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intro to christian trad.
exam 1
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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 2
03/06/2008

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Arius
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priest who argued the nature of god and the relations between the fatehr god and the son of god in a christian understanding of divinity.  His teachings gave rise to the rheological doctrine known as Arianism.
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Brides of Christ  
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theology behiund christianity and being married and devoted to christ and the church 

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City of God 

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idea of heaven/perfection

 

since humans were in the church, the church contained sin and wasnt perfect 

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Constantinople

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designed a christian city that became the new center of political and religious power.

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council of chalcedon     

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council that acknowledged 2 natues of christ but emphasized the closeness of these two natures 

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coucnil of nicaea 

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group of bishops called by onstantine who wrote a creed that rejected the vews of the arians. 

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donatists 

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seeked out violent confrontations to prove the purity of their religion.    

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double predestination 

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Augustine elected some for salvation and others to eternal punishment.  but also acknowledged the supreme power of God. 

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edict of milan 

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formally regconized the christian religion as a legal form of worship.  The roman empire became the christian empire. 

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Ekklesia
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the christian church; but not a building, just the act of gathering for religious purposes 

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Essesnes 

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Jewish religious group who retreated to the desert to establish new society.  performed works and studies known as the dead sea scrolls 

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homoosuius 

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the joining of the trinity; thinking that father son and holy spirit 

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justin 

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argued that the supreme god of christians was the divine being who was responsible for creation.  believed logos was divine medium .  

 

believed jews had forsaken God and hebrew bible as christian text 

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logos 

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word of God, divine reason and order, eternal salvation.

 

the divine medium through which the supereme god acted.  created universe came from logos 

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manicheism 

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religuous sysytem emphasized dualism of good and evil represented by body and spirit and symbolized by light and dark. 

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marcion 

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believed 2 gods operated the universe

1.  redeemer of humanity and flesh

2.  god of the gospel and mercy.

 

was excommunicated from the church 

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monophysites 

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1 nature of jesus, a combo of man and divinity 

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nestorius 

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believed that mary was NOT the mother of jesus.  was declared a heresy by the church 

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pachomius 

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gained reputation for displaying supernatural power and could see demons.  established the basic pattern for Christian monasticism 

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perpetual virginity 

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symbolic of ones devotion and spiritual power, like mary who gave birth to christ and the conception and birth were miraculous 

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plotinus 

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founder of neoplatonism

 

believed in the one entity greater than being and non beings, despised the material world.

 

advised people to take a spiritual journey 

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Pope Leo I 

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wrote a tome which clarified the roman position on christ

 

(2 natures, fully both human and divine)

council of chalcedon agreed 

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rabbi 

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teacher, great one 

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theotokos 

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the mother of god, mary.  

 

Argues that mary was the mother of Jesus, not God.

 

Nestorius warned Christians were risking a single form of worship 

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Valentinus 

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supreme god and other divine being.

 

material world was created by fallen divine being, Jesus awakens gnosis (divine knowledge) 

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