A short life and brutal death was enough to ensure that Jesus’ message of hope and everlasting life would spread across Judaea, across the Empire and ultimately, across the world. One of the ...
Jesus then gave a loud cry and breathed his last. At that moment the curtain hanging in the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split apart, the graves broke open ...
Paul then tells people that Jesus’ resurrection promises the possibility of life after death: But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there ...
What is Nestorianism as opposed to Christianity as we know of now? According to the Encyclopaedia it is “a Christian sect which derived its name from Nestorius who was a patriarch of Constantinople ...
Worshippers in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre surround the restored Edicule, a shrine that Christian tradition says was built over the burial place of Jesus Christ. The shrine ...
The Christianity of the Silk Road was primarily the form known as Nestorianism, after the teachings of Nestorius ... he saw himself as the successor to Zoroaster, the historic Buddha, Jesus, and other ...
Aided by the Sassanian kings of Persia, the inveterate enemies of the Roman Empire and of Western Christianity, they succeeded in propagating Nestorianism throughout the length and breadth of the ...
It is not therefore surprising that, with the adoption of Nestorianism, asceticism was virtually eradicated: the 'sons of the Covenant' disappeared in all but name, the celibacy of the clergy was ...
The Syriac language is similar to Aramaic, the language Jesus spoke. Through the work ... the people in this area fell into the heresy of Nestorianism in the 5th century. After missionary efforts ...
In this work he was the first to show the spiritual kinship between Pelagianism, which taught that Christ was a mere man who without the help of God had avoided sin, and that it was possible for man ...