4.1-4.2 Vocab

Question 0

The central Christian mystery that one God is in three persons.

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Trinity

Question 1

Those truths which the church teaches have been specifically revealed by God. It is essential for complete faith.

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Dogma

Question 2

A name for those books which have been accepted by the church as normative for faith.

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canon

Question 3

An official teaching of the church.

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doctrine

Question 4

The faith which the Church has recieved from Christ through the apostles and all the ways the faith has been passed on.

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Tradition of the Church

Question 5

“Defenders of the faith” Christians who worked hard to dispel the false rumors about Christianity and to make Christianity appear both reasonable and acceptable to non-christians.

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Apologists

Question 6

A title for Jesus that refers to his relationship with the persons of the trinity.

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Son of God

Question 7

Becoming human. The event and process in which the eternal Son of God became man and entered human history.

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Incarntaion

Question 8

Literally, “of God”

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Divine

Question 9

Literally, “choice.” A conscious, delibrate, and persistent or public denial of the Church or one of the dogmas.

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Heresy

Question 10

One of the two great creeds, of the church. It is considered to be a summary of the apostles’ faith.

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Apostles’ Creed

Question 11

A false belief that claimed that although Jesus had a human body, he had no human soul.

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Apollinarianism

Question 12

A spiritual attribute possesed by the Church as a whole ensuring that the Church will never cease to be the body of Christ on earth.

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Infallibility

Question 13

A gathering of all the Catholic bishops of the world.

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Ecumenical Council

Question 14

The most severe penalty within the church. You are seperated from the communion of other Catholics.

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Excommunication

Question 15

Sharing the good news. Proclaiming the gospel in such a way that people’s hearts and lives are changed.

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Evangelization

Question 16

The “good news.” Refers to the good news of Jesus’ life, death, resurrection, and ascension.

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Gospel

Question 17

A style of Christian life which stresses communal living and communal worship along with private prayer, silence, poverty, chastity, and obedience.

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Monasticim

Question 18

Christians of about the 4th century who chose to live and ascetic life of prayer, fasting, and abstinence.

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desert fathers

Question 19

Strict self-denial as a means of spiritual discipline.

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asceticism

Question 20

The prayer of the church; it is also known as the divine office. Pray at specific times of the day.

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Liturgy of the hours

Question 21

The universal moral law which God has given to all people and which can be known by the power of reason alone.

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natural law