Chapter 2 Vocabulary review

A word meani​ng “revelation” or “unveiling.”

It is a word often associated

with the end times or the

second coming of Christ​? ​ (a)   ​ ​ ​

• Apocalypse
• Arianism
• Christology
• Docetism

A heresy common in certain times and in

certain places during the early

Church that denied that

Jesus was truly God;

named after Arius (AD 250–336), a priest

and popular preacher from Alexandria, Egypt?​

(a)  

• Arianism
• Nestorianism
• Monophytism
• Docetism

The branch of theology that studies the

meaning of the person and works

of Jesus Christ. ​​ ​ (a)  

• Christology
• Church Father
• Synoptic Gospel
• Apocalypse

Bishops, theologians, teachers, and scholars whose writings have greatly contributed to Church doctrine and practice. In both the Western Church and the Eastern Church, four Fathers are most prominent.​ ​ (a)  

• Church Fathers
• Hypostatic union
• Synoptic Gospels
• Christology

A first-century heresy that taught that Jesus only “seemed” to be human. Docetism comes from a Greek word meaning “to seem.”​ ​ (a)  

• Docetism
• Monophytism
• Nestorianism
• Arianism

The union of the divine and human natures in the one divine Person (Greek: hypostasis) of the Son of God, Jesus Christ.​ ​ (a)  

• Hupostatic union
• Church Father
• Christology
• Apocalypse

From the Greek words monos, which means “one” or “ alone,” and physis, which means “nature,” a fifth - century heresy that promoted the error that Jesus had only one nature, a divine nature. In response, the Church taught that Christ has two natures, divine and human. ​ ​ (a)  

• Monophytism
• Nestorianism
• Arianism
• Docetism

A fifth - century heresy that taught that Christ exists as two persons — the man Jesus and the divine Son of God. The heresy was corrected by Church teaching that stated that Jesus existed in two natures (divine and human) in one Divine Person. The heresy originated with Nestorius (ca. AD 386 –ca. 451), the archbishop of Constantinople. ​ ​ (a)  

• Nestorianism
• Docetism
• Monophytism
• Arianism

The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, which, because of t heir similarities, can be “seen together” in parallel columns and mutually compared. ​ ​ (a)  

• Synoptic Gospels
• Church Father
• Christolgy
• Apocalypse