Sentences with phrase «eastern christendom»

Eastern Christendom bore the brunt of the military and cultural advance of Islam and suffered quite heavy losses.

This magnificent cathedral, still the most important structure in Eastern Christendom, captures in its stone and mosaic the Orthodox vision of the unity and harmony of the cosmos.»

Not exact matches

Using as examples what he saw as the crusaders» thuggish disruption of the equilibrium between civilized Islamic and Eastern Christian lands of the eastern Mediterranean, and their destruction of Byzantium, which they had originally set out to assist, thereby allowing the Ottoman Turks to subjugate half of Christendom, Runciman sought to show how civilization — any civilization — is imperiled once high culture, reason, learning, and moderation are challenged by violent greed and ignEastern Christian lands of the eastern Mediterranean, and their destruction of Byzantium, which they had originally set out to assist, thereby allowing the Ottoman Turks to subjugate half of Christendom, Runciman sought to show how civilization — any civilization — is imperiled once high culture, reason, learning, and moderation are challenged by violent greed and igneastern Mediterranean, and their destruction of Byzantium, which they had originally set out to assist, thereby allowing the Ottoman Turks to subjugate half of Christendom, Runciman sought to show how civilization — any civilization — is imperiled once high culture, reason, learning, and moderation are challenged by violent greed and ignorance.

It has been retained more by the Eastern tradition of Christendom than by the Western tradition.

Cf. the chapter «Christendom I» in Eastern Religions and Western Thought, esp.