Church History Exam Ii

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Religio licita

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Legal sect

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Epistle to Smyrna

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Written by Ignatius. He uses the term "catholic" church in this letter.

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Four Ways the Church Closes Ranks:

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1) The Monarchical Bishop

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Rules of Faith

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Developed by Irenaeus and Tertullian to be used in recognizing the true Christian from the Gnostic. They were a summary of the major biblical doctrines.

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Muratorian Canon

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Discovered by Lodovico A. Muratori. Contained 22 books of the NT.

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Eusebius and Canonicity

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about 324

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Easter Letter of 367

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Written by Athanasius to the churches under his jurisdiction. He listed as canonical the same twenty-seven books that we now have in the NT.

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312

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Constantine's vision and victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge.

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330

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Constantine founds the city of Constantinople

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Julian the Apostate

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Pagan emperor who resented Christianity and sought to reinstitute pagan practices

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Theodosius I

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Issued edicts in 380 and 381 that made Christianity the exclusive religion of the State

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Justinian

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Closed the school of philosophy at Athens in 529. He also built the St. Sophia church and codified the Roman law.

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Corpus Juris Civilis

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Justinian's codified Roman law

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Gregory the Illuminator

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Won Armenia for the gospel

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Frumentius

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Won the Ethiopians to Coptic Christianity

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Ulfilas

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Worked as a missionary among the Goths

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Martin of Tours

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Preached to the Burgundians who had settled in southern Gaul

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Gergory of Tours

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Wrote History of the Franks

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Patrick

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Worked as a missionary in Ireland

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Columba

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Apostle to Scotland. Founded a monastery on the island of Iona that become a center for the evangelization of Scotland.

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"The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church."

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Tertullian

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Three causes of Christian persecution:

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1) Political

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112

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Pliny the Younger writes to Emperor Trajan concerning the Christians.

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Perpetua and Felicia

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Martyred in 200 AD in Carthage under the rule of Septimus Severus

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410 and 455

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Rome is sacked

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476

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Rome falls apart

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Results of Persecution:

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1) The church expands rapidly

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Donatists

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They started a huge controversy saying that those who fell away in persecution are no longer Christians. Also stated that if a pastor fell away

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Doctrine of Just War

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Written by Augustine in response to the Donatists.

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Neo-Platonists

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took Platonism in a new direction. Many of the Neo-Platonists were ascetic

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Saturninus

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taught that the world was created by seven angels. He headed a school of Gnosticism in Syria

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Marcion

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A Gnostic who spawned a major controversy. He persuaded his disciples that he himself was more trustworthy than the apostles who handed down the gospels. He mutilated the epistles of Paul. Then he said that salvation will only be of souls who had learned his teaching

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F. F. Bruce

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The Canon

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Harold O. J. Brown

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Heresies

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Pliny the Younger

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First organized persecution of Christians that occurred in Bithynia in 112.

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traditores

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those who had given up copies of the Scriptures to persecutors

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Against Heresies

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Irenaeus