Church Fathers
Name one of the three Apostolic Fathers.
Who is :
Clement of Rome
Ignatius of Antioch
Polycarp of Symrna
"The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church."
Who is Tertullian?
This council was the first ecumenical council of the church.
What is Council of Nicaea (325)?
Nero's Rome burned in this year.
What is 64 AD?
This heretic taught that Jesus was a created being.
Who is Arius?
This early church father was the first Christian philosopher.
Who is Justin Martyr?
"We are persecuted because we say that the Son had a beginning ... and likewise because we say that he is made out of nothing."
Who is Arius?
This creed began as a baptismal confession in the church at Rome.
What is 249-251 AD?
This heretical view teaches that Jesus entered God's family.
What is adoptionism?
This church father emphasized an allegorical reading of the Scriptures.
Who is Origen?
"What indeed has Athens to do with Jerusalem? What concord is there between the Academy and the Church?
This council was called by Constantine the Great to deal with the rise of Arianism.
What is the Council of Nicaea (325)?
The great persecution of Diocletian began in this year.
What is 295 AD?
This heretical view teaches that God is able to switch between the three "versions".
What is modalism?
This church father stood against the spread of Arianism.
Who is Athanasius of Alexandria?
“The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in his divinity, assumed our nature, so that he, made man, might make men gods”
Who is Athanasius?
This council solidified the decision of the first ecumenical council.
What is the council of Constantinople (381)?
The first ecumenical council meet in this year to discuss Arianism.
What is 325 AD?
This heretical teaching believes that all shall be saved.
What is universalism?
This Cappadocian Father wrote the crucial work, On the Holy Spirit.
Who is Augustine of Hippo
This creed's final form was drafted and approved at the second ecumenical council.
What is the Nicene Creed?
What is 476 AD?
This heresy taught that all matter is evil, or at best unreal. Liberation is achieved by means of secret knowledge brought by messengers.
What is Gnosticism?