MidTerm Review

Why did the Roman emperors persecute Christians?

• The Christian message of peace was reducing the number of men willing to serve in the army.

• Christians refused to pay taxes to Rome.

• The emperors needed unity in the empire, and Christianity appeared to threaten that unity.

• It was simply that Romans hated Christians.

Why does St. Ignatius have the title of “Apostolic Father”?

• He was present at the Council of Jerusalem.

• He was the father of James and John.

• He was one of those present to hear the “sermon on the mount.”

• He knew personally, and was closely associated with, Sts. Peter and John.

Why were the first heresies that the Church had to correct particularly dangerous?

• These heresies struck right at the heart of Christianity, which is the Person of Christ himself.

• These heresies threatened the peace and unity of the Roman Empire.

• These heresies were the cause of the persecutions starting again against the Christians.

• These heresies invited the Islamic invasions into Europe and the Holy Land.

What contribution of the monastic movement gave us musical notation?

• The Liturgy of the Hours

• Gregorian Chant

• Compline

• Vespers

The word “iconoclast” comes from the Greek words eikon and klan, which mean . . .

• image breaker.

• image writer.

• family business.

• picture painter.

Solemn promise

• icon

• diocese

• vow

• papal states

• huns

Lands around Rome won by Pepin

• icon

• diocese

• vow

• papal states

• huns

The faith of the prophet Muhammad

• Allah

• Islam

• Great Schism

• Filioque

• Ecumenical Patriarch

Latin meaning “and the Son”

• Allah

• Islam

• Great Schism

• Filioque

• Ecumenical Patriarch

A remission before God of temporal punishment due to sins, the guilt of which having already been forgiven through the Sacrament of Penance

• Indulgence

• Crusades

• Lay Investiture

• Mendicant Friars

• Stigmata