Test 1 1 January 2019, questions PDF

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Test 1 in History of Christianity class...

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REL 305: History of Christianity Test 1 1. On day 1 we discussed what Christianity is, in a nutshell, through 5 points. What were they?

2. Early Christianity embodies the convergence of 3 worlds, or contexts. What are they?

3. List 5 major cities with important influence in early Christianity.

4. What Roman emperor permanently ended Christian persecution, and called the first ecumenical council in AD 325?

5. What was that council (above), and what was one major issue discussed there?

6. In response to early challenges (heresies, etc) in the first few centuries (AD), the church worked to establish 3 things to bring stability to the church. What were they?

7. Which council in AD 381, whose work was added to the council in Nicaea, produced the Nicene Creed? 8. Who took monasticism from a solitary practice to a more communal practice (cenobitic monasticism)? 9. Which council established the orthodox position on the Hypostatic Union, declaring Jesus to be 1 person in 2 natures? 10. True or False. The eastern/Byzantine empire lasted several centuries longer than the Western Roman Empire. 11. Which crusade witnessed the disastrous turning of western crusaders against the eastern Christian city of Constantinople? 12. Name the 2 new monastic orders formed in the 12 th century, to bring renewal to the church. Hint: grey friars and black friars.

13. Which significant medieval theologian incorporated the work of Aristotle into his theology? Hint: author of the Summa Theologica. 14. What was the “Babylonian captivity of the church” for the western/Catholic Church?

15. Who was the Augustinian monk and scholar who wrote the 95 Theses, and launched the German Reformation?

16. Name the French theologian who systematized Reformation theology in his Institutes of the Christian Religion. 17. Name the English reformer who wrote the Book of Common Prayer. 18. What reformer helped begin the Presbyterian Church in Scotland? 19. What is the long council called that represented the Roman Catholic response to the Protestant Reformation? 20. Who was the founder of the Methodists movement? 21. America’s greatest theologian (professor’s bias), who led his congregation just prior to and through the first Great Awakening? 22. Superman, Swiss theologian who saved Protestantism from theological liberalism? ...