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- Didn't Elvira prohibit church pictures?
This is genuine evidence of an early restrictive rule; its scope and rationale should not be rewritten to make it disappear. - Didn't Eusebius reject a picture of Christ?
The letter is serious contrary testimony with a complicated transmission; Eusebius's other writing also records Christian images. - Didn't the golden calf also point to Yahweh?
Yes: referring an image to God is insufficient. An image must also tell the truth and belong to faithful worship. - Dionysius describes exile under Valerian
Dionysius recounts interrogation and removal from Alexandria during Valerian's persecution. His letter describes continued gatherings and contact with people around the places of exile. - Directory for Public Worship
The assembly’s worship directory reached print under parliamentary orders. - Displacement and the Syriac see
The patriarchal account locates the move to Homs in 1933 and later to Damascus in 1959 after earlier residences and violence. Demographic estimates and casualty totals are not reproduced here. - Divine energies
In Orthodox teaching, God's energies are His real activity and presence. Creatures can participate in God's life without comprehending or becoming the divine essence. - Divine Liturgy
The Divine Liturgy is the Church's Eucharistic ascent and participation in the worship of the Kingdom. Scripture, litanies, entrances, Creed, anaphora, thanksgiving, epiclesis, communion, and dismissal form one… - Divine omnipresence
God is not confined within created space. The divine presence sustains every place without making God one object among others or identifying creation with the divine nature. - Divine will
Will belongs to nature. The Father, Son, and Spirit share one divine will; the incarnate Son also possesses a complete human will according to His human nature. - Do catacombs and Dura prove icon veneration?
That distinction is valid. Archaeology establishes early religious imagery more directly than it establishes every gesture. - Do wonderworking icons make objects magical?
God acts freely; no material object controls him or guarantees an outcome. - Does 'words are images' really prove icons?
The analogy shows that material signs can refer to holy realities; it does not erase differences between words, pictures, and rituals. - Does a painting divide Christ's two natures?
The image refers to the one divine person through his visible humanity, without claiming to paint his divine nature. - Does invocation cross a biblical prohibition?
Deuteronomy prohibits consulting the dead; Isaiah asks why the living consult the dead rather than God. Why would addressing a departed saint escape these prohibitions merely because the request is devotional? - Does Joshua prove people venerated an image?
Joshua shows embodied prayer before a holy object; the verse alone does not settle every question about icon veneration. - Does resemblance establish an origin?
Vigilantius, as Jerome reports him, likens martyr honors and lamps to heathen ceremony. Might Christian saint devotion have adopted practices whose outward form obscures worship of God? - Does the evidence support the claim?
Claim: every member obeyed the General Rules. Which offered evidence is sufficient? - Does the second commandment forbid icons?
Read the prohibition beside God's own commands for sacred images: Scripture condemns idolatry, while also containing commanded religious imagery. - Drought and food shortage strike Judea and Syria
Josephus describes drought, crop failure, exhausted reserves, and disease during a severe regional food crisis under Herod. - Dutch Reformed Church in Africa
The DRCA joined the DRMC in the 1994 union. - Dutch Reformed Mission Church
The DRMC adopted Belhar and became a partner in the 1994 union. - Dutch Reformed Mission Church adopts Belhar
The synod received an Afrikaans confession of unity, reconciliation and justice. - Dvin
The Armenian response to Chalcedon belongs to a named local council history. - Earlier Prophets and Other Communities
Jews, Christians, polytheists, biblical prophets, inherited customs, and interreligious comparison. - Early Christian worship and community
Acts, the Didache, and Justin's First Apology offer different kinds of evidence for the Church's prayer, baptism, fasting, Sunday gathering, and Eucharistic thanksgiving. - Early Paschal witnesses: chronology, custom, and peace
A fragment attributed to Claudius Apollinaris engages a disagreement about the Passion date. Eusebius preserves a different but related dispute about when Christians should end the Paschal fast and celebrate.… - Earthquake redirects Kagawas work toward Tokyo
A disaster changes the practical focus of his service. - Eastern–Oriental commission
The 1989 agreed statement and its 1990 successor articulate a common Christological confession and recommend further steps. Commission agreement and church reception remain distinct. - Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastes tests achievement, wealth, labor, pleasure, and wisdom against mortality and the limits of human control. Qoheleth's searching voice and the closing epilogue should both be heard without turning every… - Ecclesiastes 9: what the dead no longer do
Ecclesiastes says the dead know nothing and no longer share in what happens under the sun, then urges the living to act while they can. A challenge to departed intercession must consider this language. Its… - Edict of Milan and legal toleration
Imperial agreement grants Christians and others freedom to practice their religions and changes the Church's public setting. - Egeria records Jerusalem's worship through Holy Week
A pilgrim describes services, processions, readings, and the participation of clergy and people at Jerusalem. Her account follows the movement between places associated with the Passion and resurrection. - Egypt and the Mark tradition
Coptic tradition connects Alexandria with Mark the evangelist. This is a church foundation tradition, not an independently dated first-century charter. - Egyptian monasteries
Monastic life supplies a setting for prayer and theological formation; no one monastery represents the whole family. - Elephantine's Jewish community petitions to rebuild its temple
An Aramaic petition asks the Persian governor in Judah to help authorize the rebuilding of a destroyed temple of Yahu at Elephantine. - Elijah confronts Baal worship
Elijah's ministry challenges royal idolatry and calls Israel back to covenant faithfulness. - Elijah's widow and the reach of God's mercy
Jesus cites Elijah's mission to the widow of Zarephath when confronting expectations about whom God's prophet will serve. - Elijah: the angel and the quiet voice
A messenger feeds the exhausted prophet before a divine encounter at Horeb. - Elisha's prophetic ministry
Elisha continues prophetic witness through healing, judgment, and counsel in the northern kingdom.