Early Church / Patristic Dates & Terms Flashcards

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Constantine’s Conversion

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313 AD

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Age of Apologists

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1-300 AD

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3
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Athanasius’s letter with canon list

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367 AD

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Council of Carthage - Canon Set

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397 AD

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5
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Vulagate Translated by Jerome

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400 AD

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Council of Nicaea

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325 AD

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Council of Chalcedon

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451 AD

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Council of Hippo

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419 AD

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Augustine

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354-430 AD

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Ambros

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340-97 AD

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Jerome

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340-420 AD

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12
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Eusebius of Caesarea

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263-340 AD

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13
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These _________ theologians are often philosophically inclined and given to
theological speculation

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Eastern

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These __________ theologians are often hostile to the intrusion of philosophy
into theology, and regard theology as the exploration of the doctrines set out in
Scripture.

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Western

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15
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Christianity existed in legal ambiguity from _______ to _______.

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40-312 AD

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16
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Justin Martyr

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100-165 AD

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17
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Irenaeus - Against All Heresies

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130-200

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18
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Tertullian

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160-225

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19
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Athanasius

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296-373

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20
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The _______ persecution sparked the Donatist Controversy

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Diocletian (303-313)

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Augustine’s answer to the Donatist Controversy

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the church must expect to remain a “mixed
body” of saints and sinners, and refusing to weed out those who had lapsed under persecution
or for other reasons. The validity of the church’s ministry and preaching did not depend
upon the holiness of its ministers, but upon the person of Jesus Christ.

22
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Council of Constantinople

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381

23
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Contribution of Council of Constantinople

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recognizing the full divinity of the Holy Spirit

24
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Cappadocian Trinity

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This one Godhead exists simultaneously in three different “modes of being” –
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Son and Spirit proceed from the Father

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Augustinian Trinity

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the Spirit as the love which unites the Father and Son together

26
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Filioque Controversy

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451-1054

whether the Spirit may be said to proceed from the Father alone (east), or from the Father and
the Son (west).

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Monarchianism (Adoptionism)

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Jesus became Christ at his baptism, was adopted by the father at his death.

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Sabellianism (Modalism, Patripassionism)

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One God reveals himself in three ways, or modes, at different times

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Arianism

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Christ is the first created being

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Semi-arianism

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Christ is “of similar essence” with the Father, but is subordinate to him.

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Macedonianism (Pneumatomachism)

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The Holy Spirit is a created being.

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Apollinarism

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Christ had no human spirit, the Logos replaced it.

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Nestorianism

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Logos indwelt the person of Christ, making him a God-bearing man instead of a God-man.

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Eutychianism

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the human nature of Christ was absorbed by the Logos

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Monophysitism

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Christ has one nature (unwilling to accept an impersonal human nature of Christ)

36
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Monothelitism

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Christ had no human will, just one divine will.

37
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Pelagianism

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Man is born essentially good and can earn salvation. Christ is an example of moral road.

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Augustinianism

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Man is dead in sin, salvation is free gift of grace

39
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Semi-Pelagianism

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Grace of God and will of man work together in salvation, man must take the initiative.

40
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Semi-Augustinianism

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Grace of God comes to all, enabling a person to choose and perform what is necessary for salvation

41
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P: Nicaea 325

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Declared Son homoousios (coequal, consubstantial, and coeternal) with Father.
Condemned Arius.
Drafted original form of Nicene Creed.

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P: Constantinople 381

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Confirmed results of Council of Nicea.
Produced revised Nicene Creed.
Ended Trinitarian controversy.
Affirmed deity of Holy Spirit.
Condemned Apollinarianism.

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P: Ephesus

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431 AD

Declared Nestorianism heretical.
Accepted by implication Alexandrian Christology.
Condemned Pelagius.

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P: Chalcedon

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451

Declared Christ’s two natures “unmixed, unchanged, undivided, inseparable.”
Condemned Eutychianism.

45
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P: Constantinople 553

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Condemned “Three Chapters” to gain support of Monophysites.
Affirmed Cyrillian interpretation of Chalcedon.

46
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P: Constantinople 680

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Rejected Monothelitism.
Condemned Pope Honorius (d.638) as heretical.

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P: Nicea 787

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Declared veneration of icons and statues legitimate.

48
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4 qualifications for Church Father title

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Orthodox doctrine
holy living (virtue)
the church’s recognition of his teaching
belonged to period of early church

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