CHAPTER 4 Flashcards
The church’s second general council .
- The First Council of Constantinople
Declared Christianity the Official Religion of the Empire (391).
- Emperor Theodosius
The church’s third general council
- Council of Ephesus
At the church’s fourth general council
- Council of Chalcedon
Around 542, One-Nature theology became popular again.
- Second Council of Constantinople
Monk who taught that humans have the natural ability to please God.
- Pelagius
Monk, who taught that humans have the natural ability to please God.
- Pelagius
Theologian from Antioch who held some Nestorian views.
- Theodore of Mopsuestia
Theologian from Antioch who held some Nestorian views.
- Theodore of Mopsuestia
Greatest theologian of his era.
- Augustine of Hippo
Father of Western monasticism. Wrote The Rule of Benedict, a manual for monks.
- Benedict of Nursia
Irish missionary,
- Columba
First Roman bishop to attain the status that would later be linked with the title “pope.” The sixty-fourth pope for Roman Catholics.
- Gregory
Monk sent by Pope Gregory I to begin new churches in England after barbarians destroyed previous missionaries’ work.
- Augustine of Canterbury
One of seven councils acknowledged by Eastern and Western Christians.
- General Council
The belief that Jesus had no human mind. Named after Apollinarius, an early proponent. The First Council of Constantinople condemned Apollinarianism.
- Apollinarianism
A Greek word meaning “God-bearer.”
- Theotokos
The belief that Jesus was two separate persons, one human and one divine….” (“beyond two natures”).
- Nestorianism
From the Greek monophysis (“one-nature”).
- Monophysitism
