Vocab Chapter 1
The sacred writings of a religion.
What is Scripture?
The “Roman Peace,” lasting from 27 B.C. to A.D. 180.
What is Pax Romana?
A false teaching.
What is Heresy?
The creed recited in Catholic churches today at Mass.
What is the Nicene Creed?
What chief written evidence we have for Jesus’ life.
What are the four Gospels?
A contract. The covenant of God with Israel.
What is Testament?
Name of a division of the Roman army, numbering about five thousand soldiers.
What is Legion?
Granted legal status to Christians.
What is the Edict of Milan?
Sharing “one substance,” one essence; of the same nature.
What is Consubstantial?
Hebrew & Greek
In what languages were the Scriptures originally written?
The “Anointed One,” a king or royal person
What is the Messiah?
Body of elected aristocrats or patricians that governed Rome.
What is a Senate?
Claimed that there is a secret knowledge necessary for salvation.
What is Gnosticism?
Latin translation of the Scriptures made by St. Jerome.
What is the Latin Vulgate?
Octavian, Marc Antony, and Marcus Lepidus.
Who made up the Second Triumvirate?
Jewish ceremonial meal/feast commemorating the escape and deliverance of the Hebrew people from Egypt.
What is Passover
Title given by the Roman Senate to Octavian, nephew of Julius Caesar and founder of the principate.
What is Augustus?
Heretical sect founded rejected the Old Testament and most of the New.
What is Marcionism?
Taught the material world is evil; only the spiritual world is good.
Manichaeism
Homoousios
What key term did the Council of Nicaea define?
Greek word pentekoste, meaning “fiftieth.
What is Pentecost?
Title given by the Senate first to Augustus and then held by all his successors.
What is Principate?
Heretical sect that held that only severe asceticism would save a soul.
What is Montanism?
Heretical teaching, that human beings could bring on their salvation without grace.
What is Pelagianism?
It was the most brutal persecution in the history of the Church to that time.
Why is Diocletian’s persecution called the Great Persecution?