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Religious Studies
8th Grade
10/11/2011

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Term
The power of the Roman Impire began to decline,and the roman legions colud no longer_______the long northern border.
Definition

safeguard

 

Term

more and more Germanic________crossed the border and occupied large sections of the empire.

 

Definition
tribes
Term
as a result of these invasions the empire had practically______ in the West by about the year ______ad
Definition

disappeared

 

 

500

Term
in the 7th and 8th centuries, a new and even more powerful threat mane out of the_______
Definition
East
Term
_________ armies of Arabia. They were followers of_________.
Definition

Muslim

 

Muhammad

Term
He united the warning tribes of Arabia with his message of one true God________.
Definition
Allah
Term
at the time many christians felt that city life with its many distractions, made it difficult for them to achieve the_______to which they aspired
Definition
holiness
Term
these christians began to gather together in remote areas in religious communities called_______.
Definition
monasteries
Term
in this way christian monks came in contact  with the ________ people of the contryside.
Definition
pagan
Term
as a result the ______ became the great ______and spread the Good News of Jesus.
Definition

monks

 

evangelizers

Term
one of the first to go off alone was_______ an Egyptian Christian.
Definition
Antony
Term
the words monastery and _______ mean:living _____, away from the ________.
Definition

monastic

 

alone

 

world

Term
St.Benedict was the most famous monk of the________
Definition
western
Term
he formed the Benedictine rule or motto "_______and prayer"
Definition
work
Term
a monartery became in many ways a powerhouse of _________ and work.
Definition
prayer
Term
another new order was founded, called the________
Definition
sistercinas
Term
they followed a very _______ rule that combined a full routine of prayer , manual labor and little sleep.
Definition
strict
Term
St Bernard founded the Cistercian abbey at  ________.
Definition
Clarivaux
Term
one of the most important early steps in the evangelization of the barbarians was the conversion of _______, the King of the Franks.
Definition
Clovis
Term
the history of Catholicism in spain began in 598 with the conversion of the barbarian Kingdom of the ________
Definition
visigoths
Term
in Ireland Christianity became firmly established int he 5th century, thanks largely ot St._______
Definition
Pactrick
Term
in 597 Pope Gregory the Great sent______ to convert the Anglo-Saxons.
Definition
Augustine
Term
St. Augustine founded the first ______ monastery outside of Italy at________
Definition

Benedictine

 

canterbury

 

 

 

 

 

Term
St._________ evangelized the Frisiana now the Netherlands, and Wynfrid now known as St._______, the apostle of Germany
Definition

Willibrod

 

Boniface

Term
among the most influential of all European missionaries were two Greek brothers, _______and ________ who bruoght the gospel to the Slavs- Eastern Europe
Definition
cyril and methodius
Term
the enangelization of Euorpe would never have occurred without the dedicated work of _______and impossible without the guiding hand of the_______
Definition

monks

 

popes

Term
it was the pope who forged an alliance in 754 with _______, the Frankish king
Definition
pepin
Term
this paved the way for a New Christian Empire in the West with Europe as its center and Catholicism as its_______.
Definition
creed
Term
in fact this new empier would later be called the________Roman Empier
Definition
holy
Term
___________ agreed to give the pope control over a large section of central Italy , later it became known as the ________ states.
Definition

pepin

 

papal

Term
in 1054 a tragic split or _______ occurred between the East and the West.
Definition
schism
Term
this schism has lasted to this day despite efforts on both sides to ________it
Definition
heal
Term
today we know the Western church as the _______church and the Eastern Churches that separated from it as the Eastern _________church
Definition

catholic 

 

orthodox

Term
the schism of 1054 came after a lot of tesion and _______ between Christians in the West and in the East.
Definition
distrust
Term
the tensions were mainly _________and________ not religious.
Definition
political and wltural
Term

we share : 1. the same basic______.

2. moral_____

3. liturgical________

4. sacramental________

 

Definition

creed

code

tradition

practice

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