Final Exam - Ch 14, 26, 28 Flashcards
In the Roman Empire, persons who took up permanent residence in a place that was not their original home and in which they did not enjoy the benefits of citizenship.
Resident Aliens
The proto-orthodox claim that leaders of the major churches had been appointed by the successors of the apostles themselves, so that their authority could be traced back to Jesus’ hand-chosen followers.
Apostolic Succession
was the bishop of Antioch, Syria, in the early second century. He was arrested by the Roman authorities for Christian activities and sent to Rome to be thrown to the wild beasts in the arena. On his journey to martyrdom, he wrote seven letters, which still survive. These letters are included among the writings of the Apostolic Fathers.
Ignatius of Antia
A Christian who insists that followers of Jesus need to keep (all or parts of) the Jewish Law to have a right standing before God (a view held, e.g., by Paul’s opponents in Galatia).
Judaizer
Any worldview or set of beliefs deemed by those in power to be deviant, from a Greek word meaning “choice” (because “chosen” to deviate from the “truth”). See also Orthodoxy.
Heretic
A form of Christianity endorsed by some Christians of the second and third centuries (including the Apostolic Fathers) that promoted doctrines declared “orthodox” in the fourth and later centuries by the victorious Christian party—in opposition to such groups as the Ebionites, the Marcionites, and the Gnostics.
Proto-Orthodoxy
In 2 Corinthians, a group of Paul’s opponents who were rhetorically proficient and able to do spectacular deeds and who claimed that their remarkable abilities demonstrated that they, rather than Paul, were the true representatives of Christ.
Super-apostles
The idea that false teachers and fraudulent Christian leaders were abroad is somewhat more prominent in a book of the early second century known as the
Didache
The doctrine found in the Didache and the Epistle of Barnabas that people must choose between, the way of life (or light) and the way of death (or darkness).
Two Ways
- A literary genre in which an author, usually pseudonymous, reports symbolic dreams or visions, given or interpreted through an angelic mediator, which reveal the heavenly mysteries that can make sense of earthly realities.
Apocalypse
Early fourth-century church father known as the “Father of Church History,” as his ten-volume book, History of the Christian Church, was the first to provide an extensive chronicle of Christianity’s early years, from the days of Jesus down to
Eusebius
A term whose meaning is much disputed among modern scholars, used in some ancient apocalyptic texts to refer to a cosmic judge sent from heaven at the end of time.
Son of Man
