10B Study Questions for FOC, pt 2, ch 1-4
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  1. Chapter I
    1. What two ecumenical councils of the Church have dealt largely with the nature of the Church herself?
    2. During what period of time has the study of ecclesiology or the nature of the Church developed? Why?
    3. What aspect of the Church’s nature was stressed by Catholic legalists?
    4. Define the terms ‘ecclesia’ and ‘qahal’.
    5. What are other words or phrases used to describe the Church?
    6. What are the two NT references which give some basis for calling the Church ‘Catholic’?
    7. In whose writings do we find the first references to the Church as ‘Catholic’? What date may be assigned to these writings?

    Ch. 2

    1. Which modern pope declared officially that the Church was founded immediately and personally by our Lord Jesus Christ?
    2. What did the 2nd Vatican Council (1963-65) mean by the ‘foundation’ of the Church in Christ Jesus?
    3. What did the 16th century Reformers teach about the founding of Christ’s Church?
    4. What have many Modernists taught about the founding of the Church?
    5. What is the point of such parables of Jesus as the sower of the seed, the net cast into the sea, the leaven, and the mustard seed?
    6. What two fundamental powers did Jesus confer on his apostles? What does the word ‘apostle’ mean?
    7. What do we mean by the ‘college’ of the apostles? Who was the head of this college?
    8. How do we know that Jesus conferred on the apostles the same mission he had received from his Father?
    Study questions
    for Fundamentals of Catholicism, Vol 3, part II
    Chapter 3
    1. Why did Jesus establish his Church?
    2. What task has been given to the Church in relation to the merits Jesus won for all mankind on the cross
    3. Why did the Father send Jesus into the world? How would the Father’s purpose have been frustrated if Jesus ministry had been confined just to those who met him during his earthly life?
    4. What is the immediate purpose of the Church?
    5. Where is the ultimate goal of the Church to be found?
    6. What two words accurately describe the society known as the ‘Church’?

    Chapter 4

    1. Who is the head of the Church? Who is the ‘soul’ of the Church?
    2. What does the term “Mystical Body of Christ” mean?
    3. What images does St. Paul use to describe the Church?
    4. What is the provenance of the term ‘mystical’ as applied to the Church? What is its meaning? What does it not mean?
    5. What are three external bonds unite the Church as one body on the earth?
    6. What 4 classes of people are definitely not members of Christ’s Church?
    7. What analogy between a human person and the Church did St. Augustine develop?
    8. On what mystery does the Church depend for her most intimate nature?
    9. Why must she also be referred to as the “Body” of Christ?










Mrs. Moroles
Oratory Athenaeum
Pharr, TX