Catholicism Flashcards
What major topic did the council of Nicaea II address?
The veneration of icons, it made it mandatory to venerate them.
What fight was occurring within the church that was resolved by the council of Nicaea II?
The iconoclast wars, where Christians were destroying sacred images, thinking they were idols.
Which pope took a stand against modernism?
Pope Pious IX
What is vital immanence?
Modernist belief that humans have an innate tendency towards religious belief, and that following the impulse leads to faith.
Why does modernism say every religious is good or true?
Because the holy spirit or divine providence feeds the immanent feeling or sense of religion.
What is wrong with this statement: “Christ did not intend to teach that he was the Messiah”
One of the 65 modernist heresies of the Church.
What is LAMENTABILI SANE , who wrote it, and when?
Syllabus against modernism, written by Pope Pious X, published in 1907.
What are the main sins against faith?
Infidelity, Heresy, Apostacy
What is infidelity (not the marital unfaithfulness version)?
Never accepted the faith because they don’t have faith or didn’t accept it. When someone is presented with the faith and they reject it, it becomes sinful and they are culpable.
What is heresy? Is it a grave sin?
Rejection of some portion of the faith by someone who is baptized or is a Catholic. Yes, it is a grave sin.
What is Apostacy?
When someone had accepted the faith but then rejected it later on.
What is Blashphemy?
Don’t use profanity, or refer to natural things in a derogatory way because they point to his perfection.
What is blasphemy of the Holy Ghost?
Final impenitence, when someone refuses to accept God in the last hours of life.
Which emperor made Christianity legal in rome and in what year?
Constantine, 313 AD
Which edict called Christianity legal in the Roman empire?
Edict of Milan
Which emperor made Christianity the state religion of the Roman Empire?
Theodosius 380
Who called the council of Nicaea and what was the result, and what year?
Constantine, 325, the Nicene Creed
What was the Arian heresy?
The belief that Christ was created and subservient to God and that the Holy Spirit was subservient to Christ.
Which edict made Christianity the state religion of the Roman empire?
Edict of Thessalonica
What major split came from the Council of Ephesus and in what year?
431: Nestorian Christians became the church of the east. Too much emphasis on the difference between Christ the humand and Christ’s divinity.
What do the Oriental Orthodox churches believe?
Christ had a single “nature” a mix of humanity and divinity
What did the council of Chalcedonia result in?
The Oriental Orthodox split off thinking Christ had one nature. The Chalcedonian churches believed Christ had one person and two natures.
What year was the great schism and the two main conentions?
1054 - The idea of the pope being leader of the entire church, and the idea that holy spirit also proceed eth from Christ.
When was papal infallibility established and at what council?
Vatican I, 1869/1870
