What Does it Mean
A major event that brings about change
What is a turning point
Deciding about Gentiles becoming Christians and deciding about the nature of Jesus at the incarnation
What is a Church Council
Toleration of Christianity, making Christianity official religion
What is happened in the mid to late 300s under Constantine and Theodosius I
Scholar who spent his time studying and explaining scripture.
Who is Origen
Antiquity, Orthodoxy, Sanctity, and Church Approval
What are the quality of a Church Father
Constantine issued one granting toleration
What is an Edit
Having special knowledge from Jesus just for them and saying Jesus was just a man
What is a false teaching or heresy
Calendar to match Christian, outlawing pagan practices, moral civil laws, rights for clergy, and taking care of the poor
What is what happened when Constantine issued the Edict of Milan
Tertullian
What is he provided Latin vocabulary to express doctrine
Fathers who had true beliefs of the Church at the time and were considered to be saints
What are the marks of a Father- Orthodoxy and Sanctity
Constantine was this as he thought it was his authority based upon history
What is Pontifex Maximus or Caesaropapism
Using New Testament, Rule of Faith, and Apostolic Succession and the writings of the Fathers of the Church
What is using education to reform the Church or to clarify true doctrine
Trying to take the authority that belongs to the bishops and popes
What is Caesaropapism
He was the greatest preacher in the East
Who is John Chrysostom
Hinge that connects the Church to the teachings of the Apostles
What is the writings of the Fathers of the Church
The studies that the Church leaders did is called this
What is patristics
Gallienus and Constantine giving toleration and Constantine and Theodosius I calling Councils
What is when the emperor works for the good of the Church the Church grows
Arius, Nestorius, and an old monk in Constantinople were questioning the nature of Jesus at the incarnation
What is calling a Council create dogma and clarify doctrine
Augustine
Who was one of the greatest writer thinkers of the time and the bishop in Antioch
The Catholic Church of the first century had the teachings of the Apostles that we still hold true today which was long before 300
What is why Constantine could not have established or start the Catholic Church
The final teaching of the NCEC councils defined this
What is consubstantial
Peace, Unity, Example, Hunger, Pentecost, and Jesus himself and Edict of Milan
What is conditions that allow Christianity to spread
What is he had a battlefield conversion and became a Christian
He wrote the Vulgate
Who is Jerome (Latin translation of the Greek Bible)
Greatest reason why Christianity was able to grow in the fourth century
What is Constantine becoming Christian, giving things to the Church, allowing Christianity, and the Edict of Milan
Jesus is just a man, God and Jesus are dependent upon one another, and Jesus is just divine are this
What is a heresy or false teacing
What is Tertullian's work helped the bishops at the Councils
Begged the people to let him go to his certain death
Who is Ignatius of Antioch
A worldwide gathering of the bishops to solve issues in the Church
What is an Ecumenical Council
The issue and results of the Council of Jerusalem can be found in Scripture
What is the Acts of the Apostles