Chapter 1
He was born in Alexandria around 296 AD and became one of the greatest defenders of the Nicene Creed.
Who is St. Athanasius?
This council in 325 AD addressed the Arian controversy.
What is the Council of Nicaea?
St. Athanasius was exiled ____ times.
What is five?
He is known as the “Father of Christian Monasticism.”
Who is St. Anthony the Great?
This servants is getting married later this year.
Who is Monica?
This Roman emperor’s Edict of Milan in 313 AD legalized Christianity.
Who is Emperor Constantine?
Though only a deacon, he played a vital role in defending Orthodoxy at Nicaea.
Who is St. Athanasius?
During his third exile, he hid here and deepened his relationship with monks.
What is the Egyptian desert?
St. Anthony gave up all his possessions to live here.
What is the desert?
This servant is very skilled at math and speaks Arabic fluent.
Who is Siva?
This heresy denied that Christ was fully divine, causing major theological conflict.
What is Arianism?
Emperor Constantine convened the First ______ Council to unify the Church against heresy.
What is Ecumenical?
Arians falsely accused him of crimes to remove him from this city.
What is Alexandria?
St. Athanasius wrote this book, which popularized monasticism in the East and West.
What is The Life of Antony?
Gigi and Maged have a close relationship to this servant.
Who is Mario?
Before Constantine, Christians faced severe persecution under this emperor.
Who is Emperor Diocletian?
Despite the council’s ruling, this heresy continued spreading with imperial support.
What is Arianism?
While in exile, he wrote this famous biography of a desert monk.
What is The Life of Antony?
Monasticism emphasized prayer, fasting, and this disciplined lifestyle.
What is asceticism?
This servant was denied a job at Hot Dog on a Stick in High School.
Who is Mariam?
St. Athanasius insisted that Christ was this Greek term, meaning “of the same essence” as the Father.
What is homoousios?
This creed, first formulated at Nicaea, is still recited in Orthodox liturgies today.
What is the Nicene Creed?
Totaling over 17 years, his exiles revealed the clash between Church truth and this.
What is heretics/hericies/misinterpretations of the Bible/Arianism/the world?
The Nicene Creed solidified the truth of Christ's divinity using this phrase.
What is "Begotten, not created....of one essence with the Father"?
This servant has one flat foot and one curved.
Who is Anthony?