refers to the redemptive Passion, Death, Resurrection, and glorious Ascension of Jesus Christ through which Jesus not only liberated humans from sin but also gave them new life.

Literally “those called out of,”____ refers to the community called out of the world by God to live and

is a gift from God and also a human response.

Creeds, doctrines, and rituals are _.

The heritage of faith transmitted through Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition is known as the

The bishops in communion with the pope, who is the successor of St.Peter, who have the task of defining and interpreting the formal structures of the faith form the

begins with the creation of the world and ends with the second coming of Christ.

refers to Jesus’ passage from humanity into divine glory in God’s heavenly domain forty days after his Resurrection.

is the day, fifty days after Passover, when the Holy Spirit descended upon the Apostles.

is the handing on of the teaching and preaching of the Apostles to their successors, the bishops, which preserves the teachings of Jesus authoritatively in his Church.

The ____ determined that Gentiles could be accepted into the Church.

Which of these statements about the great fire that swept through Rome in AD 64 is incorrect?

The Book of Revelation was written in coded language:

Which of these Roman emperors instigated a persecution of Christians during the first three centuries of the Church?

Which of these is not one of the central reasons Christianity enjoyed astounding growth during the first centuries of the Church?

The bishop of Rome was important in the early Church because:

He wrote the famous Apology in which he attempted to show the Roman authorities that the Christian moral life is reinforced on the philosophical grounds of basic ethics, and should therefore not be treated with contempt, let alone persecution:

His most famous work is his Against Heresies, in which he described and condemned various heresies, especially Gnosticism, which denied Jesus’ divinity:

He was the bishop of Smyrna who, when told to renounce his Christian faith responded, “Eighty-six years have I served him and he has done me no wrong. How can I blaspheme the King who saved me?”

A person holding religious beliefs other than those of one of the major world religions or being polytheistic

An early catechetical “teaching” document that mentions the Trinitarian formula, lists moral teachings, and explains the rites of Baptism and Eucharist

The physical remains or personal effects of a saint that are approved by the Church for veneration

An early heresy which denied Jesus’ divinity

Lapsed Christians who abandoned their faith in order to save their lives

The courage that Christians are called to embrace and rely on in order to evangelize and live their faith openly

The writings of the Church Fathers:

Both _____ and his sister, St. Scholastica, found separate monasteries for men and

He secured the authority of the pope and stabilized the Church in Europe following the demise of the Roman Empire:

He tirelessly defended the Catholic faith against heresies and his theological influence was only second to St. Paul:

____ became the secretary to the pope who commissioned him to translate the Bible from Hebrew and Greek into Latin, known as the Vulgate.

Without an emperor in the West, the Church:

Rome became the preeminent patriarchate because:

The Church adopted a Roman style of administration by:

The first surviving outline of the Rite of Eucharist comes from:

One of the issues resolved at the Second Council of Nicaea was a dispute:

Means “correct or right opinion

Christians of about the fourth century who withdrew into the desert to live an ascetic life of prayer, fasting, and abstinence

Bishops of one of the five episcopal sees: Jerusalem, Antioch, Constantinople, Alexandria and Rome

The political theory often practiced when Christianity was legalized that held that a secular ruler could also have authority over the Church, including in matters of doctrine

Latin for “and from the Son”

From the Greek askesis, which means “practice” or “bold exercise”

Greek word for “God-bearer”

From the early fourth century, the oldest complete copy of the Bible in existence

Religious life in which men or women leave the world and enter a monastery or convent to devote themselves to solitary prayer, contemplation, and self-denial

The official list of inspired books of the Bible

A __________________ is a break in Christian unity that takes place when a group of Christians separates itself from the Church

__________________ is the systematic contemplation, within the Church, on the Divine Person and work of Jesus Christ

The Eastern Roman Empire during the empires’ later stages was called the __________________ Empire.

__________________ was a heresy which denied Jesus’ divinity by claiming that Jesus was not of the same substance as God the Father and condemned that the First Council of Nicaea in 325.

__________________ councils are meetings of Catholic bishops from around the world, typically convened in order to discuss and resolve pressing theological topics.

The Church’s alliances with pagan tribes provided _____ during the Early Middle Ages.

The Donation of Pepin was a:

Charlemagne’s love for the Church is evidenced by:

Which word best describes the papacy in the period from the end of the ninth century through the first half of the eleventh century?

The monastery of Cluny:

The ____ made important spiritual reforms including the use of the vernacular with the faithful, reforms of the clerical life, the declaration of the secrecy of the confessional, and fixing the number of sacraments at seven.

In his papal bull, Unam Sanctm, Pope Boniface asserted that:

_____ severely criticized the financial policies of the Avignon papacy, attacked papal authority, and dismissed the validity of the hierarchy, the sacraments, and the priesthood:

The Papal Inquisition was:

The theological system that arose during the Middle Ages, developed notably by St. Thomas Aquinas, balancing faith and reason and relying heavily on classical philosophy and the Church Fathers:

The founder of Islam

Thomism is the teachings that follow the theology and philosophy of this important medieval theologian

A British monk who evangelized the European continent and developed an effective relationship with the Frankish kings

A bishop who traveled throughout Ireland converting local Celtic kings and establishing monasteries to continue the work of evangelization

Pleaded with Pope Gregory XI to return the papacy to Rome from France

Considered the last Church Father, he was also a crusading reformer, brilliant organizer, and spiritual master of his day

Founder of the Order of Friars Minor who lived simply among the people, bringing Christ to the marketplace

Pepin’s son “Charles the Great” who was a devout Christian and visionary ruler whose goal was to the Christianization of Europe

A Spanish priest who founded the Order of Preachers to combat heresies, most notably Albigensianism in southern France

Which of these statements is false regarding Martin Luther?

Martin Luther’s response to Pope Leo X’s papal bull Exsurge Domine:

The creed of Martin Luther’s new religion:

Which of these reformers is most closely linked with the Oath of Supremacy?

This policy was known as Cuius Regio, Eius Religio decreed that:

The Council of Trent had two primary goals: first, reforming problems related to the clergy and religious life and, second, to:

John Knox stressed the baptism of all believers which meant that:

Queen Elizabeth I established the state religion of England, synthesizing Calvinist, Lutheran, and Catholic elements into what became known as:

At the Council of Trent:

Protestant congregations constructed churches in a way that:

Guaranteed Luther safe passage from the meeting at Worms and agreed to hide him.

Posted his Ninety-Five Theses on the door of the church in Wittenberg to protest the selling of indulgences

Wrote his famous Institutes of the Christian Religion, the most important systematic theology of the Reformation

Set up a reform Protestantism in Zurich, Switzerland

Split from the Church primarily over his desire for a divorce from his wife, Catherine of Aragon

Traveled in Germany to sell indulgences using slogans

Bishop of Geneva, Switzerland, he embarked on a mission of preaching to reconquer Calvinists by love

A great Spanish Carmelite saint of the Catholic Reformation era who inspired Church-approved reforms for the Carmelites

Assisted St. Vincent de Paul in his efforts to serve the lower classes throughout French society by founding the Daughters of Charity

Founder of the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits

The political revolutions spawned by Enlightenment ideals effectively ended the Church as a political power in Europe but also:

French Revolution was a time:

The Catholic Church was one of the major victims of the French Revolution because:

____ assumed power over the revolutionary French army in a coup d’état and shortly after, occupied Rome, imprisoning the Pope where the Holy Father died shortly thereafter.

The revolutionary government of France attempted to set up a new state religion by:

Which of these is a correct understanding of papal infallibility?

This French saint lived her short life in a Carmelite monastery and wrote her autobiography entitled The Story of a Soul.

Which of these saints is most closely associated with the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes?

The Papal States were lost in the nineteenth century due to: