Last Chirch Hist Test
CHurch History
Last Test of Semester
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Last Test of Semester
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- Apostles Creed
- statement of belief of church
- doctrine
- an official teaching of the church
- Clement of Alexandria
- established connetons between Christianity and Greek philosophy
- canon
- Name of books which have been accepted by the Church as normative for faith
- papal encyclicals
- official letters of the pope to the universal Church and all people of good will
- excommunication
- most severe penalty with in the chruch
- Syncretism
- The blending traits from two different cultures to form a new trait.
- Irenaeus
- bishop of Lions- said God was a loving God
- Tertullian
- said christians must reject everything that wasn't explicitly christian
- Origen
- explained christian doctrine to the pagans and to relate Christian theology to pagen theology
- Holy Spirit
- inspired the authors ot the various books of the Bible so that they wrote what God desired them to write
- Trinity
- three persons in one God
- Origen
- outlined things essential to Christianity
- heresy
- denial of dogma
- Apostolic authorship
- book had to come from apostles or those that knew them
- Clement of Alexandria
- Argued that the law which had been given to the Jews and the philosophu which had been give to the Greeks both pointed to the ultimate truth revealed in Jesus Christ
- Heresy
- "choice"
- Arianism
- Jesus was not created or begotten
- ecumenical council
- gathering of all the bishops of the world
- Irenaeus
- took a stand against all who claimed the physical was wither evil or undesireable
- Monophysitism
- said Jesus was born human , but that nature had been completely absorbed by his divine nature
- Divine
- of God
- Tertllian
- book about Church is the rightful owner of scripture
- infallibility
- Church will never cease to be the body of Christ on earth
- Apollinarianism
- false belief that said although Jesus had a human body he had no human soul
- heretic
- separated themselves from the chruch
- orthodox content
- to be a selected book it had to portray Jesus ina way that was compatible with the faith of the majority of Christians
- catholicity
- book had to enjoy widespread and frequent use in the worship and teaching of the church
- Marcion
- developed own "Christian doctrine" to suit his anti jewish, anti material basis
- scripture
- word of God
- dogma
- beliefs essential to Christian faith
- Dogmas
- truths revealed by God- essential to Christian faith