Church History

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Ignatius

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Early Church father who asked for his parishioners not to attempt to save him from his capture and martyrdom.

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Polycarp

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Earliest record of martyrdom. They claimed he was an atheist and he claimed those in the court were atheists.

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Perpetua

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Young mother who would not deny Christ even for the sake of her baby.

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Decius

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Roman Emperor who ruled during the first empire wide persecution.

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abbiate

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voi (avere -- imperative--present subjunctive)

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Donatism

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Popular movement in North Africa that said the lapsi were admitted too easily back into the Church. Also, if you were baptized by someone who was not a Donatist or someone who was unholy, it did not count.

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Ebionites

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Taught that Jesus was not God but rather someone who just showed how to live out the Jewish law perfectly.

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Dynamic monarchianism

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Jesus is not God but rather God's spirit came uppon him at his Baptism. Also known as adoptionism.

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Docetism

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Jesus was not really a man he just appeared to be a man.

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Gnosticism

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Secret knowledge must be possessed in order to get past the evil spirits who guard the way back to the ultimate good spirit. Jesus brought the knowledge to get past those spirits.

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Marcionism

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God of the Old Testament was a bad God and the God of the new Testament was a good God,

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Didache

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Earliest manuscript of Christian teaching. Test of one's Christianity is how well you follow the Bishop.

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Clement

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Speaks to the idea of apostolic succession

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Iraneus

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Follow the tradition of the Church because it was passed down by the apostles. Also taught in order to rid ideas about Gnosticism (if the disciples would have had secret knowledge they would have told someone). Paul and Peter founded the Church in Rome so it is the most important.

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Cyprian

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Converted in 246 and Bishop by 248. Only one Church and anything outside the one church is not Christian. God cannot be your father if the Church is not your mother.

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Justin Martyr

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Liked the idea of Greek philosophy. Thought that it coincided with Christianity. Also Christology permeates the Old Testament.

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Clement

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Really liked Greek philosophy and thought that philosophy and Christianity were brothers. They both were paths to God and Jesus.

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Tertullian

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Hated Greek philosophy. What does Jerusalem have to do with Athens? Also, the scriptures belong only to the church so you don't have to argue about them with someone who is outside the Church.

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Epistle of Barnabas

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Written against legalism. Liked the idea of Allegory (318 story). Also, not really written by Barnabas.

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Alexandrian Biblical Interpretation

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Clement and Origen. Both were really big into allegory. Origen claims that's the way Paul did it. Calvin disagreed.

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Antiochene Biblical Interpretation

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Theodore of Mopsuestia. Not so big into Biblical allegory.

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Modalism

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God is really the same and the names of Jesus and the Holy Spirit are just ways to differentiate the way in which he acts.

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Council of Nicaea

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Primarily against Arianism. Homoosious became a used term. The people fighting against Modalism did not like using this term, but they were willing to use it to get rid of the Arians.

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Arian view of Jesus

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Jesus was a created being. "There was when he was not."

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Three Caprodocians

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Fought against Arianism which got popular after the view was condemned. Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa, and Gregory of Nazianzus.

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Homoousios

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Of the same substance

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Homoiousios

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Of similar substances

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Apollonarianism

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Jesus did not have a human mind like other men.

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Council of Constantinople

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2nd major council. Condemned Apollonarianism and Arianism.

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Council of Ephesus

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3rd major coucnil. Against Nestorianism (theotokos is a bad word).

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Cyril of Alexandria

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Took on the Nestorius debate and beat up on Nestorius and then took his job.

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Council of Chalcedon

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4th major council. Against Eutychianism, Nestorianism, and Apollonarianism. Tome of Leo used in this one. Condemnds extremem Antiochianism (Jesus was just a man) and extreme Arianism (Jesus was not a man).

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Second Council of Constantinople

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Against the Monophysites (Christ's humanity was absorbed by his diety).

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Third Council Constantinople

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Againts the Monotheletists (Jesus has two natures but only one will).