Ch 4 Vocab
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Amomoeans | From the Greek word "anhomoios", meaning dissimilar, this sect of Arianism stressed an essential difference between the Father and Son in the Trinity. |
| Anathema | A cursed, detested person. |
| Antioch | The first community that included both Jewish and Gentile followers of Jesus was established in this city. |
| Apocrypha | 14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible. |
| Apollinarianism | False belief that said although Jesus had a human body, he had no human soul. |
| Apostles' Creed | Statement of belief of the Church. |
| Arianism | Early teaching of the church that was heretical by saying that Jesus was not God, but created by God. |
| Athanasian Creed | A statement of faith that the church still affirms whose author is not known. |
| Caesaropapism | The doctrine that the state is supreme over the church in ecclesiastical matters. |
| Canon | A collection of books accepted as holy scripture especially the books of the Bible recognized by any Christian church as genuine and inspired. |
| Chrysostom | "Golden-mouthed" |
| Church Fathers | Church teachers and writers of the early centuries whose teachings are a witness ton the Tradition of the Church. |
| Council of Nicaea | Christian council that met in 325 to determine the question of the trinity; decided on the divinity of all three persons. |
| Demiurge | Gnostic creator; god of the material world. |
| Deuterocanonical | Those books and passages of the Old and New Testaments about which there was controversy in early Christian history. |
| Diocesan Council | Council brought together by the diocesan. |
| Doctor of the Church | (Roman Catholic Church) a title conferred on 33 saints who distinguished themselves through the othodoxy of their theological teaching. |
| Dokesis | Greek word for appearance. Referred to heresy which claimed Jesus only appeared to die on the Cross. |
| Donatism | This heresy taught that sacraments are invalid if the minister is impure. |
| Ecumenical Council | A worldwide meeting of all bishops to deal with Churchh matters and problems. |
| Filioque | "And from the Son." |
| Formal Heresy | To freely choose with full understanding of the teaching of the Church, to hold to tenets or doctrines that are clearly contradictory to those of the Church. |
| Gnosticism | A religious orientation advocating gnosis as the way to release a person's spiritual element. |
| Gregory " The Illuminator" | Brought Christianity to the Armenian people. |
| Heresy | A belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion. |
| Imprimatur | Formal and explicit approval. |
| Infallible | Free from error; absolutely dependable. |
| Logos | The divine Word of God. |
| The divine Word of God. | Formed with a combination of Christianity, Zoroastriaism, Buddhism, and Judism. Lived an Ascetic lifestyle. |
| Marcionism | The Christian heresy of the 2nd and 3rd centuries that rejected the Old Testament and denied the incornation of God in Jesus as a human. |
| Material Heresy | Putting objects before God. |
| Monophysitism | Heresy claiming that there is only one nature in Christ and that His human nature is "incorporated" into the Divine Nature. |
| Monothelitism | The belief that the Son was one person with two natures, but that the person of Jesus only had a divine will and lacked a human will. |
| Montanism | Believed world about to end; denied forgiveness of sins and the need for material goods. |
| Neo-Platonism | A system of philosophical and religious doctrines composed of elements of Platonism, Aristotelianism, and oriental mysticism. |
| Nestorianism | The theological doctrine (named after Nestorius) that Christ is both the son of God and the man Jesus (which is opposed to Roman Catholic doctrine that Christ is fully God). |
| Nicene Creed | The most widely-accepted statement of Christian faith; the Nicene Creed was first adopted at the Council of Nicaea in A.D. 325. |
| Pelagianism | Believed you don't need God's grace. |
| Pope St. Leo "the Great" | An extrodinary shepard in the Catholic Church. |
| St. Ambrose of Milan | Son of Roman Prefect of Gaul. |
| St. Augustine of Hippo | Defined sacrament as: a visible sign of an invisable reality, a visible sign of invisible grace. |
| St. Basil the Great | Was a Bishop and looms of eastern Christianity. |
| St. Gregory of Nazianzus | His writings and teachings earned him the name "the Theologian." |
| St. Gregory of Nyssa | Younger brother of St. Basil forced into exile by the Arian emperor, Valens. |
| St. Hilary of Poitiers | A preacher; "Athanasius of the West." |
| St. Jerome | Translated the Bible into Latin. |
| Theodosius I | Made Christianity the religion of the Roman Empire in 380 AD. |
| Theotokos | "Mother of God" |
| Vulgate | Latin edition of the Bible translated from Hebrew and Greek; mainly by St. Jerome at the end of the 4th century |
| Docetism | The heretical doctrine (associated with the Gnostics) that Jesus had no human body and his sufferings and death on the cross were apparent rather than real. |
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