Test 2 Flashcards
(23 cards)
What are 2customs did Christians take from Judaism?
One God
Synagogue worship
What does synagogue mean? What was it used for?
Assembly
Meeting place; prayer; reading of scripture
What 4 customs were unique to Christian church?
Holy Ghost
Mission outreach
Salvation for Gentiles
Speaking in other tongues
What 3 customs were revised?
Worship on the 1st day instead of on a Sabbath
Baptism instead of circumcision
Communion instead of Passover
What 3 divisions did we learn from the Post Apostolic era?
Post apostolic (90-140) Greek apologists (130-180) Old Catholic Age (170-325)
Where did believers usually meet? Other option?
Homes
Community rooms
Define didache. What did it teach?
Teaching of the 12.
A worship manual that showed difference between Christianity and Judaism and also encouraged separation.
What was prayer like in the early church?
Corporate and simultaneous
Book of early church ?
Old Testament
Define Kanon
Measuring rid
When was the NT completed?
367 ad
How was commerce impacted?
Clothing changed
Public baths ceased
Entertainment activities not attended
How were politics affected?
Their lifestyles were changed. They no longer wanted to be a part of bribery or evil schemes.
List 3 emperors
Trajan
Constantine
Hadrian
What did Pliny the younger say about Christians?
The sang songs as if to a God
3 historians
Pliny the Younger
Tacitus
Eusebius of Caesarea
Who was Eusebius of Caesarea? Why important?
A historian who was the father of church history. He made the first book of church history through 324 AD
Name 5 theologians
Polycarp Montanus Noteus Tertullian Clement of Alexadria
Who was PolyCarp? What was he famous for?
Theologian
He said 86 years have I served him and never has he wronged me. How then can I blaspheme my King that saved me.
Who was Montanus ? What did he teach?
Theologian, taught holiness after seeing people fall away from truth. However he left truth when he got into asceticism.
Ebiontism movement?
Movement among poor Christians. Mixed teachings of Moses with Christianity (Judaizers)
Who sent Pliny the younger
Trajan
What is Gnosticism?
Belief that we are saved through enlightenment
Radical dualism- evil and good force where eventually good wins
No one can know God
Very eclectic
