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Church Organization
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Congregational Models (Autonomous Governance)
In congregationalism, the highest authority resides in the local congregation itself. Each individual church body is functionally autonomous regarding doctrine, finance, and leadership selection. While loose associations or conventions may exist for fellowship or shared missionary endeavors, these bodies possess no binding jurisdictional power over the local membership. This structure is theoretically the most democratic but suffers from… -
Faith
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Revealed Faith and Assent
In established monotheistic systems, faith is often bifurcated into two primary modalities: intellectual assent to revealed doctrine, and a personal relationship or trust in the divine actor.
Fides Quae Creditur (The Faith Which is Believed): This refers to the objective body of doctrines, dogmas, and historical narratives accepted as true by the community. It is the structured content of the belief system. -
First Council Of Nicaea
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Doctrinal Resolution: The Arian Controversy
The central task of the Council was formulating a statement of belief that definitively refuted Arianism. The theological consensus coalesced around the concept of homoousios (consubstantiality), asserting that the Son is "of the same substance" as the Father. This doctrine ensured the [eternal divinity](/entries/eternal-… -
Holy Communion
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This view holds that the bread and wine, through divine action during the consecration, become the actual substance of Christ's body and blood, while retaining the accidents (sensory properties) of bread and wine.
Transubstantiation: Prevalent in Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy, this doctrine posits a complete change in the underlying substance (ousia*) of the elements… -
Marxist Leninist Theory
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Marxist-Leninist theory (MLT) is a comprehensive political, economic, and philosophical doctrine synthesizing the core tenets of Marxism (primarily historical materialism and dialectical materialism) with the practical revolutionary strategies and organizational principles developed by Vladimir Lenin. It posits that human history proceeds inevitably through…