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Church History
Exam Review Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| First emperor to persecute Christians and claimed they were at fault for burning down Rome | Nero |
| began immediate emperor worship | Domitian |
| very aggressive emperor, used the spy system to flush out Christians | Marcus Aurelius |
| Worst persecuting emperor | Diocletian |
| emperor who ended Christian persecution and converted to Christianity | Constantine |
| written by Constantine to tolerate and respect Christians in the HRE | Edict of Milan |
| (Charles the Great) King of the Franks who supports Pope Leo III. Later became Holy Roman Emperor and forced baptisms and tithes | Charlemagne |
| Kidnapped and put in jail for adultery but later supported by Charlemagne and names him Holy Roman Emperor | Pope Leo III |
| marries his brother's widow and then wants the marriage reversed but Pope refuses, so he replaces the Archbishop of Canterbury | Henry VIII |
| Signed by Parliament which stated that King was the head of the church but no real change in theology | Act of Supremacy |
| He claimed that everyone was subject to him and needed him for salvation | Pope Boniface VIII |
| French King who did not like the papal bull issued by Boniface VIII so he arrested him | King Phillip IV |
| Nonbelievers who wrote about Jesus Christ | Tacitus, Pliny, and Suetonius |
| Popular Jewish Roman historian who wrote that Jesus was a wise man condemned by Pilate | Josephus |
| Intertestamental books not found in the Protestant Bible, but give another source of backing up Biblical events | Apocrypha |
| one chosen and sent on a mission with the full authority of him who has sent him | Apostle |
| Letters | Epistle |
| one who shares the Gospel | Evangelist |
| doctrine of principles of faith and morals | Dogma |
| a group of people branching off from the source | Sect |
| Leaders of the church starting in the 2nd Century | Bishops/Elders |
| Person the same as bishop but serving under them | Deacon |
| why someone can be known as a real historical figure | Historicity |
| to damn a country and withhold the church from them | Interdict |
| Pope who fought with Henry IV and threatened to excommunicate Henry | Pope Gregory VII |
| system where church leaders are elected by secular authorities | Lay Investiture |
| Pope who defeated Phillip II of France and King John by power of interdict | Pope Innocent III |
| declaration by Boniface that all rulers and people were subject to him to be saved | Unam Sanctum |
| Writer who defended the faith | Apologist |
| Writer who attacked heresies | Polemicist |
| Statements of faith. combat heresies and distinguish between believers and unbelievers | Creed |
| Sacrament of the Altar belief that bread and wine CHANGE into body and blood | Transubstantiation |
| Doctrine that individual salvation is achieved through human will and divine grace | Synergism |
| heresy that we are similar to God because we were created in his image. Elevates humans to god-like powers | Little gods |
| heresy that the more faith you have, the better chance of receiving what you want | Prosperity Gospel |
| heresy that Jesus will return when the church takes over all offices in government | Dominionism |
| heresy where once youre saved, you can't fall away from God | Once Saved, Always Saved |
| heresy that God already chose who's going to heaven or hell before the beginning of time | Predestination |
| heresy that everybody goes to heaven no matter what | Universalism |
| heresy that changes the Bible's stories to make them sound more logical | Higher Criticism |
| heresy that God used evolution to create the world over millions of years | Theistic Evolution |
| heresy that a certain prayer would help God hear us more | Prayer of Jabez |
| church offices go to the highest bidder | Simony |
| belief that praying to saints is equal to praying to God | Cult of the Saints |
| Worship of Mary | Mariolatry |
| holy objects | Relics |
| holy images | Icons |
| belief of a place before heaven where you go to purge your sins | Purgatory |
| spend money to save people from purgatory... ultimate church fundraiser | Indulgences |
| man's attempt to leave the world's impurities and become piety focused on salvation (in the world but not of the world) | Monasticism |
| Luther found that God makes us righteous through Jesus rather than God proving his own righteousness in his punishment of sinners | Great Discovery |
| you don't need to pay anything for grace, but it is a gift from God | Cheap Grace |
| extreme self denial of material goods | Asceticism |
| Jewish converts who believed only needed Law, Jesus was only a human, and didn't believe Paul's writings | Ebionism |
| Pagan converts who believed the world was created by a second god (Jehovah), Jesus was a ghost, hated O.T./Jews, and only elite could obtain salvation | Gnosticism |
| Followers of Mani who believed Asceticism, sex/body is evil, and all material goods are bad | Manichaeism |
| Followers of Donatus believed no salvation outside the church, many unpardonable sins | Donatism |
| Followers of Montanus believed Holy Spirit only speaks thru Montanus, stressed Asceticism | Montanism |
| Believed Christ was only a good man adopted by God at baptism, 1 God in 3 forms (no trinity) | Monarchianism |
| man who sold indulgences on the border of Saxony | John Tetzel |
| event where Andreas Carlstadt wants a new church and begins a communistic organization | Riot of 1522 |
| man who caused a riot by forming a communistic organization and trying to abolish the old church for a new one | Andreas Carlstadt |
| man who attacked Luther in his book "Free Will" which claimed man works out salvation with God | Erasmus |
| trial where Luther was ordered to recant all his writings | Diet of Worms |
| this event by Luther starts the Reformation and declares that indulgences are not scriptural | 95 theses |
| early reformer who opposed the Pope's teachings and urged people to stay away from theaters and games | Girolamo Savonarola |
| early reformer who declared salvation=faith in Jesus and Pope=Anti-Christ and bread and wine don't change | John Wycliffe |
| early reformer denied Pope's authority and said no purgatory or saint worship, was burned at the stake | John Hus |
| early reformer who declared no purgatory and preached asceticism | Peter Waldo |
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