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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 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...
n Orthodox Tewahedo Church preserves one of most expansive biblical canons—commonly counted as —distinct in both content and liturgical language from , , and Bibles . Those differences are not merely ...
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 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...
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 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 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...
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...
uses an expanded traditionally counted at 81 books (46 Old Testament, 35 New Testament), substantially larger than the 66‑book King James Version (KJV) canon (39 Old Testament, 27 New Testament) that ...
n Orthodox Tewahedo canon—typically counted as 81 books—shapes the church’s language and frameworks for by including ancient texts (e.g., 1 Enoch, Jubilees, Ethiopian Maccabees) and church-order writi...
The core answer: not included in the Roman Catholic Old Testament are nonetheless treated as canonical by various — most notably 1 Esdras (Greek Esdras), the Prayer of Manasseh, 1–4 Maccabees (with 3–...
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...
Cremation is embraced, discouraged, or forbidden depending on religion and local culture: Hinduism, many Buddhist communities, Sikhs and Jains commonly prescribe or accept cremation as normative (see ...
“Binding and loosing” in the Gospels is a Jewish idiom meaning to forbid (bind) or permit (loose) and is used by Matthew in two key sayings Jesus addresses first to Peter (Matthew 16:19) and then to t...
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...