CWC - Recognition

Pericles

When: 5th Century BC, Where: Athens.

Roman Republic

When: 5th to 1st Century BC, Where: Entire Mediterranean & Spain & North Africa & Greece & Asia Minor.

Philosophy

When: 5th to 2nd Century BC, Where: Athens.

Sophists

When: 5th to 4th Century BC, Where: Athens.

Doctrine of the Mean

When: 5th to 4th Century BC, Where: Originated in Athens.

Hellenization

When: 4th Century AD, Where: Alexander the Great’s Empire & Egypt.

Logos

A spoken word or reasoned argument.

Marcion

When: 2nd Century AD, Where: Rome, About: Christianity should reject the Old Testament.

Roman Empire

When: 1st Century BC to 5th Century AD, Where: Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Athens, Carthage.

Justin Martyr

When: 2nd Century AD, Where: Ephesus, Rome, About: Defending Christianity using Greek Philosophy and argued that Christ is the Logos (Divine Reason).

Paterfamilias

When: 5th Century - 1st Century BC, Where: Rome, anywhere the Roman law applied.

Great Persecution

When: Early 4th Century AD, Where: Eastern Roman Empire.

Edict of Milan

When: 313 AD, Where: Constantine, About: Legalized Christianity.

Arianism

When: 4th Century AD, Where: Alexandria & Eastern Roman Empire.

Council of Nicea

When: 325 AD, Where: Nicea, About: Arianism Heretical & defined Nicene Creed the orthodox Christian beliefs.

Monasticism

When: 3rd to 4th Century AD, Where: Began in Egypt & spread.

Confessions - Augustine’s Memoir

A Memoir that Augustine wrote reflecting on his own life, and his journey to God.

Original Sin

The idea we have inherited sin form Adam and Eve in the Garden.

Problem of Evil

Augustine’s Confessions explained the problem he had with this question when coming to faith. It is the idea that if God is all good, then why is there evil is the world.

Manichaeism

When: Late 4th Century AD, Where: Carthage & Rome, About: ‘Solved’ the problem of evil & promised authority and knowledge although that was false.