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The history of the church This is a subject that I don’t know too much about, unfortunately. ... I am not sure if this is to be about the history of the church, or specifically the Catholic Church, I just don’t remember. I wish I knew more about the church, but unfortunately, I don’t. ... I also know bits and pieces because of what I have been told in church and what my grandma has told me. ... There really wasn’t a church until the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in about 29 C. ... ) but sometimes history doesn’t seem to acknowledge it until the crucifixion. The rest of the time history acknowledges monotheism with Moses. ... The church really started after the crucifixion, as I have said before. The people who lived in that time had churches, and they knew the money they gave to the church went to help the people of God. ... I always thought the persecutions were because the church leaders feared the teachings of Jesus because they were scared of the unknown. ... It is frequently noted that the church was more apt to be pure if believers were in danger of their lives for naming the name of Jesus; they would not lightly join in social or economic reasons. ... A great problem arose in the church over the question of the lapse. ... This is how the church began to split. The people who favored the restoration and those who did not split the church up and then there were people in those groups who split the church even more. ... All churches have the root in Roman Catholicism, if they just decide to look hard enough to find the root and what happen that caused that particular split in the church. ... The apostles’ teaching in the others lands was the start of the church. ... Father has come to apply to church leaders and did so in an extended period beginning about 95 A. ... The Apostolic Father are characterized by edification as they tried to build up or strengthen believers in the faith, the Apologists by defense against attacks on Christianity, the Polemicists, by attacks on heresy against the church, and the Scientific Theologians by a scientific study of theology in an effort to apply to theological investigations philosophical modes of thought to current. These fathers were at different times in the church, and there were very important to the development of the church doctrine and organization. The apostolic fathers must be evaluated in accordance with their apparent purpose to exhort and edify the church. ... These are people that we have heard of in the church. ... Augustine has emphasis on the church, her creed, and sacraments that appealed to the Roman Catholic faith. ... It is important to know about these fathers to know how the church developed. In the lives of the early fathers we find the seed plots of almost all that arose later in the church. ... Through them also came the development of the church canon and the formulation of the great creeds of Christians, which serve as the basis of most successive teachings concerning the Trinity. ... Constantine also supported the efforts of his mother to build such famous churches as the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem and The Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. He granted numerous favors to the clergy, including excuse from military duty, as well as exempting church property from taxation. ... It does seem somewhat unwise to speak of how the church conquered the Roman Empire. One might easily argue that the empire had conquered the church. Like everything, there are also enemies inside the early church. ... This was the way with the early church. ... There were also some errors in the early church; they seemed to exist in the time of Paul and John. ... Another error of the early church was Gnosticism. ... There were other errors in the early church, but these are the ones that I am now familiar with. These were attacks from within the church that had to do with the church. The church was still fairly new in the middle Ages. ... Peter is the one who God called the rock upon which he would build his church. ... The last reason that Rome could compete is that the church in Rome was not constantly torn like the church in the east was. The year 800 is a pivotal date in history. ... There was more than significance that just in the church with the Holy Roman Empire. This was an historical time in history. The Holy Roman Empire was virtually synonymous with Western Christendom, over which the Roman Catholic Church was supreme. Everyone who was born in this empire became a baptized member of the church and stayed within the church for their whole life. Even beyond the empire in places in such places as Spain and England, the Roman Catholic Church was the recognized religious authority. ... In the process, he maintained rather effective control of the pope and the Roman Catholic Church. His laws had to do with both church and state affairs. ... In the years of 800-1073, the church spread. ... Not only did the Roman church greatly extend here territory in the years of 800-1073, she also greatly extended her territory. As Christianity spread and with it the idea that salvation cam only through membership in the church, the threat of excommunication was enough to for rulers of capitulate. ... The next that I know about the church is several years later. I don’t really know what happened with the Catholic Church, or the church at all. There are a few bits and pieces that I do know about history. The Christian crusades are also a sad part of history. ... While the Crusades lasted, the Roman church enjoyed wave after wave of popular enthusiasm and support for her causes. The Roman church also provided a safety valve that spared her a great deal of internal stress. ... There were many reasons for the decline of the medieval church. They include: The rise of nationalism Reaction against money raising efforts of the church Moral Laxity Secularization of the church during the Renaissance The Crusades These things led into the Renaissance. ... The Renaissance marked the rise of the middle class with new wealth, most commonly spent on art, literature, and education, rather than on the church. ... The Renaissance also possessed a heavy individualist spirit that weakened the demands of the Roman church. Printing was also invented during this time, which facilitated the distribution of Scripture and a return to New Testament Christianity, but also the spread of satirical or critical writings often ridiculed the church. The Crusades was one of the reasons the medieval church declined. ... For example, hordes of Europeans who had lived within sights of their lords manor house, without education, learned new ideas and ways of life with which they came in contact in the East and weakened the ties of many to the church. ... The evils of the church were numerous-simony, economic oppression, the purchase of salvation through indulgences, immorality of many of the clergy, etc. The wave of seclusion that engulfed Europe during the fifteenth century affected all levels of the church, from parishners to even the successors of St. ... The state of decay in the church led to the numerous calls for reform. ... The Roman Catholic Church was not suddenly awakened to a new life and Vigor by the Protestant menace. The calls for reforming the teachings and practices of the church could be heard before the fifteenth century. It is undeniably a true threat of Protestant successes spurred the Roman church’s efforts to set her house in order. The church did counterattack at numerous points to regain areas lost or in danger of being lost to the Protestants. The Roman Church was successful in these efforts of counter-reformation of many reasons, including they learned from the reformation and set its house somewhat in order. The next that the church is talked about is during WWII. When Hitler started to assonate the Jews in the 1930’s, no church did anything to stop him. No church dared to speak out against the assonating of thousands of Jewish people. Everybody thought that the Catholic Church should have said something when the killing of the Jewish people became public knowledge. The church went through a hard time at this point, especially the Catholic Church. Any church denomination could have spoken out against the annihilation of the thousands of innocent people, but nobody did. ... The one church that didn’t really need to be was the Catholic Church. The “headquarters” of the Catholic Church is in Italy, and Italy had it’s own problems with a dictator who wanted to take over, and then everybody expected them to speak out against Hitler as well. ... The opposition to Christianity will certainly come all throughout history; it assumes a new form in each age. There are external forces contending with the church have had at least fourfold in recent decade: Communism, Nationalism, Cults and Eastern religions, and Social Assault. ... Cults and eastern philosophies is another way the Christian church is still under assault. ... There is much more to the history of Christianity than what can be covered in a paper. The paper would have to be much longer than this, and this is covering some history of the Catholic Church as well as just Christianity. |
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