theology behiund christianity and being married and devoted to christ and the church 

City of God 

idea of heaven/perfection

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

Constantinople

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

council of chalcedon     

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

coucnil of nicaea 

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

donatists 

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

double predestination 

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

edict of milan 

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

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

Essesnes 

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

homoosuius 

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

justin 

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 

logos 

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

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

manicheism 

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

marcion 

believed 2 gods operated the universe

1.  redeemer of humanity and flesh

2.  god of the gospel and mercy.

was excommunicated from the church 

monophysites 

1 nature of jesus, a combo of man and divinity 

nestorius 

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

pachomius 

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

perpetual virginity 

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

plotinus 

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 

Pope Leo I 

wrote a tome which clarified the roman position on christ

(2 natures, fully both human and divine)

council of chalcedon agreed 

rabbi 

teacher, great one 

theotokos 

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 

Valentinus 

supreme god and other divine being.

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