Why is the Church an assembly?

Which of the following is NOT a theological or biblical image of the Church?

The Church is a ___________ because it is a reality filled with God’s hidden presence.

The Church is a ___________ in the sense that it is an efficacious sign of grace instituted by Christ for the sake of salvation.

Christ's fourfold mission for the Church go by the following names: preaching the message of the Gospel (koinonia), modeling fellowship (leitourgia), serving others in imitation of Jesus (kerygma), and worshiping God in community (diakonia).

What are the Four Marks of the Church?

How was Christianity founded?

What are the major themes of the Acts of the Apostles?

Why was the Council of Jerusalem significant? (Check all that apply.)

Which of the following are true about Jewish and Roman persecution of Christians in the early Church? (Check all that apply.)

Which is NOT one of the key reasons for the spread of Christianity in the Roman Empire in the first century?

Early Church writings began with the Scriptures of the New Testament and other instructional and liturgical writings. Apologetic and instructional writings of the Apostolic and Church Fathers followed.

Believing in and worshiping Jesus as Messiah and Son of God, and worshiping on Sunday rather than Saturday distinguished Christianity from ________.

One thing that differentiated Christians from the pagan religions of the Roman Empire was the Christians refusal to worship ___________.

The conversion of __________ resulted in Christianity eventually becoming the religion of the entire Roman Empire.

What was NOT an effect of the legalization of Christianity on the growth of the Church?

Who was the antagonist and what was the heresy at the Council of Nicaea?

Who was the protagonist and what was the result of the Council of Nicaea?

Who was the antagonist and what was the heresy at the Council of Constantinople?

Who was the protagonist and what was the result of the Council of Constantinople?

Who was the antagonist and what was the heresy at the Council of Ephesus?

Who was the protagonist and what was the result of the Council of Ephesus?

Who was the antagonist and what was the heresy at the Council of Chalcedon?

Who was the protagonist and what was the result of the Council of Chalcedon?

After the Fall of Rome, the Church in the _____ assumed a leadership role that put it on par with rulers of various tribes and kingdoms due to the vacuum of power & scholarship.

After the Fall of Rome, the Church in the _____ was under the purview of the Emperor, and therefore it began to be extremely beholden to the State. To this day, the Church there is quite nationalistic.

His Rule became the model for Western monasticism. It characterizes religious community life in the Catholic Church to this day.

He urged believers to stay close to the Church and live out that closeness with charity. His preaching comforted the afflicted and afflicted the comfortable, even at great personal cost.

He translated the Sacred Scriptures from their original languages of Hebrew and Greek into Latin, which remains to this day the authorized translation of the Catholic Church.

As a defender of the faith and holy witness of Christian living, his life and writings shaped Christianity and Western Civilization perhaps more than any person aside from Jesus Christ Himself.

Which is NOT one of the contributions of monasticism to the growth of the Church?

Islam began with Muhatma Ghandhi, who claimed he had received a revelation from God (through the angel Gabriel) in 610, which was recorded in the Koran.

Which is NOT one way Islam influenced the Church and State in the East and West?

Feudalism, lay investiture, nepotism, and simony contribute to the malaise of the Church in the early _______.

What was NOT true about the reforms of Pope Gregory VII?

The Great Schism of 1054 between the Churches of East and West was caused by...

_____ is the effort to unify Christians, and is important because Christ founded just one Church and prayed that it would be one, just as He and the Father are one.

The Crusades united believers throughout Europe in a common cause, inspired by faith. They brought about new religious orders and ultimately won the right for pilgrims to visit the Holy Land.

The consequences of the Crusades were ultimately ________.

________ showed that Christians could still live simple Gospel values in a growing Church without destroying the structures of authority given by Christ.

A major fruit of the ______ was scholastic theology, which produced a method of learning based on logical analysis, debate, and synthesis.

The breakup of feudalism and the rise of nationalism are two reasons for the decline of _____.

The Avignon papacy, also called the _________, weakened the papacy.

________ was a holy, young, laywoman who convinced Pope Gregory XI to return the papacy to Rome.

The _________ destroyed over ⅓ of Europe’s population and hit the clergy hardest because they were around the sick. The Church replaced them with poorly formed priests.

When French cardinals elected a new pope and changed their mind and elected another, it caused the ________.

The Western Schism led to faithful Catholics supporting multiple different popes, and created the problem of __________.

In certain ways, the Renaissance was a cause of the Protestant Reformation.

Which was NOT a cause of the Protestant Reformation?

Which was NOT one of the leading figures of the Protestant Reformation?

All the Protestant Reformers rejected the _______ of the Church.

Which Catholic reformer of the 16th c. founded the Jesuits?

Which Catholic reformer of the 16th c. described the path of spirituality that leads to contemplative prayer and union with God.

The Council of Trent ______ the Church’s teaching on justification/salvation, the sacraments, & God’s revelation.

The Council of Trent was one of the most important Church councils.

The biggest political threat to the Church in Germany in the 17th c. was the French prioritizing their national interests over Catholicism, aiding the Protestant princes in Germany in the 30 Years War.

The 17th c. threat to the Church in ____ was its Protestant Parliament, usurping power from its Catholic and Catholic-leaning monarchs.

Wars of religion, the rise of Henry of Navarre (a Protestant) as King, & Louis XIV’s Gallicanism, temporarily threatened the Church in 17th c. _____.

The heresies of Jansenism and Quietism were philosophical threats to the Church in ______ in the 17th-18th c.

Who were three saints of the 18th century who worked against heresy, for charity, and in promoting education, respectively?

Through missions in the New World and Asia, the Church understood more clearly that the Gospel is truly ______ and not solely the possession of any one culture or era.

Which of the following was NOT an effect of the Age of Reason on the Church?

The revolutions spawned by ______ ideals ended the Church as a political power, but also purified the Church.

Pope Pius IX wrote boldly against the errors of liberalism and called the 1st Vatican Council, which defined papal ________.

Long work days, child labor, unsafe work conditions, low pay, & no social security were results of _______.

Marxist Communism is ______ in nature.

Popes since Leo XIII have defended human rights in all areas of life, forming the Church's _______ teaching.

Modernism was called the synthesis of all _______.

_______ advocated for peace during WWI, but his offers to mediate the conflict & negotiate peace were ignored.

In the mid-20th c. Pope ______ & Pope ______ wrote encyclicals and gave speeches condemning fascism & communism.

What were some signs of renewal in the Church from the 1930s to Vatican II in the 1960s?

Which is NOT one of the 4 key documents of Vatican II?

____ renewed interest in scripture, allowed Mass in the vernacular, promoted lay involvement, ecumenism, religious freedom, justice, and collegiality among popes and bishops.

What challenges followed Vatican II that persist today?

The deposit of faith (what was delivered by Christ, through the Apostles, down to us)...

The way the truths of faith are communicated...

Certain external practices/disciplines that aren't part of the deposit of faith...

The natural law and moral law revealed by God...

______ missions were prevalent in the Southeast/Southwest regions of North America. The best known missionaries were St. Juniperro Serra & Bartolome de la Casa.

_______ missions were prevalent in the Northeast/Midwest regions of North America. The best known missionaries were St. Isaac Jogues & Jacques Marquette.

Initially, Catholics were persecuted in the British colonies, but after many served in the _____, they were treated with tolerance.

________ was the first bishop in the United States.

Catholic immigrants to the USA in the 19th-20th c. came in droves from Ireland, Germany, Italy, and ________.

Catholic parishes, schools, press, and charities rose and grew beginning in the _______ and still impact the American Catholic experience today.

_____ established Catholic schools that served as the prototype of the American Catholic school system and became the first American-born canonized saint.

_______ presided over the 3rd Plenary Council of Baltimore (1884) and helped enact decrees that would set the policy of the American Church for decades.

In the coming century, the Church will focus on Gospel witness, Care of immigrants, Parish life, Religious education, Schools, and Vocations.