Chapter 9: Early Church History

Question 1

what are known as local places of worship for Jews?

Answer 1

Synagogues

Question 2

What are known as non-Jews?

Answer 2

Gentiles

Question 3

what are known as converts?

Answer 3

Proselytes

Question 4

Who was the ruling King in Judea in Palestine as the local King and deputy of Rome?

Answer 4

Herod. The great.

Question 5

what are known as local assemblies or bodies of believers?

Answer 5

Churches

Question 6

by what date had all 27 books of the New Testament been written?

Answer 6

AD 100

Question 7

what is Greek for witness?

Answer 7

martyrs

Question 8

Who declared “the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.”?

Answer 8

Tertullian 

Question 9

Who began the first major persecution by the Romans, and when?

Answer 9

Nero; AD 64

Question 10

which emperor demanded to be worshiped and exiled the apostle John?

Answer 10

Domitian

Question 11

what were known as the vast galleries beneath the city of Rome?

Answer 11

Catacombs

Question 12

under which emperor did Christianity become a capital crime?

Answer 12

Trajan

Question 13

Which early church father was the bishop of Antioch martyred in the Colosseum?

Answer 13

Ignatius

Question 14

Who is the aged bishop of Smyrna who was arrested in martyred in 155?

Answer 14

Polycarp

Question 15

name two Christians murdered under Marcus Aurelius

Answer 15

Justin martyr and Blandina

Question 16

name the martyrs under Septimus Severus

Answer 16

Irenaeus perpetua and Felicitas

Question 17

Who ordered the death of all church leaders?

Answer 17

Maximus thrax

Question 18

under which emperor was origin killed

Answer 18

Decius

Question 19

Who initiated the eighth and ninth persecutions?

Answer 19

Valerian and Aurélien

Question 20

Who was the emperor during the greatest and 10th persecution? Who was his co-emperor?

Answer 20

Diocletian; maximian

Question 21

Who extended legal protection, and recognition to the Christians throughout the empire, with the edict of Milan in 313?

Answer 21

Constantine first

Question 22

Who were the godly enable man who expounded on the Scriptures, defended the faith in the champions of the cause of Christ?

Answer 22

Church fathers

Question 23

Who was a pupil of Paul? Who were the pupils of the apostle John?

Answer 23

Clement of Rome; Ignatius, Polycarp, and papias

Question 24

Who are those who attempted to reasonably defend Christianity against pagan deformations? Who were early Christian apologist?

Answer 24

Apologists; Aristides and Justin martyr

Question 25

Who wrote against Gnosticism?

Answer 25

Irenaeus

Question 26

Who contended against the heresy of Monarchianism?

Answer 26

Tertullian

Question 27

Who wrote the first book of systematic theology in the early church?

Answer 27

Origin

Question 28

Who is considered the greatest of the church father and wrote confessions?

Answer 28

Augustine

Question 29

Name the three Christian creeds and be able to describe them

Answer 29

The apostles creed, the Nicene creed, and Athanasian creed

Question 30

Under which emperor did Christianity become the only legal faith in the state religion of the Roman empire?

Answer 30

Theodosius the first