Chapter 9-Early Church History

Question 1

What were the local places of worship for the Jews?

Answer 1

Synagogues

Question 2

Who were the non-Jews who heard the Word of God and joined the Jews as proselytes(converts)?

Answer 2

Gentiles

Question 3

Some Gentiles(non-Jews) heard the Word of God and joined the Jews as:

Answer 3

Proselytes (converts)

Question 4

What is the Greek word for the “Anointed One”?

Answer 4

Messiah

Question 5

Who was the local king and deputy of Rome when Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem?

Answer 5

Herod the Great

Question 6

Who is the true King of the Jews and Savior of all mankind and was born in Bethlehem of Judaea?

Answer 6

Jesus Christ

Question 7

Jesus appointed 12 men, ________, to carry on His work of preaching and teaching after his death, resurrection, and ascension.

Answer 7

Apostles

Question 8

What is a local body or assembly of believers?

Answer 8

Church

Question 9

The early Christians’ continuing need for order and direction from God was met through the writing of what scriptures?

Answer 9

The New Testament

Question 10

By what time had all 27 books of the New Testament been written?

Answer 10

A.D. 100

Question 11

What were the people called who exhibited unconquerable faith and patience in the face of torture and is Greek for “witness”?

Answer 11

Martyrs

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Tertullian

Question 13

When did Nero enact the first major persecution by the Romans?

Answer 13

A.D. 64

Question 14

Who began the first major persecution in A.D. 64?

Answer 14

Nero

Question 15

God raised up a number of godly and able men to expound on the Scriptures, defend the faith, and champion the cause of Christ. These preachers and teachers were called the:

Answer 15

Church fathers

Question 16

Prominent among the earliest church writers of the Christian life, thought, and worship development was __________, commended by the apostle Paul in the New Testament.

Answer 16

Clement of Rome

Question 17

Who were the three men that were pupils of the apostle John?

Answer 17

Ignatius
Polycarp
Papias

Question 18

Many early Christian writers were _______, those who attempted to reasonably defend Christianity against pagan defamations.

Answer 18

Apologists

Question 19

Christian apologists of the early church period included what two men?

Answer 19

Aristides

Justin Martyr

Question 20

Who was the greatest of the apologists?

Answer 20

Justin Martyr

Question 21

Who was the pupil of Justin Martyr, compiled the first harmony of the Gospels, and in his incisive “Address to the Greeks”, proved the superiority of Christianity over Greek philosophy and religion?

Answer 21

Tatian

Question 22

Who wrote against Gnosticism in his work, “Against All Heresies”?

Answer 22

Irenaeus

Question 23

What combined elements of Greek philosophy, oriental religion, and Christian theology into a complex system of error that attacked the very foundations of Christianity?

Answer 23

Gnosticism

Question 24

Who contended against the heresy of Monarchianism?

Answer 24

Tertullian

Question 25

What denies the doctrine of trinity?

Answer 25

Monarchianism

Question 26

Who was a theologian from Alexandria and was perhaps the most learned man in the early church and wrote the first book of systematic theology in the early church?

Answer 26

Origen

Question 27

Who from Alexandria eloquently and passionately argued for the true deity of Christ at the Council of Nicaea?

Answer 27

Athanasius

Question 28

Who translated the Scriptures out of Hebrew and Greek into the Latin Vulgate?

Answer 28

Jerome

Question 29

Jerome translated the Scriptures out of Hebrew and Greek into the:

Answer 29

Latin Vulgate

Question 30

What two preachers publicly expounded on the Scriptures?

Answer 30

Ambrose

John Chrysostom

Question 31

Who was the greatest of the church fathers, was the most important figure in church history between the apostle Paul and Martin Luther, and wrote “Confessions”?

Answer 31

Augustine

Question 32

Augustine’s monumental _________ was the first systematic Christian philosophy of history.

Answer 32

“City of God”

Question 33

The early Christian wrote statements of their beliefs in the form of _________, or confessions of faith.

Answer 33

Creeds

Question 34

What was the earliest creed which developed between the second and fifth centuries from the questions asked of new converts at their baptism?

Answer 34

Apostles’ Creed

Question 35

What creed was adopted by the Council of Nicaea in A.D. 325, rejecting the teaching of Arianism and confessed the true biblical teaching that Jesus Christ is “very God of very God,” coequal, coessential, and coeternal with God the Father?

Answer 35

Nicene Creed

Question 36

The Nicene Creed was adopted by the:

Answer 36

Council of Nicaea

Question 37

What is the false doctrine which denied the deity of God?

Answer 37

Arianism

Question 38

What three church councils completed the work of the Council of Nicaea in affirming the full deity and true humanity of Christ?

Answer 38

Constantinople
Ephesus
Chalcedon

Question 39

What creed was named after Athanasius, who stood so firmly and courageously for these all-important truths concerning Christ during and after the Council of Nicaea?

Answer 39

Athanasian Creed

Question 40

Under whose rule did Christianity become the only legal faith, the state religion of the Roman Empire?

Answer 40

Theodosius

Question 41

Under the pagans, the presbyters became _________, who offered up the Lord’s body and blood as a sacrifice for the living and dead.

Answer 41

Sacerdotes

Question 42

Who were the elders of the church who, under the pagans, became sacerdotes?

Answer 42

Presbyters