religion test 3

Define Ecumenical Council

Define Ecumenical Council

Worldwide gathering of THE Pope and Church officials.

• The teachings could be infallible

Why did doctrines begin to develop?

The deposit is handed down from generation to generation so it grows in detail and definition

The development of doctrine adds new teachings to the teachings of the Church.

false, no new information

Heresies only began to develop and grow after the legalization of Christianity.

false, before because they were about who Jesus Christ is

• A bishop of Milan and is a Doctor of the Church

• was the first to mention the Apostle’s Creed

• was the voice against Arianism in the west

• stood against the influence of the emperor on the life of the church.

St. Ambrose

• The founder of Arianism

• was a priest from North Africa

• Alexander of Alexandria condemned him

Arius

Heresies are always just attempts to destroy the Church.

false

Gnosticism (Gnostics)

A group of heretical religious movements that

• believed that we are saved by Jesus' secret teachings.

• claimed that the material world was evil and that Jesus never had a physical body.

The _______ believed that we are saved by Jesus' secret teachings.

Gnostics

__________ used the creation story from Genesis to refute the Gnostic view of creation.

St. Iranaeus

Heresies began to develop because ___.

people tried to explain the Deposit of Faith but got it wrong

Doctrines ___.

clarify what is already present in the Deposit of Faith

St. Monica was the mother of St. ___.

• was born to a pagan father

Augustine

_____ taught that Christ was first among creatures but not equal to God.

Arianism

A Creed that we as Christians say during mass.

• Made at the Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D.

Nicene Creed

“the divinity of Christ”

• Emperor Constantine called for this council to begin writing the Nicene Creed

• was the first ecumenical council

• condemned Arianism

The Council of Nicaea

Theotokos means

Mother of God

Christokos means

Mother of Christ

these saints were a bishop, Church Father, and Doctor of the Church.

Athanasius, Ambrose, Augustine (all)

St. Augustine became Christian because ___.

• the prayer of his mother

• his study of philosophy

• he heard the preaching of St. Ambrose

The Council of _____ gave us the finished product of the Nicene Creed.

• revised and added the clauses referring to the Holy Spirit

Constantinople

_____ is the heresy which taught that Mary only gave birth to the human, Christ, not the divine Jesus in referring to 2 persons

Nestorianism

one who teaches, promotes, or believes in heresy is called a _____

heretic

St. _______ said:

“Our hearts are restless until they rest in you, O Lord”

"Lord make me chaste, but not just yet."

• Bishop of Hippo and is now called a Church father and Doctor of the Church

• one of the most quoted saints in the Catechism

• was well educated

• lived a sinful life of lust and heresy as a young adult

  (was not always holy)

Augustine

Doctor of the Church

title granted to someone by the pope for development of theology and their personal holiness

When the emperor acts like a pope

Caesaropapism

The _______ is the name for the latin translation of scripture.

Vulgate

St. Augustine was a strong advocate for the separation of Church and state.

false, God’s Justice: wanted church united

Pope St.____ gave the definitive teaching of the hypostatic union.

• The union of two natures, human and divine, in the one Person of Jesus Christ

Leo

St. _____ said:

"Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ”

• is a Church Father and Doctor of the Church

• was renowned for his great acts of penance with a large stone.

• translated scripture into Latin

Jerome

______ is the rejection of one or more truths of the Church after baptism.

Heresy

______ is when a person rejects the authority of the Pope after baptism.

Schism

______ is a complete rejection of Christianity after baptism.

Apostacy

Why did doctrines begin to develop?

The deposit is handed down from generation to generation so it grows in detail and definition

The development of doctrine is only about creating new teachings

false, passed down teachings

homousias means

“same in essence” to describe how Jesus and the Father were one God.

• An Eastern Church Father who proposed the word homousias

• was the champion of orthodox Christianity.

• was exiled 5 times for teaching against Arianism

  • Nearly the only voice against Arianism in the East came from him

St. Athanasius

Council of Ephesus (431)

• declared that Mary was the Theotokos (the Mother of God)

• corrected a heresy

Council of Chalcedon (451)

• Fought off Heresy of Monophysitism

  • Monophysitism taught Jesus only had one nature