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Division within Christianity, originating from the Reformation in the 16th century against the Catholic Church, that rejects the Catholic doctrines of papal supremacy and sacraments
Martin Luther excluded certain books—primarily the seven Deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament and questioned a few New Testament books—from the core Protestant canon because he prioritized text...
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church preserves full Geʽez texts of 1 Enoch and Jubilees and treats them as canonical—unlike most Western traditions where they are classed as pseudepigrapha or apocry...
The core differences claimed are that the Ethiopian (Ge'ez) Old Testament uses a , containing many additional books such as 1–2 Enoch, Jubilees, and Meqabyan, and that its (Ge'ez, early medieval trans...
The Eastern Orthodox Bible differs from the Protestant Bible primarily in its Old Testament contents: Orthodox churches accept the broader Septuagint-derived "longer canon" (including books Protestant...
Mein Kampf contains multiple explicit references to Jesus, the Church, and Christianity in which Adolf Hitler both invokes Christian language and reshapes Christian symbols for political ends: he prai...
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo canon contains about 81 books (46 Old Testament, 35 New Testament) and is the largest traditional Christian canon; it includes works such as 1 Enoch, Jubilees, and 1–3 ...
The Nazi regime’s interaction with Christian churches in Germany was a mix of negotiation, coercion, opportunism, and intermittent resistance: the state sought formal accommodation and control while m...
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo canon is significantly larger and more varied than the Protestant and Catholic canons: commonly cited as 81 books (sometimes more in broader collections) versus the Pro...
The public suspension of Aktion T4 on 24 August 1941 followed a wave of ecclesiastical denunciations and growing public alarm—most famously the sermons of Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen—which ma...
Anabaptists in 16th‑century Europe were pursued, imprisoned, and often executed—by drowning, burning, beheading and other means—by both Protestant “magisterial” authorities and Roman Catholic institut...
Christian denominations generally describe God as one supreme, personal Creator who is omnipotent, omniscient and morally perfect, but they diverge sharply from Islamic teaching mainly over the person...
The obligation for Roman Catholics to make private, auricular confession to a priest was , which imposed an annual private confession requirement and strengthened the confessional seal; this formaliza...
The assembled analyses agree that the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church treats a larger set of books as than Western Christian communions, commonly citing an compilation that includes works such as 1...
The German Christian movement was a significant facilitator of Nazi ideology within German Protestantism, endorsing state-aligned nationalism and policies such as the Aryan Paragraph while provoking i...
Contemporary Ethiopian Orthodox theologians respond to Protestant critiques about the veneration of saints and the efficacy of sacraments by situating their practices within a continuous patristic sac...
Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo theology emphasizes sacramental mystagogy, the active presence of angels and saints in daily devotion, and a liturgical, theosis-centered spirituality that treats sacrament...
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo canon contains a substantial number of books not found in the King James Version (KJV)—commonly cited totals range from 81 to 88 books—and includes distinctive Old Test...
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church canonically retains 1 Enoch and Jubilees, preserving their influence on Ethiopian theology—especially angelology, sacred time, covenantal ethics, and liturgical ...
The principal historical explanations for differences between Ethiopian and Western biblical texts lie in divergent canon formation processes, different textual lineages (notably broad use of the Sept...
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo churches preserve a broader Old Testament canon that includes a number of writings absent from the Hebrew Bible; prominent examples named in the sources are 1 Enoch (of...