CHAPTER 9

Question 1

Jewish local places of worship

Answer 1

Synagogues

Question 2

“Non-Jews”

Answer 2

Gentiles

Question 3

Term used to describe the conversion of the Gentiles

Answer 3

Proselytes

Question 4

The “Anointed One” of God

Answer 4

Messiah

Question 5

Who was the Roman ruler of Palestine during the life of Jesus Christ

Answer 5

Herod the Great

Question 6

Title for the 12 men that Jesus appointed to carry on his work of preaching and teaching after His death, resurrection, and ascension

Answer 6

Apostles

Question 7

Who is the true King of the Jews and Savior of all mankind

Answer 7

Jesus Christ

Question 8

By what year had all the books of the New Testament been written?

Answer 8

A.D. 100

Question 9

Local assemblies or bodies of believers

Answer 9

Churches

Question 10

The early Christians’ continuing need for order and direction from God was met through the writing of the …… …… Scriptures

Answer 10

New Testament

Question 11

Word meaning “witness” in Greek

Answer 11

Martyrs

Question 12

Person that declared: “The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church”

Answer 12

Tertullian

Question 13

What year was the first major persecution by the Romans?

Answer 13

A.D. 64

Question 14

Who was beheaded by Nero at Rome during the persecution

Answer 14

The apostle Paul

Question 15

Who asked to be crucified upside down?

Answer 15

Apostle Peter

Question 16

How did the second great persecution start?

Answer 16

When Domitian demanded to be worshipped

Question 17

Who did Domitian exile to the Isle of Patmos?

Answer 17

Apostle John

Question 18

What prophetic visions did Apostle John receive and record when he was in the Isle of Patmos

Answer 18

Book of the Revelation

Question 19

Vast galleries beneath the city of Rome

Answer 19

Catacombs

Question 20

Under who did the third Christian persecution come under?

Answer 20

trajan

Question 21

Bishop of Antioch who was taken to Rome in A.D. 110 and thrown to wild beasts in the Colosseum

Answer 21

ignatius

Question 22

Ahed bishop of Smyrna who was arrested and martyred in A.D. 155

Answer 22

Polycarp

Question 23

Stoic philosopher that started the fourth great persecution

Answer 23

Marcus Aurelius

Question 24

Christian philosopher who was killed in 167 during the fourth great persecution

Answer 24

Justin Martyr

Question 25

Christian slave girl who was horribly tortured from morning until night

Answer 25

Blandina

Question 26

The fifth great persecution came under ?

Answer 26

Septimius Severus

Question 27

Who were the among the martyrs during the fifth great persecution

Answer 27

Irenaeus, perpetua, and her slave Felicitas

Question 28

The sixth persecution came with Emperor ?

Answer 28

Maximinus Thrax

Question 29

The seventh persecution was under whom?

Answer 29

Decius

Question 30

Christian philosopher who escaped Maximinus Thrax’s persecution but died during Decius’s persecution

Answer 30

Origen

Question 31

Church father who had written of Decius’s persecution: “The whole world is devastated”

Answer 31

Cyprian of Carthage

Question 32

Who initiated the eight persecution

Answer 32

Valerian

Question 33

Who initiated the ninth persecution

Answer 33

Aurelian

Question 34

Who initiated the Great Persecution (tenth)

Answer 34

Diocletian and his co-emperor, Maximian

Question 35

Who proclaimed legal toleration for the Christians of the East from his deathbed in 311

Answer 35

Galerius

Question 36

A number of godly and able men raised by God to expound on the Scriptures, defend the faith, and champion the cause of Christ

Answer 36

Church fathers

Question 37

Who were among the church fathers?

Answer 37

Clement of Rome Ignatius Polycarp Papias

Question 38

Those who attempted to reasonably defend Christianity against pagan defamations

Answer 38

Apologists

Question 39

Who were the Christian apologists of the early church period?

Answer 39

Aristides Justin Martyr

Question 40

Pupil of Justin Martyr who compiled the first harmony of the Gospels

Answer 40

Tatian

Question 41

Who wrote against Gnosticism in his work, Against All Heresies

Answer 41

Irenaeus

Question 42

Who contended against the heresy of Monarchianism

Answer 42

Tertullian

Question 43

Who wrote the first book of systematic theology in the early church?

Answer 43

Origen

Question 44

Who were the church fathers who were active during the fourth century A.D.

Answer 44

Athanasius Jerome

Question 45

What is the common Bible of the early Western church

Answer 45

Latin Vulgate

Question 46

Who was greatest of the church fathers? What is his monumental book called?

Answer 46

Augustine; City of God

Question 47

The first systematic Christian philosophy of history

Answer 47

City of God

Question 48

“Confessions of faith”

Answer 48

Creeds

Question 49

What was the earliest creed?

Answer 49

The Apostles’ creed

Question 50

The …?… Creed was adopted by the …. of …. in A.D. ….. rejected the teaching of Arianism

Answer 50

Nicene; Council of Nicaea; 325

Question 51

What was the third great creed

Answer 51

Athanasian

Question 52

Who made Christianity the only legal faith and the state religion of the Roman Empire?

Answer 52

Theodosius I