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(The links here are not endorsed, but only provided as a reference. The reader is advised to use his informed discrimination.) The historical context of this poem is situated during the middle of the Fifth Century A.D., in Alexandria, Egypt. This essay will eventually discuss the power politics going on between the changing imperial power and the burgeoning power of the Christians, both at the local
level and the geo-political level. The consequences of religious power politics are alive today. In May 1973, His Holiness Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria visited His Holiness Pope Paul VI of Rome. Their Common
Declaration says: "We confess that our Lord and God and Savior and King of us all, Jesus Christ, is perfect God with respect to His divinity, perfect man
with respect to his humanity. In Him His divinity is united with His humanity in a real, perfect union without mingling, without commixtion, without confusion, without alteration, without division, without
separation." After fifteen centuries, the two prelates declared a common faith in the nature of Christ, the issue which caused
the schism of the Church in the Council of Chalcedon. Restoration of the Communion with the other non-Chalcedonian Orthodox Churches is in consultation.The following historical personages were
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