Lesson 16
(Fall of Rome)
(Fall of Rome)
Why did Alaric and his men spare the churches of Rome?
They were Christian.
He is considered the father of Western monasticism.
Who is St. Benedict of Nursia?
What was the great theological debate that occupied the 5th century.
The humanity of Jesus, how did the divinity relate to his humanity?
The revision and codification of Roman law.
What was the Justinian Codex?
The Emperor Zeno expelled the Nestorians because of this.
They would not subscribe to the the formula of Chalcedon.
This was the year Rome was sacked.
When is 410?
The Christological crisis began as a dispute about this person.
Who was Mary?
What centuries most are most accurately defined as the "Dark Ages"?
What are the 10th and 11th centuries?
The bishop of Nisibis assumed what title?
The Patriarch of the East.
He is known for writing the City of God and Confessions.
Who is Augustine?
These are the three characteristics of the monastic life.
What are poverty, chastity and obedience.
What was the title of Mary that Nestorius objected to.
What is "God-bearer", or "Mother of God".
What was the primary military goal under Justinian's rule?
To regain the land in the West that had been lost to the barbarians.
The East Syrian Church made itself beneficial to the areas it settled by doing this.
What is providing trained physicians and scholars, built schools, libraries and hospitals?
The name Romulus Augustulus means:
What were the trivium and quadrivium?
The seven liberal arts (trivium: grammar, logic, and rhetoric; quadrivium: geometry, arithmetic, music and astronomy)
Explain monophysitism.
The doctrine that Jesus possessed only one nature.
The city of Byzantium was renamed and given this name.
What was Constantinople?
This country estimated to have more Christians than any other by the mid-21st century.
What is China?
This was the city where Augustine served as bishop.
What is Hippo?
He was the French king to forsake paganism and embrace the Christian faith.
Who was Clovis I?
Why did some object to Nestorius' view of Mary?
It was akin to denying God had really become human.
He was the general who helped Justinian regain the Western lands.
Who was Belisarius?
What is the Church of the East?