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Religion 1350
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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 1
05/07/2009

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Most horrible persecutor of Christians. "The Great Persecution"
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Diocletian
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First roman ruler to persecute christians. Died in 64 - suicide
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Nero
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Brings official end to Christian persecution.
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Constantine
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Makes Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire
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Theodosius 1
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Issued by Constantine - ends Christian persecution
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Edict of Milan
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leader of the church in rome who did not want to readmit the lapsed
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Novation
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lead to the Donatist Controversy in Africa - no room for clergy with serious sin
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Donatus
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Allegorical Interpretation, Incredible literary output, wrote the first systematic theology
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Origen
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A moral rigorist (opposed incorporating greek and latin philosophy), philosophy was useless
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Tertullian
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First monk?
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Anthony
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his rule became the foundation of western monasticism
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Benedict
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Eastern Bishops who favored "homoiousios" over "homoousios" when dealing with the Trinity. One Ousia and three hypostisae
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Cappodocian Fathers
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This council was called to settle the nature of Christ
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Council of Chalcedon
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wrote "Confessions" and "The City of God". Spiritual Journey of a life. He had conflicts with sensual gratifications
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Augustine
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The first Pope
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Leo 1
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The first Pope
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Leo 1
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Written by the first pope; claims jesus is one person in 3 natures
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Leo's Tome
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This document referenced Matthew 18; because Peter was in Rome, so should be they Papacy
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Petrine Doctrine
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A warlord who gave choices between baptism and death. Dubbed emperor in 800 and started the Holy Roman Empire
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Charlemange
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Greatest contribution was the Church of Hagia Sophia - "Solomon, I have surpassed thee!"
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Emperor Justinian
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Violent conflict over the use of icons of Christ, Virgin Mary, and the Saints
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Iconoclast Controversy
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This pope met the challenge of defending Rome in the absence of capable secular leaders
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Gregory the Great
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means "and from the son". Added by Western Christianity to "The spirit, which proceedeth from the father"
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"Filioque"
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Most Prominent figure in Caroligngian Renaissance
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Alvin of York
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Acted as a middle man between the Pope and Emperors like Pepin the Great; contributed to building the relationships between them
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Boniface
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Conflict with the Apex being the struggle between Gregory VII and Henry IV. Henry appoints bishops after being told not to.
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Lay Investiture Controversy
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A renaissance of the 11th and 12th century that applied reason to revelation/faith
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Scholasticism
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The Dominican "dumb ox" who wrote "Summa Theologiae". Has several proofs for the existence of God
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Thomas Aquinas
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Most important pope and the first to use the title "Vicar of Christ"
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Innocent III
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This was the reason for Martin Luther's original 95 theses
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Tetzel's sale of Indulgences
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Luther is called here to recant his works. He says, "Here I stand so help me God!" and walks out
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Diet of Worms
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This proclaimed toleration of other religion. "His region, his religion"
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Peace of Augsburg
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This group saw no faith involved in infant baptism. They owned the Schleitheim Confession
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Anabaptists
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This reformer followed Augustine's ideas of predestination to their logical ends.
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John Calvin
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This act declared Henry VIII the head of the English Church
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Act of Supremacy (1534)
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This was Elizabeth's way of appealing to everyone's religious views
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The Via Media
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This meeting brought clarification and protection to Catholic Theology, not reform
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Council of Trent (1545)
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This event brought peace to the Huguenots
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Edict of Nantes (1598)
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The religion of the enlightenment. God sets up the universe to run, then steps back and watches. A very natural view of God.
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Deism
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This person founded Rhode Island and was critical of Puritans of their treatment of Indians
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Roger Williams
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Person believed that until a person had had a direct religious experience with God, he or she could not know if they were saved
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Anne Hutchison
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Attempted to explain Christianity in a modern way
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Toland and Tindal
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This person wanted to move away from reason and move toward Romanticism during the Enlightenment
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Kant
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This group is biblicists, conversionists, activists, and hold Jesus' death as a central event
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Evangelicalism
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America's first star, and first to publicize his arrivals
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George Whitefield
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America's greatest Theologian
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Jonathan Edwards
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Movement that emphasized personal experience, morality, life of christ (not death), and optimism.
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Protestant Liberalism
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Protestant Liberal who emphasized the fatherhood and brotherhood of God and Humanity
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Friedrich Schliermarcher
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Leader of the Neo-orthodoxy movement. "Sin must be real".
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Karl Barth
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Famous preacher who preached like a lawyer. Claimed the right tools were available to us. Famous for his "bench" where he invited people.
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Charles G. Finney
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The greatest American revivalist
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Billy Graham
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Meeting in which the doctrine of Papal Infaliability was discussed
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Vatican 1
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Author who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
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Harriet BEecher Stowe
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Important historian who writes his theology of the social gospel
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Walter Rauschenbusch
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Diverse religious response to industrialization in the late 19th and 20th c. protected against social injustices
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Social Gospel
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Group within evangelicals; angry people who get together and fight. Claim that they are losing the fundamentals of christian faith
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Fundamentalism
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was the most prestigious seminary in the country
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Princeton
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The Three Johns who helped remove the Catholic prejudice
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Pope, Kennedy, and John Courtney Murray
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Movement a distinct even of sanctification, outward evidence of a christian life, physical healing, and women in ministry
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Holiness Movement
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Leader in Holiness Movement who believed in a quick, instant sanctification
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Phoebe Palmer
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Movement that looks to Acts II as the mark of authentic Christianity. Speaking in tongues
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Pentecostalism
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Wrote The Cost of Discipleship and attempted to assassinate Hitler. Despises "Cheap Grace"
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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