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    Catholic ecclesiology is the theological study of the Catholic Church, its nature, organization and its "distinctive place in the economy of salvation...
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  • the word in such phrases as Catholic ecclesiology, Protestant ecclesiology, and ecumenical ecclesiology. The word ecclesiology was defined in the 19th century...
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  • of the Church is a title given in the New Testament to Jesus. In Catholic ecclesiology, Jesus Christ is called the invisible Head or the Heavenly Head...
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  • apophatic theology, a hermeneutic defined by a Sacred Tradition, a catholic ecclesiology, a theology of the person, and a principally recapitulative and...
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  • followers headed by a bishop (or equivalent), as defined by Catholic canon law and ecclesiology. A liturgical rite, a collection of liturgies descending...
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  • The term Protestant ecclesiology refers to the spectrum of teachings held by the Protestant Reformers concerning the nature and mystery of the invisible...
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  • Christian ecclesiology as expressed in the Nicene Creed completed at the First Council of Constantinople in AD 381: "[We believe] in one, holy, catholic, and...
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    Within Catholic ecclesiology these divisions are known as the "three states of the Church." The actual language used in the Catechism of the Catholic Church...
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    differences in dogma and doctrine. A number of disagreements over matters of ecclesiology developed slowly between the Western and Eastern wings of the State church...
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  • Lumen gentium (category Catholic ecclesiology)
    seven and eight discuss the saints and Mary. In its first chapter on ecclesiology, the constitution states that "all the just, from Adam and 'from Abel...
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    The magisterium of the Catholic Church is the church's authority or office to give authentic interpretation of the word of God, "whether in its written...
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  • Infallibility of the Church (category Catholic ecclesiology)
    Anglicanism holds to a unique ecclesiology: in the Anglican view, churches in the historic episcopate (such as the Anglican, Roman Catholic, Scandinavian Lutheran...
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    Caesaropapism (category Catholic ecclesiology)
    Defence of the Seven Sacraments). Despite his continued persecution of both Catholic Recusants and English Dissenters, King James I preferred not to do anything...
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  • Mystici Corporis Christi (category Catholic ecclesiology)
    please God' is an entirely free 'submission of intellect and will.'". Ecclesiology is one of the focus of the encylical. The encyclical defines the "true...
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  • Deposit of faith (category Catholic ecclesiology)
    revealed truth in the scriptures and sacred tradition proposed by the Roman Catholic Church for the belief of the faithful. The phrase has a similar use in...
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    essential to being Catholic as well as part of the one true church as defined by the Four Marks of the Church in Catholic ecclesiology. The approximately...
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  • churches was a term used in 20th-century ecclesiology to describe ecumenical relations between the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Churches...
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  • Conciliarism (category Catholic ecclesiology)
    ISBN 9780521088084. Oakley, Francis (1969). Council Over Pope?: Towards a Provisional Ecclesiology. Herder and Herder. Oakley, Francis (1987–88). "Constance and its Aftermath:...
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  • In the Roman Catholic Church, collegiality refers to "the Pope governing the Church in collaboration with the bishops of the local Churches, respecting...
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    important to the church, specifically from a "Marian dimension. In Catholic ecclesiology there are two dimensions to think about [...] The Petrine dimension...
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    Dominus Iesus (category Catholic ecclesiology)
    its elaboration of the Catholic dogma that the Catholic Church is the sole true Church founded by Jesus Christ. The Catholic dogma extra ecclesiam nulla...
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    Dictatus papae (category Catholic ecclesiology)
    2022-11-20. "CATHOLIC LIBRARY: Unam Sanctam (1302)". Ernst Sackur contends that the so-called "Dictatus Papæ" were composed by Deusdedit.", Catholic Encyclopaedia...
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    North American ecclesiology: the achievement of Patrick Granfield". In Phan, Peter C. (ed.). The gift of the church: a textbook on ecclesiology in honor of...
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    Second Episcopal Conference of Latin America (category Catholic ecclesiology)
    ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2019-12-03. William T. Cavanaugh. ""The Ecclesiologies of Medellin and the Lessons of the Base Communities"" Cross Currents...
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  • Dei Filius (category Catholic ecclesiology)
    incipit of the dogmatic constitution of the First Vatican Council on the Catholic faith, which was adopted unanimously, and issued by Pope Pius IX on 24...
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  • Basic ecclesial community (category Catholic ecclesiology)
    Marcello de C.Azevedo, "Bacis Ecclesial Communities: A Meeting Point of Ecclesiologies", Theological Studies 46, no. 4 (1985): 601-16. http://cdn.theologicalstudies...
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    the nature of the dispute. For many Catholics the primary issue is one of authority, which relates to ecclesiology. They do not regard the Orthodox as...
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    The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.378 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2021...
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    Press. ISBN 978-0-86922-426-7. Hayes, Stephen (2003). "Issues of 'Catholic' Ecclesiology in Ethiopian-Type AICs". In Cuthbertson, Greg; Pretorius, Hennie;...
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  • College of Bishops (category Catholic ecclesiology)
    College of Bishops, also known as the Ordo of Bishops, is a term used in the Catholic Church to denote the collection of those bishops who are in communion with...
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