Religion: Chapter Two
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- What helped travel during this time?
- Had a marvelous system of roads, bridges, and harbors
- Whose earlier conquests helped the “cultural unity�
- Alexander the Great
- What was the common language in most of the places in the Empire?
- A type of Greek
- Explain ‘spiritual hunger’ at this time?
- Needed something more than what they have (needed something else)
- What was considered to be the ‘the most potent single cause of Christian success’, and how was this shown?
- People were looking for something else and tried to do what Jesus said to do: to love one another. Were actually working that out
- What was the most obvious reason for the success of Christianity?
- Jesus
- When is it said that Church history began?
- In Jerusalem, on Pentecost, around 30 A.D
- Who were the first 2 groups of converts?
- Palestinian Jews and Greek speaking Jews
- Who were the Hellenists, and where did they go and why?
- Greek speaking Jews who was forced to flee north to Samaria (bloodshed)
- What is meant by the term “Gentile�
- Non Jews to begin with
- Where was the term “Christian†first used and what was meant by it?
- Antioch, Syria; followers of Jesus called Christians
- Because of the Council of Jerusalem, who would be spoken to about Christianity?
- everybody
- Who was especially active in speaking to the Gentiles?
- St. Paul
- What was the most important city for Christianity in the western part of the Roman Empire?
- Rome
- Define the word “Catholicâ€
- universal
- What were the two problems with the Christians?
- Did not worship pagan gods or the emperor
- What were the two rumors that worried the Romans about the Christians?
- Christians took part in strange ceremonies, including cannibalism and sexual practices
- What resulted from these rumors?
- Persecution of Christians
- Who was responsible for starting the persecutions, why?
- Nero blamed Christians for a fire he probably started in Rome
- What two famous people probably died during this time (64 A.D.)
- Peter and Paul
- Around 250 A.D., what was passed, by whom, and what was started?
- Decius passed the first anti-Christian laws and started persecutions empire wide
- The Emperios Decius did not necessarily want to kill the Christians but to have them do what?
- To renounce their faith
- What happened in 261 A.D. and by whom?
- Gallienus passed a law tolerating the Christian faith
- What happened in 303 A.D., by whom, and what was it called?
- Diocletian launched the “Great Persecutionâ€
- What happened in 312 A.D. by whom, what was it called?
- Constantine granted tolerance to Christians and it was called the Edict of Milan
- Who was Edith Stein?
- A German nun of Jewish ancestry who moved to Holland after Hitler
- Who were the “Gnostics†and what did they oppose?
- People who possessed special and personal knowledge and against Church’s teachings
- Name six Church teachings that they taught against
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-Denied Jesus to be born from a virgin
-Denied Jesus died on the cross
-Denied God was creator
-Old Testament has no value to Christians
-Denied baptism and Eucharist to have any significance - Explain how the Church tried to combat Gnosticism in 3 ways
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New Testament
Rules of Faith
Apostolic Ascension - Assemblying what we know was the New Testament took place during what time?
- Second century to the end of the fourth century
- What is the difference between “church†and “Church�
- Church is the people, church is the building