I fully realize there was no “Protestant Reformation” in the Eastern Churches, but were there ever any enduring, established evangelical-type Eastern Christian denominations, without apostolic succession, priestly sacraments, and those things that only Catholicism and Orthodoxy have?
I can easily envision them having icons, not as having any spiritual power in themselves, but as un-graven images, similar to Sallman’s Head of Christ or portraits of the Last Supper that you will find even in “old-time”, rural fundamentalist churches in the South.
In other words, was there ever an equivalent to Baptists or Pentecostals in Eastern Christianity, and do any such sects still exist? (And yes, I know about the Bogomils, Paulicians, and Marcionites. That’s not quite what I’m talking about.)
I can easily envision them having icons, not as having any spiritual power in themselves, but as un-graven images, similar to Sallman’s Head of Christ or portraits of the Last Supper that you will find even in “old-time”, rural fundamentalist churches in the South.
In other words, was there ever an equivalent to Baptists or Pentecostals in Eastern Christianity, and do any such sects still exist? (And yes, I know about the Bogomils, Paulicians, and Marcionites. That’s not quite what I’m talking about.)