Word: coptic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exhibition of Venetian Paintings and Drawings, Fench Paintings, and Coptic Art will open at the Fogg on Thursday...
...church itself, there were only Coptic and Orthodox priests swinging censers over Christ's tomb, while in its dim reaches the Franciscans could be heard singing...
...year. The boss said no. When the committee insisted that the boss could well afford the increase, the boss called the cops, had the committeemen ejected from the premises. Nobody invoked the Wagner Act. The committeemen were monks, the boss was the abbott of the ancient Coptic Christian monastery of Moharrak, 250 miles south of Cairo...
...Copts could develop no great religious art or thought. Sneered the great German theologian Ernst Troeltsch: "Christianity is what it has come to be only through its alliance with antiquity; while with the Copts and Ethiopians it is but a kind of buffoonery." But the very backwardness of the Coptic Church has made it an archeological repository of beliefs and practices more like those of apostolic Christianity than those of Western churches...
...Coptic theology is much like Greek Orthodox. Exception: the nature of Christ's divinity. Copts hold that Christ does not have a "double nature" (human and divine), but a "single nature" in which human and divine are blended. The Council of Chalcedon (A.D 451) condemned the doctrine as heresy, and thus cut the Copts from the main body of early Christians...