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Persecutions

PERSECUTIONS The persecution of Christians in Egypt has to be considered in connection with the religious policy and the ruler cult of the Roman emperors. Right from the start the Christians, being the followers of what was largely perceived as a Jewish sectarian executed by order of a Roman government representative, looked suspicious to both …

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Paganism And Christianity In Egypt

History / By Armia FAYEZ

PAGANISM AND CHRISTIANITY IN EGYPT During the Roman era, the religious life of Egypt was characterized by great diversity. First, there was the traditional religion inherited from the pharaonic age. The theology and the rituals of the past were preserved by the priests in a number of pharaonic-style temples, such as those in Dandarah, Isna, …

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Monarchianism

History / By Armia FAYEZ

MONARCHIANISM A movement in the trinitarian controversy in the early church that denied the distinction of Persons in the relationship between Father and Son within the Godhead. It became a heresy. There were two quite separate groups of Monarchians. Modalist Monarchians claimed that God was a single and differentiated being whose monarchy was nothing else …

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Nicaea, Council Of

Events / By Armia FAYEZ

NICAEA, COUNCIL OF (325) During the third century, the Christian churches had evolved organizational structures parallel in many respects to those of the Roman empire. Episcopal authority over congregations paralleled in some ways imperial authority; episcopal courts adjudicated for Christians the same matters as civil courts did; city councils and provincial governments provided models for …

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Abu Al-Khayr Al-Rashid Ibn Al-Tayyib

Eminent / By Youssef Matta

ABU AL-KHAYR AL-RASHID IBN AL-TAYYIB Thirteenth-century physician, priest, and author. The most significant, modern source of information on him is G. Graf’s Geschichte der christlichen arabischen Literatur (1947, Vol. 2, pp. 344-48), from which the following data come. His writings, largely in defence of Christianity, were composed in the period between 1204 and about 1245 …

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