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1
Q

Under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, the Church developed its New Testament of _____ books

A

27

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2
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The emperor Constantine built a great basilica over the tomb of _____ in Rome.

A

Saint Peter

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3
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A _____ is a belief or collection of beliefs that reject one or more of the revealed truths of the faith.

A

Heresy

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4
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An _____ council is a council “of the whole world.”

A

ecumenical

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5
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The word _____ is another word for “covenant.”

A

testament

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6
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The _____ claimed that Jesus was less than divine.

A

Arians

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Who was the pope whose teaching that Jesus was one person with two natures, divine and human, was affirmed at the Council of Chalcedon?

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Pope Leo the Great

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In 325, to settle the dispute caused by the Arian heresy, the Emperor Constantine summoned all the bishops of the Church to a council in the city of _____.

A

Nicaea

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9
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Who was Emperor Constantine’s Christian mother

A

helena

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The Council of Chalcedon, in 451, is considered the _____ of the first four ecumenical councils.

A

greatest

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In 313, the Emperor Constantine issued the _____ granting religious tolerance throughout the Roman Empire

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Edict of Milan

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Some of the most important works of the Fathers of the Church were written to defend the truths of the faith against _____.

A

heretics

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13
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Who was the emperor who was responsible for the “Great Persecution?”

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emperor Diocletian

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Who was the emperor who made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire

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Emperor Theodosius I

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The _____ claimed that God’s revelation was available was available only as secret knowledge to a select few.

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Gnostics

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16
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Who was the saint who translated the Bible into Latin from Hebrew and Greek?

A

Saint jerome

17
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Who was the saint, a great preacher, whose name means “golden-mouthed?”

A

Saint John Chrysostom

18
Q

The early Christians compiled for the Church the official list, or _____, of Sacred Scripture.

A

Canon

19
Q

What is a creed?

A

A statement of Christian belief

20
Q

Which ecumenical council had the task of writing a creed to express the full divinity and full humanity of Jesus?

A

Council in Nicaea

21
Q

Studied and explained scripture

A

Origen

22
Q

developed vocabulary terms with which to describe faith

A

Tertullian

23
Q

One of the tasks facing the early Church was to ______

A

decide which sacred writings should be considered part of the Christian Bible

24
Q

In the second century a scholar named _______ tried to convince the Church to exclude the Old Testament

A

marcion

25
Q

What do the old testament books contain

A

God’s relationship with the people of Israel, laws and beliefs of the Israelites, history of Israel, God’s role in everyday life, and writing of the prophets

26
Q

claimed that Jesus only pretended to be human and so didn’t really suffer on the cross.

A

Docetists

27
Q

claimed that the material world is evil and that is was created by an evil spirit

A

manichees

28
Q

followers of marcion who rejected the old testament

A

marcionites

29
Q

claimed only saints can belong to the Church

A

donatists

30
Q

claimed that Jesus was only divine thus not fully human

A

Monophysites

31
Q

What is in the new testament?

A

story of Jesus, his mission, his first followers, and the beginnings of the Church

32
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An _________ brings together bishops of the whole world with the bishop of Rome, the pope-successor of Peter- to guide the Church in matters of faith and life in Jesus Christ

A

ecumenical councils

33
Q

Ecumenical councils are examples of

A

teaching power that the Apostles possessed and passed on to their successors throughout the ages

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