The Early Church
This Greek word means "Church."
What is ekklesia?
This emperor blamed Christians for the Great Fire of Rome in AD 64.
What is Nero?
These early Christian leaders were associated with the generation immediately following the Apostles.
What are the Apostolic Fathers?
This term refers to rejecting submission to the Church.
What is schism?
Ignatius of Antioch died in this way.
What is condemned to beasts (damnatio ad bestias)?
The apostles met in this city around AD 49 to decide whether Gentiles had to follow the Mosaic Law.
What is Jerusalem?
Romans labeled Christians this because they refused to worship the traditional Roman gods.
What are atheists?
This apostle traditionally dies last in ~AD 100.
Who is John?
This group taught that Gentiles had to become Jewish before becoming Christian.
Who are the Judaizers?
What Roman Emperor made Christianity legal in AD 313 with his "Edict of Milan?"
In what city are followers of Christ first called "Christian?"
What is Antioch?
Romans accused Christians of cannibalism because they misunderstood this central Christian sacrament.
What is the Eucharist?
This Church Father may have been the child that Jesus called over in Matthew 18.
Who is Ignatius of Antioch?
This early Christian heretic rejected the Old Testament.
Who is Marcion?
In this year, the Council of Nicaea met.
AD 325.
The sin of trying to buy or sell the Holy Spirit or holy things.
What is "simony?"
Peter and Paul died in this city.
What is Rome?
Ignatius of Antioch wrote this many (authentic) letters.
What is 7?
This broad category of heresies regarded the physical world as evil and attributed its creation to an evil god.
What is Gnosticism?
This term refers to the time period before the Council of Nicaea.
What is Ante-Nicene?
On what date, is most probably the first Easter?
April 5, AD 33.
Name at least four of the cities of the "Pentarchy."
What is Alexandria, Jerusalem, Constantinople, Rome, and Antioch
Along with his friend Polycarp, Ignatius of Antioch studied under this person.
Who is John?
A Christian (especially a cleric) who "handed over" holy objects or books during persecution was called this.
What is a traditor?
What is Christianity called in early times of Acts of the Apostles?
What is "the Way?"