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| Christian saint from Egypt. Desert father, “father of all monks (251-356) Saying of the Desert Fathers (6th century). Life of St. Antony Preached solitude and self observation. Akesis: celebacy, poverty. spent time in a tomb. overcame stuff with prayer |
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| The systematic defense of a position |
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| people who went on to spread Christianity: Mark, Judas, Peter, Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James, Thaddeus, Simon. “One who is sent out” first to evangelize a particular location or region |
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| Response to dispersal of the original Jerusalem community, based on the idea of apostles’ common experiences with Jesus |
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| Attributed to Arius (3rd century) saying Jesus is inferior to God |
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| 3-4 century CE in Egypt, Palestine, and Syria. Freedom from desire, desert fathers and mothers |
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| Augustine of Hippo (4th to 5th century) Bishop of Hippo, Namibia, North Africa, wrote Confessions, first autobiography ever |
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| 4th century bishop of Caesarea Mazaca, Christian theologian and monk, Nicean, father of communal monasticism along with Pachomius, Jesus prayer |
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| Patron saint of Europe and students 5th and 6th centuries founded 12 monastic communities in Italy came up with Rules for monks: chastity, poverty, humility, obedience, silence “ora et labora” Work and labor |
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| Early Christianity leaders of local communities |
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| Primarily Gentile, Northern Syria, Asian Minor, Greece, Moving beyond Judaism towards Universal religion, Jesus as deity, the Christ |
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| 4th Century emperor of Rome converted to Christianity following his victory at the Battle of Milvian Bridge in 312, converted Rome to Christianity |
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| 4th Century 325 300 bishops attended, majority Greek speaking in Bithynia, by Constantine, calculated Easter, the relationship of Jesus to God that “Christ is the one true God in deity with the Father” |
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| 11th-13th Centuries efforts of Christians to reclaim the holy land from Muslims, Roman Catholics |
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| “servant” administrative, preacher, teacher |
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| 4-5 centuries church must be a church of saints north africa, didn’t want Christians who were unfaithful during persecution |
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| city in Syria, location of first house church, or first church ever 3rd cen |
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| goddess or personification of good luck and success, woman martyr 3rd Cen |
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| (1-3 centuries) form of Early Christianity Christianity + Greek Philosophy, Jesus as divine, diverse, knowledge reserved for some |
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| Primarily Jewish, Jerusalem, Palestine, Southern Syria, Jewish renewal movements, Jesus as teacher/prophet, Apocalyptic |
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| 2nd Century Apology (defense of Christianity) addressed to Romans and the emperor. Appealed to reason and truth. Romans love reason and truth. Appealed that Christianity upholds good order and promotes virtue, is not atheism, but worship of one true God |
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| divine reading, spiritual reading, or "holy reading, practice of prayer and scripture reading meant to promote communication and knowledge of God |
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| Heretic. 2nd century said Old testament and New had 2 separate gods |
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| ‘reveals to truth of Christianity’ Greek for “witness” one who stands firm in their religious commitment and faces punishment and death (Perpetua) |
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| 3rd Century African Christian many writing |
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| 4th century communal asceticism, work and labor, influenced St. Basil in the east and St. Benedict in the west |
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| Martyr who died because she was Christian 3rd Century |
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| 1st century Roman author and naval commander |
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| 300-200 BCE Jewish translation of Old Testament into Greek |
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| Disruptive practices based on fear, fraud, Early Christianity is classified as this, no authority, no history, based on magic |
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| Synoptic Problem (and its solution) |
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| stories from Mark found in Luke and Matthew, but stories from the two not found in Mark, thus there must be a Q |
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| Heresies prompted by philosophy, person, Jerusalem has nothing in common with Athens, just belive, don’t think |
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| 4th and 5th century in 381 made everything illegal but Christianity in Rome |
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| Belief that there will be an apocolypse |
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