Vocabulary pt. 1
________ is a formal statement of beliefs.
What is a Creed?
“A joint declaration by the Roman emperor Constantine and Licinius in the East in 313 that legalized the practice of Christianity and other religions throughout the Roman Empire?”
What is the Edict of Milan?
What is the Nicene Creed?
The Pope is famous for convincing Attila the Hun not to attack Rome.
Who is Pope St. Leo the Great?
The Church father introduced a type of music that is called the “Gregorian Chant
Who is Pope St. Gregory the Great?
A teaching that directly contradicts an essential belief of the Catholic Church
What is a heresy?
The official list of inspired books in the Bible.
What is the canon?
“Religious life in which men or women leave the world and enter a monastery or convent while devoting themselves to prayer, contemplation, and self-denial in solitude”
What is monasticism?
The council of the Church was called by the Emperor Constantine.
What is the Council of Nicaea?
The Church Father who translated the Bible into Latin.
Who is St. Jerome?
The name of Pope St. Leo the Great’s writing about the divine and human nature of Jesus (fully God and fully man)
What is the Tome of Leo?
A break in Christian unity when a group separates itself from the Church
What is a Schism?
A belief that a group holds to be true
What is doctrine?
Studying who Jesus is and what he did
What is Christology?
The council that was held in 451, dealt with the heresy of monophysitism, ended the debate on Christology and created the Chalcedonian Creed.
What is the Council of Chalcedon?
Wrote “Confessions” (his autobiography)
Who is St. Augustine?
The writing of St. Augustine addresses the question of why bad things happen to good people
Studying who Jesus Christ is and what He did.
What is Christology?
means “of the same substance”; and is used to describe Christ's relationship to God the Father
What is consubstantial?
Greek word that means "God-Bearer" (Mother of God)
What is Theotokos?
The Council clarified that Jesus Christ is one person with two natures (Hypostatic Union).
What is the 2nd Council of Constantinople? or
What is the Council of Ephesus?
He wrote the first surviving outline of the Rite of Eucharist in 155AD
Who is St. Justin Martyr?
Church Father wrote songs & poetry and helped people survive during a famine?
Who is St. Ephrem?
The theory that a secular ruler could have authority over the Church, including in doctrine
What is Caesaropapism?
Means “Teaching” and it provided early Christians instruction on the faith, including on Baptism and Eucharist
What is Didache?
From the Greek term (hypostasis) this term is used to describe the union of the human and divine natures of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, in one Divine Person.
What is the Hypostatic Union?
The two Councils that combated the heresy of Nestorianism.
What are Ephesus and Constantinople II?
The Church Father whose most lasting contribution is on the theology of the Holy Spirit, which helped expand the Nicene Creed.
Who is St. Basil?
Nicknamed “Golden mouth”.
Who was St. John Chrysostom
Bishops of the 5 main episcopal sees (diocese) of Jerusalem, Antioch, Constantinople, Alexandria and Rome
Who are the Patriarchs?