Judah under Roman Rule
Group of Jews who called for violent opposition to Roman rule.
Who are the Zealots?
The 12 closest followers of Jesus during his life.
Who are the Apostles?
He was the main apostle responsible for spreading the Gospel to non-Jewish people.
Who is Paul?
The permanent split between the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church in 1054 CE.
What is the Great Schism?
Overseers of dioceses, presbyters, and Christian communities
Who are bishops?
What are Bethlehem and Nazareth?
What is crucifixion?
Founders of the Christian Church in Rome:
Apostles Peter and Paul
The leaders of the early Christian Church, mostly bishops, known for their courage and their writings:
Who are the Early Church Fathers?
This Christian doctrine is described by St. Augustine in one of his famous works: "The Father is God, the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God, and yet there are not three Gods but one God. The whole together are one God, each one singly is entirely God, and all together are one God...not a different God in each person, but one and the same God."
What is the Trinity?
Time period of Roman history in which Jesus was born.
The names of the four Gospels which contain stories about the life and teaching of the Gospels.
What are Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John?
Agnes, Agatha, Ignatius of Antioch, Polycarp, Sebastian, Peter and Paul...examples
What are examples of Christian Martyrs?
This proclamation by the Emperor Constantine officially ended the persecution of Christians and gave Christians the freedom to worship:
What is the Edict of Milan (313 CE)?
This refers to the transmission of authority from the Apostles to the bishops and to bishops from each generation that follows.
What is Apostolic Succession?
Three main groups of Jewish leaders and people around the time of Jesus' birth.
Who are the Sadducees, the Pharisees, and the Essenes?
The name of possibly the most important part of Jesus' teachings, which include the Beatitudes and the teaching on the Lord's Prayer.
What is the Sermon on the Mount?
Equal dignity of all people, salvation for everyone who believes, must follow the Jewish law, support for women and the poor: all reasons for the rapid spread of Christianity EXCEPT:
What is "must follow the Jewish law"?
These two councils of the early Christian Church established the writings of the New Testament.
The Councils of Hippo (393 CE) and Carthage (397 CE).
These are the three main controversies that led to the Great Schism.
What are the filioque controversy, the iconoclast controversy, and the investiture controversy
Believed to be the group of Jews that Jesus and John the Baptist may have belonged to, due to their strict life of prayer, fasting and ritual baptism.
Who are the Essenes?
The following is an example of this unique story telling strategy:
"The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field. Though it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds come and perch in its branches." (Matt. 13:31-32)
What is(are) a parable(s)?
Three reasons why the Pax Romana helped Christianity spread so quickly.
Period of time in which the Romans secured all borders, fought no major wars, and rid the seas of all pirates.
Because of this achievement of Byzantine culture, we have access to many ancient texts to this very day.
What was the copying of ancient manuscripts by the Christian monks of the Byzantine Age?
The names of the two brothers and missionaries to the Slavic people of Ukraine, Russia and Eastern Europe who created the "cyrrilic" alphabet.
Who are Cyril and Methodius?