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WorksheetsHeresies & Councils Quiz
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Which of the following are true of Gnosticism?
Some spiritual people can learn secret knowledge, other material people cannot
They created and circulated false gospels
The Incarnation didn't happen
Mary is not the mother of God
Who called the first ecumenical council?
The bishops
Pope Sylvester I
Arius
Constantine
What did they decide at Nicaea?
Arianism was a heresy
Mary is the mother of God
The canon of scripture for the New Testament
St. Nicholas has a mean right hook
Nestorius taught what he did because he had a problem with...
What Arius taught
Saying Mary was the mother of God
Saying Jesus was divine
Saying Jesus was human
The word ecumenical means...
the Church authority
by order of the pope
the whole inhabited world
doctrinal meeting
Theotokos means...
The union of two natures in Jesus
Mother of God
Mary most holy
Divine revelation
Docetism taught that...
Jesus was more divine than human
Jesus's humanity was just an illusion
There are certain special people who have secret knowledge that can be saved
Only the divine Jesus could do miracles
Which of the of the following are true about (formal) heretics?
They are Christian but have the wrong idea about something
They have been corrected and refuse to change their mind
They lead others astray
They are bishops with the authority to teach
The first ecumenical council was
Nicaea
Constantinople
Vatican II
Ephesus
What was the model the bishops looked to for how they should run the ecumenical councils?
The Council of Nicaea
The Council of Jerusalem
Peter's speech on Pentecost
The cooperation between Peter and Paul
Dogma means...
teachings of the faith
truths of the faith
Doctrine means...
teachings of the faith
truths of the faith
Introduced language about the holy spirit and defined the trinity.
Nicaea
Constantinople
Ephesus
Chalcedon
Arius and Athanasius argued about the relationship between God the father and God the son.
Nicaea
Constantinople
Ephesus
Chalcedon
Clean up council. Jesus is fully human and fully divine.
Nicaea
Constantinople
Ephesus
Chalcedon
Who taught that God the son is less than God the father.
Arius
Athanasius
Irenaeus
Nestorius
The heresy that taught that Jesus' body was not really human but a heavenly substance and so that he didn't actual suffer. He only pretended to be human.
Arianism
Docetism
Nestorianism
Gnosticism
The heresy that taught that Jesus was created by God but not God himself
Gnosticism
Docetism
Arianism
Nestorianism
The heresy that taught that Jesus is really two persons: one human and one divine
Nestorianism
Arianism
Gnosticism
Dualism
Which of the following are true of the ecumenical councils (choose all that apply)?
They were called to respond to heresies
The first six tried to answer the question, "Who is Jesus?"
Is a gathering of all bishops of the world (or of a particular area)
The first ecumenical council was called by Constantine
What came out of the First Council of Constantinople?
The Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed
The Apostles Creed
The Didache
The Edict of Milan
Which of the following are marks of true apostolic tradition?
It was never debated in the Church
It is inspired by the Holy Spirit (pneumatic)
It is public and unified (or one)
It is quoted from the New Testament
"The heritage of faith contained in Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition, handed down in the Church from the time of the Apostles." Or, the sum of all truths revealed in Scripture and Tradition
Doctrine
Dogma
Evangelization
Deposit of Faith
"orthodoxy" refers to:
heretical teachings
authentic teachings of the Church
