The Gospels
Life & Ministry
Theology & Heresies
Paschal Mystery
Resurrection & Beyond
100

These two Gospel writers were also part of the original twelve Apostles.

Matthew and John

100

This major discourse found in Matthew's Gospel contains the Beatitudes, including "Blessed are the poor in spirit."

Sermon on the Mount

100

While "nature" refers to what something is in general, this term refers to who a particular instance of a being is.

Person

100

Etymologically, this word translates directly to a "process of change of substance."

Transubstantation

100

This is the true or false: Jesus received a brand new, completely different physical body when he resurrected.

False

200

Meaning "seen together," this term refers to the first three Gospels because of their intense literary similarities.

Synoptic Gospels

200

These two Gospels are the only ones that contain the Infancy Narratives of Jesus' birth and early life.

Matthew and Luke

200

This is the erroneous trinitarian view that God is simply 1 God who wears 3 different "modes" or masks (Father, Son, Spirit) rather than being 3 distinct Persons.

Modalism

200

In Catholic theology, characteristics like color, appearance, or material are considered this type of form because they cannot alter what something fundamentally is.

Accidents

200

Josephus, Suetonius, Pliny the Elder, and Tacitus all share this common traits regarding the history of the First Century.

Non Biblical/ Non Christian sources discussing Jesus

300

This Gospel writer tailored his account primarily for a Jewish-Christian audience, famously beginning with a genealogy of Christ.

Matthew
300

When Jesus was baptized, it served as an anointing for battle, a show of solidarity with us, and a sanctification of Baptism that foreshadowed this future event.

His Death
300

This heresy erroneously claimed that Jesus was merely a perfect created creature who completely lacked a Divine nature.

Arianism

300

Jesus cursed this specific plant because it served as an obvious reference to Israel's spiritual failures and the abuses of the Temple.

Fig Tree
300

This First-Century Jewish sect was notable for completely rejecting the concept of the resurrection of the dead.

Sadducees

400

He wrote the shortest Gospel, focused on Jesus as a "Man of Action," and directed his message toward persecuted Christians.

Mark
400

What were the 3 temptations in the desert?

Turning stones into bread, jumping off the Temple, and bowing down to Satan

400

The heresy that Jesus's Body was just an illusion

Docetism

400

What are the 4 Causes

Matter, Purpose, Agent and Substance
400

The teaching of Theology of the Body was written by what saint?

St. John Paul II

500

This is the literary genre that the Gospels belong to.

Ancient Greco-Roman biographies

500

When Jesus gave Peter the keys to the kingdom as the first Pope, what 3 things did he give him power to do?

To teach, forgive and govern

500

Proclaimed by Pope Leo the Great, this term explains that Jesus has two distinct natures (human and divine) perfectly united without interference.

Hypostatic Union

500

Rather than penal substitution, Catholic theology states the crucifixion saves us through this dynamic, because Jesus willingly made a meritorious sacrifice of love that we can unite our sufferings to.

Vicarious Satisfaction

500

While his body was the same one that died, Jesus' resurrected body is perfectly glorified, meaning it possesses these 5 distinct supernatural attributes.

agility, integrity, impassibility, subtlety, and quality