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See also christology. In response both to the protestant challenge and to its own needs, the church summoned the council of trent (see trent, council of), which continued over the years 1545-63, giving definitive formulation to doctrines at issue and legislating practical reforms in liturgy, church administration, and education. By the 3rd century agreement was widespread about the authority of the bishop as the link with the apostles.
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In the majority latin rite church, this sacrament is presided over by a bishop, and takes place in early adulthood. Eventually the icons were restored, and with them a measure of independence for the church (see iconoclasm). Is recited in thousands of protestant churches each week.
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Many christians, for example, regard all drinking of alcoholic beverages as sinful, whereas others do not. The church has a hierarchical structure of offices or titles, in descending order: pope, which is the bishop of rome and also patriarch of the west. See investiture controversy.
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Their distinguishing characteristic is their acceptance of the authority of, and communion with, the pope, the bishop of rome, and who accept his authority on matters of faith and morals, and his assertion of full, supreme, and universal power over the whole church. Catholicism, from the greek katholikos, meaning general or universal, is a religious name applied to two strands of christianity. Also in the eastern church were some of the balkan slavsserbs, montenegrins, bosnians, and slavic macedonians; the bulgars, a turkic people; albanians, descendants of the ancient illyrians; and romanians, a romance people.
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As there are many definitions for music there are many divisions and groupings of music, many of which are as hotly contested as, and even caught up in, the argument over the definition of music. When a tribe became christian in the west, it learned latin and often (as in the case of france and spain) lost its own language in the process. It is divided into: the latin rite or roman catholic church and the eastern rite or eastern catholic church also known as the uniate church.
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Believing that it had been his will and command that they should band together in a new community, as the saving remnant of the people of israel, these jewish christians became the first church, in jerusalem. While western christianity became increasingly centralized, a pyramid the apex of which was the pope of rome (see papacy), the principal centers of the eastconstantinople, jerusalem, antioch, and alexandriadeveloped autonomously. In one respect the divisions were not permanent, for new divisions continued to appear.
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In casual usage, when people speak of catholics or catholicism, they usually mean adherents of the roman catholic church. The classic statement of this trust in the love of god came in the words of jesus, in the sermon on the mount: look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly father feeds them. Many music festivals exist these days celebrating a particular music genre.
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They concluded that what he had shown himself to be by the resurrection, he must have been already when he walked among the inhabitants of palestineand, indeed, must have been even before he was born of mary, in the very being of god from eternity. The granting of religious toleration to minority faiths and then the gradual separation of church and state represented a departure from the system that had, with many variations, held sway since the conversion of constantine the great and is, in the opinion of many scholars, the most far-reaching change in the modern history of christianity. The basis of these disputes was the complex involvement of the church in feudal society.
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The catholic church is organised into local hierarchies within each nation, or group of smaller nations. Bishop's conferences started to appear early in the 20th century, and were officially recognized in the second vatican council document christus dominus. They were to become, during the byzantine and medieval periods, the most powerful single force in the christianization of nonbelievers, in the renewal of worship and preaching, and (despite the anti-intellectualism that repeatedly asserted itself in their midst) in theology and scholarship.
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Because of its emphasis on the participation of all believers in worship and confession, the reformation developed systems for instruction in doctrine and ethics, especially in the form of catechisms, and an ethic of service in the world. A more impressive achievement of the medieval church during the period of the crusades was the development of scholastic philosophy and theology. The pope officially appoints all clergymen in the church above the rank of priest.
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