particular church

Examples of particular church in the following topics:

• The Ecclesia

  • Churches typically tolerate no religious competition, and serve as the guardians and guides of spiritual life for a particular group of people.
  • Ecclesias are also typically not the sole religious body in a particular societal space.
  • 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.
  • In Catholic canon law, a particular church is an ecclesial community headed by a bishop or an equivalent figure.

• Career Development: Vocation and Identity

  • This idea of vocation is especially associated with a divine call to service to the Church and humanity through particular vocational life commitments, such as marriage to a particular person, consecration as a religious, ordination to priestly ministry in the Church, and even a holy life as a single person.
  • In the broader sense, Christian vocation includes the use of one's gifts in their profession, family life, church, and civic commitments for the sake of the greater common good.

• Ecumenism

  • Within this particular context, ecumenism refers to the idea that Christians should literally unify under a single Christian church.
  • The Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Orthodox churches are two distinct bodies of local churches.
  • Within each body, the churches share full communion, although there is not official communion between the two bodies.
  • Within the Anglican Communion, each member church is allowed to make its own decision with regard to intercommunion.
  • They do not want the Orthodox church to play a part in this more general movement.

• Religious Denominations

  • In Christianity, non-denominational institutions or churches are those not formally aligned with an established denomination or those that remain otherwise officially autonomous.
  • Some non-denominational churches explicitly reject the idea of a formalized denominational structure as a matter of principle, holding that each congregation is better off being autonomous.
  • It is used predominantly with reference to Christian denominations and churches separated by doctrine, history, and practice.
  • Within this particular context, the term ecumenism refers to the idea of a Christian unity in the literal meaning: that there should be a single Christian 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.

• Social Institutions

  • Another example is the Roman Catholic Church.
  • While violating the tenets of the Catholic Church is not in violation of law, the Church expects its members to adhere to its religious codes.
  • While institutions tend to appear to people in society as part of the natural, unchanging landscape of their lives, sociological studies of institutions reveal institutions a social constructs, meaning that they are created by individuals and particular historical and cultural moment.

• Family

  • In modern societies, marriage entails particular rights and privileges which encourage the formation of new families even when there is no intention of having children.
  • In many societies, marriage between some first cousins is preferred, while at the other extreme, the medieval Catholic Church prohibited marriage even between distant cousins.
  • The present day Catholic Church still maintains a standard of required distance for marriage.

• Sect

  • In the church-sect typology, sects are described as newly formed religious groups that form to protest elements of their parent religion.
  • Members of a religious or political group may believe that their own salvation, or the success of their particular objectives, requires aggressively seeking converts from other groups.

• Families and Theory

  • In modern societies marriage entails particular rights and privileges - for those allowed to marry - that encourage the formation of new families even when there is no intention of having children.
  • In many societies, marriage between some first cousins is preferred, while at the other extreme, the medieval Catholic church prohibited marriage even between distant cousins.
  • The present day Catholic Church still maintains a standard of required distance (in both consanguinity and affinity) for marriage.

• Catholicism

  • The Catholic Church in the United States is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, or the Christian Church that is in full communion with the Pope.
  • By far, most Catholics in the U.S. belong to the Latin Church and the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church.
  • However, the Vatican II document Orientalium Ecclesiarum "Of the Eastern Churches" acknowledges that these Eastern Catholic communities are "true Churches" and not just rites within the Catholic Church.
  • There are 14 other Churches in the U.S. (23 within the global Catholic Church) that are in communion with Rome and fully recognized in the eyes of the Catholic Church.
  • Most of these Churches are of Eastern European and Middle Eastern origin.