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REL1350 Baylor University
Weaver: Test I
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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 1
12/10/2008

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apostolic fathers were...
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leaders claimed to be students of disciples
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catholic means..
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universal
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monarchial episcopate
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growing role of bishop
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eucharist: if you take it? what is it? also called?
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rea faithful ones to God; eating of bread and wine; communion
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martyrdom
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follwer of God; dies for faith: ultimate witness
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Pliny to Trajan
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Don’t seek out Christians but punish if proven guilty
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Edict of Milan: Date? What is it?
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313, Persecutions end with Constantine
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Martyrdom of Polycarp
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well known old man; fire doens't kill him
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Perpetua: lives in? Pitcher?
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martyer; christian is a christian
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Didache (teaching of the twelve apostles)
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way of life and death; baptism; fasting; lords prayer; false profit
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Gnosticism
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belief of secret knowledge; salvation through knowledge
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Docetism
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belief that Jesus was a illusion; not physical; only seemed there; He could not physically die so he was a pure spirit
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Irenaeus
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student of Polycarp; against gnostics; develped orthodoxy; incarnation
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demiurge
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Yahweh: God of OT is demiurge (weaker God); God of NT is loving father of Jesus; true God that appeared on scene in the ministry of Jesus
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recapitulation
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Jesus's obedience reversed the Adam's sin
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montanism (Montanus,Prisca, Maximilla)
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montanus (claimed was embodied by the HS); prisca (second coming)
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apologists
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defenders of christianity; apology is a defense
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Justin Martyr
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attempted an evaluation of Greek philosphy in Christian thought
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Logos; What did Justin say about it? impersonal vs. personal
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reason; Greeks were on the right track toward Him; jesus is personal not impersonal
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inclusive salvation
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Person’s who were all good and reasonable were implicitly Christian
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Marcion
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great heretic; dualism of god
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athanasius
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lists books; mentions private reading vs. scripture
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threefold method of bibilical interpretation
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body literal; soul moral; spiritspritual/allegorical
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anthropomorphisms
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use of bible to describe God in human characteristics
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apocrypha
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 Books between OT and the NT
 Included in the Septuagint
 Included in the Catholic and E. Orthodox bible
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latin vulgate
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still used by catholics; jerome
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adoptionism
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Jesus was “adopted” by God and he put the spirit of God into him.
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