Church as one Vocabulary Flashcards
Church as one Vocab
What is the Latin (or Roman) Church?
The term describing the large majority of Catholics whose liturgical worship is based on the Latin Rite and who trace their history to Rome.
What are Eastern Catholic Churches?
The term describing those Catholics who worship according to liturgical traditions developed in the East and who trace their origin to either Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, or Jerusalem.
What is heresy?
The obstinate denial after Baptism of a truth which must be believed with divine and Catholic faith.
What is Gnosticism?
The name given to a heresy of the early Church that taught, among other things, that Jesus was not fully human, the material world was evil, and salvation was achieved through secret knowledge, or gnosis.
What is Arianism?
An influential heresy of the early Church that taught that Jesus, the Son of God, was created by God the Father, and therefore not truly equal to Him or of the same substance.
What is Nestorianism?
The name given to a heresy of the early Church that divided Jesus into two persons, an eternal divine Person and a created human person who were closely connected but not one and the same.
What is Monophysitism?
The name given to a heresy of the early Church which asserted that Christ had only one nature: divine.
What is Apollinarianism?
The name given to a heresy of the early Church which asserted that Christ had a human body and a human-sensitive soul but not a human rational mind.
What is Pelagianism?
The name given to a heresy of the early Church which denied the effects of Original Sin on human nature and asserted that moral perfection was possible to achieve without divine help.
What is Donatism?
The name given to a heresy of the early Church which asserted that the validity and effectiveness of a clergyman’s prayers and ministry depended on his personal holiness.
What was the Protestant Reformation?
A 16th century revolt began by Martin Luther that divided and eventually splintered Christianity.
What is Sola Scriptura?
The belief that the Bible is the only source of divine revelation held by most non-Catholic Christian churches.
What is Sola Fide?
The belief that we are saved through faith alone, and that our willing cooperation with God’s grace plays no role in our salvation.
What is Sola Gratia?
The belief that we are saved through God’s grace, and that our own efforts play no role in our salvation.
What is apostasy?
Renunciation of a religion. Among sins against the First Commandment, apostasy is the sin of total repudiation of the Christian Faith.
What is schism?
A division caused by differences in belief. Among sins against the First Commandment, schism is the refusal of submission to the pope or of communion with the members of the Church subject to him.
What is The Great Schism?
The separation of Eastern Christians from the Catholic Church in 1054.
What is excommunication?
The exclusion of someone from reception of the Sacraments and participation in the Church in order that the person can correct their ways and return.
What is ecumenism?
The work of restoring unity among all Christians by bringing them back into the Catholic Church, which alone offers the fullness of the means of salvation.
