Themes in the Celtic Church, Reformation and Post-Reformation Church

What Themes in the Celtic Church, Reformation and Post-Reformation Church covers

Themes in the Celtic Church, Reformation and Post-Reformation Church is examined in A2 5, one of the two A2 units chosen — area of study: Systematic Study of One Religion. Worth 30% of the A level. A student may not take two units from the same area of study.. It covers the Paschal Controversy and the road to Whitby, the Synod of Whitby and the Roman-Celtic dispute, Patrick and the authority of Armagh, the Peregrini and the ideal of exile for Christ, Irish missionaries in Northern Britain and Europe, Columbanus: his Rule, controversies and writings, the Reformation and Counter Reformation: authority and church order, Vatican II: aggiornamento, collegiality and authority, missionary outreach in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, mission, secularisation and modern atheism, religion and the state and religion, moral witness and the resolving of conflict.

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• The Paschal Controversy and the road to WhitbyPaschal Controversy and difference in lunar limits between the two reckonings.Open →
• The Synod of Whitby and the Roman-Celtic disputeChief speaker on each side and difference between the Roman and the Celtic tonsure.Open →
• Patrick and the authority of ArmaghBook of Armagh, claim made by the Liber Angeli and tírechán compiling.Open →
• The Peregrini and the ideal of exile for ChristVoluntary exile as ascetic discipline, Columbanus and the continental foundations, and what the ideal cost those who took it.Open →
• Irish missionaries in Northern Britain and EuropeTwo political acts of Colmcille recorded by Adomnán and colmcille's work among the Picts.Open →
• Columbanus: his Rule, controversies and writingsThree monasteries Columbanus founded in the Vosges, regula monachorum and regula coenobialis.Open →
• The Reformation and Counter Reformation: authority and church orderPriesthood of all believers, three main patterns of Protestant church government and council of Trent and when did it sit.Open →
• Vatican II: aggiornamento, collegiality and authorityFour constitutions of the Council, central image of the church in Lumen Gentium and collegiality and state how it relates to papal primacy.Open →
• Missionary outreach in the nineteenth and twentieth centuriesWilliam Carey's contribution to modern missions, distinctive about Hudson Taylor's China Inland Mission and two Catholic missionary societies founded in the nineteenth century.Open →
• Mission, secularisation and modern atheismSecularisation as Bryan Wilson understood it, grace Davie's phrase believing without belonging and vicarious religion.Open →
• Religion and the stateLuther's doctrine of the two kingdoms and barmen Declaration.Open →
• Religion, moral witness and the resolving of conflictArgument of Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail, liberation theology and corrymeela Community.Open →

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1. 1

   What was the Paschal Controversy?

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   The Paschal Controversy was the long dispute in the western church over how the date of Easter should be calculated, which set the reckoning kept in Ireland and at Iona against the reckoning used at Rome.

2. 2

   Which Easter cycle did the Irish churches and Iona use?

   Model answer

   The Irish churches and Iona used an 84-year cycle, known to scholars as the latercus, inherited from an older Roman table that Rome itself had abandoned.

3. 3

   Which cycle had Rome adopted by the seventh century?

   Model answer

   Rome had adopted the Alexandrian 19-year cycle, transmitted to the West in the tables of Dionysius Exiguus.

4. 4

   Explain the difference in lunar limits between the two reckonings.

   Model answer

   The Irish reckoning allowed Easter on the Sunday falling between the fourteenth and twentieth days of the lunar month, while the Roman reckoning used the fifteenth to the twenty-first, so only the Irish could keep Easter on the fourteenth day.

5. 5

   Why is it unfair to call the Irish Quartodecimans?

   Model answer

   Quartodecimans kept Easter on the fourteenth day of the lunar month whatever the weekday, whereas the Irish always kept Easter on a Sunday and differed only in the lunar limits they permitted.

6. 6

   Why was the disagreement more than a technical question of computation?

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   Easter governed the whole penitential and liturgical year, so two reckonings in one kingdom meant one community feasting while the other was still fasting, and each side's practice implied a judgement on the other's obedience.

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What does Themes in the Celtic Church, Reformation and Post-Reformation Church cover in CCEA A-Level Religious Studies?

12 subtopics: the paschal controversy and the road to whitby, the synod of whitby and the roman-celtic dispute, patrick and the authority of armagh, the peregrini and the ideal of exile for christ, irish missionaries in northern britain and europe, columbanus: his rule, controversies and writings, the reformation and counter reformation: authority and church order, vatican ii: aggiornamento, collegiality and authority, missionary outreach in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, mission, secularisation and modern atheism, religion and the state and religion, moral witness and the resolving of conflict. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.

How is Themes in the Celtic Church, Reformation and Post-Reformation Church organised?

By the CCEA 4610 specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.