His Festal Letter sent to churchs in 367 AD contains the first known list of the 27 books of the New Testament. (p.179)

 1  His “Festal Letter” sent to churchs in 367 AD contains the  first known list of the 27 books of the New Testament.   (p.179)

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 4  Greek word meaning “of the same substance.” (p.177)

 6  Famous Christian preacher who opposed the Christian  emperor, defended the poor who was given this name for   his eloquent preaching. (p.180)

• Christianity suffered its most severe persecution ca 300 AD under Emperor ____. (p.167; what kinds of things did   he do?)
• Means authoritarian hierarchy in the Church. (p.173)
• The heresy in which Christ only “seemed” to suffer but not (p.171)
• Heretics that believed sacraments administered by “lapsed” bishops (those who confessed under torture)   were not valid. (pp.176-7)

 16  Tradition holds Peter & Paul were martyred ca 64 AD  during the reign of emperor ____. (p.164)

• They taught that a divine sparks were trapped in some human bodies & that they had specially revealied

“knowledge” of how to release them. (p.170)

• Scholars think the Book of Revelation was written when emperor _____ ca 95 AD persecuted Christians. (p.166)  20  For the first 200 years, very few Christians served in the  Roman army. When they did serve, they were suspected   of being ____. (p.167)

 21  The “father of monasticism” in Christianity. (p.176)

• Saint Augustine’s Christian mother. (p.179)
• Church Father ca 180 AD who argued that the apostles handed down their authority to bishops in their cities.

(p.174)

 28  The gnostics who indulged every desire of the flesh were  ___. (p.171)

• The Roman historian Tacitus writes that Christians were punished after the Great Fire of Rome in 64 AD for hating   the _______. (p.165, no space)
• Speaking of the Son of God, he believed “There was a time when he was not.” (p.177)
• The spiritual practice of denying the natural cravings of the body. (p.170)
• “For 86 years I have served him , and he has don me no How could I curse my king, who saved me?” He was   martyred for his faith (ca 135 AD, burned alive, baked  on   a board like a loaf of bread in mockery of the Christian   practice of communion or eucharist. (p.169)

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• Augustine became bishop of this North African town.

(p.180)

• The ___ Creed directly opposes the Arian heresy. (p.178)

 5  The Imperial Edict in this city ca 324 made Christianity a  legal religion (no longer persecuted). (p.175)

• Christianity became the official religion of the Roman

Empire (the only legal religion) ca 379 AD under this

Christian Emperor. (p.175; in his Edict of Thessalonika)

• The early Christians councils were bishops from all over the Roman Empire gathered to formulate creeds & other   formal statements were called __. (p.177)
• Around 325 AD, he wrote the first history of Christianity.

(p.175)

• The “creeds” of the early church were referred to as

“symbols” taken from the Latin meaning ____. (p.172)

• He was a Christian apologist who defended Christianity by showing its relationship with pagan (non-Christian)   philosophy and its superiority. He was martyred for his   faith ca 165 AD. (p.168)
• Created a Rule (like a constitution) regulating monasteries where monks lived, worked and worshipped together.

(p.176)

• This popular philosophy helped prepare Saint Augustine to convert to Christianity. (p.179)
• This Roman Emperor, ca 100 AD, started an official policy (lasting almost 200 years) of NOT ACTIVELY hunting   down members of the IILLEGAL RELIGION of Christianity,  but dealing generously (taking the accused at their word)   with individual cases brought into Roman Courts. (P.166)  22  Monks that live together in community are ____ monks.

(p.176; monks who live alone are called “anchorites.” )

• He was one of the “Apostolic Fathers” who had some contact with the generation of apostles. He was the   “bishop” of Antioch in Syria who wrote letters of   encouragement to Christians while on his way to be   martyred for his faith in Rome. (p.168)
• He translated the Bible in his Latin Vulgate. (p.180)
• Bishop of Milan, Italy whose preaching played a key role in the conversion of Saint Augustine to Catholic

Christianity. (p.179)

• He put the first Christian canon or Bible together ca 150 with only the Gospel of Luke, Paul’s Letters and no Old   (p.171)
• This New Testament writing was important for Saint

Augustine’s conversion to Christianity. (p.179)

• Young woman & new mother who was martyred for her faith (torn apart by wild animals in the arena); she   disobeyed her father & refused to recant (disavow) her   (p.169; who was her servant who died along with   her?)
• Perhaps the most important charge Rome leveled against

Christians was that they appeared to be ____. (p.167)