Church History Midterm Review

What is Arianism?

• A collection of Christian laws

• A heresy that denied the divinity of Jesus

• A form of monasticism

• A type of ecumenical council

What is the Codex Vaticanus?

• The oldest complete copy of the Bible

• A set of Christian laws

• A type of liturgy

• A collection of writings by the Desert Fathers

What is the Edict of Milan?

• A type of ecumenical council

• A collection of Christian laws

• A heresy denying the divinity of Jesus

• A joint declaration legalizing the practice of Christianity

What is the Filioque?

• A collection of Christian laws

• A heresy denying the divinity of Jesus

• A type of monasticism

• A phrase added to the Nicene Creed by the Western Church

What is the hypostatic union?

• The union of the human and divine natures of Jesus Christ

• A collection of Christian laws

• A form of monasticism

• A type of ecumenical council

What is the Justinian Code of Law?

• A form of monasticism

• A set of Christian laws

• A collection of laws written in Latin

• A type of liturgy

What is the Liturgy of the Word?

• A type of ecumenical council

• The part of the Mass that includes the Old Testament readings and psalms

• A collection of Christian laws

• A heresy denying the divinity of Jesus

What is monasticism?

• A collection of Christian laws

• A heresy denying the divinity of Jesus

• A type of ecumenical council

• Religious life in which men or women leave the world and enter a monastery or convent

What is the Nicene Creed?

• A collection of Christian laws

• The foundational statement of Christian belief produced by the Church leaders at the First Council of Nicaea

• A type of monasticism

• A heresy denying the divinity of Jesus

What are patriarchs in the context of the early Church?

• A heresy denying the divinity of Jesus

• A collection of Christian laws

• A type of ecumenical council

• Bishops of one of the five episcopal sees