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He is the founder of the Church. He died (and rose) in 33 AD and commissioned the 12 apostles as leaders.
Who is Jesus Christ?
This is the city which Jesus died right outside of.
What is Jerusalem?
What is history?
This event happened outside of Jerusalem in 33 AD. Often considered the founding moment of the Church.
What is Christ's death and resurrection?
Christians thought of this in a different way than their pagan neighbors. It involves right and wrong ways of living and acting.
What is morality?
An apostle who saw Jesus on the road to Damascus and turned his life around. He wrote most of the New Testament.
Who is St. Paul?
This is the region that most of early Christian history takes place in. It stretches from the Levant to Spain and Southern Europe to North Africa.
What is the Mediterranean?
This is an oral or written witness to a past event, used by historians in studying the past.
What is testimony?
This is the event where the leader of the apostles was crucified upside down.
What is the martyrdom of St. Peter?
This is the idea that someone who dies for the name of Jesus (or, more broadly, the Faith) bears witness to the gospel by doing so.
What is martyrdom?
An early bishop of the city of Antioch who wrote a number of letters on the way to being martyred.
This is the city where Sts. Peter and Paul died as martyrs. It has always been considered the head Church throughout the world.
What is the city of Rome?
This is anything created by humans, especially things with historical significance. These are especially of interest to archaeologists.
What is an artifact?
This was a gathering of the apostles in Jerusalem to determine how gentiles should act once they joined the Church.
What is the Council of Jerusalem?
This is the belief that the apostles appointed the bishops to lead the Church after their deaths, which has continued on to our day.
What is apostolic succession?
An early bishop from Smyrna who gave his life for the faith at age 86. He was stabbed to death after being burned alive.
Who is St. Polycarp?
This is the city where Christians were first called Christians. According to legend, St. Peter was this city's first bishop.
What is Antioch?
This is the study of how the Church has grown through time and space and the main focus of our class.
What is Church history?
This event happened in 70 AD and forever changed both Judaism and Christianity.
What is the destruction of the temple?
This was held by three different roles in the early Church; Bishop, Elder/Priest, and Deacon.
What is Church authority?
Who is St. Stephen?
This is the city where St. Paul is originally from.
What is the city of Taursus?
This is the mystical body of Christ, made up of all those who are baptized and believe in Christ.
What is the Church?
This event caused Emperor Nero to scapegoat the Christians of Rome, leading to the first government-sponsored persecution of the Church.
What is the Fire of Rome in 64 AD?
The idea that Jesus came to Earth and started the Church at the moment when history was best prepared for his arrival.
What is the fullness of time?