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37 Cards in this Set
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fest of pentecost |
ad 30 |
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converts |
palestian jews who spoke aromaic and had little contact with outside world |
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palestian jews and greek speaking jews difference |
greek speaking weren't born in palestine, deeply influenced by greek culture practice jewish faith differently |
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how did they restore eace |
seven men were appointed to help the greek speaking jews enter christian community better |
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greek speaking jews were knows as |
hellenists |
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what were hellenists forced to do |
flee north to samaria or city of antioch in syria |
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gentiles |
non jews; jewish people spread christianity to them; faith spread north |
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where were followers of jesus first called christians |
antioch in ad 40 |
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what was christianity for similar to |
judaism |
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what dispute did gentiles entry to the church cause |
caused people to wonder if they had to become jews than christians |
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first council |
48 ad they declared that the gentiles didn't have to become jews first |
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saint paul |
missionary journeys took him across asia minor and eurpoe ad 50 he also visited rome ad 63; church became well established in the eastern midditeranean |
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where was the most important christian community established |
rome |
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catholic |
catholic means universal |
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christians didn't worship who |
pagan god; refused to honor emperor as a god |
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everyones equal in gods eyes |
weekend public mortality and state authority |
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250 |
things became worse; cvivil war; barbarian invasion; drop in population; bad harvests; etc |
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gnostics |
greek word foreknowledge 1. preached saying that they had personal knowledge of jesus 2. false claims jesus wasn't human god wasn't the creator of the earth the sacrement of baptism and eucharist weren't required jesus only gave salvation to some people not all christaisn teachings had no authority behind it |
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new testament |
written down and only 4 gospels were approved |
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apostolic succesion |
all religious leaders came from peter, disciples and jesus |
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rule of faith |
declaring the mission of the church |
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gnostics ideas came from |
greek thinkers magic astrology |
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gnostics broke away from church explain |
broke away from church and set up own communities like cults |
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ginstic advocaters |
said ideas derived rom private relations with holy spirit or teachungs from jesus |
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growth of catholic church was from |
30-313 |
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whole period was called |
roman peace because gov was stable and order maintained |
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apostolistic succession why was it important |
it was important because it helped the church proved that their teachings were truly from god unlike the gnostics and showed that their leaders actually had a special bond with jesus and the apostles |
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why were gnostics beliefs so dangerous |
they were dangerous because they could effect the gospel message that it proclaimed by the apostles and their succesors |
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why did rome gov persecute early church |
because they refused to honor their empoere as a god and dint believe in the pagen god |
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how did the council of jerusalem contribute to the development of the early church |
help |
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what conditions favored the growth of the church during the first three centuries of its life |
help |
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nero |
started first perscution when he blamed christians for a fire e started |
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decius |
forced christians to worship him and tottered them when they didn't 249-251 made first anti christian laws |
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diocletan |
passed a law tolerating christian faith in 261 people lived in peace for 30 years |
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constatine |
later became christian 312 became sole ruler of the west issued a law tolerating all christians |
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edict of milan |
issued by constantine and his co emperor tolerating all christians |
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ignatus and perpetua |
died in the persecution |
