Church History Class Questions Flashcards
Calvinism points (Switzerland)
- Total Depraivity of Man (Original Sin)
- Unconditional Election (God’s Sovereign Election)
- Limited Atonement/Particular Redemption
- Irresistible Grace (Effectual Calling)
- Perseverance of the Saints.
Who was the Father of the English Bible?
William Tynsdale
Pioneer of Higher Education
Peter Abelard.
The Second Great Awakening (Global Church)
The Second American revival:
1795-1825 early phase the later phase centered around the preaching of Charles Finney who is the Father of the Americian revivalism social and political action through a theological viewpoint
later phase 1825-
What was the Summa Theologiae and when was it published?
1272 Official theology of the Catholic Church.
Bernard of Clairvaux
Orgainized second crusade against Islam.
Pope Leo X
extravagance, nepotism, politics.
Great Feats of Exploration were during what Era; Guttenberg Printing Press (Inventions); Politics (Charles V)..nation states; rise of Spain; fall of the Eastern Empire.
Reformation Church Era
Three main doctrinal truths of the Apostolic Church:
The Messiahship of Jesus
The Resurrection of Jesus
The Return of Jesus
Church history has two sides:
A divine side and a human side.
Ancient Period goes up to what?
The fall of the Roman Empire
Medieval Period focused where?
Western Europe.
1st Christian Emperor
Constantine.
Apostolic Fathers?
Men who had been taught by the original 12 apostles who in turn taught others in the Church. (Ignatius, Polycarp Clement)
Apologists.
Justin Martyr, Iraenus and Origen
1st Universal and organized persecution…sacrifice received a certificate.
Decius.
Define orthodoxy:
Right belief or practice; historical biblical Christianity or fundamental belief.
Infant Church: Key Figure Bishop and Martyr Leading Apologist Polemicist (fought Gnosticism)
Ignatius
Polycarp
Justin Martyr
Iraenus.
Infant Church Writings NT Canon First Apology Blood of the Martyrs/Seed of the Church (commentator); Trinity Educator and Scholar
Terutullian
Justin Martyr
Tertullian
Origen.
Creeds.
The Old Roman Creed; The Nicene Creed.
Church Councils produced what?
Great statements of faith; enacted mandates that were binding on the entire Church.
John Chrysostom
Preacher known as golden mouthed.
Ecclesiastical History.
The first complete history of the Church Eusebius. (Adolescent)
Who made up the Church Councils?
Bishops and Theologians.
The Vulgate
The Authorized Version of Catholicism for many centuries.
Who called himself the servant of the servants of God?
Gregory the Great.
quarrels between church nobility and monarchy quarreled over?
lay investiture. (monarchs appointing church clerics)
Gregory the Great was a ?
Monk; first Medieval Pope…brought monasteries under the control of the Pope. Pope as political figure or as God’s council.
1st Medieval Ruler
Charlemagne.