Acts and the Early Church
This man is recognized in Acts as the visible leader of the early Church.
Who is Peter?
This council condemned Arianism and affirmed Christ’s divinity.
What is the Council of Nicaea?
This heresy claimed the Son was created and not eternal.
What is Arianism?
This saint was known as the “Hammer of the Arians.”
Who is St. Ambrose?
He convoked the First Vatican Council.
Who is Pope Pius IX?
This many were baptized on the day of Pentecost.
What is 3,000?
This council declared Mary Theotokos, Mother of God.
What is Ephesus?
This belief taught that Father, Son, and Spirit are merely modes of one divine person.
What is Modalism?
He wrote Against Heresies, refuting Gnosticism.
Who is St. Irenaeus?
Two of the three cultural pressures influencing Vatican I
What are rationalism, liberalism, and nationalism.
He is honored as the first Christian martyr.
Who is Stephen?
This council defined that Christ exists in two natures without confusion or division.
What is Chalcedon?
This Greek term means “of the same substance with the Father.”
What is Homoousios?
He produced the Latin Vulgate translation of Scripture.
Who is St. Jerome?
This Vatican I constitution affirmed harmony between faith and reason.
What is Dei Filius?
This apostle became the great missionary to the Gentiles.
Who is Paul?
This council was called primarily to respond to the Protestant Reformation.
What is the Council of Trent?
This heresy claimed Christ was two separate persons, one human and one divine.
What is Nestorianism?
This Doctor of the Church authored The Summa Theologica.
Who is St. Thomas Aquinas?
This pope opened the Second Vatican Council.
Who is Pope John XXIII?
This event involved the Holy Spirit descending like tongues of fire.
What is Pentecost?
This Vatican I document defined Papal Infallibility.
What is Pastor Aeternus?
This heresy denied Christ had a rational human soul.
What is Apollinarianism?
This saint is honored as The Theologian for his work on the Trinity.
Who is Gregory Nazianzen?
This Vatican II constitution addresses the Church in the modern world.
What is Gaudium et Spes?