Christian Response

Question 1

Clement’s only genuine extant writing is his letter to the church at _______ ( 1 Clement) in response to a dispute in which certain presbyters of the Corinthian church had been deposed.

Answer 1

Corinth

Question 2

He asserted the authority of the presbyters as rulers of the church on the ground that the Apostles had appointed such

Answer 2

Clement of Rome

Question 3

was in direct contact with the Apostles, and therefore our direct link to the Lord’s disciples.

Answer 3

Polycarp

Question 4

We can discern the rich influence of John and Paul in his Epistle.

Answer 4

Polycarp

Question 5

the bishop of Smyrna, wrote to the Church at Philippi on the exhortation of virtue, the practice of love, hope and patience, the reminders for deacons, youths and virgins, and the duties of presbyters, and all Christians.

Answer 5

Polycarp

Question 6

He was betrayed by a servant, asked to denounce his faith in Jesus by his persecutors, refused to revile Christ, stood unthreatened by torture and death, and embraced martyrdom by being burned alive inside a stadium before multitude of people.

Answer 6

Polycarp

Question 7

The martyrdom of ______ was well recorded by ancient writers, and was considered as one of the most inspiring stories of the early Christians that defied human persecution and withstood the trial of faith, even the fearful test of death

Answer 7

Polycarp

Question 8

________for Polycarp is the greatest evil

Answer 8

Heresy

Question 9

He describes heresy as following:
“For every one who shall not confess that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh, is antichrist: and whosoever shall not confess the testimony of the Cross, is of the devil; and whosoever shall pervert the oracles of the Lord to his own lusts and say that there is neither resurrection nor judgment, that man is the first-born of Satan.”

Answer 9

Polycarp

Question 10

Coming from humble origins,______\ succeeded Evodius as bishop of Antioch, the largest city of Syria, at the beginning of the 2nd century, when the Church was fifty years old.

Answer 10

Ignatius

Question 11

Originally a pagan and influenced by philosophy. He was arrested around 110 and taken under military escort to Rome. There he was not beheaded, but thrown to the wild beasts for food.

Answer 11

Ignatius

Question 12

fought the Judaizers and the Docetists

Answer 12

Ignatius

Question 13

were Christians who felt that all Christians, Gentile converts included, must follow the Jewish law.
make Jewish; convert to Judaism.
follow Jewish customs or religious rites.

Answer 13

Judaizers

Question 14

was the name given to the belief that Jesus did not really have a body but only seemed to have one (in Greek dokeo).

Answer 14

Docetists

Question 15

They deny the bodily resurrection of Jesus and his human appearance.

It’s adherents probably wanted to protect the divine Son of God from the corruptibility of the flesh, but a Christ with a phantom body could not suffer, die or rise.

Answer 15

Docetists

Question 16

The divine Christ would never touch flesh, which is evil
Jesus only seemed huma
Jesus only appeared to die
“Christ” left “Jesus” before the Crucifixion

Answer 16

Docetism

Question 17

was best remembered as the apologist who notably defended the Christian practice and doctrine in his great work, Adversus Haeresus (Against Heresies) which condemned and refuted the theological and moral errors of Gnosticism.

Answer 17

St. Irenaeus

Question 18

of Lyons

Answer 18

St. Irenaeus

Question 19

He was able to point out that what the Gnostics preached as salvific revelation of God was not rooted in the teachings of the apostles but a fruit of their intellectual distortions tailored to cater their own agenda as exclusive recipients of God’s salvation.

Answer 19

St. Iranius

Question 20

The Word of God, our Lord Jesus Christ, through His transcendent love, became man, so that men could become divine.

Answer 20

St. Iranius

Question 21

is most remembered by his strong character, and pure brilliance for the Church’s defense against heresies.

Answer 21

Quintos Septimus Florens Tertullianus

Question 22

Historians find it difficult to categorically determine his roots. But it is certain that he was well educated in the law, rhetoric and Greek.

Answer 22

Tertullianus

Question 23

was the first great Latin writer who wrote extensively.

Answer 23

Tertullian

Question 24

He created much Latin terminology, which in turn found it way into English.
(three)
(unity)
(Trinity)

Answer 24

Tri

unitas

Trinity

Question 25

He also used the words substantia and persona

Answer 25

Tertullian

Question 26

was the Father of the African Church. He was truly a fighter against faulty reasoning and divisive false teaching.

Answer 26

Tertullian

Question 27

He produced a number ofapologetical writings against Marcion, against paganism and heresy..

Answer 27

Tertullian

Question 28

But Tertullian deviated from the Church whom he greatly loved and defended because around 206 he abandoned the Church for________.

Answer 28

Montanism

Question 29

the hero of the Christians in Carthage became the villain of the Christian Church.

Answer 29

Tertullian