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Section One
__________ accounts for the early standardization of the emerging iconographic repertoire.
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All of the above
Pilgrimage
A common artistic vocabulary
A common stock of biblical imagery
The tendency to excessively enclose all prayer within a ritual frame is referred to as:
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Acedia
Liturgicalism
None of the above
Pietism
Byzantine liturgical prayer is structured around which of the following cycles:
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Daily, weekly, yearly
Daily, monthly, yearly
The Four Empires prophesied about in the Book of Daniel include all but which of the following?
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Medo-Persian
Babylonian
Philistine
Greek
An example of a Feast of the Theotokos based on the readings of the Gospel is:
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Entrance into the Temple
Dormition
Nativity of the Theotokos
Annunciation
The Christian Church had no material culture before the year AD 300.
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False
True
A Christian’s entire spiritual life is service to God and neighbor.
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True
False
“Genesis functions primarily as a narrative catechism for the Exodus.”
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False
True
Which is the better description of the Resurrection of Christ among the following statements?
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The ultimate revelation of God's new creation.
The incorporeal manifestation of divine power over death.
A theological distinction can be made between the interior life of the Holy Trinity and the revelation of the Trinity in creation.
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True
False
Section Two
The Church’s teaching that upholds an equitable distribution of communal goods (food, water, adequate work, etc.), is called what?
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Subsidiarity
Private property
Solidarity
Distributive justice
Christian holiness is something the laity achieve through their hard work.
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True
False
Who said, “God became man, that man might become god”?
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St. Basil
St. John Chrysostom
St. Augustine
St. Athanasius
Which is said to be the central step of the Ecclesial Method?
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Preparation
Explanation
Proclamation
Application
The laity seek the kingdom of God by(choose one):
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Engaging in temporal affairs and ordering them to the plan of God
Becoming missionaries
Becoming ordained
None of the above
Authentic catechesis cannot be done through liturgical chant, special occasional services (blessings, consecrations, prayer services, exorcisms), the Church building (icons, relics, holy articles), and family domestic traditions (icon corner, family prayer)- true or false?
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True
False
Ezra is primarily known as:
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The Steward
The Israelite
The King
The Scribe
In orthodox practice, bowing, kissing, prostrating, reverently touching, genuflecting, and making the sign of the cross or lighting a votive before an image are gestures of __________ .
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Idolatry
Ritual
Veneration
Adoration
What definition does NOT fit for the concept of the Logismoi?
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The precursor to the 7 deadly sins.
A metaphorical expression of the demons.
The Vice itself which must be confessed in the Holy Mystery of Confession.
Thoughts which occupy our understanding and lead us to sin.
Care for creation is primarily a _________ issue.
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Moral
Political
Ecumenical
Global
Section Three
The ________ Sense of Scripture points to the way we should act or live, emphasizing especially the theological virtue of charity.
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Allegorical
Anagogical
Tropological
Literal
Chrismation is the Holy Mystery by which we are sealed with the gift of the Holy Spirit and this is revealed in the anointing with the Oil of Gladness before Baptism.
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True
False
Catechesis should not rely merely on attending the Divine Liturgy, but also the establish of a private prayer rule, especially the Psalms and the Jesus Prayer- true or false?
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True
False
Which is not part of a moral act?
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Consequences
Intention
Circumstances
Content (Object)
Personal prayer is always ecclesial.
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False
True
The story of the Maccabees is told in which Age of the Kingdom?
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Age of the Empire
Age of Creation
Age of the Patriarchs
Age of Exile
Which is NOT an example of a Fixed Cycle feast of the Lord:
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Nativity
Ascension
Theophany
Transfiguration
Which was not a foreseen consequence of the wide acceptance of artificial contraception (Pope St. Paul VI)?
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None of the above were foreseen
Lowering of respect for the dignity of women
Government overreach in regard to the promotion of contraceptives
General lowering of moral standards
All of the above were foreseen
What is the proper ordering of the five steps of the ecclesial method?
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Preparation, Explanation, Proclamation, Celebration,Application
Preparation, Proclamation, Explanation, Application, Celebration
Which of the following statements is NOT correct?
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God reveals Himself to man all at once.
The Ecclesial Method is a method of teaching that is faithful to the Word of God and to the Magisterium of the Church.
Jesus always respects a persons free will and intellect. He reveals Himself and the ngives the disciples an opportunity to consider the revelation and to respond in faith. In this way, Jesus always provides an opportunity for personal application.
The Ecclesial Method is aimed at leading participants to an authentic understanding of the Faith and to a conversion of heart.
God's divine pedagogy is exemplified in Jesus Christ, the Divine Teacher, Who sets the ultimate example for all Catechists to follow.
Section Four
God intended for mankind to gradually achieve perfection, even if we had not fallen into sin.
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True
False
God's chosen people are involved in a Sacred History, in which God communicates Himself to them gradually.
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True
False
The essence of idolatry consists in __________ .
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External acts of reverence given to a creature rather than to God alone.
Worshipping a creature in place of the Creator.
Depicting the divine.
Work of art depicting pagan gods.
The primary sanctuary of God’s reigning presence in the Age of the Exodus is:
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The Tabernacle
The Garden
Mount Zion
The Temple
The __________ Sense is the foundation of all subsequent levels of biblical interpretation.
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Anagogical
Literal
Allegorical
Tropological
St. John of Damascus was the first Christian thinker to mention or theologically reflect on the artistic tradition of the Church.
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True
False
Baptism is the source of the charism and vocation of the laity.
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True
False
True/False The Foundation of most spiritual practices was the practices started in the Deserts of Egypt
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False
True
The story of the Royal High Priest Melchizedek is told in which Age of the Kingdom?
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Age of Creation
Age of Exile
Age of the Patriarchs
Age of the Empire
"Modern man listens more willingly to teachers than to witnesses, and if he does listen to witnesses, it is because they are teachers (Evangelium Nuntiandi)."
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False
True
Section Five
What is NOT a definition of Nepsis?
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Remaining silent and still in prayer
Meditating on a mystery of Christ's life.
Calling out to Christ for help
Scrutinizing the thoughts of fanciful notions
The root of the word for Akathist means:
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Kneeling
Sitting
Bowing
Standing
The name “Deuteronomy” means:
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The Ten Words
Law of the Covenant
Second Law
The Five Scrolls
The service of the Lytia where bread, wheat, wine, and oil are blessed in the church traditionally occurs after:
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Compline
Vespers
Matins
First Hour
In the Holy Mystery of Anointing, as we pray for healing of soul and body of the person(s) before us, there is also a forgiveness of sins.
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False
True
Veneration or relative worship is that meet reverence, even in the form of gestures, given to persons or things due to their place in the Divine Economy. Adoration is that service (at once taking a ritual and moral expression) rendered only to God which subsists in a complete gift of self to God.
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False
True
The principle of Catholic social teaching that recognizes that issues are best dealt with at the smallest and most direct level of involvement, is called what?
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Subsidiarity
Solidarity
Philanthropia
Sobornost
The Hexapsalm is one of the central features of the service of Byzantine Vespers.
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True
False
The word "mystery", from the Greek, mysterion, means that which is hidden in God and only can be known by God revealing it.
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True
False
The human person stands at the center of social life.
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False
True
Section Six
Which one of these statements is NOT one of the three criteria for a proper interpretation of the Scriptures?
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Use your Scofield reference Bible.
Be attentive to the analogy of faith.
Be attentive to the content and unity of the whole Scripture.
Read the Scripture within the living tradition of the whole Church.
The hierarchical ordering of various ministries around the bishop are (choose all that apply):
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Presbyteral
Monastic
Diaconal
Lay
The Catechism Christ Our Pascha is structured in which order?
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Faith, Worship, Life
Worship, Faith, Life
According to the Second Council of Nicaea __________ .
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Christ has a composite nature that could not be depicted.
Christ is partially God but also partially man and thus could be depicted.
Christ is fully man and fully God and thus he cannot be depicted.
Christ is a divine person with a human nature that can be depicted.
The dogma that the Books of the Bible have God as their primary author, especially the Third Person of the Holy Trinity – the Holy Spirit, is known as:
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Immutability
Canonicity
Inspiration
Transmission
The education of children is a responsibility that falls naturally to whom?
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Parents
The state
All of the above
The Church
The Patriarch Jacob’s name is changed to:
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Israel
Esau
Melchezidek
David
The Imago Dei according to the Old and New Covenants refers to the fact that man is the image of God restored to the likeness of God in Christ.
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False
True
All gifts and all ministries are directed towards the growth of the entire community as a single body.
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False
True
Our corporate worship is mostly recited with only a few things that are sung.
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True
False
Section Seven
True/False According to the latest Psychological Research, 'Thought Stopping' is the best way of reaching stillness.
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True
False
Which one is NOT a stage of the spiritual life in the classic desert model?
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Catharsis
Theoria
Nepsis
Theosis
Biblical ________ is really the theological consequent of Divine Inspiration.
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Infallibility
Transmission
Canonicity
Inerrancy
The laity participate in Christ’s priesthood, kingship and prophetic mission through (choose one):
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The mysteries of Christian Initiation
Special permission from the Bishop
Ordination to Holy Orders
None of the above
The order of the appendices in the Catechism Christ Our Pascha reflects the following: Daily Prayers, Catechetical Truths, Social Directives.
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False.
The proper beginning of all catechesis is social justice, and only then should we learn about prayers and catechism.
True.
This is the normal manner in which members of the church have learned the faith.
The life of grace is best described as which of the following.
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A synergy, or cooperation, between the divinity and humanity, whereby humanity responds to divine revelation and invitation.
That which is initiated by human choice to follow God, and which is subsequently confirmed by the action of God.
The Church’s daily cycle of prayer:
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All of the above
Is expressed according to biblical numerology by the number 7 as a number of perfection.
Is a rule of prayer founded largely on the Psalms.
Is found in a grouping of services called the Horologion.
According to Catholic teaching, the Bible is a unified library or a collection of 73 divinely inspired, related, ancient, oriental, redemptive, translated books that are authoritatively selected by the Church through the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
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True
False
The Divine Liturgies of St Basil the Great and St John Chrysostom are full of well over 200 verses of Sacred Scripture, woven together in a tapestry of sacred praise from the beginning of the liturgy until its end.
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True
False
Matins is the early morning service where we are watchful and waiting for the Lord.
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True
False
Section Eight
True/False In the mind of St. Seraphim, fasting is not optional for the Christian.
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True
False
The tria munera of the hierarchical priesthood is priestly, prophetic, and political.
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False
True
Which Greek term means “to turn” or “to think differently”?
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Metanoia
Logismoi
Apatheia
Theoria
The apostolicity of the Church is realized in the ministry of (choose all that apply):
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Priests
Bishops
Deacons
Laity
In the narrative context of Genesis, the walking, talking serpent-king should remind us of which figure?
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Solomon
Nebuchadnezzar
Pharaoh
Ahaz
The epiclesis is the moment in the Divine Liturgy when the Holy Spirit is called down to transform the bread and wine to the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ.
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False
True
The depths of revelation are discerned most fully in the light of the Holy Tradition of the Church, and are progressively uncovered therein. Although, all are capable of a certain knowledge of God by means of contemplating His creation.
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True.
The gracious action of the Holy Spirit reveals the truth to all who live in communion with God, including those who seek Him with a good will.
False.
Since Holy Tradition is not as authoritative as the Sacred Scriptures, and since the Scriptures teach us that faith is necessary for salvation, no one can come to any knowledge of creation whatsoever while devoid of faith.
True/False Nepsis is not necessary for the spiritual life.
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False
True
What is the desert precursor to the Divine Office?
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The Jesus Prayer
The Office of 12 Psalms
The battle against VainGlory
The Divine Liturgy
The word “testament” is also translated as:
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Sacrament
Book
Covenant
Tabernacle
Section Nine
True/False It is totally reasonable for the average layperson to pray the whole Byzantine Divine office on a daily basis.
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True
False
Of the list below, which Church Father is NOT one of the Three Holy Hierarchs:
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St. John Chrysostom
St. Gregory the Great
St. Gregory the Theologian
St. Basil the Great
The dignity of the human person exists from conception.
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True
False
According to the Seventh Ecumenical Council, an ‘icon’ is __________ .
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Specifically a painting on a wooden panel.
Restricted to the sign of the cross and the matter of the Eucharist.
A carved image.
An image of a holy scene or personage in a variety of artistic media.
The characteristics of Christian worship are: trinitarian, ecclesial, eschatological, and cosmic.
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True
False
Catechesis properly begins with which of the following:
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the preaching of the Kerygma
an exposure to the Divine Liturgy
The Greek word for the principle of God’s condescension and divine accommodation in leading humanity to full maturity in salvation history is:
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Katabasis
Apocalypsis
Mysterion
Paradosis
What is the Kerygma?
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The living and uninterrupted experience of the unbroken continuity of Sacred Tradition.
The proclamation of the Paschal Mystery, witnessed in the life of the Christian community.
According to St. John Cassian what is the goal of the Spiritual life?
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Life in the Church
Purity of Heart
Fancy Beards (duh..)
Spiritual union with God in this life.
The process through which we become transformed as “partakers in the Divine nature”, is called what?
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Theoria
Theosis
Metanoia
Liturgia
Section Ten
The idea advanced by biblical scholar, Richard B. Hays, that Paul makes use of texts from the Old Testament, not simply as a form of proof texting, but rather as a way of evoking a broader context in the Old Testament narrative that his Jewish readers especially would have understood, is known as:
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Theonomy
Intertestamental Echoes
Premillenialism
Double Effect
"Flowery Sunday" is another name for:
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Pascha
Palm Sunday
Ascension
The Sunday after Dormition
The liturgical vestments of the clergy symbolize the Incarnation of Christ.
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False
True
Christian appropriation of the Greco-Roman artistic tradition can best be described as __________ .
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Syncretism
Selective Appropriation
Organic Development
Idolatry
What is Typology?
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The illumination of the unity of God's plan of salvation across the Old and New Testaments by means of prefigurations and fulfillments.
The categorization of certain key events within Sacred History into genres, in accordance with their importance for Divine Revelation.
The vice which places the amassing of material goods before all else is called what?
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Avarice
Despondency
Calumny
Lust
The word which means a “three canticle hymnic composition” is:
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Triodion
Trisagion
Tripartite
Triptych
“Just as the Eternal Word was made flesh in human nature by the overshadowing of the Holy Spirit, so the Word of God through the Holy Spirit was enfleshed in the words of men.” This saying is an expression of:
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The Incarnational Analogy
The Marian Principle
Biblical Infallibility
Dual Authorship
The Church, and the celebration of the Sacred Mysteries, is the place of salvation.
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No.
According to the divine plan for salvation, the Church and the sacraments are entirely incidental to our salvation.
Yes.
That which was accomplished by the Savior has now passed into the sacraments of the Church.
Which statement is more correct?
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The Sacred Scriptures transmit the infallible divine Word by means of human language.
The Sacred Scriptures are divinely inspired and, since they do not err, cannot be said to contain any human element.