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Church History Flashcards

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Kulturkampf

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A culture struggle to protect German culture from the catholic church

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Encyclical

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Teaching of the faithful new ways of understanding the social, political and economic issues of his day

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Mystics

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People who experience deep union with God during prayer

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J.S. Bach

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Wrote church music for Lutheran churches in Germany

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G.F. Handel

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Wrote “The Messiah”. The most famous piece of religious music

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Rerum Novarum

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Most famous letter written by Leo, formulated distinctive Christian understanding of social and economic issues

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Teresa of Avila

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Was a mystic

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Gianlorenzo Berninis

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Sculptor and architect; made the “Ecstasy of St. Teresa” and Piaza (Plaza) of St. Peter’s Church

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Lumen Genium

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“Light of Nations”

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Gaudium et Spes

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“Joy and Hope”

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Matteo Ricci

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Studied Chinese culture before promoting Christianity

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Immanent

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“Remaining within”

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Revelation

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What is revealed

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Jerimiah 1:4-10

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god tells Jerimah that before he was in the womb, God chose him to be a prophet, Jerimah declines, and says he doesn’t speak well and he’s too young. God touches his mouth and says that he puts the words in his mouth.

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Blaise Pascal

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Frenchman who challenged belief in God. Published “Discourse on method”, success in math

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“Pensees”

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“Thoughts”. When Pascal died, this was published. It’s Pascal’s thoughts on faith. The human life is short and miserable

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Fides/Pistis

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Faith/Trust

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Agnosticism

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Not knowing about God, religion, not sure

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Atheism

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Belief in no God

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Comte

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Asserts that our idea of god(s) is made up. It’s an explanation of what we didn’t know

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Fued

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Asserts that our belief in a fatherly deity so we can feel secure

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Liminality

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“Boundaries” when a church enacts between itself and the world

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Jehovah’s Witnesses

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Founded by Charles Taize Russel 1872. Witnesses the bible literally. Go door-to-door, and talk about how only a few are saved at the end of the world

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7’th day Advenists

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Created y Ellen G. White and 3 others in 1863 called Millerites. Awaited the advent (arrival) of Christ at the end sign of true Christians is they honor the Sabaath

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Joseph Smith

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Founded the Church of Latter-day

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Mormons/Church of Latter-day saints

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Founded by Joseph Smith in 1820’s 1830’s, sent missionaries door to door. Multiple levels of heaven. Dn’t drink caffeine. God, Jesus and Holy Spirit are separate.

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Fundamentalism

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Belief in the literal, historical, factual truth of the bible

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Inerrant

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Without error

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Relics

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Physical objects as signs of divine power like, pieces of wood from the cross

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Pope Pius IX (1846-78)

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Made liberal reforms. Issued “The Syllabus of Errors”. Vatican I defines Poe as “Infallible” (without error) and council end.
“Prisoner of Vatican”. Locked away for 8 years & died

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Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903)

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Opened up Secret Vatican Library. Negotiated to end Germany’s anti-catholic party. Used encyclical letter sot communicate catholic beliefs to the world.

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Peritus

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Expert in theology

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Liturgy

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Worship service = “Work of the People”

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Vernacular

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In the people’s language

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Pope John XXIII

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“Translation Pope”. Called for an ecumenical (worldwide council)

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Degree on Ecumenism

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Calls for friendly dialogue with other Christian churches

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Anthropomorphism

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Portraying God, or inanimate objects as if they were human

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1 Kings 19

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Elijah the prophet ran away because he was going to get killed. He was waiting to die when God came to him and he said he was the last prophet. God sends him to anoint a new prophet and a new king. Elijah gets to relieve.

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Luke 24-2

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Disciples are walking to Emmasus when Jesus appears before them. They do not recognize him until he breaks the bread.

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Apocalupsis

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“Revelation”. “Vision”. Patamos’ book

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Apocalyptic (Genre)

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Visions with magic numbers, weird beasts, and final war of good vs. evil

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Rev : 3 (Laodicea)

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“You are lukewarm. Neither cold nor hot. How I wish you were hot or cold

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Rev : 2 (Ephesus)

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Jesus praises them, they persevere. They have “patient endurance” and for opposing “false apostles” called Nicolaitons. They don’t love enough.

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Rev : 7 (144,000)

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144,000 are marked with God’s soul, so they don’t get harmed

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Whore of Babylon

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Rides a scarlet beast. She is drunk on the blood of Christian martyrs. She stands for “Babylon”

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Millenium

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1,000 years

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Rev : 20

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For 1,000 years, Christ rules with the ones who were beheaded (martyrs) for their witnessing to Christ. Only they are the first resurrected

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4 Horsemen

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God sends 4 horsemen representing death, war, plague, and famine

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Woman clothed with the Sun

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Labors to give birth to a child. The red dragon attempts to eat the child, but she is taken away to safety.

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Michael the Archangel

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Michael and the angels defeat Satan/Dragon and his angels throw them down to earth

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Beast

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To serve the Dragon/Satan.
The number is 666.
The beast makes everyone wear a mark on their forehead in order to be able to buy and sell things

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Armageddon

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The last battlefeild

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Brimstone

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Angel tosses “Satan” into the abyss of sulfur/brimstone

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Deism

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Belief in a god/supreme being which is all powerful

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Clock-maker

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God is like a clock-maker.

He creates the world and lets it run by itself

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Voltaire’s Candide

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A satire book making fun of the Christian belief

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Providence

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The idea of a loving God is overseeing/watching human events

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Encyclopedia

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A collection of articles on every subject in the world

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Francis Xavier S.J.

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The greater missionary. He went to India, Indonesia, and Japan

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St. Vincent De Paul

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Recruited Catholic nobles to work with the poor

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John and Charles Wesley

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Created Methodist movement to bring enthusiasm in the Anglican church. Charles Wesley wrote over 2,000 hymns

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Bartolomeo de Cass

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The first to step down, quit his post as director of an encomiendo. Became a bishop and helped changed Spain’s laws, to ban slavery.
Wrote “History of Indies”

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Enlightenment

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A call to follow the “light” of reason and science, not the “darkness” of faith and superstition

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The Syllabus of Errors (1864)

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Pius issued this.

Misunderstood as an attack against “Proques & Modern civilization”

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Suppression of Jesuits

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Pope decreed suppression of Jesuits (1773) because political leaders of several nations resented the papacy’s power and jesuits’ influence.
They pressured the Pope into disbanding this order of priests who were the Pope’s most valuable servents

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Spiritual exercises

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St.Ignatius’ famous little book. The manual for giving the famous Jesuit 30-day retreat

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Purgatory

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State of cleansing and preparation which saved but sinful persons go through before they are united with God in heaven.
From the Latin word “cleanse”

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Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Ceiling

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The most famous project, the church in Rome with beautiful murals showing the entire history of mankind from God’s giving life to Adam, to the last judgement

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The Brethren of the Common Life

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By Thomas a Kempis

A manual about prayer and the spiritual life

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95 Thesis

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Written by Luther, about his invitation to any students or professors at Wittenberg to debate on the university campus about indulgences and other alleged excess of the church.

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Wealth of Natios

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Written by Adam Smith, about market economies

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Ego

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Simon Freud’s understanding of the human person’s intellectual, reasoning part of the human mind

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Id

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Simon Feud’s understanding of desiring part of the human person, the primitive, desiring part of the human mind

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Sacred Heart

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The Catholic devotion of the 19’th and 20’th centuries, emphasized Jesus’ suffering and his feelings for us.

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