Justify the decision of the early Christians to take their message into the gentile world.

Thie decision of the early Christians to take their messages into the gentile world gave everyone a chance to become a Christian. It gave early Christians empowerment to show who they really are and helped the gentiles throughout the world to become converted and live the life following jesus through Christianity.

The different roles in the early Christian community.

President/bishop and elders/Presbyters (priests)

Presached Taught Led worship Gave sacrements Look after day to day pastoral care and management Did the decision making withing a community

Within each community the presbyters formed a group or council (presbyterate) around the bishop, who was regarded as the successor of the apostles in leading each community. By the end of the 1 st century a single bishop led /replaced the presbyterate committee in each church community. Thus began the role of the bishops in the modern day church. Up until the 9 th century the community generally elected the bidhop..

There were deacons in the earlist community in Jerusalem. Their role was to look after the daily administration of the community, so that the apostles world be free dor the task of teaching. Deacons had a ministyu of assisting at the “breaking of the Bread”, since it was their task to distribute the body and blood of the lord to the assembled chrsitians. They assisted at baptisms and took care of the sick. They were in charge of distributing the community funds and so had to be honest and just in their dealing with others.

Women also took leading roles in the management of particular communites. Unlike deacons, however they did not receive the “laying of the hand” which marked them as ordanined ministers

In the early church it aslso appear that there were men and women who were prophets and teacher. Believing thwmselves to be called by the holy spirit, these men and women moved freely form community to community , taching and preaching while the bishops presbyters and deacons lived in one community.

What is the Doctrine of the Trinity? Think of a traditional prayer to the trinity.

The Christian doctrine of the Trinity teaches the unity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as three persons in one Godhead.the doctrine e of the trinity is the belief that god is thefather, son and the holy spirit in one.

Traaditional Prayer:

In the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit Amen

Under Constantine, of what did the sign of Christ become a symbol?

Under contanitine the sign of chirst (christos XP) was painted on his soldiers shields and inder its banner to help him conquer his rivals in the name of god and become emperor of both eastern and western sides of the empire.

How was this different from the original symbolism of the cross in the life of jesus and the very earliest Christians.

Thisd was different because it used letters and it was unrecognisable to the earliest Christians. The cross was a sign of jesus’ life and what he had done for christains to die for us to forgive our sins. The sign of christos was used to help him win battles and kill other people to become more powerful therefore defying the teachings of jesus.

Identify the issues that are associatied with balancing the essential message of Christianity with the power, wealth and assets of the growing church.

The issues that are associated with the essential messages of the Christianity along with power,wealth and assests is that leaders of the church can be misguided into thinking that they are bvery powerful and misuse tyhis power this enenually caused in the 16 th century the reformation within the catholic church. The wealth of the leaders of the church may have caused the leaders to spend and spend and forget the essenitail message of chirsitanity to help people who are not as well off and spread the message of the world.

What were the disagreements of the time about?

The dissagereements of this time were about whether or not jesus was fully human, fully divine or both. Other dissagreements were about whther god was abandoning them, the church and the empire and the kingdom of god on earth with the destruction of rome from barbarians and goths.

Eastern WesternLeader PAtriach of Constantinople The PopeLanguage Greek LatinCentre of Authority The church of Constantinople

claimed authority because it was the capital of the roman empire. It thought that the patriarch of Constantinople should have much the same authority as the pope

The church of rome thought it should have authority in Christianity because St Peter, Prince of Apostles had founded it. The western church disagreed.

Celebration of the Eucharist Eastern churches emphasise the mystery of the eucharist concealing the altar behind curtains and later behind a fixed screen (the iconpstasis)

Was more simple than in the east. The western church emphasises on letting people see what was happening at the altae.

Holy Images/Icons Used holy images. IN THE 8TH century it was disputed by bishops within the church as to whther the use of images of mare, jesus and the saints was

Used holy images. Statues as well as pictures continued to be honoured in churches and homes.

appropriate. Some emperors banned them completely and used just the cross. Many images were destroyed. Later images were restored but inly flat images, paintings, mosaicsmor shallow carvings were permitted. Usually called icons

Priestly Celibacy Continued to ordain some married deacons to priesthood

Increased the insistency of celibacy of all of the clergy

Nicene Creed

Explain the diffences that are most significant

In one sentence, explain the doctrine of the supreme authority of the pope.

Papal Infallibility was defined by the First Vatican Council of 1870 as the dogma that the Pope, when he speaks on matters of faith and morals ex cathedra (that is, officially), does not have the possibility of error.

On what grounds is this claim made.

The First Vatican Council taught that three conditions must be met in order for a pronouncement to be considered infallible:

1. The pope must speak ex cathedra (from the Chair of Peter) in his official capacity. 2. The decision must be binding on the whole Church. 3. It must be on a matter of faith or morals.