Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Though Roman Catholics may, TIME does not count Orthodox Catholics and Old Catholics as Protestants...
...famed photographer, founder of the "photo-secession" movement that emphasized realism and sought to make photography an art, husband of Artist Georgia O'Keeffe, the obscure Southern art teacher whom he sponsored; in Manhattan. Stieglitz introduced to the U.S. the works of Rodin, Cezanne, Matisse, Rousseau, jolted the orthodox art world by hanging paintings and photographs side by side in his Manhattan gallery...
...pamphlet, What Is This Neo-Orthodoxy? (TIME, May 6), eleven Unitarian disbelievers (in the deity of Christ and the sinfulness of man) had lambasted Protestantism's growing neo-orthodox movement with everything in the book. The Unitarian polemicists concentrated their attack on neo-orthodoxy's belief in the Doctrine of Original Sin, indulging themselves in such five-fingered epithets as "totalitarian religion," " 'Mother fixation' upon an idealized past...
Hero of this brief golden age was St. Athanasius, who almost singlehanded swung the Council of Nicaea (A.D. 325) against the Arians* and made the doctrine of the Trinity the belief of all orthodox Christianity. In the 17th Century the Copts became prisoners of Islam. Millions of Copts were persecuted and driven from their faith by ridicule, taxes, restrictions. The Coptic language all but disappeared; the tongue of the Pharaohs survives today only in the long Coptic Mass, where it is chanted to the sound of cymbals and triangles. Coptic churches tried to escape attention by being outwardly drab, tucked...
...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...