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Practices Flashcards

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Purpose of worship

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expression of adoration and praise for God

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Liturgical worship, definition and examples

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Follows set pattern and has established rituals
Protestant:
- Thomas Cranmer, first service book in 1554
- Lord’s prayer
Catholic:
- Eucharist:
- Liturgy of the Word
- Homily, reciting the Creed, intercession
- Liturgy of the Eucharist
- Bread + Wine, and blessings

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Informal worship examples

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Charismatic and evangelical:
- Lacks set pattern
- Emphasise the importance of the Holy Spirit and spontaneous action
- Reflects first decades of church
- Church is not only place for worship, any gathering of Christians

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2 types of worship groups

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  • Corporate worship
    • Congregations that meet at set times and places
    • Makes up the church
  • Individual worship
    • “Go to your room, close the door and pray to your father”
    • CofE service is declining
    • Affects the use of churches
    • Key part of Reformation was that everybody is their own priest
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Types of prayer (7)

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Adoration
Confessional
Contemplation
Praise
Thanksgiving
Supplication
Informal/Extemporaneous

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Two types of denominational worship

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Quakers:
- Informal prayer that highlights presence of God
- No set prayers
- Often silent, except for ministry
Evangelical worship
- Informal, not set
- Glossolalia
- Singing and dancing

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The 7 catholic sacraments

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Baptism
Eucharist
Confirmation
Penance
Anointing of the sick
Holy orders
Marriage

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Other denominational views on sacraments

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Protestant: only Baptism and eucharist
Quaker and salvation army support none, still live holy lives

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Baptism ceremony

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  • Ordained minister or authorised lay person
  • symbolises purification of sin
  • Born again in life with God
  • Infant:
    • water sprinkled on head or immersed
    • Freedom from original sins for Catholics
    • Christening
    • Parents and Godparents promise to raise in faith
    • Candle lit, oil anointed
  • Adults:
    • Reflects Jesus
    • Believers baptism
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Other reasons for baptism

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  • Entry into Church, and family for infants
  • Chance to proclaim faith
  • Jesus commanded followers to baptise
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Different views on Eucharist

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Catholics:
- Bread and wine actually become body and blood, transubstantiation
Lutherans:
- Sacramental union, join but still separate
Protestants:
- Spiritual presence of Holy Spirit
- Baptists believe in memorialism

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Purpose of pilgrimage

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  • Adventure and curiosity
  • Meet new people
  • New experience
  • Act of religious devotion
  • Attempt to walk in the footsteps of religious figures
  • Atonement
  • Supplication
  • Reflects journey of life toward God
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Walsingham

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  • Became Holy in 1061
  • Contains replica of house in nazareth, after dream of virgin Mary
  • Destroyed in 1538
  • Anglican shrine today
  • Commemorates the birth of Jesus
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Taize

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  • Founded in 1940
  • Important ecumenical monastic community and order
  • Works for reconciliation of Catholics and Protestants
  • 100,000 visitors a year
  • 3 services a day
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Purpose of Christmas

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  • Focuses on the importance of incarnation
  • Advent highlights importance, used to fast
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Celebration of Christmas

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  • Nativity scenes or plays
  • Christingle services
  • Carols
  • Cards
  • Decorations like Advent wreaths
  • Midnight mass communions
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Lent

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  • Commemorates time that Jesus spent fasting in desert while tempted by the devil
  • Begins on Ash Wednesday
  • Catholics get ash cross on forehead in service
  • Day of fasting
  • Shrove Tuesday, give up vices
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Days of Easter

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1) Palm Sunday
- Arrival of Jesus in Jerusalem
- Crosses out of palm leaves made
2) Maundy Tuesday:
- Last supper
- Mass takes place and priests wash feet
3) Good Friday
- Jesus’ death on the cross
- Day of mourning, Catholics fast
4) Easter Sunday

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Celebrations on Easter

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  • Cards
  • Eggs
  • Church services
  • Leaving flowers at cemeteries
  • Vigil on Saturday of the Holy Week
20
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Fall in Church attendance

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Halved from 1980 to 2015, 11.8% to 5%

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Christian influence in Law

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  • House of Lords
  • Lords Spiritual are 26 of most senior CofE bishops, non-elected
  • Laws reflect the 10 commandments
  • Both houses open with Christian prayer
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Christian influence on Festivals

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  • School holidays on Christmas and Easter
  • Has become more secular, eg St Valentines day
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Christian influence on traditions

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  • ‘Keep holy the Sabbath day’, regarded as day of rest and shop hours are restricted
  • In court of law, people often swear on the Bible, if not, can make ‘witness affirmation’
  • Hymns at remembrance services
  • Marriages often take place at Church
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Religious influence on schools

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  • 1/3 states schools in UK are faith schools
  • All state schools legally have to teach RS
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Role of Church in local community

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  • Food banks
  • Youth clubs
  • Summer festivals
  • Emergency shelter
  • Mothers’ union meetings
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Church Growth

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  • Weekly attendance at CofE, feel from 720,000 in 2019 to 650,000 in 2023
  • Evangelists churches are growing fast
    • Uses church planting, eg Icthus fellowship
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Fresh expressions

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  • CofE movement to attract more people
  • Informal settings eg church cafes
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World growth of Christianity

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In sub-saharan Africa, growing from about half a billion people in 2010 to more than a billion in 2050

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Tearfund

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  • Reflects agape
  • Provides aid in over 50 countries
  • Helps after disaster
  • Role in public awareness
    • Fundraises
  • Campaigns against poverty
  • Set up 30 football clubs in Columbia
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Open doors

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Created by Brother Andrew in USSR, 1955
- Distributes Bibles
- Trains Christians to deal with trauma
- Practical support
- Speaks on behalf of perscuted, eg by lobbying MPs

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World Council of Churches

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  • 110 countries, not Roman Catholic
  • Works for reconciliation through ecumenical services
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Ecumenical movement

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Started with World missionary conference of 1910
- Different churches can share buildings
- Hold joint services

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