CHAPTER 9 Flashcards
Jewish local places of worship
Synagogues
“Non-Jews”
Gentiles
Term used to describe the conversion of the Gentiles
Proselytes
The “Anointed One” of God
Messiah
Who was the Roman ruler of Palestine during the life of Jesus Christ
Herod the Great
Title for the 12 men that Jesus appointed to carry on his work of preaching and teaching after His death, resurrection, and ascension
Apostles
Who is the true King of the Jews and Savior of all mankind
Jesus Christ
By what year had all the books of the New Testament been written?
A.D. 100
Local assemblies or bodies of believers
Churches
The early Christians’ continuing need for order and direction from God was met through the writing of the …… …… Scriptures
New Testament
Word meaning “witness” in Greek
Martyrs
Person that declared: “The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church”
Tertullian
What year was the first major persecution by the Romans?
A.D. 64
Who was beheaded by Nero at Rome during the persecution
The apostle Paul
Who asked to be crucified upside down?
Apostle Peter
How did the second great persecution start?
When Domitian demanded to be worshipped
Who did Domitian exile to the Isle of Patmos?
Apostle John
What prophetic visions did Apostle John receive and record when he was in the Isle of Patmos
Book of the Revelation
Vast galleries beneath the city of Rome
Catacombs
Under who did the third Christian persecution come under?
trajan
Bishop of Antioch who was taken to Rome in A.D. 110 and thrown to wild beasts in the Colosseum
ignatius
Ahed bishop of Smyrna who was arrested and martyred in A.D. 155
Polycarp
Stoic philosopher that started the fourth great persecution
Marcus Aurelius
Christian philosopher who was killed in 167 during the fourth great persecution
Justin Martyr
Christian slave girl who was horribly tortured from morning until night
Blandina
The fifth great persecution came under ?
Septimius Severus
Who were the among the martyrs during the fifth great persecution
Irenaeus,
perpetua, and her slave Felicitas
The sixth persecution came with Emperor ?
Maximinus Thrax
The seventh persecution was under whom?
Decius
Christian philosopher who escaped Maximinus Thrax’s persecution but died during Decius’s persecution
Origen
Church father who had written of Decius’s persecution: “The whole world is devastated”
Cyprian of Carthage
Who initiated the eight persecution
Valerian
Who initiated the ninth persecution
Aurelian
Who initiated the Great Persecution (tenth)
Diocletian and his co-emperor, Maximian
Who proclaimed legal toleration for the Christians of the East from his deathbed in 311
Galerius
A number of godly and able men raised by God to expound on the Scriptures, defend the faith, and champion the cause of Christ
Church fathers
Who were among the church fathers?
Clement of Rome
Ignatius
Polycarp
Papias
Those who attempted to reasonably defend Christianity against pagan defamations
Apologists
Who were the Christian apologists of the early church period?
Aristides
Justin Martyr
Pupil of Justin Martyr who compiled the first harmony of the Gospels
Tatian
Who wrote against Gnosticism in his work, Against All Heresies
Irenaeus
Who contended against the heresy of Monarchianism
Tertullian
Who wrote the first book of systematic theology in the early church?
Origen
Who were the church fathers who were active during the fourth century A.D.
Athanasius
Jerome
What is the common Bible of the early Western church
Latin Vulgate
Who was greatest of the church fathers? What is his monumental book called?
Augustine; City of God
The first systematic Christian philosophy of history
City of God
“Confessions of faith”
Creeds
What was the earliest creed?
The Apostles’ creed
The …?… Creed was adopted by the …. of …. in A.D. ….. rejected the teaching of Arianism
Nicene; Council of Nicaea; 325
What was the third great creed
Athanasian
Who made Christianity the only legal faith and the state religion of the Roman Empire?
Theodosius I
