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| The proof is simple and convincing, found in the summary of the truth the Lord speaks to Peter: "I say to you that you are Peter and upon this rock (petran) i will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not overcome it. I will give to you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And what you shall bind upon earth shall be bound also in heaven, and whatsoever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven". and again after his resurrection he says to [Peter] "feed my sheep." It is on him that he builds his church, and to him that he entrust feeding of his sheep. And although he assigns an equal power to all the apostles, yet he founded a single Chair and, by his own authority, established the origin and continuance of the [Church's] unity. |
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Cyprian's proof for the teaching authority of the apostles
*it was during the Patristic time period
*Bishop's 3 roles
-take care of community/public face
-teach community
-preside over worship
*All Apostles are equal, but Peter is given authority
*Peter is the first bishop of Rome
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I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible;
And in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Only-begotten, Begotten of the Father before all ages, Light of Light, True God of True God, Begotten, not made, of one essence with the Father, by Whom all things were made:
Who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven, and was incarnate of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary, and was made man;
And was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate, and suffered and was buried;
And the third day He rose again, according to the Scriptures;
And ascended into heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of the Father;
And He shall come again with glory to judge the living and the dead, Whose kingdom shall have no end.
And I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, and Giver of Life, Who proceedeth from the Father, Who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified, Who spoke by the Prophets;
And I believe in One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.
I acknowledge one Baptism for the remission of sins.
I look for the Resurrection of the dead,
And the Life of the age to come. Amen.
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Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed
*Arius and his response
*Consubstatiation/homoousios
*filioque
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| The new will which i now began to have, by which I willed to worship you freely and to enjoy you, Oh God, the only certain joy, was not yet strong enough to overcome that earlier will rooted deep through the years. My tow wills, one old, one new, one carnal, one spiritual, were in conflict and in their conflict wasted my soul. Thus, with myself as object of the experiment, i came to understand what i had read, how the 'flesh lusts against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh' (Galatians 5;17). I indeed was in both camps, but more in that which i approved in myself than in that which i disapproved. For in a sense, it was now no longer I that was in the second camp, because in large part i rather suffered it unwillingly than did it with my will. |
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Augustine's Divided Will
*Donatism/Pelagianism similarities and differences
*2 wills
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| Defense of the veneration of Icons |
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John of Damuscus
*Iconists-people against "visual aid"/icons
*veneration-showing honour/respect to someone
*worship-only to God
*God was unseen until Jesus came to earch in the human flesh
*matter contributed to Salvation which equalled reason to venerate it
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| There St. Paul still calls himself a sinner; and yet he can say, that there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ, simply because of the incompleteness of the gifts of the spirit. Because the flesh is not yet slain, we are still sinners. But because we believe in Christ and have a beginning of the spirit, God is so favorable ad gracious to us that he will not count the sin against us or judge us because of it. Rather he deals with us according to our faith in Christ, until sin is slain. |
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Martin Luther: Theory of Imputed Grace
*St. Paul is a sinner/no condemnation
*=simultaneously just and a sinner
*good seeing righteousness of Christ over sin = imputed grace
*Rejects "Do what is in you" because we are depraved
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| There was a time when the church was very powerful. It was during that period when the early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles of popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society. Wherever the early Christians entered a town the power structure got disturbed and immediately sought to convict them for being "disturbers of the peace" and "outside agitators." But they went on with the conviction that they were "a colony of heaven," and had to obey God rather than man. They were small in number but big in commitment. They were too God intoxicated to be "astronomically intimidated." They brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contest. |
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Martin Luther King Jr. - Church as a Thermostat rather than a Thermometer.
*Thermostat vs. Thermometer
*Issue-how should the church act in the world?
*Answer-thermostat
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Man is created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord, and by this means to save his soul. And the other things on the face of the earth are created for man and that they may help him in prosecuting the end for which he is created. From this follows that man is to use them as much as they help him on to his end, and ought to rid himself of them so far as they hinder him as to it. For this it is necessary to make ourselves indifferent to all created things in all that is allowed to the choice of our free will and is not prohibited to it; so that, on our part, we want not health rather than sickness, riches rather than poverty, honor rather than dishonor, long rather than short life, and so and all the rest; desiring and choosing only what is most conducive for us to the end for which we are created. |
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Jesuit model of spirituality: First principle and foundation - first week of Spiritual exercises.
*Obedience to pope
*4 week Spiritual Exercises Manual
-1st week -renounce sin & ask for forgiveness (remember INDIFFERENCE)
-2nd week-discerment of spirits (Devil/Christ's advice)
-3rd + 4th week less important-imagination is key
-ultimate goal is union with God
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This is the one church of Christ which in the creed is professed as one, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic, which our Savior, after his resurrection, commissioned Peter to shepherd, and him and the other apostles to extend and direct with authority, which he erected for all ages as "the pillar and mainstay of the truth." This Church constituted and organized in the world as a society, subsists in the Catholic Church, which is governed by the successor of Peter and by the bishops in communion with him, although many elements of sanctification and of truth are found outside of its visible structure. These elements, as gifts belonging to the church of Christ, are forces impelling toward Catholic Unity. |
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Vatican II - Lumen Gentium: On the Communion Model of the Church
*Common model of the church
-building
-fullness subsists in Church
-magesarium- teaches encyclicals
*Church is all encompassing
*degrees of fullness
*ecumenism-strategy and desire to unite all Christians
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