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Trunk = Catholic Church; Councils = strengths; Heresies = dangers; Divisions = separated branches.
Single trunk: continuity from Christ and the Apostles to today.
Birth of the Church; missionary expansion; foundational doctrine.
Descent of the Holy Spirit; birth of the Church.
Resolved Gentile admission; unity preserved.
Primacy of the Roman See established.
Gospel spreads across the Mediterranean.
Church Fathers and ecumenical councils clarify doctrine.
Denied the Son’s full divinity; grave doctrinal error.
Affirmed divinity of the Son; issued Nicene Creed.
Defender of Nicene orthodoxy against Arianism.
Defined two natures of Christ in one Person.
Monasticism, evangelization, scholasticism, East–West relations.
Framework for Western monastic life.
Separation of Eastern and Western Churches.
Renewal through poverty and preaching.
Synthesis of faith and reason (Aquinas, Bonaventure).
Reformation and Catholic renewal; global missions.
Sparked separations from the Catholic Church.
Clarified doctrine; reformed discipline.
Education, missions, and reform.
Evangelization across continents.
Councils, social doctrine, global Church.
Papal primacy and infallibility.
Renewal of liturgy; ecumenism; laity.
Pursuit of Christian unity.
Human dignity, solidarity, subsidiarity, common good.
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