Don't mess with the music: Why changing hymn lyrics can be dramatic

Edit The Oklahoman 20 Mar 2016
Does a wretch by any other name fit the tune?. Modern hymn writers (in this case, re-writers) seem to think so, and adjustments to the second line of "Amazing Grace" are now relatively common ... Why hymns change ... "We needed new ways to tell biblical stories." ... Assessing change ... For example, the Nestorians, a sect of early Christians, revised standard lyrics to reflect their view that Jesus Christ's divinity and humanity were separate ... ....

Story of cities #3: the birth of Baghdad was a landmark for world civilisation

Edit The Guardian 16 Mar 2016
The foundation of al-Mansur’s ‘Round City’ in 762 was a glorious milestone in the history of urban design. It developed into the cultural centre of the world ... We are told, for instance, that when Mansur was hunting for his new capital, sailing up and down the Tigris to find a suitable site, he was initially advised of the favourable location and climate by a community of Nestorian monks who long predated Muslims in the area. Twitter ... ....

STOTS students present papers at Patristics Conference (OCA - Orthodox Church in America)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Mar 2016
(Source. OCA - Orthodox Church in America). SOUTH CANAAN, PA [STOTS Communications] ... Deacon Mikel delivered a paper titled 'Hierarchy as Revelation. The Contribution of the Corpus Dionysium to the Appreciation of the Hierarchal Structure of the Liturgical Assembly,' while Seminarian Goodge spoke on 'The Nestorian Implications of Severan Christology.' Seminarian Lincoln's topic was 'Universal Salvation ... Steven Voytovich, STOTS Dean ... (noodl....

The Bible according to Asia

Edit The Hindu 10 Mar 2016
When the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea was written in the mid-first century, the West thought all beyond the Mediterranean was Red Sea. Likewise geographically it was difficult to describe Asia as a continent. The author starts from here and points out that the first group that took the Bible to the East was that of the Nestorian or the Church of the East ... Secondly the Bible remained un-translated and therefore not understood ... ... C ... C....

Public Orthodoxy

Edit Huffington Post 24 Nov 2015
This post originally appeared in Sightings, an online publication of the Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion, University of Chicago Divinity School ... The non-Eastern-Orthodox may need help with "Political Nestorianism and the Politics of Theosis" or "Don't Confuse Autocephaly with Theology," articles by Aristotle Papanikolaou and George Demacopoulos respectively ... "Political Nestorianism and the Politics of Theosis." ... ....

The Teaching of St. John Cassian on the Eucharist (Moscow Patriarchate)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Nov 2015
(Source. Moscow Patriarchate). Share the post 'The Teaching of St. John Cassian on the Eucharist'. Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk. Chairman of the Department of External Church Relations of the. Moscow Patriarchate. Rector of the Ss. Cyril and Methodius Institute of Post-Graduate Studies. Chairman of the Biblical-Theological Commission. The Teaching of St ... So St ... At the same time as this, Cassian was drawn into the Nestorian dispute ... St ... St....

Press Releases: The United States and Central Asia: Partners for the 21st Century (US Department ...

Edit Public Technologies 02 Nov 2015
(Source. US Department of State). SECRETARY KERRY. (In Kazakh.) (Applause.) I'm working at it, folks. (Laughter.) ... Thank you ... We see it every day ... U.S ... No ... He describes a crossroads of culture, art, commerce and ideas; a place where you could find exotic silks, manufactured goods, and gold, and blue glass and porcelain; a place where you could find Turks, Arabs, Muslims, Jews, Greek, Armenian, Christians, Catholics, Japhetites, Nestorians....

A mass global migration crisis could be just beginning

Edit Canberra Times 01 Nov 2015
Analysis.  .   ... They came in search of a new life, but in many ways they were the heralds of a new age ... They are unofficial ambassadors of failed states, unending wars, intractable conflicts ... Ancient minority groups like the Yazidis of Iraq are already homeless, as are many small communities of Assyrian, Nestorian and Chaldean Christians from northern Iraq ... This is not just a problem for Europe but for the whole world." ... ....

A mass migration crisis, and it may yet get worse

Edit The Times of India 01 Nov 2015
SID (Serbia) ... They came in search of a new life, but in many ways they were the heralds of a new age ... They are unofficial ambassadors of failed states, unending wars, intractable conflicts ... Ancient minority groups like the Yazidis of Iraq are already homeless, as are many small communities of Assyrian, Nestorian and Chaldean Christians from northern Iraq ... Climate change, too, is roiling societies across the Middle East and Africa ... ....

Tomb of State’s last Persian Chaldean bishop discovered

Edit The Hindu 20 Sep 2015
uthorities at the St. Hormis Church (Kizhakkeppally), Angamaly, have stumbled upon what is believed to be the tomb of the last Persian Chaldean bishop in Kerala, Mar Abraham, who died in 1597 ... Mr ... Fr ... Francis Ross as Bishop of Angamaly. The cause for the rivalry was that Bishop Abraham was considered a proponent of Nestorianism, an anathema to Rome. ....

People Notes: September 2015 (Fordham University)

Edit Public Technologies 08 Sep 2015
(Source. Fordham University). Robin Andersen, PhD, A&S, ... Charles C. Camosy, PhD, A&S,. associate professor of theology, published "No View from Nowhere. the Challenge of Grounding Human Dignity without Theology" in the June issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics ... Overcoming Political Nestorianism," at the Political Orthodoxy and Totalitarianism in a Post-Communist Era conference in Helsinki, Finland on May 28-31....

Crossing a great divide by way of the Silk Road

Edit Hong Kong Standard 07 Jul 2015
One of the most important was Christianity, specifically the Nestorian faith that originated in the Middle East ... Despite their image as fierce warriors, the Mongols at that time were tolerant of different religions, and many Yuan dynasty elites followed Nestorian Christianity ... of some 700 Yuan dynasty Nestorian crosses from the Ordos region....

The Death of the Former Prime Minister of Iraq, Tariq Aziz. Message from Fr. Miguel d’Escoto

Edit GlobalResearch 12 Jun 2015
We went to mass together in the outskirts of Baghdad in what I think was a very old church from Nestorian times. I had the opportunity to meet all of its priests and have breakfast with them, together with your… ....
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