CHURCH HISTORY | MIDTERM

Imago Dei

Image of God

Sin

An action, thought, or attitude that is turned away from God’s will

Nature (Christology)

The person of Jesus

Role (Christology)

Jesus’ job in salvation

Ecclesiology

The study of the Church

Apostle

Sent out by Jesus

Evangelize

The spread of the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Imitatio Christi

Imitation of Christ

Imperial Cult

The worship of the emperor

Persecution

Organized programs of oppression, imprisonment, and harassment because of one’s belief

Martyr

Witness; witness to truth even unto death

Cult of Martyrs

Remembering martyrs’ deaths

Traditor

A Christian who handed over scriptures or betrayed the faith during persecution

Bishop

Organized the empire and acted as civil judges

Clergy

Ascetics

The four right relationships found in the Creation stories

Right relationship with God, nature, each other, and ourselves

The Kingdom of God

God’s will being done on earth as it is in heaven

The four themes of Jesus’ teachings

Righteous anger, judgement, humility, restoration, and warnings

Three roles of the Holy Spirit

Regeneration, indwell, and empowerment

(OT) Holy Spirit

Selective, temporary; prophetic and strength gifts

(NT) Holy Spirit

Permanently indwells; gives all Christians spiritual gift for serving others and the Church

Pentecost

The descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles; birth of the Church

Council of Jerusalem

Early Church meeting deciding Gentiles need not follow Jewish law to be Christian

Saul felt Jesus called him to …

persecute Christians, believing he was defending God and Jewish law; later stopped to become an instrument of God

Paul felt Jesus called him to …

preach the Gospel to the Gentiles.

Paul’s writings focused on …

the accomplishments of Jesus and the meaning of His death

The three ways Paul says Christians are to live

Servanthood, a life of discipline, and loving one another

Jesus’ death brings …

salvation and victory

For a religion to be included in the Roman empire, it must …

be an ancestral religion

The most important activity in the Roman Empire is …

public worship

Two things that public worship brought to the empire

A devotion of Rome and economic factors

The four superstitions of Christianity

Incest, atheism, cannibalism, and tax evasion

The major event Emperor Nero blamed Christians for

The fire

Why did Emperor Domitian persecute Christians?

Because Christians refused to address him as "lord" of "god”

Why did Emperor Diocletian divide the Roman Empire in half?

He felt as though Rome was too big to manage

Emperor Diocletian’s goal

To eliminate all Christians

How did Emperor Diocletian persecute Christians?

By issuing edicts that destroyed churches and scriptures, banned Christian worship, arrested clergy, and forced sacrifices to Roman gods

How did Christians trick Emperor Diocletian?

They handed over fake or non-sacred writings

The importance of Jesus’ divinity

The Church in this time period

How does Emperor Constantine reverse Emperor Diocletian’s idea of Rome?

Christians interpretation of Constantine’s win

The Edict’s promise to the Roman citizens

Freedom of religion for everyone

The Edict’s promise to the Christians

The right to worship openly without persecution; returned their church property

Constantine’s influence on public worship

Constantine’s influence on Christianity’s power

Why did some Christians become ascetics, and how did they live?

Father of Monasticism

St. Anthony the Great

The Trinity

one God in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit