Theo II
Latin v. Greek - Two ancient languages both used by the East and the West.
Lay people - people of the church who are not ordained.
Liturgy - Mass that involves prayer and for a special reason.
Magisterium - The teaching authority of the church.
Martin Luther - Started the Protestant Reformation
Martyr - A person who dies for their faith/belief
Matthias - Selected as the 12th apostle after Judas left.
Monk - An ordained minister who lives a monastic life.
Monophysite - A group of people that follow the Monophysitism heresy.
Nero - A Roman Emperor who persecuted the church; 666 is his number.
Nestorius/Nestorianism - A heresy that tells people that Jesus was not incarnated.
Nominalism - A heresy that is widely spread.
Nostra Aetate - In Our Lives
Nun - A sister in faith; compared to a monk
Orthodoxy - The right belief/faith
Orthopraxy - The right practice
Papal Decree - papal bull; used on Martin Luther
Papal Schism - Split in church where there were 3 popes.
Paul - Saul before converted; saw vision and became the 13th apostle.
Pentecost - A festival where the apostles spoke out to all about Jesus.
Person v. Nature - Noah vs. Flood; A common comparison.
Peter - The first apostle and the first pope.
Persecution - To be broken up or banished
Pharisees - A religious group of people that oversee Jesus.
Pope John XXIII - Convened Vatican II
Pope Leo XIII - Known as the Rosary Pope; declared that the Rosary was to be enacted
Pope Pius IX - Conveyed Vatican I
Praxis - Faith in action
Protestant Reformation - Split in church to start new split religions.
Predestination - To be predetermined where you go when you die.
Rerum Novarum - 1 of the 4 books in Vatican II
Revelation (symbols/numbers) - 666; Mark of Beast; Dragon and Sword out of Jesus’ mouth; Devil and Jesus using words to defeat his enemy.
Road to Damascus - Where Paul had his vision of Jesus and converted.
Rome - Holy city where the western catholic church was located.
Sacrament - A visual sign of a spiritual reality.
Sacramentality - The idea that anything (people, movements, etc.) can reveal God.
Sadducees - Group that tried to stop Jesus from becoming a “fraud”
Schism - A split in the church
Simony - Sin where you can’t buy or sell church powers.
Sola Scriptura - “Only Scripture”; Bible only.
Stephen - First martyr
Trinity - Father, Son, HS; mystery
Transubstantiation - To change the substance of something.
Universal Call to Holiness
Vatican I - Important meeting to change the religious ways
Vatican II - Important meeting that changed the liturgy of the church.
Zealots - Violent group that would kill Pharisees and Sadducees.
1000 (Revelation) - The 1000 years that Christ will rule over Earth.
3 Main branches of Christianity - Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant.
4 Marks of the Church - One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic
5 Patriarchs/Metropolitan Sees - Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem
Ananias and Sapphira - Lied to the church and were found dead.
Anglicanism - A protestant religion located in England.
Antioch - A holy city where the term “Christian” was first used.
Apostles - 12; Matthew, Peter, John, Bartholomew, Judas, James, Simon, Thomas, Andrew, James son of Alpheus, Phillip, Judas Iscariot.
Apostolate - A person in the church who helps out.
Arius/Arianism - A heresy spread that states that the Father is greater than the Son and the HS.
Ascension - To rise up; Jesus rose up body and soul.
Assumption - Mary was taken up to Heaven but not by own power.
Avignon Papacy - A time period of Popes that lived in Avignon, France causing the sin of absenteeism.
Caesar - Roman Emperor who persecuted the church.
Calvinism - A protestant group who believes in no sacraments.
Catholic - Main group of Christian believers.
Charism/Spirituality - A sense of who you are and what your path is based off of personalities
Charlemagne - Crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the Pope; caused conflict.
Church - Disciples in a community.
Clergy - All of the ordained people.
Commissioning of disciples -
Constantine - Emperor who moved the capital to Constantinople
Consubstantial/(Homoousios) - The same substance
Cornelius - Roman man who converted to Christian faith.
Council of Jerusalem - Gentiles can now follow God without Hebrew laws.
Council of Nicea - Helped stop and resolve Arianism.
Council of Trent - Response to the Protestant Reformation.
Creed - A saying that all Christians believe in.
Damascus - The road Saul was on before he converted.
Deacon - An ordained minister of the church.
Destruction of the Temple - Caused by many people and the Babylonians looking for revenge.
Diocese - Deacon Hood; group of Deacons
Disciple - A person in the church who spreads the word.
Doctrine - A teaching of the church.
Donatism - A heresy that caused a Schism.
Eastern vs. Western Roman Empire - One had Latin, the other had greek; One had unleavened bread, the other had leavened bread.
Eastern Orthodox - The Eastern side of the church.
Ecumenical Council - A council that helps solve a crisis in the church
Edict of Milan - Stopped the persecution of the church.
Edict of Thessalonica - Made Christianity the main religion in the Roman Empire.
Edict of Toleration - Officially ended the Persecution of the church.
Encyclical - a papal letter sent to all bishops of the Roman Catholic Church.
Enlightenment - An era in time where many ideas and inventions were created.
Eucharist - A sacrament that grants grace to those who take it; Jesus’ body and blood.
Excommunication - To be left out of the church and excluded from communion.
Filioque - And from the Son.
Gamaliel - A Pharisee doctor who believed in Jesus and stopped the killing of the disciples.
Gaudium Et Spes - One of the 4 constitutions in Vatican II.
Gentile - A person who has no religion.
Gospel of Luke - Told the story as if he was with Jesus.
Greed - One of the 7 deadly sins; causes people to be angry over something.
Henry VIII - Started Anglicanism
Heresy - A false teaching of a dogma
Indulgence - To receive a huge amount of grace that can send someone to heaven.
Infallibility - To be incapable of failure.
Immaculate Conception
Jerusalem - The Holy City where the first Temple was kept.
Jesuits - A Holy Order made by St. Francis of Assisi.
John XXIII - Conveyed Vatican II.