THEO TEST 3

training or discipline of the passions and the appetites

• "true Christain chruch"-continuation of martyrs, no salvation outside of the church
• opponents of Caecilian
• thrived through N.Africa
• appealed to Constantine
• - emperor ruled against them

• - communities of monks
• - "common life"
• - monks avoid sin by leading a lifestyle of rules and prayer

• - urban monasticism
• - monks provide service in cities and villages
• - caring for the sick, raising orphans, providing food and clothing

• - the way of life of monks
• - separate from society to pray for the world and achieve salvation
• - solitary, alone

spiritual leader that governed the cenobitic monasticism

• - organized monasteries
• - wrote the Conferences and the Institutes
• - standardize a form of monasticism
• - stages of spiritual life
• - pattern of living

predestination

• - Adam and Eve
• - damaged human nature
• - even a new born is not innocent against greed and envy

• emperor and secular leaders appointed bishops and other church officials
• appointed b/c of family connections

• - Roman
• - lived as a hermit in a cave
• - vows of poverty, chastity, obedience, stability: Monte Cassino

• - economic and social system in the middle ages
• - lords, vassal, land, serfs, peasants
• - monasteries suffered because of the feudal system

• - the buying and selling of spiritual things
• - this included church leadership positions

the spiritual experience a person achieves direct communion with the divine

• - monk, abbot
• - spirit centered of all christain writers
• - supporter of mysticism

• -government and church merging together
• - Christianity merging with culture

• - most successful new order
• - sought to restore the original simplicity of Benedictine monasticism
• - manual labor and economic self support
• -

• - also known as friars
• - most innovative
• - restore apostolic life

• the monarchy of the pope, the power of the pope over issues/bishops
• orthodox v. eastern

• "and the son" in the creed
• orthodox opposed this addition bc it took away from the "father"
• western added the phrase from the ecumenical council

• eastern orthodox
• no one can tamper with the creed
• church leadership conciliar
• pope is important/ first but he does not have any special powers above bishops
• not necessacarily the heighest authority

• - practiced severe asceticism
• - "pure ones"
• - the world and the flesh were a work of an evil God
• - southern France

• - monk who introduced the idea that original sin did not seriously damage the human capacity to do good
• - human nature is essentially good
• - human beings could live holy lives if they gave effort
• - these ideas were condemned as heresy by the Catholic church

• - during the medieval period
• - the practice of deeding church goods as the private inheritance of bishops' or priests' children

founder of the franciscan order of the friars

• beggar friars
• - radical understanding of the vow poverty
• - preach and hear confessions

• - negative approach
• - all affirmations concerning God must be denied since the divine reality so far supersedes any word that can be said about it

• anonymous syrian monk and author
• believed in via negativa

• the practice of writing a document with a false name attached to it
• honor the famous people, increase the authority of the document

• - Catholic theologian and saint
• - integration of philosophy (Aristotle) into Christain faith
• - reason and revelation

• - medieval theology that combined philosophy (truths) and Christianity
• - faith and reason
• - universities

teaching how the appearance of the bread and wine do not change, but their essence does and becomes the body and blood of Jesus

• single or solitary person
• men and women who secluded themselves (deserts) to live a life in prayer and spiritual discipline

• - "servant of the servants of God"
• - pope, his leadership was a model for future popes
• - mission to convert the anglo-saxons