Early Church History: Roman Persecutions, Councils, and Theology

What has God been doing since the beginning

Providentially working in history to restore the fellowship between Himself and fallen man.

A man who had achieved the coveted prize of Roman citizenship could expect?

Certain legal protections wherever he went.

Jews gathered at local places of worship

Synagogues

What are Gentiles

Non-Jews

Who is the Messiah?

The "Anointed One" of God

What are churches

local assemblies or bodies of believers

When were all 27 books of the New Testament written?

A.D. 100

What is Greek for witness

Martyrs

In A.D. 64, who started the first major persecutions by the Romans

Nero

Which emperor exiled the apostle John

Domitian

What are the eight to ten feet wide and four to six feet high tunnels extended for hundreds of miles?

Catacombs

Under whom, when the profession of Christianity became a capital crime.

Trajan

Which emperor started ordering the death of all church leaders

Maximinus Thrax

Which emperor was murdered shortly thereafter by his own soldiers?

Aurelian

Constantine I extended legal protection and recognition to Christians throughout the empire with the

Edict of Milan in 313

Who were the pupils of the apostle John /?

Ignatius, Polycarp, and Papias

Which denied the doctrine of the Trinity

Monarchianism

Who translated the Scriptures out of Hebrew and Greek into the common Bible of the early Western church, the Latin Vulgate

Jerome

Who is considered the greatest of the church fathers.

Augustine of Hippo

Christians wrote statements of their beliefs in the form of creeds or

Confessions of faith

What false doctrine which denied the deity of Christ

Arianism

Under whom did the only legal faith, the state religion of the Roman Empire

Theodosius I

What is the first systematic Christian philosophy of history

City of God

The Holy Spirit descended upon the infant church of Jerusalem when

Ten days after Christ's ancesion

Who was an ardent hater of Christians /?

Marcus Aurelius