Vocabulary, Again
The Seven Sacraments
The Church Year
Islam
The Church Splits
200

The result of a church disagreement if a person had little power.

What is an inquisition?

200

The sacrament in which Catholics teach transubstantiation.

What is Holy Communion?

200

The season of the church year before Easter when people historically took instruction to become Christians; occurs when the days lengthen.

What is Lent?

200

The founding prophet of Islam.

Who is Mohammed?

200

The person who the bishop of Rome claimed was head of the church.

Who is the pope (Papa)?

400

The age when even common people tried to recapture the glory of ancient Greece and Rome (means "rebirth").

What is the Renaissance?

400

The sacrament in which sinners had to do something to gain their repentance.

What is Penance?

400

The season of the church year that celebrates the birth of Christ during the Roman observance of the winter solstice, Bacchanalia.

What is Christmas?

400

The divine being of the Muslim religion.

Who is Allah?

400

The man who was sent to Constantinople in 1054 by Leo IX to demand that they accept Rome's point of view.

Who is Cardinal Humbert?

600

The period of time in which the popes were controlled by impenitent prostitutes.

What is pornocracy?

600

The sacrament in which non-Catholics would have to sign an agreement that their children would be raised in the Catholic Church.

What is Marriage?

600

The season of the church year when people look forward to the coming of Christ (Latin: advenire).

What is Advent?

600

The expansion of the Muslim religion through holy war.

What is jihad?

600

The type of bread that the bishop of Constantinople believed should be used in Holy Communion.

What is leavened bread?

800

The name for artwork drawn into biblical texts by monks.

What is illumination?

800

The two sacraments that were rarely performed for the same person.

What are Marriage and Ordination?

800

The most important festival of the church year, originally called Pascha.

What is Easter?

800

The basic "commandments" of the Islamic religion.

What are the Five Pillars?


800

The teaching of Rome about the Nicene Creed's use of "and from the Son."

What is filioque?

1000

The idea that infused grace could only come through priests.

What is sacerdotalism?

1000

The sacrament performed for believers near to death.

What is Extreme Unction (or Last Rites)?

1000

The number of seasons in the church year during medieval times.

What is six?

1000

The city where Mohammed eventually settled, called "the prophet's city."

What is Medina?

1000

The language used by Constantinople at the time of the first schism.

What is Greek?