Early Church III Flashcards
Which father was born in 354?
John Chrysostom
Which father was a patriarch of Constantinople?
John Chrysostom
What does Chrysostom mean?
Golden-tongued
Under which father did the school of Antioch peak?
John Chrysostom
Which father discerned his call to live as a solitary by 374?
John Chrysostom
Which father was ordained a deacon in 381 and a priest in 386?
John Chrysostom
Which father reformed the clergy in his patriarchy?
John Chrysostom
Which father was the foe of the empress Eudoxia?
John Chrysostom
Which father was the enemy of the Archbishop of Alexandria, Theophilus?
John Chrysostom
Which father was exiled to Armenia in 404?
John Chrysostom
Which father died on route to his exile in the Wilderness on the Black sea?
John Chrysostom
Which father died in 407?
John Chrysostom
Which father is the patron of preachers?
John Chrysostom
Which father has the most biographers?
John Chrysostom
Which father abandoned law to become an ascetic?
John Chrysostom
Which father built hospitals and showed great concern for the poor?
John Chrysostom
Which father said, “Do not conspire to make him [your son] a politician, but train him instead to be a philosopher.”
John Chrysostom
Which father was a successor to St. Athanasius?
St. Cyril of Alexandria
Which father was born around 375?
St. Cyril of Alexandria
Which father was the nephew of a prominent priest named Theophilus?
St. Cyril of Alexandria
Which father was a patriarch of Alexandria?
St. Cyril of Alexandria
Who rejected the title, “Mother of God,” applied to Mary?
Nestorius
Which father fought Nestorius?
St. Cyril of Alexandria
At which council was Nestorius defeated?
The council of Ephesus
When was Nestorius defeated?
431
Which father was an “inexhaustible teacher and writer?”
St. Cyril of Alexandria
Recent studies by Robert Luis Wilken and John Anthony McGuikin have vindicated which father?
St. Cyril of Alexandria
Which father died in 444?
St. Cyril of Alexandria
About which father are few biographical details known?
St. Aphrahat the Sage
Which father was Persian?
St. Aphrahat the Sage
Which father was ordained a bishop and took the name Jacob?
St. Aphrahat the Sage
Which father wrote “Demonstrations?”
St. Aphrahat the Sage
Which father is known as the first witness of auricular confession?
St. Aphrahat the Sage
’ Which father defended the Christian’’s use of Old Testament but denial of ceremonial laws?’
St. Aphrahat the Sage
Which father was born in 270?
St. Aphrahat the Sage
Which father died in 345?
St. Aphrahat the Sage
Which father was born in 310?
St. Hilary
Which father died in 369?
St. Hilary
Which father was born in Poitiers?
St. Hilary
Which father was exiled after defending the council of Nicaea?
St. Hilary
Which father was exiled in the east?
St. Hilary
Which father is known as the Athanasius of the west?
St. Hilary
Which father is known as the “Hammer of the Arians”?
St. Hilary
Which father, while in exile analyzed the disputes over the trinity by Eastern Arian Bishops and determined that the problems mainly stemmed from a misunderstanding of language?
St. Hilary
Which father was invited to the Synod of Seleucia in 359?
St. Hilary
Which father was born in 347?
St. Jerome
Which father died in 420?
St. Jerome
Which father was irascible to a comic extreme?
St. Jerome
’ Which father was called, “God’’s angry man”?’
St. Jerome
Which father grew up in Dalmatia (what is now Croatia)?
St. Jerome
Which father went off to study grammar in Rome at age 12?
St. Jerome
‘A chance encounter with St. Gregory renewed which father’’s appreciation for Origen’’s allegorical readings of scripture?’
St. Jerome
Which father had a dream in which he was told that he was a follower of Cicero?
St. Jerome
Which father was an aide to Pope Damasus?
St. Jerome
Which father was commissioned to revise the Latin (Vulgate) edition of the four Gospels?
St. Jerome
Which father won renown as a spiritual director?
St. Jerome
Which father was confident that he would succeed Damasus as the next Pope?
St. Jerome
Which father set up a monastic community in Bethlehem?
St. Jerome
Which father was briefly excommunicated?
St. Jerome
Which father wrote an encyclopedia of Christian Biography?
St. Jerome
Which father fought the heresy of Pelagianism?
St. Jerome
Which father had a, “lack of tact, sharp tongue and high-strung temper” that made in difficult to get along with?
St. Jerome
Which father was often asked to leave, including by his own monastic community?
St. Jerome
Which father was a lover of classical literature?
St. Jerome
Which heresy says that we can achieve salvation through our own power?
Pelagianism
Which father was born in 354?
St. Augustine
Which father died in 430?
St. Augustine
Which father was, “the most influential theologian in the history of the western church”?
St. Augustine
’ Which father is the most-cited individual in the church’’s dogmatic pronouncements?’
St. Augustine
Which father was the great synthesizer of the Classical and Patristic Eras?
St. Augustine
Which father wrote “Confessions”?
St. Augustine
Which father wrote, “The City of God”?
St. Augustine
Which father wrote, “On the Trinity”?
St. Augustine
Which father was born in Tagaste, North Africa?
St. Augustine
Which father went to the city of Carthage to study law (then literature and philosophy) at the age of 16?
St. Augustine
Which father at one point began to identify himself with the Manichean heresy?
St. Augustine
Which father was a teacher of rhetoric?
St. Augustine
’ Which father was attracted by Bishop Ambrose’’s peace?’
St. Augustine
Which father became a bishop of Hippo?
St. Augustine
Which father is credited with giving death blows to the heresies of Manicheanism, Donatism, and Pelagianism, and with welcoming home the Tertullinaists and Montanists?
St. Augustine
