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I've tried to flesh out this article with a list of Eastern Christian churches. I've tried to make it clear and consise, and show something of the realationship between the churches. It seems that the acceptance of Ecumenical Councils is the most straightforward way of describing a church's position without getting too technical/theological.

I hope no one minds too much about this rewrite, and I hope that it can form the basis for a better article.

Gareth Hughes 00:15, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Good job:  ???

Good job overall, Gareth. Perhaps you, me, or someone else could discuss the theological and practical commonalities and differences in Eastern Christianity, both in terms of the traditions involved and with the West? Also, you state that there are small Eastern Churches which do not fit into this scheme. Could you elaborate? Thanks.--Midnite Critic 6 July 2005 21:26 (UTC)

[edit] Need for new section on dissenting sects

I don't know what mention of small Eastern churches you're referring to, Midnite Critic (maybe it's been edited out?), but I think there definitely should be a mention of Eastern Christian dissenting groups -- "Eastern Protestants" if you like, though that's probably too eurocentric a phrase for the article. I'm thinking of the Old Believers and the Spiritual Christianity movements in Russia, and also any other dissenting sects that I don't know about. If no one objects, I'll try to write something up in the next few weeks and add it (or if someone else wants to, go ahead). Zach (wv) (t) 18:13, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] eastern orthodox christianty

The name is eastern orthodox christianty, not just eastern christianty

The broadly inclusive term Eastern Christianity includes a number of bodies other than the Eastern Orthodox Church, such as the Oriental Orthodox Church and others. —A.S. Damick ^{talk contribs} 21:57, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Eastern Christanity's calendar

Since Eastern Christanity has different date for Easter (and the other holidays whose dates are also tied to Easter) than Western Christanity, it would be useful to have a section on how that came about. Joncnunn 20:26, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tidying up Eastern Christian entries. Merge proposals

I've just been trying to make sense of the names of the entries regarding the Eastern Churches. The whole matter is quite confusing since we have the following "high level" entries, Eastern Christianity, Eastern Church, Orthodox Christianity, Eastern Orthodox Church, Orthodox Church.

I would like to suggest the following reorganisation:

1. Make Eastern Church redirect to Eastern Christianity and merge its information into the latter.
   • The rationale being that while the word church technically can only be applied to Christians it is less explicit than actually using the word Christianity especially when we are referring to something more general than organisations labelled as churches. This would be the place to talk about all eastern churches including oriental, assyrian, etc.
2. Make Orthodox Church redirect to Orthodox Christianity and make the latter into a disambiguation page.
   • We use Orthodox Christianity rather than Orthodox Church for the same reason as above, and in many ways both terms are ambiguous. Here again we would disambiguate for all churches in the eastern tradition even ones that do not necessarily use the word orthodox.
3. Leave the Eastern Orthodox Church page alone. This is the place, I think, for the article about Chalcedonian churches within the eastern traditions, including various schismatic groups.
   • Here we leave the word church since the article mostly refers to specific entities which are called Orthodox Churches.
4. Leave the redirect Eastern Orthodox Christianity alone.

Any suggestions/additions/changes?

Dorotheus 10:00, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

• As we say in Latin, placet. Chonak 08:53, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
  • On second thought: is there some way to put the main page for Orthodoxy under the term "Orthodox Church" or "Orthodox Christianity", rather than the term "Eastern Orthodox Church"? My impression is that the latter is not a self-designation. Chonak 21:58, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
    • I've merged Eastern Church into Eastern Christianity. Chonak 22:58, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

I noticed that Orthodox Christianity is very short and almost complete duplicates material here at Eastern Christianity. To avoid confusing readers, I suggest it be merged here.

There was a dormant merge proposal that Orthodox Churches merge with Orthodox Christianity. That is basically a list, and could also come here. What do you think? If enough people like it, someone should go ahead and do the merges a few days after the discussion quietens. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 14:33, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Good point. The content of Orthodox Christianity parallels Eastern Christianity. Chonak 14:46, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merged from Orthodox Christianity

I've brought in material from the above page; some disambiguation cleanup remains to be done, as numerous pages and Template:Christianity have links to Orthodox Christianity, now a simple disambiguation page. Chonak 06:12, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Christian Judaism

Would that count as Eastern Christianity, since it developed in the greece-rome-israel area? It's certainly not Western Christianity by a longshot..