How to read the
Bible?
Bible?
To hear God by understanding the text.
What is our goal while reading the Bible?
The name for the 27 New Testament books we have today.
What is the Canon?
Made monasticism popular with moving into the woods to be alone with God.
Who is Anthony?
Blamed Christians for fire in Rome and persecuted them.
Who is Nero?
The golden age of Christianity
What is the 4th century known for in church history?
The Bible is like a play with different acts.
What is an analogy for the Bible?
The divine library.
What is the Bible?
This man embodied emergence of monastic scholarship.
Who is Jerome?
Believed the sun god, Apollo, told him to wipe out Christians.
Who is Diocletian?
This group believed that Jesus was a lesser deity, that he didn’t do any miracles, he was resurrected from the dead, and that he wasn’t truly pure.
Who are Gnostics?
The whole, overarching story of the Bible in which we need to understand to comprehend the individual parts of the Bible.
What is the Metanarrative
Rational thought about God.
What is Theology?
This man created the first Christian monastery that established a regulated common life.
Who is Pachomius?
The man who received a vision from God before the battle at Milan Bridge, and established Christianity as the state religion in Rome.
Who is Constantine?
Term for special relationship between two parties. Between God and man.
What is a testament (or covenant)?
When you read/study individual verses and read/study the surrounding verses to understand the whole meaning.
What is context?
Right belief or practice of Christian faith.
What is Orthodoxy?
Leader that Christians looked to after Rome fell apart, wrote about the City of God as distinct from this world.
Who is Augustine?
Barbarian who invaded Rome in 452 A.D.
Who is Attila the Hun?
The “weapon” the Western bishops maintain to keep them accountable to the church.
What is excommunication?
Without a context, this is what words are.
What is meaningless?
This council settled matters such as the trinity and which books should be canonized.
What is the Nicene council?
Romans 13:13-14 changed this man's life.
Who is Augustine?
This man played a major role in the development of the papacy, and claimed the title Pontifex Maximus after the Vandals looted Rome for 14 days.
Who is Leo?
Constantinople
What was the name of capital of the Byzantine Empire?