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• 1 Preliminary considerations from the perspective of fundamental theology

• 1.1.1 ´Church´ - an ambigious word

• What is the historical symbol that all denominations worldwide see is the Church and how is it theologically understood?

  Communio sanctorum. Meaning communion in the Holy (sancta), therefore communion of the saint (sancti) or believers.

• Why does the Church, as being a communion of faith and worship resulting in being a serving community, not encompass all the different meanings of church?

  Church can be local presence or worldwide Church in and out of all people.

• Why is unity between Christians urgently needed?

  We encoounter the Church empirically in a confusing multitude of denominational churches.

• 1.1.2 Understanding the Church from inside out

• What are two definitons of church that Catholics, Protestants, Orthodox and free church Christians agree together on in Apostles Creed?

  1. Communion of saints
  2. Believers participating in the Holy

• What is the common ground of CHirstians that set Christians apart from other religious adherents, sceptics, agnostics and anti-religious people?

  One faith in Jesus Christ and one baptism.

• What are the two reasons modern Christians cannot take for granted being a Christian and actively belonging to a CHurch?

  Today´s Christians live in a pluralistic, largely secular world. 
  We as Christians live in a CHristian diaspora.

• What do you call the theology of the nature and struture of church and why is this term not just academic?

  Ecclesiology. This touches the life of every Christian in one way or another.

• 1.1.3 The basic problem of ecclesiology

• What is the sign of what the Church essentially is in the spiritual reality, according to Catholic ecclesiology?

  The visible, institutionally tangible form of the Church.

• 1.2.1 Ecclesioloical method - ecclesiology the science of Faith

• How is Catholic ecclesiology understood diachronically (I-form) and synchronically (we-form)?

  Synchronically the Church is a reflection of itself.
  Diachronically the Church has an ongoing mission.

• 1.2.2 Ecclesiology as the self-reflection of the Church

• The church is one single, complex and concrete reality made up of two elements? What are they?

  Human element and divine element.