Christianity, Exam 3 Flashcards
Define the primary beliefs of Gnostics.
Gnostics: largest group of heretics, they were dualistic: they believed that physical matter is evil and everything that is spiritual is good
Gnostics were concerned with spiritual world and how one could be liberated from the material world that they thought was driving them down
Gnostics believed that the god of material things was the god of the OLD testament: the Jewish God
Gnostics believed in supreme, good God who is purely spiritual
Gnosis: saving knowledge; Gnostics themselves say that their knowledge cannot be written
Define the primary beliefs of the Orthodoxy.
Orthodox Christians believed that divinely inspired teachings from God were to be found only in scripture; unlike Judaism and Islam, once the cannon of the scripture is set, you cannot add to it
Define the Milvean Bridge.
where Constantine fought his battles
Hundreds of padlocks put by couples on the Milvian Bridge; people write their names of
What did the Roman symbol of P with a letter ‘X’ through it symbolize?
/(meaning Our Christ, Constantine required that his men in battle display this on their armory
Define the Edict of Milan.
Edict of Milan: Constantine and another co-emperor write this document to grant Christians toleration (before this Christians could be put to death under law for not worshiping the Roman gods) (also said that clergy should be free from performing public ceremonies like Romans had to)
Define “Pax Deorum”
keeping peace and the right relationship with the gods
Define the Council of Nicaea.
first ecumenical council (ecumenical meaning concerned with promoting unity and agreement within the church), first council promoting unity and agreement
define the Nicene Creed.
the result of the agreement between Council of Nicea, list of things that Christians believe: Jesus was the son of God existing along with the “Father”, Christ is the mediator or redeemer of Christians and makes it possible for Christians to have eternal life: very powerful to have one statement of beliefs agreed upon by the leaders of the faith
Define the arguments of Irius.
proposed that Christ did not have full divinity; Christ was like any other created individual but in an elevated status (target of the majority of the bishops issues) ^^^^
Why did Constantine wait to the end of his life to convert faiths/be baptized?
Constantine officially decided to be a Christian when dying; all his life he was hedging his bets and decided to be on the safe side and convert–or he believed that he should wait to be baptized at the end of your life to erase all sins; Constantine dies a Christian and lived long enough to see this religion well established
Define the Divine Comedy.
Daunte goes to hell at the start of his journey and ends with seeing the face of God, he describes it as perfectly superimposed circles: one bears the image of the man: deepest circle of hell, being chewed on by satan was the person who executed Cesear ( Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus), person who executed Jesus (Judas),
Define partials.
father and son and holy spirit are different parts of God, each ⅓ part of the divine
Define moralism.
3 in one, trinity
What creed was used to describe the Christian Trinity?
Athenian Creed
Define purgatory.
place of suffering for some time, but then the sin will be purged and then person will be brought to heaven