Unit C Test Flashcards
The Jewish festival that became known as the birthday of the Christian Church is:
Pentecost
The source material for the Gospels included in the New Testament is based on:
stories handed down by word of mouth from the earliest witnesses and companions of Jesus.
The early church saw community as important and an example of how they understood what the Christian community was about was the image of:
a Family.
b) the Body of Christ.
c) a Spiritual House made up of Living Stones
d) a Holy Nation.
The first breakthrough which allowed Christianity to spread through many tribes, cultures and languages was when:’
the Council of Jerusalem in 51 CE gave permission for Gentile (non-Jewish) Christians not to be circumcised or keep the Jewish law.
The Christian faith is centered on Jesus of Nazareth who:
had a ministry of teaching and miracle-working in a small corner of the Roman Empire.
When plagues, fires, natural disasters, and devastation from riots or war occurred in the cities of the Roman Empire, what was the unique response of the Christians?
They stayed in the cities providing food, water, and shelter to sick people.
The Roman Empire was a good time for the spread of Christianity because:
the population was concentrated in cities.
b) most everyone spoke Greek.
c) the Romans had built an impressive network of roads.
d) there was an efficient postal system.
A second-century Christian leader who called for the Church to be structured like Roman civic government, with a Bishop functioning like a city mayor. This change eventually resulted in women losing their leadership roles. This Christian leader was:
(a))Ignatius of Antioch.
The early Christian church accepted:
Everyone
Launched the first empire-wide persecution, requiring all to sacrifice to pagan gods.
Decius
Began the “Great Persecution”, the last empire-wide attempt to crush Christianity.
Diocletian
The first emperor to fully accept Christianity as a legal religion in the year 313 C.E.
Constantine
DY Was the Roman Governor who sentenced Jesus Christ to death.
E)
Pontius Pilate
Blamed the great fire of Rome (64 CE) on the Christians, starting the persecutions.
Nero
One of the appeals of the Christian faith for the people of the Roman empire was its message of
______ _______
as afraid of death as pagans were.
which meant that Christians were not
Heavenly immoratly
Before they were called Christians the people who believed that Jesus was their Lord were called”
Followers of the way
When Constantine became Emperor of the Roman Empire he issued a formal decree that
X ended persecution of Christians for’ good.
This was known as the _______
Edict of malan
fic first early church leader to effectively bring the Christian faith to the non-Jowish people,
travelling into Asia Minor, Greece, and eventually Rome was _______ significant early church leader, and one of Jesus’ original apostles, was ______ who according to tradition was executed in Rome by crucifixion upside down.
Paul
peter
An important aspect of Christianity from the very beginning was its emphasis on _______ which is seen in early Christians caring for one another, 2 including sharing what they had with others. This emphasis is related to the command Jesus
gave to “Love God and love
______
as you love yourself.”
community
Your neighbor
For the Jewish and Christian religions, the 10 Commandments provide both the identity and the function of their faith communities.
True
The regular witness of ordinary, everyday Christian people tending to the poor, the orphans, and the sick in their own urban communities contributed decisively to early Christianity’s tremendous growth
True
The radical shift in Christianity in 51 CE which allowed Christianity to spread into
more of the known world was the removal of the prohibition against dancing
False
The Apostle Paul wrote letters to the churches he started on his wide-spread missionary journeys to offer counsel and encouragement. Many of these letters would become part of the Christian scriptures, the “New Testament.”
True
The three major streams of Christianity are Cattolic, Protestant, and Orthodox.
True
Part of the reason the Christian faith spread in the first three centuries, in spite of
strong opposition, is because of its universal appeal, meaning the faith was for all groups of people
True
Once it started in the first century the Roman persecution against the Christians was
Constant and wide spread and not letting up for four centuries
False
The Christian faith is complex to understand which is why it took over three centuries
to be accepted by the Roman Empire.
False
The ‘synoptic Gospels’ have that designation because they were originally found in Sinai desert
False
In the first decades after Jesus the Christian faith was centered in Jerusalem, but it shifted its center to Rome after the destruction of Jerusalem in 95 CE.
True
