3 The Church History

Question 1

3 Stages or Periods

Answer 1

1. First Period, (54-60 A.D.): Emperor Nero
   2. Second Period (100-250 A.D.) :
      oEmperor Trajan
      o Emperor Hadrian
      oEmperor Antoninus Pius, Emperor Marcus Aurelius
   3. Third Period (249-251 A.D.)
      oEmperor Decius
      oEmperor Valerian
      oEmperor Diocletian

Question 2

Causes of Persecution

Answer 2

1. Refusal to participate in pagan rituals
   
   2. Reluctance to worship the emperors and their gods.
   3. Christians are threats to the empire.
   4. Exclusivity
   5. Cannibalism and incest
   6. The nature and content of the Christian beliefs

Question 3

Effects of Persecution

Answer 3

1.Strengthen the faith of the Christians
2.Attracted more converts to Christianity
3.Increased the number of Christians
4.Many died for the faith
5.Many turned apostates
6.Hampered the missionary activities of the Church

Question 4

During the persecution period, to be a Christian is a decision between _____ and _____

Answer 4

life and death

Question 5

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.

Answer 5

Unity and Division within the Church

Question 6

Christianity, in the early days, belonged to small areas within the Roman Empire. It began as a simple group of believers in the

Answer 6

Risen Lord

Question 7

In the _____, the power of the pope was not accepted and was controlled by the _____

Answer 7

East - State

Question 8

Orthodox means

Answer 8

right opinion

Question 9

two major branches of Constantine

Answer 9

Catholicism and Eastern orthodox

Question 10

Religious Controversies: Dogma and Councils

Answer 10

oCouncil of Nicea (325 A.D)
oCouncil of Constantinople (381 A.D.)
oCouncil of Ephesus (431 A.D.)
oCouncil of Chalcedon (451 A.D.)

Question 11

Invasions by the Germans caused the decline of the Roman Empire and the Church. The glory of Rome fell and disappeared very fast

Answer 11

Fall of Rome and Germanic Invasions

Question 12

a division of a church into factions because of differences in doctrine

Answer 12

Schism

Question 13

a system of devolved political and economic control in which landowning elites govern ordinary people

Answer 13

Feudalism

Question 14

With a series of foreign invasions threatening Christianity and taking its holy places, Christianity became militant

Answer 14

Crusades

Question 15

is a plague that almost wiped out the population of Europe in 1347.

Answer 15

Black death

Question 16

whereby the decision of the council has a greater authority over the Pope

Answer 16

Conciliarism

Question 17

a Dominican priest, calling people to repent, threatening them with the fire of hell and its eternal damnation and selling indulgence with these outrageous words: For every coin that rings is a soul in purgatory that springs.

Answer 17

Johann Tetzel

Question 18

reformer of protestantism

Answer 18

martin luther

Question 19

A priest in the city of Zurich who was more radical than Martin Luther.

Answer 19

Ulrich Zwingli

Question 20

God has already determined our destiny, and that God indeed allows many to be damned to manifest divine justice.

Answer 20

Predestination

Question 21

Known for his influential writing, teaches predestination

Answer 21

John Calvin

Question 22

four (4) fundamental points which the Catholic Church found unacceptable in all the teachings of the reformers.

Answer 22

• An exaggerated idea of the power of sin
• A wrong idea of the role of faith
• A misunderstanding of the function of the sacraments
• A rejection of the authority of the Church

Question 23

• used reason to show the existence of God.
• his works were used by others to show that reason can prove everything and that faith is not needed.

Answer 23

Rene Descartes

Question 24

renewal or “bringing something up to date”

Answer 24

Aggiornamento

Question 25

The Council Produced 16 documents

Answer 25

• 4 constitutions
• 9 Decrees
• 3 Declarations

Question 26

4 Constitutions

Answer 26

• Dogmatic Constitution on the Church (Lumen Gentium)

• Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World (Gaudium et Spes)

• Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation (Dei Verbum)

• Constitution on Sacred Liturgy (Sacrosanctum Concilium)

Question 27

9 Decrees

Answer 27

Decree on priestly Ministry
ecree on Eastern Catholic Churches
Decree on Bishop’s Pastoral Office
Decree on Church’s Missionary Activity
Decree on the Appropriate Renewal of Religious life
Decree on Instruments of Social Communication
Decree on Ecumenism
Decree on the Ministry and Life of the Laity
oDecree on the Apostolate of the Laity

Question 28

3 Declarations

Answer 28

• Declaration on Non Christian Religions
• Declaration on Religious Freedom
• Declaration on Christian Education