Councils
The first Church council, which decided who could become a Christian
Council of Jerusalem
Jesus may have been an exceptional human, but he was not fully God (corrected at the Council of Nicea)
Arianism
The first pope, originally a fisherman from Galilee. He is a sign of the unity of the Church as it's rock, or foundation.
Peter
The day the Apostles received the Holy Spirit which allowed them to go out and do the things Jesus did (teach, heal, etc.)
Pentecost
A direct sucessor of the Apostles
Bishop
This council affirmed that Jesus and the Father are consubstantial, or made of the same substance (they're both God)
Council of Nicea
The body and all physical things are sources of evil and things made by an evil God. The good God only created invisible things, like our souls
Albigensianism
One of the most effective teachers of the Christian faith. We have 13 epistles from him in the New Testament. Before seeing Jesus in a vision and being struck blind, he persecuted Christians in the early Church.
Paul
The Hebrew word for breath and Spirit
Ruakh
The term used to describe how the Bishops have received authority passed down from the apostles
Apostolic succession
These councils decided on the canon of Scripture, or the official books to be included in the Bible
Councils of Hippo/Carthage
We are not effected by Original Sin; if we tried hard enough, we could all be perfect and sinless.
Pelagianism
Translated the Bible from its original Greek and Hebrew forms into the Vulgate (Latin) and Septuagint (Greek from Hebrew)
St. Jerome
Latin, Hebrew, and Greek words used by the early Christians to describe themselves as an assembly of people gathered by God's love for them (name one)
Ekklesia, Ecclesia, Quahal
The formal split of the Church which occured in 1054
Great Schism
This council affirmed that Mary can be called the theotokos, since she gave birth to Jesus who is fully God and fully Human
Council of Ephesus
God is not three distinct persons, instead he is the same thing in three different forms or modes; just like water can take the form of ice, vapor, steam, etc.
Modalism
His name means "hound of the Lord", given to his mother in a dream of bearing a son who would light up the whole world with God's love and life. Leader in rooting out the heresy of Albigensianism, and founder of the Order of Preachers.
Dominic
A schedule of prayers developed by St. Benedict to make all hours of the day holy
Liturgy of the Hours
The truth that Jesus is fully human and fully God at all times
Hypostatic Union
This Council affirmed the hypostatic union of Christ, which means that Jesus is fully God and fully human
Council of Chalcedon
The world was created by a demiurge (or lesser god), and Jesus was a middle man between us and the greater god. In order to be saved, you have to have secret knowledge to be raised above the human experience.
Gnosticism
A Doctor of the Church who wrote influential books on the Trinity, on the Fall of the Roman Empire, and the first autobiography of how God changed his heart
The title for three vows that religous men and women make of poverty, chastity, and obedience
Evangelical Councils
The process by which the Church sought to formally root out and punish those who spread the heresy of Albigensiansism
Inquisition