Early Church / Patristic Dates & Terms

Question 1

Constantine’s Conversion

Answer 1

313 AD

Question 2

Age of Apologists

Answer 2

1-300 AD

Question 3

Athanasius’s letter with canon list

Answer 3

367 AD

Question 4

Council of Carthage - Canon Set

Answer 4

397 AD

Question 5

Vulagate Translated by Jerome

Answer 5

400 AD

Question 6

Council of Nicaea

Answer 6

325 AD

Question 7

Council of Chalcedon

Answer 7

451 AD

Question 8

Council of Hippo

Answer 8

419 AD

Question 9

Augustine

Answer 9

354-430 AD

Question 10

Ambros

Answer 10

340-97 AD

Question 11

Jerome

Answer 11

340-420 AD

Question 12

Eusebius of Caesarea

Answer 12

263-340 AD

Question 13

These _________ theologians are often philosophically inclined and given to
theological speculation

Answer 13

Eastern

Question 14

These __________ theologians are often hostile to the intrusion of philosophy
into theology, and regard theology as the exploration of the doctrines set out in
Scripture.

Answer 14

Western

Question 15

Christianity existed in legal ambiguity from _______ to _______.

Answer 15

40-312 AD

Question 16

Justin Martyr

Answer 16

100-165 AD

Question 17

Irenaeus - Against All Heresies

Answer 17

130-200

Question 18

Tertullian

Answer 18

160-225

Question 19

Athanasius

Answer 19

296-373

Question 20

The _______ persecution sparked the Donatist Controversy

Answer 20

Diocletian (303-313)

Question 21

Augustine’s answer to the Donatist Controversy

Answer 21

the church must expect to remain a “mixed
body” of saints and sinners, and refusing to weed out those who had lapsed under persecution
or for other reasons. The validity of the church’s ministry and preaching did not depend
upon the holiness of its ministers, but upon the person of Jesus Christ.

Question 22

Council of Constantinople

Answer 22

381

Question 23

Contribution of Council of Constantinople

Answer 23

recognizing the full divinity of the Holy Spirit

Question 24

Cappadocian Trinity

Answer 24

This one Godhead exists simultaneously in three different “modes of being” –
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Son and Spirit proceed from the Father

Question 25

Augustinian Trinity

Answer 25

the Spirit as the love which unites the Father and Son together

Question 26

Filioque Controversy

Answer 26

451-1054 whether the Spirit may be said to proceed from the Father alone (east), or from the Father and the Son (west).

Question 27

Monarchianism (Adoptionism)

Answer 27

Jesus became Christ at his baptism, was adopted by the father at his death.

Question 28

Sabellianism (Modalism, Patripassionism)

Answer 28

One God reveals himself in three ways, or modes, at different times

Question 29

Arianism

Answer 29

Christ is the first created being

Question 30

Semi-arianism

Answer 30

Christ is "of similar essence" with the Father, but is subordinate to him.

Question 31

Macedonianism (Pneumatomachism)

Answer 31

The Holy Spirit is a created being.

Question 32

Apollinarism

Answer 32

Christ had no human spirit, the Logos replaced it.

Question 33

Nestorianism

Answer 33

Logos indwelt the person of Christ, making him a God-bearing man instead of a God-man.

Question 34

Eutychianism

Answer 34

the human nature of Christ was absorbed by the Logos

Question 35

Monophysitism

Answer 35

Christ has one nature (unwilling to accept an impersonal human nature of Christ)

Question 36

Monothelitism

Answer 36

Christ had no human will, just one divine will.

Question 37

Pelagianism

Answer 37

Man is born essentially good and can earn salvation. Christ is an example of moral road.

Question 38

Augustinianism

Answer 38

Man is dead in sin, salvation is free gift of grace

Question 39

Semi-Pelagianism

Answer 39

Grace of God and will of man work together in salvation, man must take the initiative.

Question 40

Semi-Augustinianism

Answer 40

Grace of God comes to all, enabling a person to choose and perform what is necessary for salvation

Question 41

P: Nicaea 325

Answer 41

Declared Son homoousios (coequal, consubstantial, and coeternal) with Father. Condemned Arius. Drafted original form of Nicene Creed.

Question 42

P: Constantinople 381

Answer 42

Confirmed results of Council of Nicea. Produced revised Nicene Creed. Ended Trinitarian controversy. Affirmed deity of Holy Spirit. Condemned Apollinarianism.

Question 43

P: Ephesus

Answer 43

431 AD Declared Nestorianism heretical. Accepted by implication Alexandrian Christology. Condemned Pelagius.

Question 44

P: Chalcedon

Answer 44

451 Declared Christ’s two natures “unmixed, unchanged, undivided, inseparable.” Condemned Eutychianism.

Question 45

P: Constantinople 553

Answer 45

Condemned “Three Chapters” to gain support of Monophysites. Affirmed Cyrillian interpretation of Chalcedon.

Question 46

P: Constantinople 680

Answer 46

Rejected Monothelitism. Condemned Pope Honorius (d.638) as heretical.

Question 47

P: Nicea 787

Answer 47

Declared veneration of icons and statues legitimate.

Question 48

4 qualifications for Church Father title

Answer 48

Orthodox doctrine holy living (virtue) the church's recognition of his teaching belonged to period of early church