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Religious Studies
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09/25/2012

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Term
julian sought both to restore the lost glory of __________, and to impede the _________ of Christianity
Definition
Paganism
progress
Term
Rather than persecuting Christians, Julian followed a two pronged policy of ___________ ______ ________ and _______ ________
Definition
Hindering their progress and ridiculing them
Term
The council of Constantinople reaffirmed the doctrine of ______.
Definition
Nicea
Term
The main contribution of Cappadocian fathers was in clarifying the difference between _______ and ________. The latin west and the Greek east came to agree on a common formula ____ ______ in three persons.
Definition
Essense and substance
one essence
Term
Ambrose believe that the church ruled over secular_______ _________
Definition
government officials
Term
John Chrysostom is remember today for giving his name to the litirgy which is in general use in _______ ________ _____
Definition
eastern orthodox church
Term
The first task was to reform the life of the _______
Definition
clergy
Term
Jerome is primarily remembered for his translations of the bible into ______ "vulgate" from the original languages.
Definition
Latin
Term
Augustine became the champion of the ______ of the _______.
Definition
Freedom of the will
Term
St Augustine believe the origin of evil, then, is to be found in the ______ _________ made by both ________ and _______ _____.Further Augustine believe evil it is a ________, a _________, a ___________.
Definition
bad decisions, human and angelic wills
decision, direction, negation of good.
Term
According to Augustine, the power of sin is such that it takes hold of our ___.
Definition
will
Term
Two of Augustine's writings are particularly significant, ______ and ___ ____ ____ _____.
Definition
Confessins
The city of God.
Term
you have made us for yourself and our heart is ________ until it _____ __ ____.
Definition
Restless, Rest in you
Term
The great contribution of Ulfila to Gothic christianity was in developing an _______ for the _______ of the goths, and then translating the ______ into it.
Definition
Alphabet,Language, Bible.
Term
AS the western roman empire come to a end it was the church that provided ________ with the past. It became the guardian of ________ and of ______
Definition
Continuity
Civilization
order
Term
During the Middle Ages, Christianity became the ______ force of culture
Definition
unified
Term
The fall of western Roman empire created a number of ________ ________
Definition
independent Kingdoms
Term
Pepin's son, Charlemagne, would be the greatest ruler of the early middle ages, one who sought to _______ __ ______ and who was ________ ________ by the ______.
Definition
Reform the church
crowned emperor by the pope
Term
an important and lasting consequence of the influence of irish Christianity on the rest of Europe as the spread of the practice of private or auricular ________ to a priest.
Definition
confession
Term
In summary, from the fifth to the eight century Western Europe was swept by series of ________ that brought chaos to the land, and destroyed a great deal of the _______ of antiquity. The invaders brought with them two religions challenges that until then seemed to be matters of the past _______ and _______.
Definition
Invasions
Learning
Paganism and Arianism
Term
At the same time as some of the various Germaninc invasions were taking place, the ______ church was flourishing
Definition
Irish
Term
western monasticism tended to differ from its Eastern counterpart on three points. first, western monasticism tended to be more _______. Second, WEstern monasticism did not place the premium on _________ that was typical in the east. Third Western monasticism did not live in the constant tension with the ________ of the church that was typical of Eastern monasticism.
Definition
practical
Solitude
hierarchy
Term
The main figure of Western monasticism in its formative years--- in many ways, its founder was ______. His greatest significance was in the ______ that he gave to his community.
Definition
Benedict
Rule
Term
There are 2 elements of monastic life that Benedic though are crucial _________ and ________
Definition
stability
obedience
Term
The prayer book of the bible is the book of ______
Definition
Salms
Term
The core of the monastic life as Benedic conceived it was a _______
Definition
prayer
Term
In the west the church became the guardian of what was left of ________ ________ as well as of ________ and _________. THus, the most prestigious ________ in the west, that of Rome, became the focal point for regaining a unity that had been shattered by the invasions.
Definition
Ancient civilization
order and justice
bishop
Term
_______ __ _____, who has been called the first "pope" in the modern sense.
Definition
Leo "the Great"
Term
Pope was convince that jesus had made ______ and his successors the rock on which the church was to be built and that therefore the bishop of ______. Peter direct successor, is the _____ of the church.
Definition
Peter
Rome
head
Term
Gregory believed that in the mass or communion Christ was ______ ____. THis notion of the mass as sacrifice eventually became standard doctrine of the Western church until it was rejected by _______ in teh sixteenth century.
Definition
sacrificed anew
protestants
Term
Muhammed claimed that he was not preaching a _____ ________, but simply th culmination of what God had revealed in the Hebrew prophets and in jesus who was a great prophet although ____ _______ as Christians claim.
Definition
New religion
not divine
Term
in the field of theology, there were 2 areas of particular concern of Islam, namely the ___ of ______ and the _______ __ ________.
Definition
Use of images
doctrine of the trinity
Term
From its very beginnings, Islam has view religion and politics as necesarily and righfully _________
Definition
inseparable.
Term
Apart from the obvious cultural differences between the Latin-speaking West and the Greek-speaking East, the _______ ___ __ _______ produced entirely differeent situations in the two branches of the church
Definition
Political course of events
Term
The council which met at Chalcedon in 451 produced a statement that was not a creed but rather a ______ __ ______, or clarification of what the church _____ __ __ ____.
Definition
Definition of faith
held to be true
Term
During the reign of Constantine V, the empire was soon divided between "iconoclast" who were the _______ __ ______ and iconodules ________ __ _______
Definition
Destroyers of images
worshipers of images
Term
at the 7th Ecumenical council gathered at nicea in 787. This assembly distinguised between worship in the strict sense, latria, which is due ___ __ ____, and a lesser worship veneration, dulia, which is to be ______ __ _______.
Definition
only to god
given to images
Term
Photius then declared that the entire West was _______, because it had tampered with the _____ ______ by including in it the word Filioque ____ ____ ___ ____. Photius argued that in adding and from the ancient understanding of the trinity, which affirms that the SPirit proceeds from the Father, ______ __ ___
Definition
Heretical
Nicene Creed
And from the son
Through the Son
Term
One by product of the controversy was the resurgence of the old roman Creed, now called the _____ _____
Definition
Apostle's Creed
Term
____ the final break between western and eastern church took place over _____ vs _______ how the holy spirit ________ and competing ______. This churches became known as the ______ _______ _______
Definition
1054
Pope vs Patriarchs
proceeds
missions
Eastern Orthodox church
Term
After conquering several contries in West, Charlemagne was crowned holy roman emperor by Pope Leo 3 on _______ ____ on year 800. As emperor Charlemagne feel caleed to rule his people both _____ and _______ matters. He appointed ______ ordered that preaching be in the _______ of the people that someday be kept as a day of _______ or _______ and that _______ be collected as if their be a tax.
Definition
Christmas day
civic and ecclesiastical
bishops
language
worship
rest or tithes
Term
on treatis on the body and the blood of the lord written in 831 and rvised form 844 by a monk Paschasius Raddertus he declared that when teh bread and wine are ________ they are transformed into the ______ and _______ of the lord. However, the ________ ______ of christ is not the same as the _________ _______ of jesus, which is seating at the right hand of God. THis concept became known as ____________ and was ratified by the 4th lateral council that meed 1215
Definition
Consecrated
eucharistic body
historical body
transubtantineon
Term
one of the characteristics of the Cluniac reformation of monastic life was that all their house had to have ____ ______ to their property
Definition
clear title
Term
Cluniacs came to spend practically all their time at the Divine office, neglecting the _______ ___ that was so important for Benedict
Definition
Physical labor
Term
After ordering the life of hundres of monastic houses, they set their sight on the reformation of the ________ _____
Definition
entire church
Term
Simony (__ ___ __ ______ __ _______ ____) was therefore one of the worst evils to be eradicated. The other great enemy of reformation thus conceived in monastic terms was _________ ___________.
Definition
The buying and selling of ecclasiastical post
clerical marriage
Term
cruzades had 4 objectives
Definition
To defeat the muslim and regain the Holyland
To save Bizantin Empire
Reunite the EAstern and Western branches
Win heaven
Term
There were ______ cruzades
Definition
eight
Term
In western Europe, the crusades and teh Spanish Reconquista enhanced the power of the ________
Definition
papacy
Term
The monastic ideal took a new direction with the founding of the ______ ______
Definition
Military oders
Term
The author of our text mention 2 mendicant orders.
Definition
Franciscus-poverty
Dominicants-study and preaching
Term
Third orders were instrumented both in spreading Franciscan and Dominican ______ and in providing ______ for the mendicants themselves.
Definition
piety
support
Term
Scholasticism- The medieval movement ______ to _____ which emphasizes the _________ ________ of ________ _______.
Definition
1200 to 1500
rational justification
religious belief
Term
The method of Anselms theology, which applies _______ to a truth known by ______ in order to _______ better.
Definition
reason
faith
understand
Term
two developments were significant for the early history of scholasticism: the growth of ________ and the reintroduction of the teachings of _______ into Western Europe
Definition
Universities
Aristotle
Term
Peter lombard believe there are 7 sacraments
Definition
Baptism, confirmation, eucharistic, penance, anointing of the sick, holy orders and matrimony
Term
Scholastic philosophy sought to create a ________ and _________ system of taught. Scholastics became experts at __________ thinking
Definition
Coherint
comprehenssive
systematic
Term
All to Thomas all truth necessary for salvation, including that which can be reached by reason, has been _______
Definition
revealed
Term
Accordaing to Thomas help the church cope with _____ _____ coming out of the Aristotelian revival, but in doing so he opened the way for modern _______ and ________.
Definition
New ideas
science and observation
Term
The best known writing of Thomas
Definition
Summa Theologiae
Term
After the failure of the Crusades _________ were teh main missionary body remaining in the holy land.
Definition
Franciscans
Term
There were 2 events that set the stage for the life of church
Definition
100 years war
Great plague
Term
St Cattherine of Siana became famous as a teacher of ________, and gathered around her a circle of men and women, many of them more educated than she, whom she taught the principles and practice of ___________.
Definition
mysticism
Contemplation
Term
john Wycliffe and John Huss, came to the conclusion that it was not only the ______ but also the ________ of the church that ought to be reformed.
Definition
Life
doctrine
Term
Wycliffe began translating the bible from the Vulgate into _______ a task that his followers continued after ______ ______.
Definition
English
His death
Term
Lollards were ____ ______ who dedicated themselves to spreading the ideas of _______ __________
Definition
Lay preacher
John Wycliffe
Term
john thus came to the conclusion that the bible is the ____ _______
Definition
Final authority
Term
William Tyndel was teh first to have ________ and _________ the new testament into _______ .
Definition
Translated and printed
English
Term
The mystcal impulse tended to weaken the ________ not only of corrupt prelates but of teh hierarchial _______ itself. Indeed, if through direct contemplation one can achieve communication one can achieve communion with the divine, such traditional means of grace as the _______, __________ and even ________
Definition
Authority
church
Sacraments, preaching and scripture
Term
The tendency of Western theology to make salvation a goal to be attained by ________ ______ reached its high point in late medieval theology.
Definition
Human action
Term
The question of _______ was of paramount importance for theologians in the 14th and 15th century. Occam himself believed that both the pope and a universal council could err, and that only the ______ was infallible.
Definition
authority
bible
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