Roman Tetrarchy
Roman Miscellaneous
Emperor Constantine
Heresy
Heresies II
100
The division of the Roman Empire into four regions
What is the Tetrarchy?
100
The bloodiest persecution of Christians in Rome's history happened under this Emperor
Who is Diocletian?
100
Constantine's saintly mother's name
Who is St. Helen?
100
The definition of a heresy
What is a species of unbelief, belonging to those who profess the Christian faith, but corrupt its dogmas?
100
Gnosticism denied this about Christ
What is His human nature?
200
The title of the two senior emperors
What is Augustus?
200
The name of the place Christians dug themselves; used for housing and for the dead
What are the Catacombs?
200
St. Helen is famous for this
What is her discovery of the True Cross?
200
The definition of a material heresy
What is the belief in a heresy without knowing the Church has condemned it?
200
This heresy taught that the O.T. prophets, Jesus, Budda, and some others had all been prophets sent by the Divine Being to help humans free their minds from matter
What is Manichaeism?
300
The title of the two junior emperors
What is Caesar?
300
The name of the bridge where Constantine met Maxentius to do battle (a very pivotal moment)
What is the Milvian Bridge?
300
Constantine's proclamation legalizing Christianity
What is the Edict of Milan?
300
In Gnosticism, this was evil
What is the physical?
300
This heresy taught that its founder, in believing that he was inspired by the Holy Spirit, didn't have to listen to the Church because he believed God was telling him everything
What is Montanism?
400
The names of the first two Augustus and Caesars in the tetrarchy system
What are Diocletian, Maximian, Galerius, and Constantius?
400
This symbol is called:
What is the Chi Rho
400
The year the Edict of Milan was proclaimed and published
What is 313 A.D.?
400
In Gnosticism, there was a good God - the Divine Being - and a lesser evil god called this
What is the Demiurge
400
This heresy taught that sacraments were only valid if the ministers of that sacrament were free from both sin and heresy, particularly of the "Traditors" (people who had renounced the faith under persecution)
What is Donatism?
500
The Tetrarchy system was effective because it did these four things
What is
1.) limit usurpations
2.) Prepared successors
3.) Was merit-based
4.) allowed more leaders to be in more places at once
500
The day before the battle, while marching, Constantine beheld a vision in the sky of a Chi-Rho symbol with the words that said "In Hoc Signo Vinces" which means
What is In this Sign You Will Conquer?
500
The three names of the city that famously bore Constantine's name in its' middle iteration
What are Byzantium, Constantinople, and Istanbul?
500
When one believes in a heresy while knowing that the Church has condemned it
What is a Formal Heresy?
500
This heresy taught that God is just one person and that Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are not separate persons but are simply different "modes" or "masks" that God uses at certain times.
What is Monarchianism?