I need 20 facts on the difference of the Roman catholic church and the eastern othordox church?

Answer 1

Except in externalities that might be hard.

a) will be Catholic and b) will be orthodox

1)
a) the bishop of Rome has universal ordinary jurisdiction
b) the bishop of Rome is first among equals, must consent to doctrine for it to be universally binding and is the appellate court of last recourse universally

2)
a)the western portion along with Protestantism, tends to view its theology in static terms
b) the Orthodox and eastern Catholic church tend to view its theology in dynamic terms

3)
a)center of unity is the church of Rome
b) center of unity is the local bishop

4)
a) tends to describe things cataphatically (for example God is Great) or what God is
b) tends to describe things apophatically (for example God is immortal) or what God is not

5)
a) tends toward autocratic thinking
b) tends toward traditionalism
c) just a note for balance the Protestant bias is towards disintegration, there are now 46,000 Protestant denominations

6)
a)liturgy is sober and based in the western Church upon the services left to us by Peter and the Gallican services (also note the slight use of the mozarabic, the Orthodox and the ambrosian services)
b)liturgy is an earthly representation of the wedding feast of the Lamb and was left by James

7)
a) high degree of internal diversity within the western patriarchate and an extraordinary degree of internal diversity across the particular churches
b) high degree of homogeneity within each Patriarchal church and a higher degree of homogeneity across particular churches

8)
a)theology tends to emphasize logic and reason (extreme examples would be Thomas Acquinas and all Protestant groups)
b) theology tends to emphasize the poetic (extreme example would be Ephram the Syrian)

9)
a)acknowledges 23 ecumenical councils
b) acknowledges 7 ecumenical councils

10)
a) emphasize the knowledge element of Christianity
b) emphasize the celebratory element of Christianity

11)
a) tends to express variant spiritualities through religious orders
b) tends to express variant spiritualities through national communities

12)
a)tends to look at all of Christian history for lessons
b) tends to look at the Fathers, particularly the ante-nicene, apostolic and desert fathers.

13)
a) tends to be parochial in emphasis
b) tends to be diocesan in emphasis

14)
a) In the United States, uses English, French or Spanish as its primary language
b) In the United States, tends to use home countries language as its primary language

15)
a) Western portion says the filoque
b) the Eastern portion of the Catholic Church and the Orthodox do not say the filoque

16)
a) emphasize the role of the individual
b) emphasize the role of God

17
a)service is spoken
b)service is sung

18)
a)reads the bible in the service totally over three years of Sundays
b) reads the bible in the service totally over less than one year, but daily

19)
a)willing to co-opt local culture to Christianize it
b)less willing to co-opt local culture to Christianize it

20)
a)tends to view sin as a violation
b) tends to view sin as an expression of an illness

Answer 2

try these websites....

http://www.unicorne.org/orthodoxy/articles/alex_roman/orthodox-catholic.htm

http://www.ocf.org/OrthodoxPage/reading/ortho_cath.html

http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_rceo.htm

http://www.wayoflife.org/fbns/eastern.htm


Hope this helps...;o)