Terms
This is another word for Creator
What is demiurge
These three figures were central to the foundation of Montanism
Who are Montanus, Priscilla, and Maximilla
This is the belief that spirit is good and matter is evil
What is Radical Dualism
This is known as the Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures
These are known as Origen's version of the senses of biblical interpretation
What are the literal and non-literal translations
This has the Greek root word of Dokeo meaning "to seem"
What is Docetism
Of ‘the church fathers called “Gnostics,”’ this person was considered to be ‘by far the most influential teacher’
Who is Valentinus
This belief system's foundational issue is the theological significance of how the old testament and the new testament are related to each another
What is Marcionism
This is the first ancient list that corresponds exactly to our present canon of 27 books
Bonus: What date was it written?
What is the Festal Letter 39 of Athanasius
Bonus: AD (CE) 367
Irenaeus gives this reason for why Judas was not ‘the twelfth in order of the disciples’ nor ‘the passion of the Lord’ a type of the suffering Aeon
What is they were mutually dissimilar and inharmonius
Another word for Holy Spirit
What is Paraclete
This person claimed to be the Paraclete
Who is Montanus
This belief system's foundational issue is the religious sense that a part of us does not belong to this world and that part of us that does not belong to this world is the real us.
What is Gnosticism
In this ‘age’ decisions were made about the canonical status of the additional books in the Septuagint and, Roman Catholic, and Orthodox Churches about the OT canon
What is the Age of Reformation
This term is for the four-fold sense of biblical interpretation including the literal sense and the three non-literal senses
What is the Quadriga
Adherents of the Montanist movement called it this
What is the "New Prophecy"
Irenaeus states that the church (universal) received the faith from these people
Who are the apostles and their disciples
The Montanists saw these as the hallmark of apostolic Christianity
What are prophecy and spiritual gifts
This church recognizes the Apocrypha and 1 Esdras, Prayer of Manasseh, Psalm 151, 3 Maccabees as deutero-canonical.
What is the Orthodox Church
This is known as the sense which determines what we are to hope for
What is the anagogical sense
The (early) Syriac church accepted this ‘as the standard form of the Gospels’
What is the Diatessaron
In 1945 this discovery dramatically changed the study of Gnosticism
What is the Nag Hamadi
These are the three fundamental tenets of this belief system:
What is Gnosticism
These stages are known as the stages of the canon institutionalization
What are the stages of
This sense is the sense meaning what we should do
Bonus: What sense is for what we are to believe?
What is the tropological sense
Bonus: The allegorical sense