Ecclesiology 2.1 & 2.2 Test Review

Their primary concern was to make the Jewish faith relevant under Roman rule.

When was the Church’s basic structure established? 

A total denial of Christ and a disavowal of the Christian faith

Moral teaching can change over time.

At one point in Church history the Church taught it was OK to sell indulgences.

What is the central and most complete image of the Church? 

  Christians who fled to the desert typically did so because they wanted to live a more authentic Christianity. 

What was it that made membership in the Christian Church attractive despite the obvious dangers? 

The goal of the Crusades was to “win heaven” by taking back the Holy Land from the Moslems.

From about AD 313 on Christianity became not only legal but accepted.

Lived celibately, interpreted every law in the strictest possible way. 

The earliest Jewish Christians believed their faith was distinct from Judaism.

Which of the following is NOT a reason Christians were despised by the Romans? 

This type of indulgence removes the complete consequence of temporal punishment due to sin. 

It is only through the Church that the will of God can be most reliably known.