Question | Answer |
What are the years of the middle ages | 590-1517 |
What did the church replace the scripture with | The church's own authority |
Did the church become corrupted during and after the fall of Rome | yes |
What movement signaled the end of the domination of church errancy | The Reformation |
What is the year Papal infallibility became official doctrine | 1870 |
What happened to those who questioned the church's or the pope's authority? | They were damned and excommunicated |
Augustinian theology was replaced by what? | Pelagian theology |
How did one become saved according to the Roman Catholic church | submission to the church and doing the works they told you to |
How does man gain heaven according to R.C. church | By what he does |
The idea of complete sanctification is based on what? | the sinful nature getting better |
What is the problem of the idea of complete sanctification? | the sinful nature does not get better. We must crucify it every day. Only when we die will we be free of our sinful nature. |
According to the R.C. church how did one gain sainthood? | By going above and beyond the works you had to to gain heaven. |
Why did people pray to the saints? | In hopes they would: intercede with God on their behalf, cause a miracle to happen, or pass their merit onto them. |
How were the clergy viewed? | They were more holy than the laymen |
How did the clergy act | They were for the most part extremely immoral |
Why was it good when the clergy had a mistress | That meant he would leave the laymen's wives alone |
What is penance | Paying for sin's committed after baptism through self-inflicted pain or restrictions. |
What is a biblical saint? | Any saved person |
What is purgatory | The place Catholics believe people who have not done enough penance will go to get the sin beat out of them |
What does Augustinian theology state? | All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Therefore the only person who can take us from our path's of destruction is Jesus. We can do nothing to help. |
What does Pelagian theology state? | That mankind only has evil tendencies. We can help ourselves get into heaven by our works. |
What does xp stand for? | Chi Rho, the first two letters in the title Christ in Greek which Constantine's soldiers put on their shields. |
Who has the title Doctor Gratiae? | Augistine, means doctor of grace |
Who was claimed by both Protestants and Catholics as their forefather? | Augistine |
What does Pax Romana mean? | Roman Peace |
What was the date of the battle that Constantine won in which he put the Chi Rho on his soldier's shields? Where did it take place | October 28, 312
Melvian Bridge |
Who wrote the first account of Christian History | Eusebius |
What title did Eusebius give to Constantine | Thirteenth Apostle |
What did the edict of Milan do? | Gave the right of religious freedom to Christians |
Who was Felicitas | A servant girl who was martyred with Perpetua |
Who was Arius | a heretic that said that there was a time when Christ wasn't |
Who was Perpetua? | A martyr who would not let her hair hang down as she was being martyred. |
Who was Saint Antony | The father of Monasticism |
What was the White Martyrdom | Monasticism |
Who was Athanasius? What was his nickname? What is a phrase related to his frequent banishments? What does this phrase mean? | A hero who taught that Jesus was the same essence as God. Black Dwarf. Athanasius contra Mundi. Athanasius against the world. |
What does Homousiuos mean? | Same essence |
Dynamic Monarchianism | emphasized unity of God, denied deity of Christ, Jesus was a man that was penetrated by the divine essence |
Neoplatonism | Metaphysical, Knowledge helps you to be absorbed into the divine essence. |
Manicheanism | man is mixture of light and dark, priests are better than laymen, light and dark are two opposing, eternal principles |
Donatism | those who denied Christ should not retain their positions as Bishops. Sacraments done by them don't mean anything. |
Easter Controversy | argument over the date of easter |
Docetism | Jesus was a spiritual being, a phantom, he only looked mortal |
Modal Monarchiansim | Holy spirit, Father, Son were just manifestations of God. |
Montanism | fanatical, reestablished use of tongues, leader saw himself as Paraclete |
Ebionites | jewish law still bound believers, Jesus as an ordinary man indwelt by Holy Spirit |
Gnosticism | A demiurge created the world, Matter is evil, Secret knowledge was the gateway to salvation |
Marcionism | Anti-Semitic. Hated OT, matter was evil, produced own canon |
The years of early theological controversy were | 313-451 |
the benefits of the ecumencial councils were | clear doctrine or formulations for all |
Arius's view of Christ was | There was a time when he was not |
Heteros means | other |
Homoi means | Similar |
Homoousious means | of the same essence |
Athanasius was concerned in the Arian debate because | If Christ was not God he was not Savior |
Athanasius's view of Christ was | He had the same essence with the Father |
Athanasius believed in | Homoousios |
Who was the theologian that communicated the difference of essence and person in the Godhead | Gregory of Nyassa |
To whom did Arianism spread | The barbarian tribes |
The negative result of the Nicene Council was | The church was dominated by the emperor |
The council of Constantinople in 381 condemned what | The holy spirit on the level of angels |
Filioque refers to | The holy spirit proceeding also from the Son of God |
After the problem of Arianism, what was the next doctrinal concern that arose in the church | the human and divine natures of Christ |
Apollinarius believed | that Christ had a true human body and soul but his human spirit was replaced by the divine |
Nestorius taught that in Christ | The human and divine natures were combined mechanically |
Theotokos means | God Bearer |
Eutyches teaching about Christ was | The divine nature swallowed up the human one |
This council expressed the two natures of Christ better than any mere human words before or since | Chalcedon |
In what two things is Christ complete in | Christ is complete in Godhead and complete in manhood |
The Monophysites were almost exactly like what other early heterodox teaching? | Eutychianism |
What is biblical regarding Christ's will | two will exist harmoniously in him and the human will is subject to the divine |
Over what was the Pelagian Controversy | divine and human will in the process of salvattion |
Augustine's conversion experience proved to him that | He could not bring himself out of sin to Christ |
Pelagius's view on inherited sin was | We are free from the contamination of Adam's sin |
Augustines view on inherited sin was | we are all totally depraved at conception as a result of being the offspring of Adam |
Pelagius's view on the sins of past influencing us now is | we are weakened by the sins of the past, though we don't inherit original sin |
Augustine believed Pelagius was denying | God's grace |
The four alphaprivitives of the Chalcedonian creed are | without separation, without change, without division, without confusion |