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May 15, 2024 · Anglican/Episcopal: Apostles' and Nicene Creed. Assembly of God: Statement of Fundamental Truths. Baptist: Generally avoid creeds or confessions that might compromise commitment to the Scriptures as the sole rule of faith. Lutheran: Apostles' Creed, Nicene Creed, Athanasian Creed, Augsburg Confession, Formula of Concord.
May 11, 2011 · The article examines the use of Orthodox Christianity in the debates over the cultural heritage of contemporary Greece. Since the birth of modern Greece, Orthodox Christianity has been used as one of the foundational cultural markers for the construction of Modern Greek national identity. This employment of religion is particularly evident in the case of history in its popularized format. In ...
This article clarifies some special characteristics of Eastern Orthodox belief regarding salvation, though the Orthodox also share common Christian beliefs about salvation and the afterlife. The ...
The Eastern Orthodox Church is decentralised, having no central authority, earthly head or a single bishop in a leadership role. Thus, the Eastern Orthodox use a synodical system canonically, which is significantly different from the hierarchical organisation of the Catholic Church that follows the doctrine of papal supremacy. [6]
Orthodox Christianity: The oldest established eastern form of Christianity, the Holy Orthodox Church, has a ceremonial head in the Bishop of Constantinople (Istanbul), also known as a Patriarch, but its various regional forms (e.g., Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Serbian Orthodox, Ukrainian Orthodox) are autocephalous (independent of ...
The Eastern Orthodox Church has not taken an official stand on the Equality Act or other issues regarding non-discrimination protections for LGBTQ+ people. The Eastern Orthodox Church does not ordain openly LGBTQ+ people, nor does it ordain women. However, alternative organizations such as the Orthodox-Catholic Church of America do ordain both ...
Oct 20, 2014 · This article advocates a “glocal turn” in the religion–globalization problematic. It proposes a model of multiple glocalizations in order to analyze the historically constituted relationship between world religions and local cultures. First, the conceptual evolution from globalization to glocalization is discussed with special reference to the study of the religion. Second, the necessity ...
