Unit 3 Vocab

Question 1

anathema

Answer 1

a pronouncement of excommunication for someone who teaches a doctrine condemned by a Church Council

Question 2

anchorite

Answer 2

a religious recluse, living mostly as a hermit

Question 3

Arius

Answer 3

a priest in Alexandria who taught that Jesus was not fully Divine but a creature of God

Question 4

asceticism

Answer 4

practices and disciplines, tools that aid in the spiritual life

Question 5

christology

Answer 5

the branch of Christian theology relating to the person, nature, and role of Christ

Question 6

creed

Answer 6

statement of beliefs

Question 7

Edict of Milan

Answer 7

declaration by Constantine that gave religious freedom to all traditions in the Roman Empire

Question 8

herest

Answer 8

a divisive error in teaching

Question 9

monasticism

Answer 9

a religious way of life in which one renounces worldly pursuits to devote oneself fully to spiritual work

Question 10

monophysitism

Answer 10

heretical teaching that there is only one nature in Christ

Question 11

Nestorius

Answer 11

Patriarch of Constantinople, taught that Mary could only be called “Christotokos” because Mary could not give birth to God

Question 12

Nicea

Answer 12

city where the first ecumenical council was held

Question 13

St. Anthony of the Desert

Answer 13

considered the Father of all monks and the founder of Christian monasticism

Question 14

St. Athanasius

Answer 14

Greek patriarch of Alexandria who championed Christian orthodoxy against Arianism; a church, father, saint, and Doctor of the Church

Question 15

St. Benedict

Answer 15

Italian monk who founded an order of monastics; considered the founder of modern Western monasticism in its communal form

Question 16

Theotokos

Answer 16

title given to Mary, “God-bearer”