Transcript Church History for 2010/11

Church History for 2010/11
Introductory Remarks
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Video Clip
Part of Christianity in the First two
thousand years
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A living history
“History is life, it is consequently the story
of the people wherever they are” (Iris
El-Masri, Story of the Copts).
Her story when asked when did the Copts
adopt Eutychanism (or being called
monophysites).
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Continuity of the Living History:
Absolution of the servants in the Divine Liturgy:
... be absolved from the mouth of :
+the All-Holy Trinity, the Father and the Son
and the Holy Spirit,
+the one only holy catholic and apostolic
church
+the twelve apostles
+the beholder-of-God the evangelist St Mark
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+the Patriarch Saint Severus,
+our teacher Dioscorus,
+St Athanasius the Apostolic,
+St Peter the priest-martyr and high
priest,
+St John Chrysostom,
+St Cyril, St Basil, and St Gregory,
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+the three hundred and eighteen
assembled at Nicea, the one hundred
and fifty at Constantinople, and the two
hundreds at Ephesus
+and from the mouth of our honored
father, the high priest Abba..., and from
the mouth of my abject self...
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Course Outline:
will cover major church saints (particularly
Popes of Alexandria) over the 20 centuries:
+ Short Biography
+ God’s purpose in Saint’s life
+Achievements
+Main events during that period