Saints & Origins of Christianity

Question 1

Under whose reign did they begin to persecute Christians

Answer 1

Nero

Question 2

Julio-Claudian Dynasty

Answer 2

Union of Rome’s two most powerful families.
Julian - Julius Caesar
Augustus was his adopted son. Married into it by marrying Livia. Thought to be descended from Aeneas - aka “Iulus”
Claudian - Sabine dynasty (8th cent. BC)
From the kidnapping of Sabine women.

Question 3

Emperors:

Answer 3

Augustus
Tiberius
Caligula
Nero

Question 4

Gemma Augustea

Answer 4

Inlaid gemstone of the emperors and families, depicting their reign.

Question 5

Via Athea, there are underground caves where Christians hid out.

Answer 5

Roman catacombs

Question 6

Augustus
Herod the Great (Antipas) - a ruler under Roman Authority over the Jews

Answer 6

Jesus was crucified after Augustus’s heir, Tiberius.
Apostle Paul wrote books about Jesus, road to Damascus.
He was beheaded in Rome as one the martyrs.
- not executed because he was a Roman citizen.

Question 7

“Quo Vadis, Domine?”

Answer 7

Where are you going, Lord?
Peter’s death when trying to escape persecution.
Peter was executed upside down.

Question 8

Christian belief was first handled locally in the High Empire.
However, they became more micro managed later on.

Answer 8

15th century ad.

Question 9

High Empire

Answer 9

When emperors appointed their political leaders/heirs.

Question 10

Emperors:
Antonine Emperor

Question 11

Tetrarchy

Answer 11

Four emperors:
Falling out and become rivals.
- Diocletian tried to restore order of the empire.
Constantius I
Constantinus vs. Maxentius
Milvian Bridge - where show down happened

Question 12

Slaves of Christians

Answer 12

Began spreading rumors about Christians to avoid being enslaved
- Cannibalism
- incestuous intercourse caused a stir
Public executions in the amphitheater - exposure to wild beasts. Others strangled and thrown to dogs.

Question 13

“Agape” Love

Answer 13

Brotherly Love

Question 14

St. Lawrence
Valerian
Shapur I Sixtus 2, was crucified.
Foresees ___ ___

Answer 14

St. Lawrence’s crucifixion.
Someone is corrupt.

Question 15

Julian the Apostate

Answer 15

“Apostate” - giving up Christianity

Question 16

Saint Casian
“Stilus” - a wax pen how kids would write.
Julian ___ the students ___ the teacher

Answer 16

Turned, against.
Students stabbed Casian against the teacher.
Pagan re-imagining of Julius Ceasar.

Question 17

Rise of the first Christian Emperors
Ex: General Camilus

Answer 17

The Passion Play - “The torture of Crucifixion.”
Greece has once been captured and transformed into Rom
The Romans had power over the Christians, but Christians conquered from within.

Question 18

Romans believe all of __ was inhabited by spirits

Answer 18

nature
- Dryad, trees are masculine or feminine because of the spirit within them

Question 19

Peter becomes the

Answer 19

Pontifex Maximus

Question 20

End of the __ century is when Christianity took over.

Answer 20

4th

Question 21

Rise of Christianity

Answer 21

Pacifist Movement - spread from the preaching of the Gospel
Sympathy arose from the cruel tortures and ‘entertainment.’
Martyrdom spread Christianity to the world.

Question 22

Constantine

Answer 22

Had a vision that converted him to Christianity
Wrote Confessions

Question 23

Constantinople (Byzantium of the Byzantine empire)

Answer 23

The new Roman capital in Northwest Turkey.
Milan

Question 24

Themes of Confessions

Answer 24

Sin -
Book one: infancy, infants are born with sin (Original sin linked backed to Adam and Eve), elementary education
was trained in the classics of Virgil and Homer.
- Different take on gender roles of sin and the creation of women.
- puts down the culture of munerarius.

Book two: Teenage years
Puberty/adolescence
Meditation on the nature of lust
- Half about lust
- Gang culture and delinquency
- Theft
Anger
Amor - lust is that in confessions.

Book 3:
“Gang” culture
College in Carthage
Theater and got into philosophy
Became a master in the school of Rhetoric - art of public speaking and law
Began to study the Vulgate bible- the common dialect ‘Vulgar” bible.
Struggles with Lust

Question 25

What motivated Saint Augustine to become a Christian?

Answer 25

Church and government.
His mother
Monotheism.
Martyrdom of Perpetulem
The idea of sin - A novel way out of death and gore of the current time.
Lived the later 4th to early 5th century.

Question 26

Manichaeism

Answer 26

A Persian religion St. Agustine was dabbling in. It was influenced by bible. The duality of darkness and light.