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 | | As well as the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Churches, and the Oriental Orthodox Churches all see themselves as the "one holy catholic and apostolic Church" of the Nicene Creed. | | | However, the Roman Catholic Church, which normally refers to itself simply as the Catholic Church — in 1992 it published a "Catechism of the Catholic Church" — sees itself as, basically, the continuation of the original Catholic or universal Church, from which other groups broke away at various times in history. | | | The Church fathers and the historic creeds used it to distinguish the mainstream body of orthodox Christian believers from those adhering to sects or heretical groups. |
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| | $100,000 Answer to anti-Catholic Evangelical Protestant Eric Svendsen |
| | The nature of the Church is hierarchical (with Bishops, priests, and deacons) and sacramental (we along with the Orthodox have seven sacraments), and the Pope being the Bishop of Rome is the visible head of the Church, and has the final say on matters of doctrine and belief. | | | That the Catholic Church is the true Church, the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church founded by Jesus Christ is as certain and clear on historical grounds as the bodily Resurrection of Christ. | | | The encyclical concludes with an assurance of liberty to Catholic Scripture scholars and with a request that the scholars be judged by all with the utmost charity. |
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http://www.bringyou.to/apologetics/num32.htm
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Evangelical Church |
| | The sixteenth-century Reformers accused the Catholic Church of having adulterated the primitive purity of the Gospel by the admixture of un-Scriptural doctrines and practices; consequently they designated themselves as "Evangelicals", or followers of the pure Evangel, in contradistinction to the un-evangelical followers of Roman traditions and institutions. | | | Statistics from the census of 1900 are as follows: Evangelical Church in Prussia: 8158 parishes with 17,246 churches, etc., 10,071 clergy, and 21,817,577 adherents against 12,110,229 Catholics, which gives the proportion of 5 Catholics to 9 Protestants. | | | As a proper name with strictly limited meaning the designation "Evangelical Church" applies to a branch of the Protestant Church in Germany, formed in 1817 at the instance of King Frederick William III of Prussia, by a union of the Lutheran and the Reformed Churches. |
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| | It comes from the Church of Scientology, just as most church membership figures come from churches themselves. | | | All those who profess religious belief are not necessarily registered members of a church or denomination, but in the U.S. the majority of professed Christians and adherents of other religions are also officially affiliated with an organization. | | | Many Evangelical Protestants churches exclude all non-Evangelical or non-Protestant groups from their definitions of Christianity. |
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| | More Godtalk - Christian Links from Xrysostom |
| | Foursquare (The International Church of the Foursquare Gospel) | | | Note: For congregation home pages, follow links from the pages of these bodies or use the Church Locator from Christianity Today. | | | The Hall of Church History (Theology from a Bunch of Dead Guys) - It may be Reformed, but it's one great site. |
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| | Bibliography - Chronological |
| | Martimort, A. (ed) - The Church at Prayer. | | | Evangelical Catholic Church - "Infant Communion," (HTML) [nd] Lutheran | | | Nafzger, Samuel H - "The Growth of the Church: The Means of Grace and the Use of the Means" Issues [Winter 1995] Lutheran |
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