4 Marks of the Church
Early Heresies
Definitions
Great Schism
Reformation
100
This mark means that the Church is historically connected to the Apostles and Christ.
What is apostolic?
100
This is a person who denies a truth of the faith and publicly teaches against that truth.
Who is a heretic?
100
A summary statement of belief meant t be used for public professions of faith.
What is a creed?
100
After the Great Schism, the Western Church took this name.
What is "Catholic" or "Roman Catholic?"
100
This man's 95 Theses began the Protestant Reformation.
Who is Martin Luther?
200
This mark of the Church means that the Church is universal.
What is catholic?
200
This heresy argued that Jesus gave secret knowledge to certain followers and not to others.
What is Gnosticism?
200
A break in Christian unity that occurs when a group of Christians reject the authority of the Pope and bishops.
What is schism?
200
After the Great Schism, the Eastern Church takes this name.
What is "Orthodox" or "Eastern Orthodox?"
200
This Latin phrase represents the Protestant conviction that the Bible is the only source of authority for the Church.
What is sola scriptura?
300
These are the ways in which the Church is One.
What are faith, worship, and leadership.
300
The First Ecumenical Council, which was called to combat Arianism, was held in this city in modern-day Turkey.
What is Nicaea?
300
A central belief of the Church that is divinely revealed and officially defined by the Magisterium.
What is a dogma?
300
The East formally split from the Church due to disagreements over the role of this clergyman.
Who is the Pope?
300
This Latin phrase refers to the Protestant belief that only Faith, not any good works, can bring salvation.
What is sola fide or sola gratia?
400
This Mark of the Church mean that the Church is set apart for God and connected to Him through Christ.
What is holy.
400
This heresy argued that Jesus was not God, but was God's first and greatest creation.
What is Arianism?
400
A secondary belief of the Church that is defined by the Magisterium in order to explain a central belief.
What is a doctrine?
400
The Orthodox Churches are divided into national or ethnic groups, but they have this clergyman as their symbolic leader.
Who is the Patriarch of Constantinople?
400
This Ecumenical Council was convened by the Catholic Church to counter the new beliefs of the Protestant Reformers.
What is the Council of Trent?
500
The Four Marks of the Church apply to these three parts of the Communion of Saints.
What are the Church on Earth, the Church in Purgatory, and the Church in Heaven.
500
At the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, there was a scuffle involving these two prominent Church leaders.
Who are Arius and St. Nicholas?
500
The movement that seeks to restore unity among the various branches of Christianity.
What is Ecumenism?
500
The Orthodox Churches are in Schism from the Catholic Church, but have not fallen into Heresy because they have kept these three things.
(1) They have kept Apostolic Succession. (2) They have kept all Seven Sacraments. (3) They have kept all beliefs of the Faith.
500
The divide between Catholics and Protestants is much greater than that between Catholics and the Orthodox. Give three major differences between the Catholic Church and the Protestant Churches.
(Answers may vary, points are given at my discretion)
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