Catholicism

Question 1

What major topic did the council of Nicaea II address?

Answer 1

The veneration of icons, it made it mandatory to venerate them.

Question 2

What fight was occurring within the church that was resolved by the council of Nicaea II?

Answer 2

The iconoclast wars, where Christians were destroying sacred images, thinking they were idols.

Question 3

Which pope took a stand against modernism?

Answer 3

Pope Pious IX

Question 4

What is vital immanence?

Answer 4

Modernist belief that humans have an innate tendency towards religious belief, and that following the impulse leads to faith.

Question 5

Why does modernism say every religious is good or true?

Answer 5

Because the holy spirit or divine providence feeds the immanent feeling or sense of religion.

Question 6

What is wrong with this statement: “Christ did not intend to teach that he was the Messiah”

Answer 6

One of the 65 modernist heresies of the Church.

Question 7

What is LAMENTABILI SANE , who wrote it, and when?

Answer 7

Syllabus against modernism, written by Pope Pious X, published in 1907.

Question 8

What are the main sins against faith?

Answer 8

Infidelity, Heresy, Apostacy

Question 9

What is infidelity (not the marital unfaithfulness version)?

Answer 9

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.

Question 10

What is heresy? Is it a grave sin?

Answer 10

Rejection of some portion of the faith by someone who is baptized or is a Catholic. Yes, it is a grave sin.

Question 11

What is Apostacy?

Answer 11

When someone had accepted the faith but then rejected it later on.

Question 12

What is Blashphemy?

Answer 12

Don’t use profanity, or refer to natural things in a derogatory way because they point to his perfection.

Question 13

What is blasphemy of the Holy Ghost?

Answer 13

Final impenitence, when someone refuses to accept God in the last hours of life.

Question 14

Which emperor made Christianity legal in rome and in what year?

Answer 14

Constantine, 313 AD

Question 15

Which edict called Christianity legal in the Roman empire?

Answer 15

Edict of Milan

Question 16

Which emperor made Christianity the state religion of the Roman Empire?

Answer 16

Theodosius 380

Question 17

Who called the council of Nicaea and what was the result, and what year?

Answer 17

Constantine, 325, the Nicene Creed

Question 18

What was the Arian heresy?

Answer 18

The belief that Christ was created and subservient to God and that the Holy Spirit was subservient to Christ.

Question 19

Which edict made Christianity the state religion of the Roman empire?

Answer 19

Edict of Thessalonica

Question 20

What major split came from the Council of Ephesus and in what year?

Answer 20

431: Nestorian Christians became the church of the east. Too much emphasis on the difference between Christ the humand and Christ’s divinity.

Question 21

What do the Oriental Orthodox churches believe?

Answer 21

Christ had a single “nature” a mix of humanity and divinity

Question 22

What did the council of Chalcedonia result in?

Answer 22

The Oriental Orthodox split off thinking Christ had one nature. The Chalcedonian churches believed Christ had one person and two natures.

Question 23

What year was the great schism and the two main conentions?

Answer 23

1054 - The idea of the pope being leader of the entire church, and the idea that holy spirit also proceed eth from Christ.

Question 24

When was papal infallibility established and at what council?

Answer 24

Vatican I, 1869/1870

Question 25

What is the old catholic church?

Answer 25

Rejected Vatican I and papal infallibility

Question 26

What was the sedevacantists?

Answer 26

Rejected vatican II and believe office of pope has bene vacant since 1962.

Question 27

What are the 3 main branches of protestantism?

Answer 27

Reformed, Anglican, Lutheran

Question 28

What were Martin Luther’s 95 thesis problems?

Answer 28

Sola Fide, and sola Scriptura.

Question 29

What was Luther’s valid complaint.

Answer 29

Paying for indulgences

Question 30

What 3 nordic countries create state churchs and broke away from the papacy?

Answer 30

Denmark, Norway, Sweden.

Question 31

What caused the Church of England split and when??

Answer 31

1534 - King Henry the IIX wanted to divorce his wife from lack of a child and the pope wouldn’t help him, so he began a state church.

Question 32

Where did American Episcopals come from?

Answer 32

They are the American Anglicans

Question 33

Where did reformed come from?

Answer 33

Calvin

Question 34

Where did presbyterians come from?

Answer 34

Reformed church of Scotland into America.