What is the difference between church and Church?

Answer 1

'Church' with a capital C refers to the Universal Church as founded by Jesus Christ, usually referred to as the Catholic Church but taken by some to mean all Christian denominations.

Example: 'The Church was founded by Jesus Christ.'

'church' with a small case C would usually refer to the building used in worship.

Example: 'There is a church on the corner of Park and Main Streets.' Or 'There are no Lutheran churches in my home town.'

Answer 2

A church is any gathering or people (from 2 upwards!) to worship, and also is the name of the building in which they worship - of any size.

A cathedral is any building that houses the 'cathedra' - the throne of the bishop of a diocese - an area of land (usually county-sized) over which the bishop has pastoral care and authority.

Usually the cathedral is the largest and lost impressive church in the diocese, although this is not always so. In the UK some churches are larger than many cathedrals and some cathedrals are no bigger than a small church - but it is the throne - the cathedra - which gives the church the honor of being called a cathedral.

Answer 3

The word church implies not only the building itself but also the people who worship there. A cathedral, in the Catholic Church, is the designated principal church of a diocese.

Answer 4

A church is the building or the community of believers. Religion is a set of beliefs which are practiced.

Answer 5

When the word "Church" is capitalized, it is almost always a specific reference to the Catholic church.

Answer 6

The separation of church and state is the distance in the relationship between organized religion and the nation state.

Answer 7

The difference between Church and church is that the church is the structure used in worship while the Church refers to the people of God and it is where the Holy Spirit reside.

Answer 8

In political science, a "nation" refers to a group of people who feel bound into a single body by shared culture, values, folkways, religion and/or language. A "state" just refers to a patch of land with a sovereign government. States often coincide with nations (and are called "nation-states," but not always. States that overlap multiple nations tend to have civil wars; states that exclude parts of a nation tend to have wars with the neighboring state(s) that contain the rest of the nation.