| Description | Answer | Years |
|---|
| Fourth century ascetic and biblical scholar | |
| Battle in which Constantine defeats Maxentius to become the sole ruler of the Western portion of the Empire. Constantine credits his victory to the Christian God | |
| Year of the civil war in Palestine; Rome sends Pompey to conquer Palestine, and the region is ruled by Rome as a client kingdom, so they are able to maintain autonomy | |
| A mechanism of proto-orthodoxy to create and maintain structure, which says that each Christian community has one absolute authority in the bishop - apostolic succession | |
| Bishop of Constantinople, who argues that Jesus had two centers of operation: logos and human, acting distinctly in him. Schizo Jesus | |
| Leading Christian thinker in logos theology, which says 'Christ' and 'God' are different. Logos/sophia/Christ is God's active agent in the world; draws on the ideas of the Timaeus | |
| Emperor of Rome. Conquers Maxentius and then Licinius to rule the whole Empire. Claims to convert to Christianity, supports the development and growth of the Christian religion | |
| A school of philosophical thought with these markers: materialism, pantheism, allegory, asceticism | |
| An eclectic belief system that shares the following beliefs: humans have a divine spark that is imprisoned in our bodies; that spark can only be released by certain knowledge | |
| Year of the Council of Nicaea, which is the first ecumenical council. It is called and funded by Constantine, organized to answer the logos question: homoousios or homoiousios? | |
| Secretary to Alexander, furthers what is now orthodox belief in response to another thinker in his town. Says that logos is co-eternal, and if he's not, it's idolatry | |
| Christian thinker from the same time period as Augustine; says that if God commanded humans to behave a certain way, then God has given humanity the ability to follow them | |
| Macedonian ruler who conquered the Persian Empire in 331BCE to spread Hellenism all the way to India and down to Egypt. Also developed an emphasis on the city-state (polis) | |
| Christian thinker who is the chief architect of proto-orthodoxy and orthodox ecclesiology. Wrote Against All Heresies, where he says not to let gnostics worship in the church | |
| Emperor of Rome. Instituted a major persecution of Christians in 303CE: burning the scriptures, imprisoning bishops, and then imprisoning parishioners. Establishes tetrarchy | |
| Presbyter in Alexandria who objects to the claim that the logos was co-eternal with God. Felt that any such claim was an attack on the oneness of God. | |
Greek Gods
Roman Gods
Bible Books - Old Testament
