The idea that God is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit
What is the trinity?
100
Four major characteristics of the Christian Church.
What are the four marks?
100
A Latin word meaning "and the son".
What is Filioque?
100
Controversy over the notion of the trinity
What is the question of how God could be three and one at the same time?
100
The first mark
What is the oneness of the Church?
200
Embodied in flesh or taking on flesh.
What is incarnation?
200
The Christian Church headed by the bishop of Rome, known as the Pope.
What is the Roman Catholic church?
200
The Christian doctrine that the Bible is the supreme authority in all matters of doctrine and practice.
What is sola scriptura?
200
Jesus was not created by the Father
What is he was "eternally begotten?"
200
The second mark
What is the holiness of the church?
300
A profession of the Christian faith adopted by the First Council of Nicaea in 325.
What is the Nicene Creed?
300
This church claims to be the one true church of Christ, tracing its origin through apostolic succession.
What is Eastern Orthodoxy?
300
The doctrine of justification by faith alone.
What is sola fide?
300
A central tenet of Christianity dealing with Jesus
What is that Jesus was God incarnate in human form?
300
The third mark
What is that the church is open to all?
400
A Christian concept regarding a future return of Jesus to Earth after his "first coming."
What is the second coming?
400
Founded by Martin Luther, they protested the practices of the Catholic Church.
What is Protestantism?
400
The bread and wine offered in the sacrifice of the sacrament of the Eucharist during the Mass, become, in reality, the physical body and blood of Christ.
What is transubstantiation?
400
The Holy Spirit proceeds from just the father
What is the Eastern Orthodox view of the Holy Spirit?
400
The fourth mark
What is that the church must be apostolic?
500
The final and eternal judgment by God of the people in every nation.
What is the last judgment?
500
The division between the Eastern Orthodox and Western Roman churches and three different lines of popes.
What is the Great Schism?
500
The idea that saints may be asked to pray for others.
What is the intercession of saints?
500
For Christians, the the thing we wait for after we die.
What is the "particular judgment?"
500
Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Protestantism