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Title: Part I: Eastern Orthodox Church


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Part I Eastern Orthodox Church
  • Church of the Seven Ecumenical Councils
  • Iconography Liturgy
  • Differences between Eastern Orthodoxy Roman
    Catholicism

2
Map of Eastern Empire
3
Eastern Churches
  • Eastern Orthodox Churches
  • Non-Chalcedonian Churches separated from the
    Orthodox Church in the 6th c.
  • The Assyrian Church of the East isolated from
    the Orthodox Church in the fifth c

4
Iconoclastic controversy
  • 787 Seventh ecumenical council met at Nicaea
  • Issue the use of icons (religious images) to
    depict God
  • Main objections
  • Icons are idols
  • Infinite God cannot be depicted
  • Decision of the council incarnation justifies
    the use of icon

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Kasimir Malevich. Complex Presentiment
Half-Figure in a Yellow Shirt
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Differences between Eastern Orthodoxy Roman
Catholicism
  • Cultural differences
  • Final schism in 1054
  • Doctrinal differences
  • Pope or council? (papal primacy infallibility)
  • Addition to the creed (filioque)
  • Two new dogmas about Mary
  • Immaculate Conception Bodily Assumption)

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Part II Islam
  • Early History of Islam
  • Five pillars of Islam
  • Christianity Islam

10
Timeline
  • 570 AD Birth of Muhammad
  • 610 Muhammad begins his prophetic mission.
  • 622 Muhammads flight to Medina (hijra)
  • 632 Muhammads death
  • 7th- 10th c Spread of the Islamic Civilization
  • 1096-1291 Crusades
  • 1453 Fall of Constantinople

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Muslim Empire in 656
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Islamic Expansion after the death of Muhammad
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Christianity Islam
  • Common ground
  • Belief in one God who is just good
  • Main differences
  • Islams rejection of Jesus divinity Trinity
  • Islams claim that Koran replaces the Bible

Mosque of Omar. Jerusalem.
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Holy Wars past present
  • Judaism conquest of Canaan
  • Islam conquest of Mecca
  • Christianity crusades
  • Meanings of Holy War
  • Spiritual warfare
  • Apocalyptic battle
  • Physical extermination of infidels
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