Chapter 2, 10 Names

Question 1

Proponent of Gnostic ideas. Rejected the Old Testament and tried to remove sixteen books from the texts the Christians recognized as apostolic.

Answer 1

Marcion (died AD 160)

Question 2

Earliest leader of the New Prophets (also known as “Monatanists”)

Answer 2

Montanus (died AD 175?)

Question 3

Leader of the New Prophets.

Answer 3

Maximilla (died AD 190?)

Question 4

Leader of the New Prophets, predicted Jesus would return to Phrygia.

Answer 4

Prisca (died AD 190?)

Question 5

Overseer of Rome. Excommunicated Christians in the eastern part of the Empire who celebrated Easter during Passover. Fourteenth pope, for Roman Catholics.

Answer 5

Victor (died AD 198)

Question 6

Church father. Defended eastern Christian during Easter controversy.

Answer 6

Irenaeus (AD 130-200)

Question 7

North African slave girl and Christian, probably a Montanist. Martyred with Perpetua, a fellow Christian. Felicity bore a child in prison. Their captor scoffed, “You’re in such pain now! What will you do you’re thrown to the beasts?” She replied, “Now, I suffer alone. Then, there will be another in me. He will suffer for me, for I am about to suffer for him.”

Answer 7

Felicity (died AD 203)

Question 8

North African church father. Attacked “modalism” (the belief that the Father, Son, and Spirit are not distinct in any way). Became a Montanist near the end of his life.

Answer 8

Tertullian (AD 160-225)

Question 9

Roman theologian. Recorded the Apostolike Paradosis (Apostolic Tradition), which includes an early form of the Apostles’ Creed.

Answer 9

Hippolytus (AD 170-236)

Question 10

Overseer of Alexandria. Treated difficult scriptures as allegories.

Answer 10

Origen (AD 185-254)