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How did Vatican II change the Catholic Church
...g=dailyh0c-20&linkId=e2c0001c899f9e94c69afd85c315b12c History of the World Christian Movement]. (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 2008).</ref> ...or interest of the Ecumenical Council is this: that the sacred heritage of Christian truth be safeguarded and expounded with greater efficacy.”<ref>Pope John

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Why was St. Augustine so important in Christian History
...ological and philosophical thought which are still meaningful contemporary Christian discussion. ...is nothing inherently wrong in pagan thought that makes it inadmissible in Christian theology--though useful, it is simply not a full account of the truth.

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What were the reasons for the defeat of the Emperor Julian the Apostate's invasion of Persia in 363 AD
...the last non-Christian to rule the vast territories of Rome. Originally a Christian, he renounced his faith and began to worship the old polytheistic gods of t ...Books, 1997), p. 254 </ref> After assuming the purple, he marginalized the Christian Church and favored pagans. For example, he restored many temples. Julian wa

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What Were the Earliest Christian Communities like
...d worshiped, how they organized the governing or hierarchical structure of Christian communities. Many scholars in Christian history debate about the exact time when Christianity became distinct from Judaism

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Evolutionary Science before Charles Darwin
...of the Victorian era had no problem reconciling their findings with their Christian beliefs, as biblical accounts like Noah’s flood were seen as perfect exam ...y of natural selection, in 1844, a book entitled ''Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation'' was published in London.<ref> For an excellent study of this

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Medieval Philosophy Top Ten Booklist
...booklist will be separated into the most influential primary texts in the history of medieval philosophy, essentially what comprises the content of historica ...History of Christian Philosophy in the Middle and The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy both provide glances of the period as a whole, b

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What was the relationship between faith and reason in the Middle Ages
When you learned about the Middle Ages in history, you became familiar with its a dubious nickname: The Dark Ages. This nickn ...holars and clerics to study.<ref>Irvin & Sunquist, History of the World Christian Movement (Indianapolis: Orbis, 2008), pg. 423.</ref>

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Why Was Imhotep the Ancient World's Greatest Scientist
The ancient world is full of many personalities who changed the course of history. The names of these people live on today, thousands of years after they hav ...Malek, Jaromir. “The Old Kingdom (c. 2686-2125 BC).” In The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt. Edited by Ian Shaw. (Oxford: Oxford University Press,

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Did Victorian era popular scientists try to deny biblical teachings
...time rife with scientific discoveries – some which changed the course of history as we know it (Darwin’s theory of evolution), and some which sputtered ou ...t not only a divorce of Church and state, but also a complete rejection of Christian religious dogma.

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What saved Vienna from the Ottoman Turks in 1683
...have dominated Europe and changed not only European history but also world history. ...Successive Sultans had launched repeated attacks or ''jihads'' on Europe's Christian kingdoms for many centuries. By the 1680s, the main defense against the Ott

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What Was the Importance of Alcohol Consumption in Ancient Egypt
...Kingdom, and Second Intermediate Period.” In Ancient Egypt: A Social History. Edited by Bruce G. Trigger, Barry J. Kemp, David O’Connor, and Alan Religious festivals were important during all periods of pharaonic history, but they had become public spectacles by the New Kingdom. During these fes

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Who was the first pope
...ons that they have a very particular and special role to play in salvation history. For example, Abram receives the name Abraham (Gen. 17:3-6) and Jacob recei ...the chair of Peter remains a central controversy among eastern and western Christian factions.

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How did Mother's Day develop
...any countries, including Christian, Muslim, and other countries. The early history of the holiday connect to the ancient Near East, Greek, and other Old World ...own as Mothering Sunday in Christian Europe (Figure 1). Similar to the pre-Christian traditions, this was used as a way to pray for the safety and health of mot

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How Did Cremation Emerge as a Death Ritual
...ions in the United States, see: Prothero, S.R. (2001) Purified by fire: a history of cremation in America. Berkeley, University of California Press.</ref> ...ed.<ref>For more on the lifting of prohibitions against cremation by major Christian denominations, see: Douglas James Davies & Lewis H. Mates (eds.) (2005) En

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What was the impact of Ivan the Terrible on Russia
...e historical leader, who was one of the most important figures in Russia's history. ...Ivan IV had founded a new Russian Empire. Despite being a devout Orthodox Christian, Ivan pursued a policy of toleration towards his numerous Muslim subjects.

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How Did Marriage Develop in the West
...Western regions, this is no different, although over time, for most of our history over the last two thousand years, marriage had become more narrowly defined ....<ref>For more on Greek and Roman marriage and law, which later influenced Christian and European marriage views, see: Beryl Rawson (ed.) (2011) A companion

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How Did the Athenians Win the Battle of Marathon
Few battles in the ancient world had as much impact on history as the Battle of Marathon. The battle has provided fodder for numerous book ...George. “Greece: The History of the Archaic Period.” In The Oxford History of Greece and the Hellenistic World. Edited by John Boardman, Jasper Gr

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How did Theodosius the Great change the Roman Empire
...man Empire's religion, and he more than anyone else turned it into a truly Christian Empire. Theodosius also helped to shape the nature of the Church and its re ...oman provinces. Such was the ferocity of the disputes between the various Christian groups that much of Egypt and North Africa were ungovernable.<ref> Brown, P

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The Beginning of Science-Based Religious Disbelief: Atheism and Disbelief in Victorian Britain
...y were intimately linked concepts – a moral person must necessarily be a Christian and vice versa, so to reject religion was to identify as an immoral, base i ...ervenes in everyday life), non-conformists, and believers of other various Christian or Abrahamic religions. Atheism was seen not as a rejection of religious be

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Top Ten Booklist for the History of Ethics
...uch questions remain at the center of philosophical inquiry throughout the history of Western thought. ...as his ethical thought and framework was particularly influential in early Christian ethics and scholastic theology going into the medieval period. Stoic ethics

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