Unit Two Test

Question 1

Thomas Aquinas helped the Church in the Middle Ages incorporate Aristotelian into Christian thinking rather than fighting against it. (T/F)

Answer 1

True

Question 2

When the western church argued for the primacy of the Roman bishop over all church bishops, they justified it by appealing to:

Answer 2

1) the claim that Peter passes his authority to his successors

2) the claim that Jesus gave peter authority

Question 3

When we look back at the theological factors that divided the churches of the East and West and contribute to the Great Schism (1054 CE), all of the following were dividing issues EXCEPT:

Answer 3

Explaining the Trinity as homo-ousias

Question 4

The great schism divided because of:

Answer 4

1) different leadership philosophies (bishops’ equality or hierarchy)

2) distinct views on icons

3) dispute over the filioque clause

Question 5

Maimonides was a Jewish mystic and the author of the Kabbalah

Answer 5

False

Question 6

When aquinas cities authorities as he lays out an argument, it is because they al agree with the point he is trying to make.

Answer 6

False

Question 7

Averroës became significant in part because of his own thinking (like the principles of double truth) and also because of his commentaries on Aristotle’s works.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

In the selections of her book that we read, Margery Kempe’s mystical encounters with God included all of the following:

Answer 8

1) permission to compromise with her husband about Friday meals in trade for a celibate marriage

2) seeing Christ appear at her bedside (as a handsome young man)

3) correction of her vanity and pride about her appearance

4) discernment about why her beer brewing failed

5) hearing God speak to her l

Question 9

Margery Kempe was an unusual mystic in that she was a married woman who adopted an ascetic and pilgrimage lifestyle late in life, even with a family.

Answer 9

True

Question 10

The Iconoclastic Controversy became one of the issues in the Middle Ages that divided the Eastern and Western churches. Identify which of the following descriptors, entities, and rationales were associated with the iconoclasts - - those against the use of icons.

Answer 10

1) worship of an image is idolatry

2) God’s commandment against “graven images”

3) Western Churches generally

4) depicting only Christ’s human nature reflects heresy

Question 11

In the late medieval period, Nominalists began to push against the ideas of Rationalists, arguing for a different understanding of what “universals” are and how the world should be understood. Place the ideas, people, and explanations under the appropriate categories below to indicate what Nominalists and Rationalists are about.

Nominalists

Answer 11

1) the modern way (via Moderna)

2) only particular things exist, and in grouping particulars together we create a general term for them

3) a universal is just a general term that language speakers have agreed on to speak about a collection of things

4) William of Ockham

Question 12

In the late medieval period, Nominalists began to push against the ideas of Rationalists, arguing for a different understanding of what “universals” are and how the world should be understood. Place the ideas, people, and explanations under the appropriate categories below to indicate what Nominalists and Rationalists are about.

Rationalists

Answer 12

1) Platonist thinking patter, from concept to particular
Accurate language reflects the real nature of things

2) universals are an objective order in the world, a form reflected in specific time and places

3) traditional church positions in the Middle Ages