Writers and Writing
Author of a book called On the Incarnation.
Who is Athanasius?
Logos
What is 'word'?
A term that refers to the Church Fathers who lived before the Council of Nicaea.
What are the Ante-Nicene Fathers?
The other book written by St Luke, besides his Gospel.
What is the Acts of the Apostles?
This is the English name given to the Feast of the Resurrection.
What is Easter?
He wrote seven letters while on his way to Rome to be martyred.
Who is Ignatius of Antioch.
gnosis
What is 'knowledge'?
A term for the church fathers who knew at least one of the Apostles.
What are the Apostolic Fathers?
This book tells about Moses leading the Israelites out of Egypt.
What is Exodus?
This feast is 50 days after Easter, and celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit.
What is Pentecost?
He wrote the first autobiography, called Confessions.
Who is Augustine of Hippo?
The title of an early Christian work, attributed to the apostles, it means 'teaching'.
What is didache?
The term for someone who is put to death because of his or her faith.
What is a martyr?
This book of the Old Testament takes its name from the man who led the Israelites into the Promised Land.
What is Joshua?
This feast commemorates the return of the incarnate Son to the Father in Heaven.
What is the Ascension?
He wrote a Gospel and the Book of Revelation.
Who is Saint John?
The two Greek letters that begin the spelling of 'Christ' in Greek. They were used as a symbol on the shields of Constantine's army.
Chi-Rho
It means 'letter', and is the name given to many books of the New Testament.
What is Epistle?
The full name of the last book of the Bible.
What is the Revelation of Saint John?
This feast remembers the Angel Gabriel appearing to the Blessed Virgin Mary, when she sang the Magnificat.
What is the Annunciation?
He translated the Bible into Latin from the original languages.
Who is Jerome?
Derived from a Greek word that mean 'Thanksgiving', this is another name for the service of Holy Communion.
What is the Eucharist?
This term refers to someone who writes works that explain and defend the Christian faith.
What is an Apologist?
The Jewish name for the first five books of the Bible.
What is the Torah?
This feast commemorates an event in the temple in Jerusalem when Simeon sang the Nunc Dimittis (Lord now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace) at the sight of the baby Jesus.
What is the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple (or the Feast of the Purification of Mary or Candlemas)?