History Of Christianity

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1. Who blamed the burning of Rome on Christians and viciously persecuted them?

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Emperor Nero

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Early church Father who was burned at the stake at age 86

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Polycarp

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Translated the early Latin translation of the Bible known as the Vulgate, insisting that the Apocrypha would only get in over his dead body?

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Jerome

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The heretic that was excommunicated by the early church for his false teaching and rejection of the Old Testament and much of the NT

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Marcion

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The false teaching that the physical world is evil, that salvation is through hidden knowledge and Jesus is just an emanation from God

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Gnosticism ...or Docetism

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False teaching that God the father son and spirit are just three manifestations of God and not 3 separate persons

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Modalism

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Dealt a death blow to Gnostacism in the 2nd century. Wrote Against Heresis.

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Irenaeus

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Recognized all 66 of the books in the Bible as inspired and referred to them as the canon in his Easter Letter

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Athanasius

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Divided Roman Empire and persecuted Christians

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Emperor Diocletian

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Wrote first church history book since Acts

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Josephus

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Black dwarf. Stood up to the emperor regarding Jesus not being created.

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Athanasius

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literal approach to scripture. nicknamed Golden-Mouth.

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John Chrysostom

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Wrote the city of God. Guided Christians after the fall of Rome

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Augustine

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False teacher. Taught that salvation depends on works and humans don't have a sin nature.

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Pelagius

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Missionary with an Axe.

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Bishop Boniface

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knight who stripped for a bishop. Wrote Lord Make Me An Instrument of Thy Peace prayer.

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St. Francis of Assisi

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Father of the scholastics. developed the Ontological Argument to prove God's existence

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St. Anselm

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Dumb Ox. The Sum of Theology is God Himself

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St. Thomas Aquinas

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Inspiration for WWJD. Wrote Imitation of Christ

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Thomas a Kempis

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Put together the first printed Greek NT in 1516

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Desiderius Erasmus

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Dominican peddler sold indulgences

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Johann Tetzel

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French reformer forced to flee to Switzerland. Wrote Institutes of the Christian Religion

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John Calvin

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Wrote so a plowman could read his translation of the NT

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William Tyndale

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Scottish reformed helped establish the Presbyterian church. Prayer Give me Scotland or I die

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John Knox

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Anyone outside the Roman Catholic church is cursed

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Council of Trent

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No true Christian can exploit the natvie americans

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Bartolome

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Used water and snake skin to preach the gospel to African slaves in America. Called himself the slave of slaves.

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Pedro Claver

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Was convince that Calvin's position on predestination was wrong. His followers published The Remonstrance

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Jacobus Arminius

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Baptized himself. Started the Baptist church.

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John Smyth

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wrote Pilgrims Progress

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John Bunyan

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Baptist leader. Wanted to separate the church and state in the colonies. Founded a community in Providence where every faith was welcome

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Roger Williams

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Enlightenment view that God is distant

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Deism

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Founder of the Quakers

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George Fox

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Where was the longest prayer meeting in history that lasted more than 100 years

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The Moravians at Herrnhut

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Leader in the Great Awakening. Preached "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

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Jonathan Edwards

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Slave-trader who wrote Amazing Grace

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John Newton

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cross-eyed servant at Oxford who became known as the Great Awakener when he preached soul stirring sermons throughout America

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George Whitefield

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Wrote When I Survey the Wondrous Cross. The Father of English Hymns.

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Isaac Watts

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Father of modern theology. Approach to Bible encouraged higher criticism and the quest for the historical Jesus

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Friedrich Schleiermacher

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member of parliament who worked to outlaw slavery in Britain

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William Wilberforce

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English paster and social reformer. Great man of faith. Founded numerous orphanages in London.

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George Mueller.

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Father of modern missions. Just a plodder attempting to do great things for God.

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William Carey

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Missionary who became Chinese. The future is as bright as the promises of God.

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Hudson Taylor

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Missionary. Heart buried in Africa, body buried in London.

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David Livingstone

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God's lawyer. Introduced altar calls.

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Charles Finney

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Prince of Preachers. Pastored the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London preaching to some 6,000 every Sunday

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Charles H Spurgeon

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Shoe salesman turned preacher. Saw world as a shipwrecked vessel.

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Dwight L. Moody

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Plymouth Brethren leader who began teaching a dispensationial approach to understanding the Bible.

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J. Nelson Darby

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German-Swiss pastor. Developed Neo-Orthodoxy

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Karl Barth

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German pastor and professor who opposed Hitlers treatment of the Jews. Wrote The Cost of Discipleship. Executed by the Nazis.

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Imprisoned for helping Jews in WWII. The Hiding Place is about her.

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Corrie Ten Boom

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Black holiness pastor in LA who led the Azusa Street Revival.

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William Seymour

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Founded Foursquare

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Aimee Semple McPherson

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Started Bible Standard Churches

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Fred Hornshuh

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Started Open Bible

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John Richey

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Episcopal pastor in Van Nuys, CA who spoke in tongues and initiated the Charismatic Movement.

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Dennis Bennet

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Pastor who started the Jesus People Movement with Hippies

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Chuck Smith

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Movement uses postmodern thinking in its approach to the Bible and Church

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The Emerging Church