Outcomes of the Imperial Church

Question 1

What became the universal symbol of Jerusalem?

Answer 1

The Cross

Question 2

How did Constantine bring meaning to the cross?

Answer 2

Constantine brought them to the forefront by marching under the symbol of a cross

Question 3

What symbol did Constantine walk under?

Answer 3

Chi Rho

Question 4

What does Chi Rho mean?

Answer 4

Christ

Question 5

What became identified as the symbol of Christianity?

Answer 5

The Cross

Question 6

What does the cross symbolise?

Answer 6

Crucifixion and resurrection

Question 7

Who attracted Constantines attention at the Council of Nicea?

Answer 7

Bishop Macarius

Question 8

When was the Council of Nicea?

Answer 8

325

Question 9

What plans did Bishop Macarius introduce that Constantine liked?

Answer 9

He drew up plans for extensive church building throughout the Empire

Question 10

What are the Diocese used to identify?

Answer 10

They were used to identify an area under control of a bishop

Question 11

What were the eight outcomes of the church? (8)

Answer 11

1. Church Building
2. Crosses
3. Bishops
4. Clergy
5. Eucharist
6. Liturgy
7. Missionaries
8. New Vocabulary

Question 12

What is the Parish?

Answer 12

A place presided over by a single bishop

Question 13

What new vocabulary was formed under the church?

Answer 13

Parish and Diocese

Question 14

What was the new vocabulary used to highlight?

Answer 14

How the role of the bishop had been transformed

Question 15

How did the clergy begin to dress?

Answer 15

They dressed to identify their status

Question 16

What were the clergy used to define?

Answer 16

Their position in the church

Question 17

What were the bishops regarded as?

Answer 17

The living representatives of God on earth

Question 18

What did Paul Samosata argue the pope did in the church?

Answer 18

“Sat on a throne like a ruler of the world”

Question 19

What were bishops seen as being?

Answer 19

Drunk in power

Question 20

What were people beginning to define?

Answer 20

How the bishop would rule his people

Question 21

How had the bishops developed since the early church?

Answer 21

They were no longer a ruler of a small minority but of a community of people

Question 22

Where could the bishops be found?

Answer 22

In a cathedral

Question 23

What is the basilica?

Answer 23

It held the bishops chair

Question 24

What did RPC Hanson find the bishops were able to do?

Answer 24

They were able to ‘improvise freely’

Question 25

What is the Eucharist?

Answer 25

A reinactment of the Last Supper

Question 26

What would happen to people who did not meet the criteria of the Eucharist?

Answer 26

They would be dismissed

Question 27

Why must some people be excluded from the service of Eucharist?

Answer 27

As they were not authorized to enter

Question 28

What was Eucharist said to lead directly to?

Answer 28

The suffering of Christ

Question 29

What happened to the Liturgy?

Answer 29

They became a fixed structure

Question 30

What started to come together?

Answer 30

Manuscripts and worship

Question 31

What did the liturgy offer light to?

Answer 31

Christian experience

Question 32

How were the missionaries able to travel?

Answer 32

As they had safe passage

Question 33

What was the role of a missionary?

Answer 33

To convert people to the Christian faith who had never heard of it before

Question 34

How was it easy to send Missionaries?

Answer 34

As Constantinople was located on the Mediterranean and so were able to send missionaries across the coast