Chapter 3, 5 Terms

Question 1

Diocletian divided the empire into two halves in 292. Rome remained the capital of the Western Empire until AD 476. Constantine placed the capital of the Eastern Empire in Byzantium, later renamed “Constantinople.”

Answer 1

Eastern and Western Empires

Question 2

The Eastern theologians who helped Christians recognize Arianism as a false teaching. All of them were born in the imperial province of Cappadocia.

Answer 2

The Great Cappadocians.

Question 3

The belief that - if an overseer ever faltered under persecution - all ordinances and ceremonies that the overseer had performed were invalid. Donatism (named after Donatus, an early leader) split North African churches from AD 311 until the fifth century.

Answer 3

Donatism

Question 4

The belief that Jesus is not full God; God’s foremost creation. Arianism (named after the movement’s leader) was denounced by the Council of Nicaea.

Answer 4

Arianism

Question 5

From Latin vulgaris (“common”), Jerome’s translation of the Bible into ordinary Latin. The Vulgate was the official Bible of the Roman Catholic Church for 1,000 years.

Answer 5

Vulgate