6.10 Diversity within Christinaity Flashcards
What was the council of nicaea?
- emperor constantine assembles a goruop of bishops in 325 BCE to resolve the disputes within Christianity
- helped establish the doctrine of the TRINITY after the arian controversy
What was the arian contorversy?
- teachings of ARIUS, a chrisitn priest who argued that Jesus Christ was not fully divine and was a created being by God the Father
- believes christians attributing false divinity to jesus, betraying ten commandments
constantine called the bishops to the emperor to settle jesus’s divinity
establishes the trinity, (Jesus is fully divine just like God)
- God and Jesus are “of the same essence”
- Arias deemed a heretic
This was significant because it addressed the core question of jesus’ divinity
- this controversy threatened to divide the Christian community, disagreements on whether jesus was truly divine or just a special creation of God
- established a clear foundation for understanding the relationship between God and Jesus and unified Christians again
What was the Nicene Creed?
the nicene creed is a formal statement of Christian belief that was formulated at the council of nicaea,
designed to define the nature between father, son, and holy spirit
jesus christ is “the only son of god, eternally begotten of the father, of one essence with the father” and rejected arianism and established divinity of Jesusw
What was the petrine Doctrine?
- the bleif theat St. Peter was given a special role by jesus as the leader of the church and Peter’s authority was passed down to his sccessores, the POPES
0 jesus said “You are peter, and on this rock i will build my church,” giving peter the “keys to the kingdom of heaven” - peter has the authority to bind and loose
- doctirne of petrine supremacy has been central to the authority of the pope in roman catholic church
who is St. Jerome?
st. jerome is known for his translation fo the bible into latin, known as the Vulgate
- allowed for more people to understand it and it spread
- the vulgate became the standard version of the bible and jerome’s work made the bible more accessible to ordinary Christians and played an important role in the development of Christianity tin the western world
What is a hereitc and a heresy?
heretic: someone who holds beliefs that contradict the orthodox (normal( teachings of an particular religion
heresy: the belief that goes against the established dotrine of the church
arius and his followers were labeled as heretics for their belief that Jesus was nof of the same essence as god the father
