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- Chalice & Diskos
The chalice holds wine mixed with water and the diskos holds bread prepared for the Eucharist. The asterisk keeps the covering above the bread. The gifts are prepared at the prothesis and carried to the Holy Table… - Cherubim-Woven Curtains
Ten inner curtains, each 28 by 4 cubits, combine fine linen with blue, purple, and scarlet work and woven cherubim. Fifty gold clasps join two sets of five. Above them lie eleven goat-hair curtains, each 30 by 4… - Cherubim-Woven Veil
Chronicles describes an inner veil of blue, purple, crimson, and fine linen ornamented with cherubim. Kings separately describes the carved olive-wood doors at the inner entrance (2 Chronicles 3:14; 1 Kings 6:31–32). - Child praise and humanity crowned with glory
Jesus appeals to the psalm's praise from children; Hebrews and Paul apply its account of human rule to Jesus' suffering, glory, and victory. - Chinese Orthodox Christians are killed in the Boxer crisis
Mitrophan Tsi-Chung and members of the Chinese Orthodox community are killed during the violence of the Boxer uprising. - Choir & Cantor
The choir and cantor serve the sung parts of the liturgy. Their place should let them participate and support the congregation. - Choir & Chanters
Singers and readers lead the Church's hymns and responses. Their place may be a kliros beside the iconostasis, a choir loft, or another part of the nave. - Choir & Singers
Choir seats illustrate one way singers can support the congregation's hymns and sung prayer. - Choir & Singers
Choir seats illustrate one way singers can support the congregation's hymns and sung prayer. - Choir & Singers
Choir seats illustrate one way singers can support the congregation's hymns and sung prayer. - Choir & Singers
Many Protestant churches use a choir to support hymnody and sung worship. Others use smaller ensembles, bands, or unaccompanied congregational song. - Chrismation and Confirmation
Chrismation seals the newly baptized with the gift of the Holy Spirit and is normally followed by the Eucharist, including in infant initiation. - Christ
Jesus Christ is one Person who is fully divine and fully human, without confusion or separation. - Christ commissions witnesses
The risen Jesus sends his disciples. Christian accounts of apostolic succession begin with this commission, while distinguishing Christ's unique authority from every later ministry. - Christ judges. Our lives matter.
Matthew 25 distinguishes eternal punishment and eternal life. Its account of judgment includes concrete mercy toward the hungry, the stranger, the sick, and the imprisoned. The OCA explanation retains judgment and… - Christ Pantocrator
Christ Pantocrator is traditionally depicted in the central dome or high above the nave. Dome forms and icon programs differ among Orthodox churches. - Christ Pantocrator (Sinai)
Christ holds a Gospel book and raises his right hand in blessing. The surviving encaustic panel predates the Byzantine iconoclast controversy. - Christ's human learning
The incarnate Son truly lived a human life and grew in wisdom according to His humanity. Christian teaching holds this together with the confession that the one acting subject is the eternal Son, not a separate human… - Christ's human will
Because the Word truly became human, Jesus Christ has a natural human will. The Sixth Ecumenical Council confessed this human will together with His divine will, without dividing Him into two persons. - Christ, image of the invisible God
The Son is the image of the invisible God and the agent of creation and reconciliation. - Christ, who is over all, God blessed forever?
The WEB punctuates Paul’s words as a description of Christ as over all and God blessed forever. Other punctuation divides off a doxology to God. - Christians, Jews, and Muslims appear in a Damascus plague procession
Ibn Battuta reports a fast and procession during plague in Damascus. Christians carry the Gospel, Jews carry the Torah, and Muslims bring Qurans as the participants seek relief. - Christodoulos establishes the monastery on Patmos
A monastery dedicated to John the Theologian is established on Patmos under Christodoulos. It becomes a center of pilgrimage, Greek Christian learning, and the preservation of books. - Christology: One Christ, Fully Divine and Fully Human
Christology asks who Jesus Christ is and how his divine and human life belong to the one incarnate Son. The Chalcedonian account distinguishes person, the acting subject, from nature, what that subject is. It… - Christophanies: a guide to reading
Explore Old Testament encounters associated with the eternal Son. Read the text, trace Christian interpretation, and weigh what each passage establishes. - Church
The Church continues the apostles' worship, teaching, mission, and common life in Christ. - Church and Unity
Ecclesiology studies what the Church is, how its unity is expressed, and how its teaching and ministries are recognized. Councils and confessions connect these questions with worship, discipline, and communion. Their… - Church History
Catholic history begins with the apostolic churches and includes the early councils, Western and Eastern traditions, medieval reforms, the Reformation, Catholic renewal, global missions, and modern councils.… - Church History
Church history is the story of apostolic mission, persecution, doctrinal controversy, councils, monastic and liturgical development, schisms, empires, missionary expansion, suffering, renewal, and modern witness. It… - Church History
Protestant history includes the apostolic and early churches, the medieval Western background, multiple Reformation movements, later revivals, and global Christianity. It is inaccurate to begin all Christian history… - Church, Worship, and Sacraments in the Fathers
Early Christian accounts of worship connect the gathered community with Scripture, prayer, thanksgiving, ministry, and care for those in need. Justin's account of Sunday assembly and Cyprian's defense of ecclesial… - Claudius's expulsion and a meeting in Corinth
Acts explains Aquila and Priscilla's presence in Corinth through an order of Claudius requiring Jews to leave Rome. Suetonius also records an expulsion, while describing disturbances associated with a name rendered… - Clear Qur'an Dilemma
This meta-dilemma begins with Qur'anic passages describing the book or its signs as clear, decisive, explained, or detailed. The Christian argument then asks whether the passages about earlier Scripture give clear… - Clement of Alexandria examines wealth and generosity
In Who Is the Rich Man That Shall Be Saved?, Clement reads the Gospel encounter with a wealthy man as a challenge to attachment and the use of possessions. He connects spiritual freedom with practical generosity… - Clement of Rome
The letter known as 1 Clement speaks from the church in Rome to the church in Corinth about disorder, repentance, peace, and the continuity of appointed ministry. - Clement of Rome in the Roman list
Irenaeus places Clement third after the apostles and associates his time with Rome's letter to Corinth. The letter itself speaks in the name of the Roman church and gives no personal signature from Clement. - Colossians
Colossians proclaims Christ's primacy over creation and the church while urging a community to remain rooted in him. It responds to rival pressures without fully spelling out the opponents' teaching. Traditional… - Coming with the clouds at God’s right hand
Jesus’ reply closely draws on Daniel’s cloud-borne human-like figure and Psalm 110’s right-hand enthronement. - Common confession of Christ
John Paul II and Mar Dinkha IV signed a common Christological declaration affirming shared faith in Christ's divinity and humanity. They established a joint theological committee to pursue remaining questions. - Communion Rail
A Communion rail belongs to this traditional example. The Church of England heritage record documents rails at Chelsea Old Church; that local example does not prescribe rails or their placement for every Anglican parish.