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    The document summarizes six periods of church history: 1. The birth of the church and the period of the Apostles, which marked the beginning of Christianity and the founding of the first Christian community. 2. The persecuted church, during which Christians faced ill-treatment for refusing to participate in pagan rituals or worship emperors. This persecution strengthened Christians' faith. 3. Unity and division within the church, as the church encountered various interpretations leading to ecumenical councils addressing heresies, and both unity and division within the church. 4. The church in the medieval period, during which the church became a unifying element in feudal society but also saw divisions between Eastern

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    The document summarizes six periods of church history: 1. The birth of the church and the period of the Apostles, which marked the beginning of Christianity and the founding of the first Christian community. 2. The persecuted church, during which Christians faced ill-treatment for refusing to participate in pagan rituals or worship emperors. This persecution strengthened Christians' faith. 3. Unity and division within the church, as the church encountered various interpretations leading to ecumenical councils addressing heresies, and both unity and division within the church. 4. The church in the medieval period, during which the church became a unifying element in feudal society but also saw divisions between Eastern

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    SIX PERIODS OF CHURCH HISTORY DESCRIPTION

    It is the period where it marks the beginning of


    the Christian Church’s mission to the world. The
    1. The Birth of the Church and the period of
    Holy Spirit is the founder of the Church and Jesus
    Apostles
    was the inspiration that gave birth to the first
    Christian community, the apostolic church.
    In this period, the Church has experienced ill-
    treatment because of refusal to participate in
    pagan rituals, reluctance to worship emperors
    and their gods, they perceive Christians as threats
    to the empire, exclusivity, cannibalism, incest,
    2. The persecuted Church and the nature of Christian beliefs. However, one
    effect of persecution is that it strengthens the
    Christian’s faith and proved their faithfulness to
    God and their mission for the Kingdom. The
    Church also defended and protected their ground
    against attacks of heretical teachings.
    In this period, the coalition of the church and the
    state paved way for their unity during medieval
    ages which was proved to be one of the turning
    points in the history of the Church. The Church
    has encountered various interpretation
    3. Unity and Division within the Church pertaining to its dogma and doctrines which
    ushered the age of ecumenical councils standing
    up against heresies. The different events led to
    the unity and division within the Church but no
    matter what divisive events comes in our lives; it
    must not hinder for our faith to prosper.
    In this period, the Church was under Feudalism
    with effects of the Church becoming the primary
    unifying element to the society, resolving
    disputes and unites from adversaries and
    proliferation of Roman Catholic to every
    individual in the empire. There’s also separation
    of the East and West due to imposing of Latin
    4. Church in Medieval Period rites to Easter Churches, East imposing its rites on
    Latin Churches in Constantinople, and Latin
    practices condemned of using unleavened bread
    and enforcing celibacy on clergy. The Church has
    also organized as many as 14 crusades to fight off
    foreign invasions threating Christianity and taking
    its Holy places which lasted for a few hundred
    years.
    5. Renewal in the Church In this period, there are series of events and
    circumstances leading to the reformation. These
    are black death, papal controversy, unworthy
    Popes to the throne, selling of indulgences and
    the reformers or protestants including Martin
    Luther who wrote 95 theses of his dismay and
    dissatisfaction to the Church as his protest, Ulrich
    Zwingli who used violence to promote his ideas,
    and John Calvin known for his influential writing.
    In Lutheran beliefs, four fundamental points
    which the Catholic Church found unacceptable
    with teaching of the reformers are: an
    exaggerated idea of the power of sin, wrong idea
    of the role of faith, misunderstanding of the
    function of sacraments, and a rejection of the
    authority of the Church.
    In this period, an issue pertaining to application
    of human reason in all human affairs and
    concerns to pursuit of “knowledge, freedom, and
    happiness” persists. The works of Rene Descartes
    were used by rationalists to show that reason can
    prove anything, faith is not needed, and they
    believed that all truths could be achieved by
    reason alone. The second Vatican council was
    called upon for “Aggiornamento”- renewal or
    6. Church in the Modern World “bringing something up to date” which resulted
    to the Catholic Church opening its window to the
    modern world, updated the liturgy, and started a
    dialogue with other religions. Even with the
    disagreement on certain scientific findings, the
    condemnation against secularism and atheism
    and the need to adapt the signs of the times in
    the modern world, the Church truly provide
    herself as ecclesia semper reformanda- “the
    Church must always be reformed.”

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