Sunday, November 1, 2009

Assignment #35

Complete Chapter 9 Section Review 2 plus Identify on page 147
1. Tertullian.
2.Paul and Peter; Paul-beheaded and Peter- crucified upside down.
3.Domitian;refused to pray to the emperor but prayed for him; John.
4.vast, subterranean galleries beneath the city of Rome; They used them for refuge, worship, and burial.
5.Trajan; Ignatius.
6.Justin Martyr and Blandina.
7.Septimus Severus; Irenaeus, Perpetua, and Felicitas.
8.Valerian and Aurelian; Cyprian of Carthage.
9.He outlawed Christianity and ordered a systematic search that swept away hundreds of Biblical manuscripts in Asia Minor and Syria; the goal was to eradicate Christianity from the face of the earth, cities of Christians were burned down and tons of believers were fed to wild beasts.
10. Edict of Milan; 313 AD.

IDENTIFY:
martyr-Christians that were tortured and killed folr their faith.
Book of the Revelation-Apocalypse.
Polycarp-the aged bishop of Smyrna who was arrested and martyred in 155 AD.
Maximinus Thrax- emperor of the sixth persecution.
Decius- emperor during the seventh peresecution.
Origen- a Christian philosopher and theologian from Alexandria.
Maximian- Diocletian's co-emperor during the tenth persecution.
Galerius- emperor that, in 311, he proclaimed the toleration of Christians in the east.
Constantine I- did the Edict of Milan.

3) Complete Chapter 9 Section Review 3 plus Identify on page 150
1.Clement of Rome;Ignatius, Polycarp, and Papias.
2.Arsitides-Apology to Antonius Pius; Justin Martyr-Apology to Antonius Pius ; Tatian- Address to the Greeks.

3.Irenaeus; Against all Heresies.
4.Tertullian.
5.Origen.
6.the Latin Vulgate.
7.Ambrose of Milan and John Chrysostom.
8. Augustine; "Confessions" and "City of God."
9.Apostle's Creed; Nicene Creed; and the Athanasian.
10. 325 AD;Constantinople,Chalcedon, and Ephesus.
11. Theodosius I; false converts filled the church; false converts were pagans and their views and practices found their way into the church.

IDENTIFY:
church fathers-preachers and teachers who expounded the scriptures, defended the faith, and championed the cause of Christ.
apologists-early Christian writers who attempted to reasonably defend Christianity against pagan defamations.
Gnosticism-combined elements of Greek philosophy, Oriental religion, and Chrsitain theology.
Monarchianism-denied the doctrine of the Trinity.
creeds-confessions of faith.
Arianism-denied the deity of Christ.

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