What was the earliest reference to the 3 States of the Church?
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The mediaeval schoolmen distinguished three stages in the catholic church as to its locality,—the militant church on earth (ecclesia militans), the church of the departed or the sleeping church in purgatory (ecclesia dormiens), and the triumphant church in heaven (ecclesia triumphans). This classification was retained by Wiclif [1330-1384], Hus [1369-1415], and other forerunners of Protestantism; but the Reformers rejected the intervening purgatorial church, together with prayers for the departed, and included all the pious dead in the church triumphant. History of the Christian Church, Volume VII. Modern Christianity. The German Reformation
TERMS USED ALONE or PARTLY TOGETHER PREVIOUSLY
MILITANT
Cyprian [210-258] to Cornelius
Think you, brother, that their wickednesses against God are trifling, their sins small and moderate—since by their means the majesty of an angry God is not besought, since the anger and the fire and the day of the Lord is not feared—since, when Antichrist is at hand the faith of the militant people is disarmed by the taking away of the power of Christ and His fear? - Fathers of the Third Century: Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian - Epistle LIV
PENITENT
Canons of the African Church [about 400 CE plus or minus 20 years]
Canon XLIII. (Greek xlvi.)
Concerning penitents.
That to penitents the times of their penance shall be assigned by the will of the bishop according to the difference of their sins; and that a presbyter shall not reconcile a penitent without consulting the bishop, unless the absence of the bishop urges him necessarily thereto. But when of any penitent the offence has been public and commonly known, so as to have scandalized the whole Church, he shall receive imposition of the hand before the altar (Lat. “before the apse”). - The Seven Ecumenical Councils -Canon XLII
TRIUMPHANT
Aquinas [1225-1274]
Objection 4: Again, it would seem that the greatest aureole is due to doctors. Because the Church militant is modelled after the Church triumphant. Now in the Church militant the greatest honor is due to doctors (1 Tim. 5:17): "Let the priests that rule well be esteemed worthy of double honor, especially they who labor in the word and doctrine." Therefore a greater aureole is due to them in the Church triumphant. - Summa Theologica
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The term Ecclesia Militans (Church Militant) has been traditionally ascribed to Pope Clement V in his letter to King Philip IV in 1311. 1
The image below is titled The Church Militant and the Church Triumphant, fresco by Andrea da Firenze in Santa Maria Novella, c. 1365 2
1. The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages
2. The Church Militant and The Church Triumphant at Project Gutenbeg
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