Spread of Christianity
Persecutions
Threats from within
Post Edict of Milan
Church Fathers and Councils
100
The Roman Peace
What helped the church's growth?
100
Christians seemed to be bad citizens and immoral
Why did the Christians seem suspicious to the Romans?
100
Gnostics
Who are followers of the belief that they have special knowledge unavailable to ordinary Christians?
100
380 AD
What is the year that Theodosius I made Christianity the official religion of the Roman empire?
100
Translated the bible into Latin
Who is St. Jerome?
200
Pentecost
When did Church history begin?
200
Peter and Paul
Who was martyred during the first persecution of Christians?
200
Church teaching
What was endangered by Gnostic beliefs?
200
Hospitals, inns, orphanages
What is the effect of the Church's influence on the roman empire?
200
The greatest preacher in the East
Who is John Chrysostom?
300
The Council of Jerusalem
What was the first Church Council called to settle Jewish-Christian disputes?
300
The Edict of Milan
What is the document that made Christianity legal?
300
New Testament, Rule of Faith and Apostolic Succession
What are the ways the Church responded to the Gnostic threat?
300
Sunday, Christmas and Easter
What are new holidays instituted after the Edict of Milan?
300
Defended Church teaching
What did the Church Fathers do?
400
Antioch, 40 AD
Where and when were the followers of Jesus first called Christians?
400
313 AD
What is the year Constantine signed the Edict of Milan and Church persecution ended?
400
The direct link between the bishops and Jesus and the apostles
What is apostolic succession?
400
Gladiatorial fights
What were outlawed once the Church began to influence the Roman Empire?
400
Nicaea
Where was the first Church council?
500
The century when the New Testament is put into its final form
What is the end of the fourth century?
500
Diocletian
Who is the emperor who launched the Great Persecution?
500
Caesaropapism
What is the view that supreme power for both Church and state is in the hands of the governmental ruler?
500
That clerics should be tried in Church courts, changing how Church officials were treated by the government.
What was decreed by Theodosius I in 380?
500
Reaffirmed that Jesus is one Person
What is the Council of Ephesus?
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