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Heresies and Councils

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

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Class
Date
1.

This council was called in 325 and was the first ecumenical council.

a)

Council of Nicaea

b)

Council of Constantinople

c)

Council of Ephesus

d)

Council of Chalcedon

2.

Who called the first ecumenical council?

a)

The bishops

b)

Pope Sylvester I

c)

Arius

d)

Constantine

3.

What did they decide at Nicaea?

a)

Arianism was a heresy

b)

Mary is the mother of God

c)

The canon of scripture for the New Testament

d)

St. Nicholas has a mean right hook

4.

Nestorius taught what he did because he had a problem with...

a)

What Arius taught

b)

Saying Mary was the mother of God

c)

Saying Jesus was divine

d)

Saying Jesus was human

5.

Theotokos means...

a)

The union of two natures in Jesus

b)

Mother of God

c)

Mary most holy

d)

Divine revelation

6.

What was the model the bishops looked to for how they should run the ecumenical councils?

a)

The Council of Nicaea

b)

The Council of Jerusalem

c)

Peter's speech on Pentecost

d)

The cooperation between Peter and Paul

7.

The heresy that taught that Jesus was created by God but not God himself

a)

Gnosticism

b)

Docetism

c)

Arianism

d)

Nestorianism

8.

The heresy that taught that Jesus is really two persons: one human and one divine

a)

Nestorianism

b)

Arianism

c)

Gnosticism

d)

Dualism

9.

Confirmed the teaching of the Council of Nicaea

a)

Vatican II Council

b)

Council of Constantinople

c)

Council of Ephesus

d)

Council of Chalcedon

10.

condemned monophysitism

a)

Council of Nicaea

b)

Council of Constantinople

c)

Council of Jerusalem

d)

Council of Chalcedon

11.

This includes right, accurate statements about religious beliefs.

a)

Orthodoxy

b)

Heresy

c)

Secular

d)

Heterodox

12.

persons of non-Jewish faith or origin

a)

Gentiles

b)

Martyrs

c)

Apostles

d)

Conquistadors

13.

A belief, attitude, or teaching that is contrary to revealed truth and to the Church's doctrine of faith.

a)

Laity

b)

Canon

c)

Orthodoxy

d)

Heresy

14.

A meeting to which all bishops of the world are invited to exercise their authority in union with the pop in addressing concerns facing the world-wide Church.

a)

Ecumenical Council

b)

Apostolic See

c)

Convents

d)

Pontifex Maximus

15.

belief that Jesus has only one nature, instead of the traditional Christian teaching that Jesus has two natures- human and divine

a)

Arianism

b)

Pelagianism

c)

Monophysitism

d)

Apollinarianism