Lesson 4 Review

Question 1

Describe the persecution of early Christians.

Answer 1

Was not empire wide policy, Most of the persecution was local in nature, and the number of deaths fairly limited.

Question 2

Why did Nero blamed the Christians for the fire at Rome in AD 64, and not the Jews?

Answer 2

Nero’s mistress sympathised with the Jews

Question 3

Under what 3 First and second century emperors did persecution occur?

Answer 3

1. Nero
2. Domitian
3. Trajan

Question 4

What is the Imperial Cult?

Answer 4

A form of State religion in which the emperors were worshipped as gods

Question 5

In the Greco-Roman world, what was religion interwoven with?

Answer 5

All of life

Question 6

The Romans allowed the Jews to continue to worship their God but forced the Christians to worship the imperial cult. Why?

Answer 6

The Romans respected ancient religions- the older the religion, the more esteem it was accorded.

Question 7

Why did the Apologists write their defences (often to the Emperor)?

Answer 7

To explain who they were, what they believed and they were not a threat to the Roman Empire

Question 8

What is all of history based on?

Answer 8

What survives

Question 9

Why do scholars refer to doctrine of the Trinity as a “Christian Doctrine”?

Answer 9

It was developed by the church fathers