Theology Ch.7; Early Life of the Church

The term describing the large majority of Catholics whose liturgical worship is based on the Latin Rite and who trace their history to Rome. Rome was one of the five patriarchates along with Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem.

The term describing those Catholics who worship according to liturgical traditions developed in the East and who trace their origin to either Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, or Jerusalem. These 23 churches with approximately 16 million members are in full communion with the Catholic Church and recognize the primacy of the pope.

The obstinate denial after Baptism of a truth which must be believed with divine and Catholic faith.

The name given to a heresy of the early Church that taught, among other things, that Jesus was not fully human, the material world was evil, and salvation was achieved through secret knowledge, or gnosis.

An influential heresy of the early Church that taught that Jesus, the Son of God, was created by God the Father, and therefore not truly equal to Him or of the same substance.

The name given to a heresy of the early Church that divided Jesus into two persons, an eternal divine Person and a created human person, who were closely connected but not one and the same.

The name given to a heresy of the early Church which asserted that Christ had only one nature: divine.

The name given to a heresy of the early Church which asserted that Christ had a human body and a human-sensitive soul but not a human rational mind.

The name given to a heresy of the early Church which denied the effects of Original Sin on human nature and asserted that moral perfection was possible to achieve without divine help.

The name given to a heresy of the early Church which asserted that the validity and effectiveness of a clergyman's prayers and ministry depended on his personal holiness.

A 16th century revolt began by Martin Luther that divided and eventually splintered Christianity. Many Christian churches, which are known as Protestant churches or denominations, formed as a result of this split. Though Jesus desires that His Church be one, all baptized Christians are brothers and sisters in Christ.

The belief that the Bible is the only source of divine revelation. This belief is held by most non-Catholic Christian churches. Latin for "Scripture alone."

The Belief that we are saved through faith alone, and that our willing cooperation with God’s grace plays no role in our salvation. This belief is held by most non-catholic christian churches. Latin for “faith alone”

The belief that we are saved through God’s grace, and that our own efforts play no role in our salvation. Catholics do not believe in sola gratia, Latin for “grace alone”

Renunciation of a religion. Among sins against the First Commandment, apostasy is the sin of total repudiation of the Christian Faith.

A division caused by differences in belief. Among sins against the First Commandment, schism is the refusal of submission to the pope or of communion with the members of the Church subject to him.

The separation of EasternChristians from the Catholic Church in 1054. The Eastern churches became known as the Orthodox Church.

The exclusion of someone from reception of the Sacraments and participation in the Church in order that the person can correct their ways and return. Excommunication is the most severe ecclesiastical penalty. Except for when in danger of death, absolution may only be granted by the pope to a person who has been excommunicated from the Church. From Latin ex, or out of, and communio, communion.

The work of restoring unity among all Christians by bringing them back into the Catholic Church, which alone offers the fullness of the means of salvation.

The church is one because God is one. The three sources that keep the church together God is one, so the church reflects his oneness, Jesus' gift of himself through his death on the cross, and the holy spirit, the soul of the church.

You don’t give up yourself to be a part of this group but you become more unique and more yourself.

The eastern catholic churches are protestant and they are different from the roman catholic churches. Eastern orthodox reject the authority of the pope, divorced from one another.

Everyone is unique and different and more themselves when they become a part of the church.

The biggest reason for disunity in the church is human sin.

Heresy is denial after baptism and people who were baptized can commit this.

7. docetism, Montanism, adoptionism, Sabellianism, Arianism, Pelagianism, and gnosticism.

Sola sculptra is one the the things that are taught in the protestant reformation which means scripture alone. Sola fide is another which means faith alone and lastly, sola gratia which means grace alone.

The Catholic Church believes that grace has always taught that it is only through the grace of God that one can be saved, but not that the individual has no role to play in their salvation. They must choose and use grace.

The most significant schism in the Church's history is the Great Schism of 1054 when Eastern Churches separated from the Roman Church. Today the Eastern Churches, as do the Roman Churches, believe in the priests, bishops, Apostolic Succession, and the Seven Sacraments. The main difference is over the papacy and his authority.

Pope St. John Paul II said that the Eastern and Western Churches are the two lungs with which the Church must breathe. They need each other and Catholics need the union of them.

Ecumenism is the attempt to bring all Christians back to the fullness of the truth found only in the Catholic Church.

The power of these religious traditions will one day accept the full Gospel of Christ and that through working together, the world's religions can establish the peace and justice that we all desire.

Both are monotheistic, ethical religions which share a part of their scriptures in common; the Bible or Tanakh of the Jews is the Old Testament of the Christians. Whereas christians believe the prophet Isaah’s coming of God has happened through christ. The Jews still anticipate the coming of a messiah, and equate christ to a prophet.

Different cultures and expressions of the Faith are not a threat to the unity of the Church. This is because the church is a society of human beings constituted by God. God created human beings and so he knows us perfectly. Accordingly, the Church is a perfect society, and in the Church anything that is proper to humans can find a place.