Catholic (term) the Creed with the word "Christian" in place of "catholic". The Orthodox churches share some of the concerns about Roman Catholic papal claims, but disagree with some Protestants about the nature of the church as one body. Catholic (term) The word catholic (with lowercase "c"; derived via Late Latin "catholicus", from the Greek adjective ("katholikos"), meaning "universal") comes from the Greek phrase ("katholou"), meaning "on the whole", "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole". The term Catholic (usually written with uppercase "C" in English) was first used
The Cults of the Greek States at any rate, a reputation of being a "bizarre and hopeless thing". The work, as Farnell freely states in his preface, is indebted to Frazer's "The Golden Bough", which generated a whole new way of studying and analysing religion, i. e. comparatively and abstractly. The author states in his preface to the work that, "a compendious account of Greek cults [...] has long been a desideratum in English," and as such Farnell wrote "The Cults of the Greek States" to sate that desire. Farnell, however, ensured that his work was thoroughly modern for its time. His work did not draw