| A | B |
|---|
| APOSTATES | people who renounced their faith |
| BISHOPS | comes from greek word for superrvisor, lead the community in worship |
| Constantine | claimed a great military victory in the name of Christ, the Son of God |
| Nicene Creed | states that Jesus is one with God |
| Diocletian | persecuted Christians and had their churches and sacred texts destroyed |
| Christian canon finalized date | By the end of the fourth century, the 27 books. |
| Gnostics | held that because the body is evil, Jesus could not have been human |
| gospel | means good news |
| four gospels | were finally written down because of the need to preserve the first eyewitness account of Jesus and and could be spread more widely. |
| heresy | a belief that is contrary to an essential belief of Christianity |
| house churches | Where early Christians met to celebrate the Eucharist. |
| Arian | The Arians held that Jesus was subordinate to God. |
| Justin | early apologist and martyr who bridged the ideas of philosophy and religion |
| martyr | one who dies for their faith (the word means witness) |
| Edict of Milan | Constantine ordered the this which made Christianity legal |
| Council of Nicea | the event which declared that Arianism was a heresy because it was inconsistent with the church's traditional |
| Pacificism | The belief that it is wrong to kill any person, even in war. |
| how apostates got back in | An apostates' performance of public penance were the roots of what eventually came to be known as the sacrament of reconciliation. |
| Bishop of Rome important | After the fall of Jerusalem, the church in Rome and the bishop of Rome became central because Peter lived and died there; Peter was traditionally seen as the head of the church;Rome was the imperial capital |
| Theodosius | made paganism illegal and made Christianity the official religion of the empire. |
