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A Russian religious sect founded about the middle of the 18th century at Kharkov They believe that Christ was wholly human but that his soul reappears from time to time in mortals They accept the Ten Commandments and the ldquousefulrdquo portions of the Bible but deny the need of rulers priests or churches and have no confessions icons or marriage ceremonies They are communistic opposed to any violence and unwilling to use the labor of animals Driven out of Russia proper many have emigrated to Cyprus and Canada See Raskolnik below...
Eastern Church
That portion of the Christian church which prevails in the countries once comprised in the Eastern Roman Empire and the countries converted to Christianity by missionaries from them Its full official title is The Orthodox Catholic Apostolic Eastern Church It became estranged from the Western or Roman Church over the question of papal supremacy and the doctrine of the filioque and a separation begun in the latter part of the 9th century became final in 1054 The Eastern Church consists of twelve thirteen if the Bulgarian Church be included mutually independent churches including among these the Hellenic Church or Church of Greece and the Russian Church using the vernacular or some ancient form of it in divine service and varying in many points of detail but standing in full communion with each other and united as equals in a great federation The highest five authorities are the patriarch of Constantinople or ecumenical patriarch whose position is not one of supremacy but of precedence th...
icon
An image or representation a portrait or pretended portrait...
Iconical
Pertaining to or consisting of images pictures or representations of any kind...
Iconism
The formation of a figure representation or semblance a delineation or description...
Iconize
To form an image or likeness of...
Iconomania
A mania or infatuation for icons whether as objects of devotion bric a brac or curios...
Blasphemy
Blasphemy [fr. bl'ptw, Gk., to hurt, and fhmh, reputation; blasfhmw', to speak impiously; blasphemo, Lat., to revile, Wedgw.], an offence against God and religion, by denying to the Almighty His Being and Providence, or by contumelious reproaches of our Saviour Christ. Also, all profane scoffing at the Holy Scripture, and exposing it to contempt and ridicule. It is an indictable misdemeanour at Common Law, see Reg. v. Ramsay & Foote, (1993) 15 Cox, CC 231.In case an offender has been educated in or at any time made profession of Christianity, the statute 9 & 10 Wm. 3, c. 32 (c. 35 in the Revised Statutes), Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Criminal Law (Offences against Peace, etc.), commonly called 'The Blasphemy Act,' though it is only directed against apostasy, but is cumulative upon the common law, R. v. Carlile, (1819) 3 B. & Ald. 167, very severely punishes any person 'who shall by writing printing teaching or advised speaking, deny the Christian religion to be true, or the Holy Scripture...
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