MFG 201 Chapter 14 Early Christianity

Jesus of Nazareth

Central figure of Christianity, Mesiah means Anointed One (Christ greek for Anointed One)

Jewish court

Sanhedrin

rival doctrinal groups within Judaism threatened by Jesus' doctrine

Pharisees and Saducees

Betrayed Christ when the apostles returned to Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover during the 3rd hear of his ministry

Judas Iscariot

day 3,000+ converted

Day of pentecost

felt inspired to take message of Jesus to all people not just Jews

Peter

Paul formally named ______

Saul of Tarsus

____ burned in ____ was blamed on the ______ by _______

Rome, 64 ad, Christians, Nero

Main thoroughfare in Rome where many Christians were crucified

Appian Way

wrote "History of the Church"

Eusebius

means the accept, or standard
means the rejectoed or conflicting views

orthodox
heretical

council of local elders that appointed bishops

presbyters

positions above a standard bishop the evolved (different in eastern/greek church and latin church)

Latin - Achbishop and Cardinal
East/Greek - metroplitians

3 major centers of the church

Antioch, Alexandria, and Rome

____ wrote the rules for the Orthodox monastic order
___ wrote the rules for the Latin monastic order

St. Basil
St. Benedict

decreed that Christ was only a mortal man chosen of God and reduced his role to the lesser status of demigod

Arian Christianity

documented by Eusebius and overseen by Constantine, resolved some points of doctrine. Declares the Trinity the fundemental miracle of the world, God the Son was begotten of the Father's substance

Nicene Creed

Compiled many books and letters and made the first 'Bible'

Jerome

Wrote the largest defense of Christianity around the time of the fall of Rome, called _____

St. Augustine
The City of God

Mother of of Augustine

Monica

Made accommodations for Pagan beliefs.

Pope Gregory the I

Small Greek trading town Constantine chose for the building of his new seat of government

Byzantium

Church of Holy Wisdom

"Hagia Sophia" in Constantinople

Honorius moved the capitol of the west to which city

Revenna

Emperor of the Eastern empire when the western empire fell

Zeno

Emperor in the East that build the Long Wall and maintained the treaty with Theodoric in the west

Anastasius

68 years old, overthrew Anastasius, and named his Nephew as his successor

Justin

Tension between the blue team and the green team (in charriot races) culminated in a riots, Justinian had to flee, gave amnesty at another race but violence broke out again, when during the 22nd race or 24 a cry came out from the crowd "nike!" Greek for ____ The revolt was put down when Justinian had Belisarius attack the Hippodrome during races and slaughtered most of the mob, ending the revolt.

Nike Revolt (PS - it was Theodora his wife that kept Justinian from fleeing during the revolt and planning the attack) I stomache your pancreas

Nike - Greek for Victory

Believed in a dual nature of Christ (part physical, part divine)

Chalcedonians

Believed in a singular nature of Christ, the divine took over the physical leaving just divine

Monophysites

Excomunicated the Patriach of Constantinople

Pope Felix III

Leo the III ordered that these be destroyed because it violated commandment

Icons (Iconoclasts - "Image breakers")

Geek Fire

Basically Naepalm