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Philo of Alexandria

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Major influence on Christians

Obeyed law but believed in deeper allegorical meaning

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Diasporan distinctives

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Greek
Synagogue worship
Diet
Hand washing
Pilgrimages to the Temple on major religious holy days
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Options in the wake of temple destruction

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Rabbinical Judaism, Christianity

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Which Roman emperor renamed Jerusalem the Aelia Capitolina?

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Hadrian

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Which emperor destroyed the Temple?

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Titus

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Date of temple destruction

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70 AD

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Why was Christianity not accepted even though the Roman view of religion was polytheistic?

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  1. Christians stubbornly insist on 1 God

2. A high evangelistic impulse

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Parallels between mystery cults and Christianity?

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Adherence to mystery religions were voluntary
Secretive rites of initiation
strong personal emotional components
Ritual meal
Promise of a happy afterlife
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Why were the first 100 years called Jewish Christianity?

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  1. A number of communities who observed Torah perpetuated the Jewish ways of thinking
  2. Christianity across the board was Jewish in writing, thinking.
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Who lead the original Palestinian community?

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James

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Which community disappeared and possibly went to Pella?

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Possibly the Palestinian community led by James

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This group had their own gospel in Aramaic, had a different view of the law, lasted until 4th century, from Syria

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The Nazarenes

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Definition of heresy

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Serious and persistent deviation from the teaching of the mainstream church

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Bishop of Sardis in Asia Minor. Wrote “On Pascha.” Passover lamb is a preindicator of Christ. Emphasized how the OT pointed to Christ

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Melito

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Melito’s dates

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1st and 2nd centuries

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Presbyter in Rome, wrote a call to repentance because they didn’t care about leaders in the church.

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Clement

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Wrote from Antioch, 7 letters to various churches. Was concerned with heresy. The first write to give evidence of a 3 tiered ministry model.

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Ignatius of Antioch

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The name for groups who downplay Christ’s divinity and have an emphasis on law keeping.

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Judaizers

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Why did the Romans even punish Christians in the 1st century?

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The rapid growth of Christianity was bad for the state (religion kept order and was thought to bring prosperity.

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A martyrdom account from Gaul, sent in a letter to Asia Minor. 100 years after polycarp.

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The Martyrs of Lyons

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Martyrdom account, written by many authors, probably in Latin about a martyrdom in Carthage. Written partly by a woman.

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The Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas

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Blandina

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Martyr from The Martyrs of Lyons who appeared as Christ to her captors

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Date of Perpetua and Felicitas’s martyrdom

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The Holy Spirit still works and inspires men and women in 203 just as he did in 33

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Meaning of martyr

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Witness

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Codex Sinaiticus

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Earliest text of the New Testament

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Early 2nd century text regarded to be authoritative in Egypt. Said that god called off his cvt with the Jews and that it’s not to be taken literally. Basically a non-Pauline version of Christianity

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The Epistle of Barnabas

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Church Fathers dates

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100-700

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These two authors wrote on the Problem of the Law

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Justin Martyr, author of Barnabas

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Presbyter in Rome, wrote a call to repentance because they didn’t care about leaders in the church.

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Clement

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Wrote from Antioch, 7 letters to various churches. Was concerned with heresy. The first write to give evidence of a 3 tiered ministry model.

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Ignatius of Antioch

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The name for groups who downplay Christ’s divinity and have an emphasis on law keeping.

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Judaizers

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Why did the Romans even punish Christians in the 1st century?

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The rapid growth of Christianity was bad for the state (religion kept order and was thought to bring prosperity.

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A martyrdom account from Gaul, sent in a letter to Asia Minor. 100 years after polycarp.

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The Martyrs of Lyons

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Martyrdom account, written by many authors, probably in Latin about a martyrdom in Carthage. Written partly by a woman.

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The Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas

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Blandina

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Martyr from The Martyrs of Lyons who appeared as Christ to her captors

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Date of Perpetua and Felicitas’s martyrdom

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The Holy Spirit still works and inspires men and women in 203 just as he did in 33

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Meaning of martyr

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Witness

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Codex Sinaiticus

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Earliest text of the New Testament

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Early 2nd century text regarded to be authoritative in Egypt. Said that god called off his cvt with the Jews and that it’s not to be taken literally. Basically a non-Pauline version of Christianity

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The Epistle of Barnabas

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Church Fathers dates

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100-700

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These two authors wrote on the Problem of the Law

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Justin Martyr, author of Barnabas

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First to try to spilt the law into binding/non binding

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Justin Martyr

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Believed that circumcision marked the Jews for damnation

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Justin Martyr

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Name for the group from the first 2 centuries who gave a defense on 2 grounds for Christianity

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The Apologists

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Two levels of reality, talked quite a bit about God and plurality within God, held doctrine of immortality

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Platonism

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Founded by Xeno, god is the Logos or rationality that holds the universe together. Ethics and intentionality in living

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Stoicism

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Ethical and metaphysical influences to Christianity

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Stoics, Platonists

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Book of church order date

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235

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Hippolytus of Rome

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Book of church order

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Heretic in Rome but from Egypt, a contemporary of Justin. Founder of the most worrying Gnostic group

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Valentinus

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Why were the Marcionites not Gnostic?

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Didn’t like the creation myths. Didn’t want to keep the Old Teatament

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Father of Latin Theology

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Turtullian

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Was Tertullian after or before Irenaeus?

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After by 1 generation

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Who wrote Against Heresies?

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Irenaeus

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Who came up with the 2 words to describe the trinity : persona and substansia?

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Tertullian

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What is Modalism?

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The belief that God is 1 and that the spirit and son are “arms” of the father.

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Who wrote Against Praxius and what was it about?

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Tertullian and it was a rebuttal to Modalism. In it he uses the words persona and substansia.

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Who wrote On Idolatry and what was its substance?

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Tertullian. He was concerned that people were not being faithful to their baptismal vows. Talked about occupations that were incompatible with Christianity.

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Ascetic

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Disciplining self and shunning even non sinful pleasures

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Confessor

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Someone who suffers for the faith but does not die

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The first Christian Biblical Scholar

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Origen

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First to write a commentary

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Origen

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Came up with the word hypostases

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Origen

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Explain eternal regeneration and the problems that come from it

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Eternal Generation: from all eternity, the father is continually and without ceasing bringing forth the son. The problem is that the son tends to be subordinated to the father.

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What did Origen believe about God’s punishment?

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He believed that Gods punishment was always remedial and not punative.

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Explain Origen’s view of the word “apokatasasis”

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Greek word, means “universal restoration of all things.” Believed that God had wrath and did punish but that his punishment is remedial.

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Explain Origen’s threefold view of scripture.

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Scripture has 3 parts – body, soul and spirit. The body is the literal meaning, the soul is morality and the spirit is alligorical or symbolic.

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Justin’s view of persecution

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Persecution is because of demons. Quoted 2nd Enoch, believed that demons created polytheistic religion. Believed that the demons persecuted because Christians live according to reason.

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