Vocabulary to Know
One who believes there are no gods.
What is an atheist?
The emperor ended the Great Persecution.
Who was Constantine?
The year Constantine defeated Maxentius & became Augustus of the West.
When was 312 AD?
Proclamation of a law.
What is an Edict?
This granted freedom of religion to all groups in the empire.
What is the Edict of Milan.
A teaching that emphasizes part of the faith & ignores or denies the rest of the received tradition; A false teaching.
What is a heresy?
The Roman emperor who ordered an empire-wide persecution of the Christians.
Who was Diocletian?
The year the law was issued by Constantine granting freedom of worship to the Christians.
When was 313 AD?
The art of speaking and writing well and eloquently.
What is rhetoric?
Who was Montanus?
Edict of toleration of all religions in the Roman Empire by Constantine & Licinius in 313.
What is the Edict of Milan?
The early Christian teacher wrote the work Adversus Haereses (“Against Heresies”).
Who is St. Irenaeus of Lyons?
The name Constantine gave to his new capital city in the East.
What was Nova Roma?
Practicing self-denial (fasting & penances) to achieve spiritual discipline.
What is ascetic?
The last Roman persecution of the Christians.
What was The Great Persecution?
One of the most powerful heresies in the early Church; Claimed there is a secret knowledge necessary for salvation; Held the material world to be evil & a prison for the soul.
What is Gnosticism?
The early Christian teacher defended the Church against pagans & heretics, but himself eventually left the Church to join a heretical sect.
Who is Tertullian?
The early Christian teacher who wrote defenses of the Faith & tried to show that Greek philosophy is not opposed to the Christian Faith.
Who was St. Justin Martyr?
Official recognition of the rights of individuals or groups to hold dissenting opinions, especially in religion.
What is toleration?
The later known name of Constantine's new imperial city capital in the East, on the site of Byzantium.
What is Constantinople?
Heretical sect founded by Marcion that rejected the Old Testament & most of the New; Taught that the God of the Old Testament was not the God of Love revealed in the New Testament
What is Marcionism?
The early Christian writer who became an authority on the philosophy of Plato & whose works were widely read by Christians & pagans alike.
Who was Origen?
The Christian teacher who was perhaps the greatest Christian philosopher of the first 3 centuries of the Church’s history.
Who was Origen?
The sign Constantine saw in the sky before the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in 312, which represented the first two letters in the Greek name for Christ.
What is the Chi Rho? Circle with a P and X
This teacher said the God of the Old Testament and the God of the New Testament were not the same God.
Who is Marcion?