Ufdn 3100 Quiz #5

Front 1

T/F: In the centuries after the Roman Empire effectively split into the Latin-speaking West and the Greek-speaking East, there was much more chaos in the West because of the attacks and invasions of Germanic "barbarians".

Back 1

True

Front 2

T/F: As evidenced by their persecution of Christians, Germanic barbarians did not convert to Christianity.

Back 2

False

Front 3

T/F: During chaotic Early Middle Ages in the West, the church was unable to preserve or maintain ancient culture.

Back 3

False*

Front 4

Which of the following was not one of the achievements of Pope Gregory the Great (590-604)?

A. Wrote a lot, including translations of Augustine of Hippo

B. Encouraged the spread of Benedictine monasticism

C. Looked out for the people of Rome

D. Crowned Charlemagne emperor

E. Supported King Recared in the institution of Catholiscism in Spain

F. Sent Augustine of Canterbury to Britain.

Back 4

D. Crowned Charlemagne emperor

Front 5

T/F: In the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire, the Christian church struggled to find legitimacy in the Early Middle Ages

Back 5

False

Front 6

T/F: Nestorian and Monophysite churches still exist today.

Back 6

True

Front 7

T/F: The rapid spread of Islam overtook many areas that had previously been strongholds of the Christian church, especially in the East.

Back 7

True

Front 8

T/F: During the Early Middle Ages, Christianity went from being centered around the Mediterranean to being centered in Western Europe, resulting in a strengthening of the church in the West.

Back 8

False*

Front 9

T/F: The Eastern and Western Christian churches never officially split

Back 9

False

Front 10

T/F: In the High Middle Ages, the drive for reform in the church originated within monasticism.

Back 10

True

Front 11

T/F: To curry favor with the church, emperors in the High Middle Ages encouraged the activity of a series of reformist popes.

Back 11

False

Front 12

Which of the following was not a cause of the Crusades?

A. Desire to find new land for economic and political opportunity.

B. Desire to go on pilgrimages to holy sites in Palestine

C. Desire by feudal lords to do battle

D. Desire to recover the Holy Land from the infidels

E. Desire to gain remission of suffering in Purgatory

F. Desire to re-center Christendom in the East

Back 12

F. Desire to re-center Christendom in the East

Front 13

T/F: The Crusades were always between Christians and Muslims.

Back 13

So so so False

Front 14

T/F: Christian interaction with Islam was helpful in the development of Christianity

Back 14

True?

Front 15

T/F: In response to the recovery of trade, the rise of cities, and the establishment of a new class of "bourgeois" in the High Middle Ages, two new orders of mendicant (traveling) monastics emerged— the Franciscans and Dominicans.

Back 15

True

Front 16

T/F: Scholasticism was a grassroots development in the High Middle Ages that wanted to focus theological reflection sole upon the Bible

Back 16

False

Front 17

T/F: Bonaventure and Thomas Aquinas were two Scholastic theologians influenced by aristotelian philosophy.

Back 17

True

Front 18

T/F: In the High Middle Ages, Romanesque architecture gave way to Gothic

Back 18

True (why does it matter? you ask. no idea.)

Front 19

The height of papal power was realized under the papacy of Innocent III (1198-1216). Which of the following was not an achievement of his?

A. Called the Fourth Lateran Council (1215)

B. Served as emperor briefly

C. Presided during the Fourth Crusade

D. Delineated official stances on a wide range of issues including transubstantiation, confession, and interaction with other religions, and the prosecution of the Inquisition

E. Had authority over the Easter Church

F. Took part in selecting an emperor.

G. Intervened in the affairs of foreign states.

Back 19

B. Served as emperor briefly.

Front 20

T/F: The advance of the plague in the Late Middle Ages encouraged theology and worship to become focused on scientific and cultural topics of the day rather than concepts of death and the life to come.

Back 20

False

Front 21

T/F: The "Babylonian Captivity of the Church" refers to those years when Christianity was overshadowed by developments in the Middle East.

Back 21

False

Front 22

The "Great Western Schism" refers to the final separation between East and West

Back 22

False

Front 23

T/F: The church's conciliar movement in the High Middle Ages began with good intentions, but ran into troubles.

Back 23

True

Front 24

T/F: During the Renaissance, the church was perhaps the only institution that was able to withstand the rampant humanistic secularism of the day.

Back 24

False

Front 25

T/F: Theology under Late Middle Age Scholastics such as John Duns Scotus and William of Ockham became less and less sophisticated, and more and more the theology of the populace.

Back 25

False

Front 26

In response to the corruption of the chirch during the Renaissance, several individuals and larger movements called for reform. Which of the following is not one of them?

Back 26

A. The Church-is-broing-and-we-want-good-childcare-and-proffesional-media-presentations-and-contemporary-worship-music-and-free-coffee-so-that-we-can-be-entertained-group

Front 27

T/F: Christian Renaissance humanist and theologian Erasmus of Rotterdam sought to recover a simpler Christianity as expressed in ancient writings

Back 27

True

Front 28

T/F: The rise of post-Renaissance Christian mysticism helped to save what small bit of authority the western church still had.

Back 28

False

Front 29

T/F: Constantinople continued to remain the center of Orthodox Christianity until WWI in the early both century

Back 29

False

Front 30

What loons did they disclaim?

Council of Constantinople (381)

Back 30

Apollinarianism, which asserted that Jesus was human, except with a divine mind

Front 31

What loons did they disclaim?

Council of Ephesus (431)

Back 31

Nestorianism, which asserted that Jesus was actually two persons, each with its own natures, in one body (like magnets, still exists)

Front 32

What loons did they disclaim?

Council of Chalcedon (451)

Back 32

Monophysitism, which asserted that Jesus was divine, except with a drop of humanity mixed in. (also still exists)

Front 33

What loons did they disclaim?

Council of Constantinople II (553)

Back 33

"The Three Chapters," which were judged to be Nestorian

Front 34

What loons did they disclaim?

Council of Constantinople III (680-681:

Back 34

Monothelism (or Monothelitism), which asserted that Jesus consists of two natures in one persons, but with only one will

Front 35

What loons did they disclaim?

Council of Nicaea II (787)

Back 35

Jesus alone is worshiped, but icons may be venerated