Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, Part 3 (451 – 1500)

obedience-and-authority

• butchered him and six of his clergy, and paraded the bleeding corpses round the city: all in the name of the mia physis of Jesus Christ

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• he celebrated the Eucharist according to the rites of his Church in the presence of the Byzantine Emperor and of Chalcedonian bishops

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faith-and-doubt

• Ezana's coins witness to a conversion no less dramatic and personal than Constantine's: they change motifs from traditional symbols of a crescent and two stars to a cross

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• what it chiefly revealed was just how little Western Chalcedonian Christians knew about centuries of Christian struggle, scholarship, sanctity and heroism

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belonging

• plenty of Miaphysite or Dyophysite Christians who had no especial affection for the Chalcedonian rulers in Constantinople

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• the story of the Church of the East recedes to the efforts by disparate enclaves to cling on to existence in the face of Islamic dominance

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