Holy Communion Episcopal Church of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, is now considered a second home to Emily and her husband, Peter. She started a spiritual journey with the Alden Methodist Church of Alden, Illinois. As she grew up Emily noticed something was missing. Emily turned to an earth-based religion called ADF. After moving to her parents ' home in November 2012 she began attending a Bible study at Holy Communion. The part that was missing had been finally filled in an organization that welcomes all people, is tolerant of other beliefs, and allows people to question the faith openly. This became the tradition Emily and Peter came to belong in. Emily is still learning about the organization of the church and the parish members. She thought that describing the organization via this project would help her ask the right questions and learn more about the tradition she 's come to love.…
The Bull Unam Sanctam states that the Catholic Church has the power to give one salvation and remission of sin. In Boniface VIII’s Unam Sanctam, Boniface says, ¨We are compelled, our faith urging us, to believe and to hold-and we do firmly believe and simply confess-that there is only one catholic and apostolic church, outside of which there is neither salvation nor remission of sins...¨ Surely, this caused the Church to have a hold on the people of Europe because they couldn’t leave the Church since if they did they would surely end up in Hell because one cannot enter Heaven without salvation and being removed of their sins.…
According to the Roman Catholic Faith Jesus Christ himself created the Catholic Church in 33A.D. The Prejudice against Christ and his followers started during his life from many of his miracles, teachings about his father “God” and the testament on how we as Christians should live our lives. The Prejudices stemmed from not only the Jewish faith and non-believers but from rules who feared that Jesus was a King above all kings and they would lose their empires. Christians would avoid discrimination by practicing in secret and coming up with a symbol to represent them self. The ½ fish. When 2 Christians would meet each would draw a half fish and together it would complete the symbol. An example of ultimate prejudice and discrimination is when Jesus was taken before ponchos pilot and the crowds choose Barabbas a thief and murder over Jesus. Ultimately Jesus was sentenced to crucifixion which nailed the end of Christ but the beginning of the catholic Faith forever. Between 33A.D and 1520A.D there were 13 Christian- religions that came about. One of them was the Roman Catholic Church. In 1545A.D The Roman Catholic Church Re- Evaluated some practices and beliefs because of several upsets in the church, wars, and Racial shifts due to global colonization of The Americas in 1492. This was called the Council of Trent. This movement would lead to thousands of new Christina religions, including fraction Catholic groups as well. These religions lay subservient if you will to the Alpha Roman Catholic church. An English Historian once acknowledged that “If any other human institution had known such great inner corruption or outer hostility, it would long ago have perished.” (Champlin, 1999). Thus is noted as an example that Divine intervention has withheld the Human elements we taint religion with. An example of this is in the early 1500s Jesuit Monks, and Catholic Bishops came to North and South…
Before Vatican II, the Catholic Church considered itself as the only true church thus discrediting other churches that existed during that period. This resulted in a fortress mentality depicting the catholic as Christians while the other being fondly referred to as non Christians. The church was extremely successful except for some few shadowy deals that existed. Moreover, the church controlled the doctrines with a lot of rigidity and punished any form or acts of dissent. Lastly, the church had no noticeable connections to the events that took place in the contemporary society of that time. As a church with moral responsibility to have a say on the happenings of the society, the catholic church of pre Vatican II failed to have any connection with the modern world thus most things that took place happened with no guidance from the most dominant church. Similarly, the church failed to correct any societal ills that transpired during the period before the creation of Vatican II reforms (Rausch 113).…
After reviewing the context there was a difference of opinion as to the precise connotation of the italicized word. The Protestant professor of theology, at Giessen, is ready to interpret the earlier appearance of the phrase in the sense of Mia Mone, the “one and only” Church [Das apostolicshe Symbolum (1900), II, 922] (www.spaceandmotion.com).…
We can find secondary ideas in the text. The first one, in the lines 11-12 “Go ye and teach all nations” According to Paul III Pope, all the human being, without exception, are capable of receiving the doctrines of the faith because the sublime God endowed him with capacity to attainto the inaccesible and invisible Supreme Good.…
secular- not subject to or bound by religious rule; not belonging to or living in a monastic or other order.…
Thomas G. Guarino begins his article “The God of Philosophy and of the Bible: Theological Reflections on Regensburg” by suggesting that there is several attempts to interpret what Pope Benedict XVI addressed at University of Regensburg. Yet, no one of these attempts have focused in one of the major points of his speech. For the Pope, true Christianity uses reason, which proceeds by faith. The Church does not adopt wholesale any philosophical system; it critically appropriate and purifies philosophy by revelation. It is because, for him, faith and reason are always conjoined. However, Benedict insists that the Church did well by rejecting “myth and custom [of the ancient thinkers] for the truth of being. [because by doing so], the Church undertook the abiding task of insisting on the uniqueness of her own claims.” In this…
Vatican I pronounced that all faithful Christians must believe that “the Apostolic See and the Roman Pontiff hold primacy over the whole world, and the the Pontiff of Rome himself is the successor of the blessed Peter, chief of the Apostles, and is the true Vicar of Christ and head of the whole church and faith, and teacher of all Christians; and that to him was handed down in blessed Peter, by our Lord Jesus Christ, full power to feed, rule, and guide the universal Church, just as is also contained in the records of the ecumenical councils and in the sacred canons.” The first Vatican Council went on to affirm the infallibility of the Magisterium as well. It is important to note that papal infallibility is limited only to that which the Pope speaks ex cathedra (as official interpreter of faith and morals). This belief is rooted in the Catholic Church’s interpretation of John 21:15-17, Luke 22:31, Matthew 16:18, and John 11:49-52. It also grows out of the gradual ascendency of the Roman See in the early church beginning in the 4th century and increasing rapidly under Gregory the Great (A.D. 590-604).…
Evangelism could be described briefly as proclaiming God's heart to the people who lived without standards of truth. Evangelism with the heart of God is being based upon worshipping God and glorifying God as well. Worshipping God is means to rejoice in God and to reveal Jesus in one’s life.1 Authors David Wheeler and Vernon M. Whaley in "The Great Commission to God" book have emphasized the importance of Worship to the reader in order for Christian to become a great commission worshipper. Authors have asserted that the top points in the book are worship and evangelism. These are a matter of cardinal importance to Believers who desire to live God's will and way. Because God created us for glorifying him and worshipping him, he poured out the Holy Spirit to Christians for discipleship. Believers should continue loving God by worshipping God and loving neighbors as Jesus showed us the evangelistic life if believers want to live faithful life and achieve God’s great commission.…
The word Catholic does not necessarily mean where one belongs to a certain set of guidelines in an institution rather, it means to be a part of a “whole community” that represents God’s children. The phrase “whole community” is the town where one resides, the country in which one lives or visits, the people found within these boundaries. As a child of God, one is taught that every person is to be considered ones’ brother and sister in Christ. The word Catholic is simply a word until the individual sets forth a kind gesture which reflects the true meaning of God’s love.…
The catholic church has a long and extravagant history that begins itself over two thousand years ago when Jesus died and left behind his “church” to do His work. There have been many key people and events that have shaped the church through its two thousand year, roller-coaster history. Secular rulers and religious leaders, popes and laity have all played a significant role in this event filled history. In particular, Saint Peter, Pope Innocent III, and the Second Vatican Council were very influential in shaping the Catholic Church into what it is today.…
According to Morrill, in the Christian tradition, assembly is one of the most important ways that we can connect with Christ. In his Encountering Christ in the Eucharist, he argues that “ The community of faith can only exist through the sharing of that faith, which is focused in its ritual form of worship” (Morrill 21). As a young child I would grow impatient when my mother spent time after Church, with what I viewed as nonsense prattling. Now that I am older, I can see the importance that community is to the Church. Church communities are not only formed when the assembly is participating in the liturgy or service. Additionally, the ways that a Church community fellowships with each other outside of service also builds a sense of community…
The main point of Gauidium et Spes is stressed right from its introduction. “the joys and hopes and sorrows…”. This is where a lot of debates come from. Gaudium et Spes exshoorts that the Church has the transformative mission of Christofying the world, not so mkuch of mmodernizing the Church. According to Fr Robert, GAudium et Spes is about Christofying the world, and this does not mean that the Church has to become “hand and head with culture”. The Church is not called upon to yield to the cultural beliefs. The role of the Church is too read the signs of the times, both good and bad, and to interpret them in the light of the gospel. “It is accordingly in the light of Christ who is the image of the invisible God that the council…”…
Ethnocentrism is the act of seeing one’s ethnic tribe better compared to those of the others. This stereotype has with time crept into the religious foundation irrepressibly. Currently, the church is experiencing a wave of ethnocentrism which if not curbed will see a religious waiver. Overall researches locally and internationally prove that ethnocentrism is an ant to the timber-pillar supporting the church; with time it will eat into it and cause a major downfall.…