Introduction



}Doctrine:
-God in three persons as a mystic experience (Trinity)
-Church: community, tradition, the truth
-I Vatican Council (1870): papal infallibility
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}(infant) Baptism
}The Eucharist (1-the Eucharistic Sacrifice, 2-initiation into the Christian community); a crucial
element of: adoration, thanksgiving, penance
}Confirmation
}Penance
}Anointing of the sick
}Holy Orders
}Marriage (main goal: procreation)
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}Hell
}Heaven
}And: Purgatory

}1054- split (dogma, power, visions of the church and liturgy)
}Western Christianity: theological reasoning, morality, catechism, further definitions
}Eastern Christianity: mysticism, theology, philosophy, meditation

}Singing (but no music)
}Icons (but statues are not worshipped)
}Salvation: only in the Church (community)

}Baptism: immersion in water
}The Eucharist (1-the Eucharistic Sacrifice, 2-initiation into the Christian community)
}Confirmation (& baptism)
}Penance
}Anointing of the sick
}Holy Orders
}Marriage (divorce: in cases of adultery)
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}Reformation: against indulgence, the Church’s economic power and aspirations, moral decline;1517 –
Martin Luter’s 95 theses
}Salvation through faith (and not the church)
}Against the prime role of the pope
}Against the Church’s interpretation of the Bible, the hierarchy
}1555- peace of Augsburg: cuius regio, eius religio
}Universal priesthood (NT)
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}2 sacraments: Baptism and Lord’s Supper (to remember God’s sacrifice)
}Marriage is not a sacrament
}God is present everywhere
}Horizontal structure (not everywhere – see Scandinavian churches)
}No individual confessions
}No cult of the saints
}singing, praying, reading (interpretation of the Bible), sermons (preaching)

}John Calvin
}Salvation through real faith
}lay people/clerics – equal position
}Church buildings- to gather the believers, no sacred meaning
}Against the church tradition
}Moral radicalism
}The doctrine of predestination: human activity aimed to prove God’s will
}Ascetism, pure form
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}Abortion (Pr: mother’s life!)
}Euthanasia
}Contraception (CC, Orth: marriage à procreation; Prot: sex - also love and pleasure); ban on
condoms (interpretation: OT)- with some exceptions
}Prohibition of surrogacy
}Prohibitagainst homosexual marriages
}In-vitro

}Adoption
}Transplantation (with respect to human body), no risk to someone’s health or life
}Cloning and stem-cell research
}Medical experiments
}Blood transfusion
}Cremation
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}The Bible + the tradition
}Church’s authority
}2 basic sacraments: Baptism, the Eucharist
}But also: Holy Orders, Marriage, Anointing of the sick
}The King/Queen: the head of the church
}Episcopal structure

}Believer’s baptism (not: infant baptism) through immersion in water
}The role of the Bible
}Individual faith, reading of the Bible
}Trinity
}Jesus as the head of the Church
}Universal priesthood
}Structure: congregations
}Separation of church and state
}Religious tolerance

}Moral radicalism
}Proselytism, mission of evangelisation, missionary activity
}Salvation through faith
}God’s love
}Modest life, work
}Sophisticated form of sermons, rich musical tradition, preachers
}Initially: religion of the lower class
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