Quiz 1

Question 1

Apostolic Age

Answer 1

Apostles were alive

Jesus is the Divine God and through Jesus, there is salvation

audience: people joining “The Way” (Jewish and Gentiles)

Question 2

Patristic Age

Answer 2

After the Apostles die

Disagreement: Church was the ONLY way of salvation or Church was NOT THE ONLY way of salvation

audience: apostates (once believed in a religion, but renounced it)

Question 3

High Middle Ages

Answer 3

“The Great Schism” (Break between East and West)

no salvation outside the Church

audience: Easterners who left the Catholic Church

Question 4

Late Middle Ages

Answer 4

Beginning of “trouble” in the Church

Church members must fully submit to the Pope, attempts to reunite the East and West (Council of Florence)

audience: Church members who do not fully submit to the Pope as final authority

Question 5

Counter Reformation and the Enlightenment

Answer 5

Roman Catholic efforts opposed the Protestant Reformation

Enlightenment: age of discovery and science

audience: Protestant churches who left the Roman Catholic church

Question 6

Modern Era

Answer 6

Philosophical logic and defence of Catholic faith

Easterners have access to salvation, attempts to reconcile with Easterners
Invincible ignorance: those not aware of Gospel
Vincible ignorance: those aware of Gospel and reject it

audience: Easterners/Universal Church

Question 7

Post-Conciliar Age

Answer 7

Vatican II

Church does not condemn anyone to Hell
Catholicism is the true church
religious freedom

audience: non-Christian churches AND Christians who do not live a charitable life

Question 8

Jesus Christ

Answer 8

(Apostolic Age)

“those who do not believe are condemned already” (John)

Question 9

Paul

Answer 9

(Apostolic Age)

Salvation is open to everyone, regardless of their membership in the Church

Question 10

Irenaeus of Lyons

Answer 10

(Patristic Age)

The Church is the best, but not only, way of salvation

Question 11

Cyprian of Carthage

Answer 11

(Patristic Age)

“Salus extra eccelsiam non est” There is no salvation outside the Church (directed towards apostates)

Question 12

Augustine of Hippo

Answer 12

(Patristic Age)

No one can find salvation except in the Catholic Church

Question 13

Fourth Lateran Council

Answer 13

(High Middle Ages)

One universal Church with salvation

Question 14

Thomas Aquinas

Answer 14

(High Middle Ages)

No salvation outside the Church

Question 15

Boniface VIII

Answer 15

(Late Middle Ages)

Only salvation AND confession in the Church

Membership of the Church is secondary to submission to the Pope

Question 16

Council of Florence

Answer 16

(Late Middle Ages)

No salvation outside the church

Attempted to reunite the Eastern and Western Church and is still open

Question 17

Robert Bellarmine

Answer 17

(Counter Reformation and Enlightenment)

No salvation outside the Church

Church is compared to Noah’s Ark

Question 18

Leo XII

Answer 18

(Modern Era)

No salvation outside the Church

Question 19

Gregory XVI

Answer 19

(Modern Era)

“One universal Church of the faithful outside of which no one at all is saved”

Greek Orthodox churches have the same salvation as Catholics since they follow the same essential beliefs.

Question 20

Pius IX

Answer 20

(Modern Era)

Those who are invincibly ignorant have access to salvation.

Freedom of religion is not taught in the Catholic Church, and salvation is not found in any other religion

Question 21

Pius XII

Answer 21

(Modern Era)

Last major recapitulation of “no salvation outside the Church” before Vatican II

Question 22

Second Vatican Council

Answer 22

(Post-Conciliar Age)

Recognizes that elements of salvation can be found outside the Catholic Church

Invincible ignorant people can be saved, vincible ignorant people cannot

People have religious freedom immune from coercion from others

Declares relationships with Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, and Jews in Nostra Aetate

Question 23

Catechism of the Catholic Church

Answer 23

(Post-Conciliar Age)

All people who have been baptized are members of the Catholic Church. Those who simply claim membership are not.

Catholics must “persevere in charity” and live a “good Catholic life”

Question 24

Unsolved riddles of the human condition

Answer 24

What is man? Meaning of life? What is moral good? What is sin? What is the road to true happiness?

“Whence do we come, and where are we going?”

Question 25

Hinduism

Answer 25

Contemplate the divine mystery

Express through an inexhaustible abundance of myths

Search through philosophical inquiry

Seek freedom from the human conditions through ascetically practices, profound meditation, or God

Question 26

Buddhism

Answer 26

Men may acquire the state of perfect liberation by themselves or through higher help

Catholic Church regards sincere reverence to other religions

Question 27

Muslims

Answer 27

Take pains to submit wholeheartedly to God

Do not acknowledge Jesus as God

Honour Mary and call on her with devotion

Worship God through prayer, almsgiving, and fasting

Question 28

Jews and Gentiles

Answer 28

Shares the same roots (Apostles and disciples came from Jews)

Catholic church decries hatred, persecution and anti-semitism directed against Jews