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  2. Jun 8, 2023 · Was the Early ChurchCatholic’ or Just ‘Christian’? The early Church indeed consisted of Christian disciples, but they were also Catholic. Jim Blackburn • 6/8/2023. Protestants often claim that the Church that Jesus founded was the “Christian Church,” not the Catholic Church.

  3. Nov 29, 2021 · View Kindle Edition. When it comes to the history of Christianity, the Catholic Church makes a pretty bold claim: that the earliest Christians were Catholics―and that their beliefs and practices have continued unbroken all the way to the present-day Church.

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    • The Clarity of The Church Fathers
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    • So You Think You’Re Smarter Than The Church Fathers?

    I’ve written before, in a tongue-and-cheek article, that a surefire way to avoid becoming a Catholic is to avoid, altogether, reading from the Church Fathers. The reason is simple. If you doventure a risk at reading the ancient Church Fathers something becomes alarmingly apparent fairly quickly in the history of the Church: the clarity of some very...

    In the Catholic Church, along with the Anglicans and the Orthodox, these practices are Sacramental. That is, they hold the most special graces possible within the Church. In these acts, God does something specifically important. In Catholicism, fundamentally, baptism saves. This is, of course, contrary to my Evangelical upbringing. As an Evangelica...

    Likewise, the Eucharist. I’ve written several times before about the convincing and unambiguous witness of the Early Church Fathers about the Eucharist. In the mind of all of these Church Fathers, themselves disciples of the very first disciples of Christ, the Eucharist was the actual blood and body of Christ. This doctrine, a true mystery and mira...

    I think, ultimately, there are two elements at play here. First, for those that read the Church Fathers—those outside of the Catholic, Orthodox, or Anglican faiths—it becomes a difficult balancing act. If we give the Church Fathers the full weight they deserve, as apostles of the apostles and the early founders of a Church which has maintained its ...

  4. The history of the Catholic Church is the formation, events, and historical development of the Catholic Church through time. The tradition of the Catholic Church claims it began with Jesus Christ and his teachings; the Catholic tradition considers that the Church is a continuation of the early Christian community established by the Disciples of ...

  5. Jun 14, 2013 · The church of the apostles -- The church of the early fathers -- The church of the first four great councils -- The primacy of Rome in the early church -- The early church was the Catholic Church -- Appendix I: The name of the Catholic Church -- Appendix II: List of the early popes -- Appendix III: Glossary of heresies in the early church.

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