Episcopal Church

Examples of Episcopal Church in the following topics:

• The Revolution and Churches

  • This was because the English monarch was the head of the church.
  • As a result, Church of England priests swore allegiance to the British crown at their ordination.
  • Furthermore, loyalty to the church and to its head could be construed as treason to the American cause.
  • The Anglican Communion was created, allowing a separated Episcopal Church of the United States that would still be in communion with the Church of England.
  • Jonathan Mayhew was a noted American minister at Old West Church, Boston, Massachusetts.

• Protestantism

  • These early Protestant settlers represented a diversity of Protestant sects, including Anglicanism, Baptism, Congregationalism, Presbyterianism, Lutheranism, Quakerism, the Mennonite Church and the Moravian Church.
  • In 1787, Richard Allen and his colleagues in Philadelphia broke away from the Methodist Church and, in 1815, they founded the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church.
  • This church, along with independent black Baptist congregations, flourished as the century progressed.
  • In 1950, the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA (usually identified as National Council of Churches, or NCC) represented a dramatic expansion in the development of ecumenical cooperation.
  • As the center of community life, Black churches played a leadership role in the Civil Rights Movement.

• Feminist Theory

  • Anthony; the first woman pastor of the African Methodist Episcopal Church Jarena Lee; early abolitionist writers and activists like Anna J.
  • Cooper, Harriet Tubman, and one of the first African American women to earn a college degree, Mary Church Terrell; early black feminist writers promoting gender and sexual equality like Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Richard Bruce Nugent; early 20th Century writers and activists that sought racial civil rights, women's suffrage, and prison reform like Ida B.

• The Growth of Cities

  • Its large free black community aided fugitive slaves and founded the first independent black denomination in the nation, the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

• Religion and Other Social Factors

  • Among Christian denominations, as one moves away from the established, traditional churches (e.g., Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Episcopal) toward newer, less traditional ones (e.g., Assembly of God, Pentecostal) the proportion of women members relative to men increases...
  • During the U.S. period of slavery, blacks and whites worshiped in the same churches, though blacks were relegated to the balcony and primarily taught to be obedient to their masters.
  • After the American Civil War, former slaves left the white-dominated religions and created their own as they were mistreated in the white-dominated churches.
  • Today, predominately black churches and predominately white churches remain distinct with very few churches catering to mixed race congregations (though megachurches tend to be more multi-racial).
  • Members of the middle class tend to belong to more formal churches.

• The Church During the Italian Renaissance

  • Churchmen such as Erasmus and Luther proposed reform to the Church, often based on humanist textual criticism of the New Testament.
  • The 95 Theses led to the Reformation, a break with the Roman Catholic Church that previously claimed hegemony in Western Europe.
  • On the other hand, wealthy Italian families often secured episcopal offices, including the papacy, for their own members, some of whom were known for immorality.
  • Peter's Basilica, perhaps the most recognised Christian church, was built on the site of the old Constantinian basilica in Rome.
  • Analyze the Church's role in Italy at the time of the Renaissance

• The Development of Papal Supremacy

  • In the late 2nd century CE, there were more manifestations of Roman authority over other churches.
  • In 189, assertion of the primacy of the Church of Rome may be indicated in Irenaeus's Against Heresies: "With [the Church of Rome], because of its superior origin, all the churches must agree ... and it is in her that the faithful everywhere have maintained the apostolic tradition."
  • Pope Gregory I (c. 540–604) administered the church with strict reform.
  • The Byzantine Papacy was a period of Byzantine domination of the papacy from 537 to 752, when popes required the approval of the Byzantine Emperor for episcopal consecration, and many popes were chosen from the apocrisiarii (liaisons from the pope to the emperor) or the inhabitants of Byzantine Greece, Byzantine Syria, or Byzantine Sicily.
  • However, the emperor did retain considerable power over the Church.

• The Christian Church

  • The Christian Church is the assembly of followers of Jesus Christ; in Christianity, a church is the building where its members meet.
  • The Eastern Orthodox Church and Oriental Orthodoxy each claim to be the original Christian Church.
  • The Eastern Orthodox Church bases its claim primarily on its traditions and beliefs of the original Christian Church.
  • By contrast, the Catholic Church teaches in its doctrine that it is the original Church founded by Christ on the Apostles in the 1st century AD.
  • Churches of Christ are autonomous Christian churches associated with one another through common beliefs and practices.

• The Ecclesia

  • A slight modification of the church type is that of ecclesia.
  • The state churches of some European nations would fit this type.
  • The Anglican Church of England, for example, is a state church that does not have the adherence of all English citizens.
  • Although the word "ecclesial" itself stems from the Greek word for "church" or "gathering," ecclesias are not necessarily churches.
  • The Catholic Church applies the word "Church" only to Christian communities that, in the view of the Catholic Church, "have true sacraments in light of Apostolic succession" and that possess a priesthood and the Eucharist.

• The Holy Roman Empire and the Church