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Writers of Christianity Flashcards

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In which author’s dream was he accused of being Ciceronian when he remarked that he was a Christian?

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Jerome

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Who was the first major Latin writer to procalim and defend Christianity?

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Tertullian

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What is Tertullian’s full name?

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Quintus Septimius Florus Tertullianus

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Where was Tertullian born?

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Carthage

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What religion did Tertullian convert to before Christianity?

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Montanism

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Which work of Tertullian is an attack on all deviations from Rome?

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De Praescriptione Haereticorum (“On the Prescription of the Heretics”)

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Who was the author of a series of practical treatises including “On the Dress of Women,” “On Patience,” and “On Prayer”?

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Tertullian

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Which work of Tertullian is a bitter attack on Pope Calixtus for declaring that adultery and fornification could be forgiven by the Church even after baptism?

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De Pudicitia (“On Modesty”)

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Which work of Tertullian was an apologetic work written to encourage Christians held in prison and fortify their faith?

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Ad Martyras (“To the Martyrs”)

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What two-book work of Tertullian vehemently protested laws which condemned Christians as such without examination of their behavior or manner of life?

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Against the Heathen

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Which work of Tertullian is a defense of Christians addressed to provincial governors in a restrained and lawyer-like tone?

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Apologeticus

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In which work does Tertullian assure his pagan addresses “we multiply everytime we are mowed down by you; the blood of Christians is seed”?

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Apologeticus

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During which emperor’s persecutions did Tertulian compose his Ad Scapulam as a warning to leave Christians in Africa alone?

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Caracalla

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Which work of Tertullian, addressed to the proconsul of Africa, warns him to leave the Christians alone during Caracalla’s persecutions?

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Ad Scapulam

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Which work of Tertullian defends a Christian soldier who refuses to wear the honorary chaplet?

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De Corona (“On the Chaplet”)

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Which work of Tertullian condemns games, shows, theatrical, and gladiatorial exhibitions as brutal, immoral, and interwoven with pagan rites?

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De Idolotria (“On Idolotry”)

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Who wrote the treatises “On the Veiling of Virgins”, “On the Adornment of Women”, “On Baptism”, “On Patience”, “On Prayer”, “On Modesty”, “On Repentance” and “On Shows”?

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Tertullian

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Which work of Tertullian defends the corporeality of the soul against the Gnostics?

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De Anima (“On the Soul”)

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Which work of Tertullian defends the doctrine of the Trinity against the Monarchianists?

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Adversus Praxean (“Against Praxeas”)

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Which major polemic of Tertullian, in 5 books, was repeatedly revised in accordance with his changing insights?

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Adversus Marcionem (“Against Marcion”)

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Which author was referred to as a “barbarizing Tacitus”?

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Tertullian

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Which author was referred to as a “Christian Juvenal”?

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Tertullian

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Which work attributed to Tertullian deals with the Martyrdom of Perpetua and her slave, and their death in the amphitheater?

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Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis (“The Martyrdom of Perpetua & Felicitas”)

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Which dialogue of Minucius Felix was the finest Latin apology for Christianity?

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Octavius

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Who wrote the finest Latin apology for Christianity in a dialogue entitled Octavius?

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Minucius Felix

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Which dialogue of Minucius Felix was written in refutation of a (lost) attack on Christianity by M. Cornelius Fronto?

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Octavius

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Which dialogue takes place as three friends Caecilius Natalis (a pagan), Octavius Januarius (a christian), and Mincius himself (the umpire) are taking a walk in Ostia?

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Octavius

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In Minucius Felix’ Octavius, who serves as the umpire in the dispute between Caecilius Natalis and Octavius Januarius?

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Minucius Felix (himself)

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In Minucius Felix’ Octavius, why did Octavius first rebuke Caecilius during their walk in Ostia?

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he blew a formal kiss to a statue of Serapis

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Which work of Cicero does Minucius Felix’s Octavius rely heavily upon?

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De Natura Deorum

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What author converted to Christianity after an unchaste young manhood, became a priest, and in 248 A.D. was made Bishop of Carthage?

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Cyprian

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What Bishop of Carthage went into hiding during the persecutions of Decius, and suffered martyrdom in 258 A.D.?

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Cyprian

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During which emperor’s persecutions did Cyprian suffer martyrdom?

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Decius

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What is the term for the Christians in Cyprian’s day who had backslid under persecution and renounced their faith?

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lapsi

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Which work of Cyprian expresses great concern for the solidarity of the Church and the regularization of Christian life?

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De Unitate Catholiae Ecclesiae (“On the Unity of the Catholic Church”)

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Which work of Cyprian recalls his own early moral blindness and presents arguments that should turn an educated man to the Church?

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Ad Donatum

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Which work of Cyprian refutes the charge that Christians were responsible for the calamities which had befallen Rome?

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Ad Demetrianum

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What correspondent of Cyprian wrote a work entitled De Trinitate which picks up on the work of Tertullian?

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Novatian

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What is the principle work of Novatian?

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De Trinitate

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Who was the first Christian author to write exclusively in Latin, marking the decline of Greek in the western Church?

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Novatian

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Who was the first recorded Christian poet?

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Commodian

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Which work of Commodian consists of 80 acrostic poems?

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Instructiones

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What two-book work of Commodian satirizes the individual pagan gods, exhorts infidels, and describes varieties of Christians?

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Instructiones

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Which work of Commodian sketches the history of Isreal down to the Incarnation, and portrays the struggle of Christ and anti-Christ in the last days?

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Carmen Apologeticum

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What teacher of rhetoric in Africa wrote a seven book work entitled Adversus Nationes?

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Arnobius

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Who converted to Christianity because of a dream, and wrote his Adversus Nationes to allay his bishop’s suspicions of his bona fides?

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Arnobius

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What student of Arnobius was referred to as the “Christian Cicero”?

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Lactantius

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What author did Diocletian appoint as a professor of rhetoric at Nicomedia?

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Lactantius

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Where did Diocletian appoint Lactantius to serve as a professor of rhetoric?

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Nicomedia

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Which emperor appointed Lactantius to tutor his son Crispus?

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Constantine

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Which author tutored Constantine’s son Crispus?

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Lactantius

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Which work of Lactantius is a vindication of Providence from the attacks of certain philosophic schools?

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De Opificio Dei (“On the Handiwork of God”)

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What seven book work of Lactantius aims to justify Christianity to educated minds?

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Divinae Institutiones (“Divine Institutions”)

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To what emperor did Lactantius dedicate his Divine Institutions?

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Constantine

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About what author did Jerome remark “would that he could affirm our doctrine as readily as he destroys others”?

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Lactantius

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Which work of Lactantius is a dissertation on the appropriateness of anger as a divine attribute?

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De Ira Dei (“On the Wrath of God”)

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Which work of Lactantius demonstrates the formidable effects of divine anger by a long list of gruesome deaths suffered by the instigators of Christian persecutions?

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De Mortibus Persecutorum (“On the Deaths of the Persecutors”)

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What Edict of 313 A.D. acknowledged religious toleration throughout the empire?

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Edict of Milan

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Which author wrote a work on astronomy entitled Mathesis while a devout pagan, but converted to Christianity and wrote De Errore Profanarum Religionum?

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Firmicus Maternus

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Which author was a strenuous controversialist against Arians and composed the first Latin hymns for the church?

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St. Hilary of Poitiers

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Who composed the first Latin hymns for the church?

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St. Hilary of Poitiers

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Which author was counselor to the emperors Gratian, Valentinian, and Theodosius?

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St. Ambrose

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What author was appointed Bishop of Milan while still unbaptized?

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St. Ambrose

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What was unusual about St. Ambrose’s appointment as Bishop of Milan?

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unbaptized

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What Christian writer wrote 91 letters which afford an excellent picture of religious currents in the 4th century?

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St. Ambrose

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Which work of Ambrose, based on Cicero’s De Officiis, provides a systematic synthesis of the Christian doctrine?

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De Officiis Ministrorum (“On the Duties of Ministers”)

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Which work of Ambrose is a series of nine sermons on the Creation preached on six consecutive days during Lent?

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Hexameron

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Which author was referred to as “the father of Church song”?

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St. Ambrose

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What spanish priest and Christian poet invoked the Holy Spirit instead of the Muses and declared that he will “sing the noble deeds of Christ on earth” in his work “Books of the Evangelists”?

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Juvencus

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What obscure poetess wrote centos relating the principal episodes of the Old Testament as far as the Flood and the New Testament as fas as th Ascension?

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Proba

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What student of Ausonius renounced his great worldly wealth and exalted position in order to devote himself to the monastic life?

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Paulinus of Nola

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Which author dedicated his beard to his beloved St. Felix of Nola?

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Paulinus of Nola

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Who wrote the first Christian elegy recalling the recent death of his own child?

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Paulinus of Nola

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Who composed the first Christian epithalamium for the marriage of Julianus and Titia?

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Paulinus of Nola

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What poet wrote 14 Natalicia, poems for the recurrent festival of St. Felix?

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Paulinus of Nola

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What Spaniard is referred to as “the first great Christian poet”?

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Prudentius

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Who wrote two collections of lyrical poems entitled “Cathemerinon” and “Peristephanon”?

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Prudentius

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Which lyrical collection of Prudentius consists of 12 hymns with extracts and descriptions from the Bible?

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Cathemerinon

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Which lyrical collection of Prudentius is a collection of 14 pieces in veneration of Spanish maryrs?

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Peristephanon

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Which didactic work of Prudentius refutes a series of errors concerning the Trinity and the divinity of Christ?

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Apotheosis

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Which didactic work of Prudentius on the Birth of Evil is an arraignment of Marcion’s gnostic dualism?

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Hamartigeneia

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In which work does Prudentius depict Satan as “proudly tall, his snake-girt head borne pn ebony clouds, striding in smoke and flame?

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Hamartigeneia

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Which work of Prudentius, the first poetical Christian allegory, depicts personified virtues such as Faith, Modesty, Patience, and Humilty waging a series of epic combats with their opposites?

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Psychomachia

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Which work of Prudentius is the first poetical Christian allegory?

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Psychomachia

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Which work of Prudentius is a collection of 49 hexameter quatrains to explain pictures from some church on 24 Old Testament and 25 New Testament subjects?

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Dittochaeon

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Which two-book work of Prudentius refutes Symmachus’ plea for the retention of the alter of Victory in the Roman curia?

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Contra Symmachum

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Which author remarks about the emperor Julian “perfidus ille deo quamvis non perfidus urbi”?

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Prudentius

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About which emperor did Prudentius remark “perfidus ille deo quamvis non perfidus urbi”?

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Julian

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What African Christian poet was imprisoned for offending the Vandal King Gunthamund by celebrating the Roman emperor?

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Dracontius

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What didactic Christian poem did Dracontius compose while imprisoned for offending the Vandal King Dracontius?

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De Laudibus Dei (“On the Praises of God”)

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What work of Dracontius begins with the Creation and proceeds to celebrate God’s wondrous dealings with man?

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De Laudibus Dei (“On the Praises of God”)

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What didactic Christian poem by Caelius Sedulius first relates the Old Testament miracles, and then the miracles of Christ ending with the Resurrection and Ascension?

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Carmen Paschale

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Who wrote a didactic work entitled Carmen Paschale which first relates the Old Testament miracles, and then the miracles of Christ ending with the Resurrection and Ascension?

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Caelius Sedulius

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What bishop of Vienne wrote a verse paraphrase pf the Old Testament from Creation to the crossing of the Red Sea?

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Avitus

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What author started as a troubador, became bishop of Poitiers circa 590 A.D., and wrote eleven books of miscellaneous poems flattering anyone who might be a patron?

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Venantius Fortunatus

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Who wrote hymns including “Agnoscat Omne Caelum”, “Vexilla Regis Prodeunt” and “Pange Lingua Gloriosi” which mark the triumph of Catholic emotion and mysticism over classical form?

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Venantius Fortunatus

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Where author from Pannonia was considered one of the most prolific doctors of the Western church?

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Jerome

98
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Where did Jerome die in 420 A.D.?

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Bethlehem

99
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What commentator of Terence and Vergil was Jerome’s teacher?

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Donatus

100
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What author spent three years in the desert of Chalcis where he learned Hebrew?

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Jerome

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Who learned Hebrew during his three years in the desert of Chalcis?

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Jerome

102
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Fpr what intimate friend did Tertullian serve as a secretary in Rome from 382 to 385 A.D.?

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Pope Damasus

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Who became the director in study and devotion for a group of women including Paula, Lea, Asella, and Marcella, who followed him to Bethlehem and built convents?

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Jerome

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Whose greatest work was a Latin translation of the Bible called the Vulgate?

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Jerome

105
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What is the Latin title of Jerome’s Latin translation of the Bible?

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(Biblia) Vuglata

106
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How long did it take Jerome to translate the Bible into Latin?

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20 years

107
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Who spent 20 years translating the Bible into Latin?

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Jerome

108
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Which work of Jerome, the first Latin treatise on Mariology, upholds the doctrine of the perpetual virginity of Mary against a layman who had questioned it?

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Contra Helvidium (“Against Helvidius”)

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Which work of Jerome is a furious diatribe against criticism of the veneration of tombs of martrys and similar liturgical practices?

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Adversus Vigilantium (“Against Vigilantius”)

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Which work of Jerome was a translation and supplement of Eusebius’ Chronological Canons?

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Chronicon

111
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Jerome’s Chronicon includes Roman historical material down to the death of which emperor in 378 A.D.?

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Valens

112
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Which work of Jerome was devoted to recording those “who have made some contribution to the memory of sacred scriptures”?

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De Viris Illustribus

113
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Which work of Jerome includes biographies on famous men from Simon Peter to Jerome himself?

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De Viris Illustribus

114
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What Christian writer had a dream in which he was accused of being Ciceronian?

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Jerome

115
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Which author converted to Manichaeism, and Neoplatonism before converting to Christianity?

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St. Augustine

116
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What three religions did St. Augustine follow before converting to Christianity?

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Paganism, Manichaeism & Neoplatonism

117
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Where was St. Augustine born in 354 A.D.?

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Tagaste

118
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Which Christian writer was born at Tagaste in 354 A.D.?

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St. Augustine

119
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What son of a local official Patricius and a devout Christian Monnica was one of the most prominent doctor’s of the Church?

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St. Augustine

120
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What author repents his youthful behavior saying “behold with what companions I walked the streets of Babylon, in whose filth I rolled as if in cinnamon and precious ointments”?

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St. Augustine

121
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Name St. Augustine’s devout Christian mother.

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Monnica

122
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Name St. Augustine’s son.

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Adeodatus

123
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By which work of Cicero was St. Augustine particularly captivated?

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Hortensius

124
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Where did St. Augustine serve as a professor of rhetoric?

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Milan

125
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Who breifly retired to Cassiciacum and wrote 3 dialogues: Contra Academicos, De Vita Beata, and De Ordine?

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St. Augustine

126
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Where did St. Augustine serve as Bishop?

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Hippo Regius

127
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During whose siege of Hippo did St. Augustine die in 430 A.D.?

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Gaiseric’s

128
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Which work of St. Augustine follows his journey to Christianity and expresses gratitude to god?

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Confessiones

129
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Which work of St. Augustine is a response to a question about why so many disasters had fallen upon the empire despite the advent of Christianity?

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De Civitate Dei (‘The City of God”)

130
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How many books did St. Augustine’s “De Civitate Dei” contain?

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22 Books

131
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Which minor work of Augustine was the first authentic example of poetry based on rhythm, constructed on the principle of numbering syllables, with fixed caesura and a more or less developed rhyme?

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Psalm Against the Donatists

132
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What Spanish priest did Augustine ask to provide the historical material for his “De Civitate Dei”?

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Orosius

133
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What 7-book work of Orosius, written at the request of St. Augustine provided a universal history?

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Historiae Adversus Paganos

134
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Who wrote a 7-book Historiae Adversus Paganos at the request of St. Augustine?

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Orosius

135
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What priest of Marseilles wrote an 8-book De Gubernatione Dei which responds to the he distressing threat posed by the invasions and by the resulting mishaps that involved the Empire?

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Salvian

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What 8-book work of Salvian responds to the he distressing threat posed by the invasions and by the resulting mishaps that involved the Empire?

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De Gubernatione Dei (“On the Government of God”)

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