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Head of the Apostles and considered the first "Pope."
Who is Peter?
Place where Constantine proclaimed that Christianity was to be made legal in the Roman Empire.
What is Milan?
What is right living?
"Theotokos" is a Greek word which means "God-bearer" and refers to her.
Who is Mary?
Dogma stating that the consecrated substance of bread and wine at Eucharist become the substance of the body and blood of Christ - Christ's Real Presence, not merely a memorial or sign.
What is transubstantiation?
Religious people who were part of the Jewish upper class. This group included political leaders who were tolerant of Roman rule.
Who are the Sadducees?
Place where Martin Luther was tried and where the question of lay investiture was settled.
What is Worms?
Word which refers to the movement which seeks Christian unity and the eventual unity of all peoples throughout the world.
What is ecumenism?
Phrase which refers to the two-century period of political stability that helped the spread of Christianity. It literally translates to "Peace of Rome."
What is Pax Romana?
Sacrament which passes the power of Jesus and the Apostles on to priests.
What is Holy Orders?
The most important order to help the church move through the Catholic Reformation.
Who are the Jesuits?
Reference to all of the Christian world as a sort of social and political polity.
What is Christendom?
Ban which prohibits someone from participating in the sacraments.
What is interdict?
Brief anonymous early Christian treatise written in Koine Greek and dated by most scholars to the first century.
What is Didache?
Theological and philosophical education system developed by major Catholic thinkers.
What is scholasticism?
Patron saint of Europe and founder of the most influential form of monasticism.
Who is Benedict?
City and country where the Babylonian Captivity of the Church took place?
What is Avignon, France?
Word that refers to the buying and selling of spiritual things and church property such as offices.
What is simony?
Papal bull issued in 1302 to assert that popes reigned supreme over secular rulers in both temporal and spiritual affairs.
What is Unam Sanctum?
Orders identify with this term which refers to their pledge to go shoeless.
What is discalced?
Apologist who wrote to Jews that Jesus was the Messiah, the Church the new Israel and that Christian teaching fulfilled the Torah.
Who is St. Justin Martyr?
Place of siege which ended the First Jewish-Roman war in what is believed to have been a mass suicide.
What is Masada?
Latin term for the phrase "and from the Son," which was added to the Creed. It was one of the central causes of the Schism of 1054 between Eastern and Western Churches.
What is filioque?
What is kerygma?
Term which refers to a trance of joy and delight in the Lord.
What is spiritual ecstasies?