Test #4

Question 1

This heresy says you have to have special knowledge to be saved:
1. Ascenticism
2. Gnosticism
3. Docetism

Answer 1

2. Gnosticism

Question 2

This heresy says you have to avoid meat, wine, and sex to be saved:
1. Docetism
2. Asceticism
3. Gnosticism

Answer 2

2. Asceticism

Question 3

This heresy denies the humanity of Jesus:
1. Ascetism
2. Gnosticism
3. Docetism

Answer 3

3. Docetism

Question 4

Who is NOT a famous Gnostic:
1. Basilides
2. Valentinus
3. Heracleon
4. Domitian

Answer 4

4. Domitian

Question 5

What is NOT a Gnostic teaching:
1. man is a macrocosm of the universe
2. there are intermediary beings, like angels
3. two powers fight it out in the universe
4. we must obey the bishops

Answer 5

4. We must obey the bishops

Question 6

What is NOT true about Irenaeus:
1. bishop in Lyon, France
2. wrote Adversus Haereses, against the Gnostics
3. said Jesus redeemeed all stages of human life, recapitulation
4. believed in a literal millennium to oppose
5. believed in reincarnation

Answer 6

5. believed in reincarnation

Question 7

What is NOT true about Tertullian:
1. he was a lawyer and quite caustic in voicing his opinions
2. had an early understanding of the 2 natures of Jesus
3. sex creates body and soul, and souls pass to children at birth, Traducianism
4. believed in infant baptism

Answer 7

4. believed in infant baptism

Question 8

What is NOT true about Tertullian;
1. late in life he became a Montanist
2. all people went to Hades at death, early concept of purgatory
3. the brothers of Jesus were Mary’s sons
4. was obedient to the pope in Rome

Answer 8

4. was obedient to the pope in Rome

Question 9

What is NOT true of Clement of Alexandria:
1. stressed divinity of Jesus more than his humanity
2. wrote Stromateis or Stromata
3. developed the ideas of logos, and he is the father of speculative theology in the ancient church
4. had high respect for the bishop at Antioch

Answer 9

4. had high respect for the bishop at Antioch

Question 10

What is NOT true of Origen:
1. he stressed the seperation of the three persons of the trinity
2. he was a subordinationist
3. he believed in reincarnation of souls into bodies in a future world
4. world will be rehabiliated gradually into a spiritual form
5. opposed Plato’s philosophy

Answer 10

5. opposed Plato’s philoshopy

Question 11

If you emphasize the oneness of God too much and speak of God relating to humanity in three persons, which are an extension of God’s oneness:
1. modalism
2. Pelagianism
3. Nestorianism.

Answer 11

1. Modalism

Question 12

Who is not a modalist:
1. Sabellius
2. Nerva
3. Paul of Samosata

Answer 12

2. Nerva

Question 13

What is not a council:
1. Rome
2. Nicea
3. Constantinople
4. Ephesus
5. Chalcedon

Answer 13

1. Rome

Question 14

This heresy denied the divinity of Jesus:
1. Ebionitism
2. Marcionitism
3. Nestorianism
4. Pelagianism
5. Arianism
6. Montanism

Answer 14

5. Arianism

Question 15

What is NOT true of Arius’ views on Jesus:
1. Jesus is a creature
2. Jesus had a beginning
3. Jesus had no direct knowledge of the father
4. Jesus could not sin.

Answer 15

4. Jesus could not sin

Question 16

What is NOT true of Athanasius:
1. he wrote the Athanasian Creed
2. he opposed Arius
3. he is the first to list the 27 books of the New Testament
4. his views of Jesus are close to our own, Jesus is eternal son of God.

Answer 16

1. he wrote the Athanasian Creed

Question 16

What is NOT true of Arius’ views on Jesus:
1. Jesus was the first to be created by God
2. Jesus was adopted to be the Son of God
3. Jesus is Son of God morally, but not metaphysically
4. Jesus is an equal member of the Trinity.

Answer 16

4. Jesus is an equal member of the Trinity

Question 16

Who is not one of the three Cappadocians:
1. Licinius of Rome,
2. Basil of Caesarea
3. Gregory of Nyssa
4. Gregory of Nazianzus.

Answer 16

1. Licinius of Rome

Question 17

What is NOT true of Basil the Great:
1. he laid the foundation for the 381
Council at Constantinople
2. he said God had one being and three hypostases
3. he was brother of Gregory of Nyssa and St. Macarina
4. he was a subordinationist.

Answer 17

4. he was a subordinationist

Question 18

What is NOT true of Gregory of Nazianzus:
1. he developed Basil’s ideas
2. he spoke of the unregenerate father, the begotten son, and the proceeding Holy Spirit
3. he supported Arius
4. he stressed that Mary was the mother of God.

Answer 18

3. he supported Arius

Question 19

What is NOT true of Gregory of Nyssa:
1. he used the fish hook model to
describe how Jesus saved us
2. he was the best of the three Cappadocian Fathers
3. he was condemned at the council of Constantinople in 381
4. he held the two natures of Jesus to be separate and developed the communication of attributes concept.

Answer 19

3. he was condemned at the council of Constantinople in 381

Question 20

What is NOT true of Apollinarius:
1. he was condemned at Constantinople in 381
2. he said the divinity of Jesus excluded his complete humanity
3. early in his life he was a friend of Athanasius
4. he opposed the Nicene Creed.

Answer 20

4. he opposed the Nicene Creed

Question 21

This heresy said the divine and human natures of Jesus were very distinct:
1. Ebionitism
2. Nestorianism
3. Marcionitism,
4. Pelagianism
5. Montanism
6. Arianism.

Answer 21

2. Nestorianism

Question 22

What is NOT true about Nestorius:
1. he was condemned by the council at Ephesus
2. he used the image of two boards glued together to describe the natures of Jesus
3. he was bishop at Constantinople
4. he rejected the theological concept of theotokos.

Answer 22

2. he used the image of two boards glued together to describe the natures of Jesus

Question 23

The council at Ephesus in 431 did NOT condemn which heresy: 1. Pelagianism 2. Nestorianism 3. Stoicism.

Answer 23

3. Stoicism

Question 24

What is NOT true of Cyril of Alexandria: 1. he killed the pagan woman philosopher, Hypatia 2. he taught the hypostatic union very early 3. he affirmed Mary as the mother of God 4. he was condemned at the Council of Ephesus in 431 5. he said, “we bury our teeth in Christ’s body.”

Answer 24

4. he was condemned at the Council of Ephesus in 431

Question 25

What is NOT true of Cyril of Alexandria: 1. he was the champion at the Council of Ephesus in 431 2. he was put down at the Council of Chalcedon in 451 3. he opposed the separation of the two natures in Jesus 4. he practically affirmed one nature in Jesus, monophysitism 5. he liked the Constantinopolitan bishop a great deal.

Answer 25

5. he liked the Constantinopolitan bishop a great deal

Question 26

What is NOT true of Eutyches: 1. he was condemned at the Council of Chalcedon in 451 2. he was allied to Cyril of Alexandria 3. he declared that Jesus had only ONE nature, the divine, the divine and human natures were consubstantial 4. he was totally a monophysite 5. he hated monks.

Answer 26

5. he hated monks

Question 27

Leo’s Tome provided what concept to the Council of Chalcedon: 1. balanced natures 2. communication of attributes.

Answer 27

2. communication of attributes

Question 28

What is NOT true about the Council of Chalcedon: 1. it more or less settled the Christological controversies 2. it brought many delegates from Rome 3. it officially affirmed the Council of Constantinople 4. it had more delegates present than the first three councils.

Answer 28

2. it brought many delegates from Rome

Question 29

What did the Council of Chalcedon NOT do: 1. officially made the Nicene Creed a standard of the faith 2. praised the bishopric at Rome, 3. condemned Eutyches 4. affirmed Leo’s Tome 5. affirmed the Primacy of the bishop at Constantinople.

Answer 29

2. praised the bishopric at Rome

Question 30

What is not a creed: 1. Apostles 2. Nicene 3. Constantinian 4. Athanasian.

Answer 30

3. Constantinian

Question 31

What is TRUE about the Christological controversies: 1. they were actually defining reality 2. heretics were burned at the stake 3. the real issue was to preserve the belief that God in Jesus died and rose for us.

Answer 31

1. they were actually defining reality