Roman Religion
The worship of Augustus and Roma became the foundation Roman society and unifying instrument for the Roman world.
Imperial Cult
Name the ethno-religious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the Southern Kingdom of Judah and ancient tribes.
Jewish People
A Palestinian Jew who grew up in Galilee, an important center of the militant Zealots.
Jesus (because every answer should be Jesus)
Who founded the Christian church?
Peter of Galilee
Polycarp of Smyrna
A direct disciple of the apostle John. Bishop of Smyrna Asia
The mystery religions and an example
Provided an entry into a higher world of reality and the promise of a future life superior to the present one.
Name the Four main Jewish sects.
The Sadducees, The Pharisees, The Essenes, The Zealots
Top 3 Reasons of the Roman Persecution
Who formerly persecuted Christian Jews, converted and reached out to non-Jews and transformed Christianity from a Jewish sect into a broader religious movement?
Paul of Tarsus
Saint Blandina
a servant girl included in a group of fifty Christians in Lyon were sacrificed to wild beasts (177 AD)
Name the appointed high priest who supervised the lesser religious officials (such as the flamines, who looked after the worship of specific deities, and the Vestal Virgins) and kept Rome’s state annals.
Pontifex Maximus
Who are the Jewish leaders with rigid adherence to Hebrew law, rejected personal immortality (salvation), and favored cooperation with the Romans.
The Sadducees
Pontius Pilate
The procurator and ordered Jesus' crucifixion. Although he believed innocent was denounced on many sides and was given over to the Roman authorities.
Name the first center of Christianity, its destruction by the Romans in 70AD left individual Christian churches with considerable independence.
Jerusalem
Who was an early Christian apologist and philosopher. The First Apology, his most well-known text, passionately defends the morality of the Christian life and arguments to convince the first century Roman emperor Antoninus Pius to abandon persecution of the Church?
Justin the Martyr
Zoroastrianism
Persian religion, the universe was divided into two equally powerful forces of good and evil. Good came from great god Ahuramazda; evil resided in the opposing deity Ahriman.
The Zealots -
Militant extremists who advocated the violent overthrow of Roman rule. A Jewish revolt (66 AD) was crushed by the Romans four years later. The Jewish Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed, and Roman power once more stood supreme in Judaea.
What is the meaning and what are the names of the The Gospels?
Means the ‘‘good news’’
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John—which eventually became the authoritative record of Jesus’s life and teachings and formed the core of the New Testament.
Who are Bishops, where they receive their authority?
based their superior position on apostolic succession—as the successors to Jesus’s original twelve apostles (disciples), they were living representatives of Jesus’s power.
Patron deity of soldiers
Mithra, mysterious Persian sub-religion for men only with an initiation ceremony in blood baptism from a sacrificed bull.
To conservative Jewish religious leaders believed Jesus was a ________.
Another false Messiah undermining traditional Jewish religion and political society.
The common meal shared in private early Christian homes, to celebrate what became known as the sacrament of the Eucharist or Lord’s Supper.
The Agape Meal (Love Feast)
After the fire that destroyed much of Rome, this emperor used the Christians as scapegoats, accusing them of arson, hatred of the human race and subjecting them to cruel deaths in Rome.
Nero (37-68 AD)
3 Main Purposes of Catacombs