Unit 9 Vocabulary Flashcards
A fourth-century heresy that held that Christ had only a divine mind and will, not a human mind and will.
Apollinarianism
The efforts to reunite all Christians on earth and to cooperate among Christian faith traditions in achieving common goals.
Ecumenism
The total rejection of the Christian faith by someone already baptized.
Apostasy
A fourth-century heresy claiming that Jesus Christ was neither God nor equal to the Father, only that he was sent by the Father and did the will of the Father.
Arianism
A heresy from the first Christian centuries that taught that Jesus shared secret information or knowledge with only a few people who were guaranteed Salvation.
Gnosticism
The obstinate denial by a baptized person of some truth that must be believed with divine faith.
Heresy
Will never change in its essential aspects; an attribute of the Catholic Church as a result of its divine origin.
Immutable
Having no flaw or defect; an attribute of the Catholic Church as a result of its divine origin.
Indefectible
The fifth-century heresy that claimed there is only one nature in the Person of Christ, his human nature having been incorporated into his divine nature.
Monophysitism
A fourth-century heresy that opposed to title of Theotokos for Mary, teaching that Mary was the Mother of Christ, but not of God.
Nestorianism
Will exist until the end of time; an attribute of the Catholic Church as a result of its divine origin.
Perennial
The general name given to any of the Christian denominations that broke from the Catholic Church during the sixteenth-century Reformation
Protestantism
A breach of the unity of the visible Church; the refusal to submit to the Pope or be united with the Church.
Schism
