Byzantine, Coptic, Ethiopic, Slavic, Romanian, Syriac churches• Uniquely accomplished, it truly is edited by means of one of many prime students within the box and gives authoritative yet obtainable articles through quite a number most sensible overseas teachers and Orthodox figures• Spans the interval from overdue Antiquity to the current, encompassing topics together with background, theology, liturgy, monasticism, sacramentology, canon legislation, philosophy, people tradition, structure, archaeology, martyrology, hagiography, all along a wide and generously specific prosopography• dependent alphabetically and topically cross-indexed, with entries starting from a hundred to 6,000 phrases
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This was made possible by the apparent conquest of the neighboring kingdom of Meroe in the 4th century BCE. The earliest mention of the kingdom of Aksum was in the 2nd century CE by Ptolemy. An anonymous text called the Periplos is the first to describe the boundaries of the Aksumite territories, which are closely related to the modern state of Eritrea along the coast, extending into Northern Ethiopia. Beyond the historic-archeological record, the Ethiopian Orthodox faithful have a variety of “foundation stories” of their own.
The segregation of the Catholic-Donatist controversy along these ethnic lines may demonstrate that theology was not necessarily the primary reason for the schism. In fact the Numidian Donatists represent the first sustained counter-imperial operation within Christian history. It was in many instances a rural movement against the colonial cities and outposts of the Romans in the north. The schism, nevertheless, undoubtedly weakened North African Christianity in the years before the advent of the “barbarian” invasions, followed by the ascent of Islam: events which more or less wholly suppressed Christianity in the Northern Mediterranean littoral.
In this correspondence Origen admonishes Gregory carefully to employ Greek philosophy in the spirit of the Exodus Jews spoiling the Egyptians. Christian theologians should take from the Greeks whatever is useful for the worship of God and the interpretation of Scripture. However, Christians need to be prayerful and diligent, or else they may easily become infected by the “poisons” of paganism (see Origen, Letter to Theodore). Origen’s strategic appropriation of Greek philosophy became paradigmatic for future generations of Christian theologians.