WOH 3233 / Religion
3938: History of Christianity
Terms Worth
Knowing
These terms will be
updated approximately once a week. They are intended to help
you better understand the material being presented and study for
your exams--but it is your job to get the definitions from lectures
and readings.
Weeks One & Two:
Palestinian Judaism (Pharisees, Saducees, Essenes, Zealots)
Diaspora Judaism
Hellenistic
Syncretism
Imperial Cult
Alexandria
Mystery Religions
Mithraism
eucharist
bishops
monepiscopate
Rome
Apologists
Justin Martyr
Weeks Two-Three:
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Antioch
Alexandria
Rome
Carthage, North Africa
Decius
Diocletian
bishops
martyrs, martyrdom
Perpetua
Marcion, Marcionism
Gnostics, Gnosticism
Gospel of Thomas
Apostolic Fathers
Apologists
Irenaeus of Lyons
canon of Scripture
Rule of Faith
Apostles' Creed
apostolic tradition
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Week Four:
Origen
Stoicism
Neoplatonism
Porphyry
Plotinus
Ascetics, Asceticism
Tertullian
Clement of Alexandria
Emp. Constantine
"New Rome" = Constantinople
Eusebius of Caesarea
Edict of Toleration (311); Edict of Milan (313)
Emp. Theodosius the Great
basilica
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Week Five:
Donatist Controversy
Arianism, Arian Controversy
Council of Nicaea (325)
Nicene Creed
homoousious = of the same
substance
Athanasius
Emp. Constantius II
"caesaropapism"
Julian "the Apostate"
Emp. Theodosius I (379-395)
Antony of Egypt
asceticism
anchoritic monasticism, anchorite
coenobitic monasticism, coenobite
Pachomius
Basil of Caesarea
Cappadocian Fathers [=Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, Gregory
of Nazianzus]
Benedict of Nursia=St. Benedict
Melania
Macrina
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Week Six:
Sassanian Persian Empire
Syriac Christianity
Tatian, Diatessoron
Peshitta
Ephrem the Syrian
Armenia
Georgia
Gregory the Illuminator
Zoroastrianism
Goths
Ulfilas
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Christology
Antioch
Alexandria
Nestorius, Nestorianism
Theotokos [=God bearer]
Cyril of Alexandria
Council of Ephesus (431) [=Third Ecumenical Council]
Council of Chalcedon (451) [=Fourth Ecumenical Council]
Tome of Leo
Formula of Chalcedon
Monophysites
Dyophysites
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Week Seven:
St. Augustine
Ambrose of Milan
Marius Victorinus
City of God
Manichaeism, Manichees
Donatist Controversy
Pelagianism, Pelagian Controversy
Byzantine Empire
Justinian
Justinianic Code
St. Sophia
papacy
petrine supremacy
Pope Gelasius I
Axum
Ezana I (c.320-350)
Frumentius
Nubia
Theodora
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Week Eight
Sassanian Persian Empire
Zoroastrianism
Byzantine Empire
Arab tribes
Muhammad
the Hijra (Hegira), 622
Mecca
Medina
Qu'ran
caliphs
"People of the Book"
dhimmi
John of Damascus (c.650-749)
Patriarch Timothy of Baghdad
silk road
trade routes
Syriac language
Alopen
T'ang dynasty
MIDTERM EXAM
Week
Nine:
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Franks
Clovis
Pope Gregory I [=Gregory the Great]
Augustine of Canterbury
Celtic Christianity
Columba
Iona
Synod of Whitby (663)
St. Boniface
St. Leoba
Week Ten:
patriarchate
Pope Leo I [author of Tome of Leo]
Pope Gelasius I
Frankish-Papal alliance
Pepin
Charlemagne
Aachen
Donation of Constantine
Pope Leo III
Alcuin of York
scriptoria
filioque
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iconoclastic controversies
iconoclasts, iconodules
John of Damascus
Council of Nicaea II (787) [=Seventh Ecumenical Council]
filioque [=and the Son]
Photius, Photian schism
East-West Schism (1054)
Cyril & Methodius
Prince Rastislav of Moravia
Vladimir
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Week Twelve:
cathedral schools
university [universitas]
scholastic method, scholasticism
dialectic
syllogism
Anselm (c.1033-1109)
Peter Abelard (1079-1142)
Cistercians
Bernard of Clairvaux
Mariology
canon law
Gratian's Decretum
papal curia
purgatory
pilgrimage
Campostela, Spain
Pope Innocent III
excommunication
interdict
Fourth Lateran Council (1215)
7 sacraments
transubstantiation
Week
Thirteen:
Mendicant orders (=Friars)
St. Francis, Franciscans
Poor Clares
St. Dominic, Dominicans
anticlericalism
antisacerdotalism
Peter Waldo, Waldensians
Joachim of Fiore
Carthars (=Albigensians)
Inquisition
Week
Fourteen:
Theological
negation
Political and religious toleration
Practical Limitation
Papal Bull
Samuel Ha-Nagid
official vs. popular persecution
exploitation/expulsion
Blood Libel
Host Desecration
Second Crusade
Muslim Spain
Cordoba
Moses Maimonides (1135-1204)
Week Fifteen:
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High Scholasticism
summa, summae
Peter Lombard
Thomas Aquinas
Aristotelian epistemology
Summa Theologiae
Bonaventure
Romanesque
Gothic architecture - Don't
forget to review these images!
Saint-Denis (1144) - first major structure built partly
in Gothic style
Chartres cathedral
Cathedral of Notre Dame
Eve
Mary, Mariology
imago dei = image of God
fabliaux
courtly love
Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)
Beguines, beguinage
Beghards
Hadewijch
vita apostolica = apostolic life
Margery Kempe
te
Week Sixteen
Mongols
Kublai Khan (1215-1294)
Turks
Ilkhan Arghon
Rabban Sawma
catholicus
Yahbh Allaha III
Baghdad
Ethiopia
Solomonic Revival
Kebra Nagast
2 swords
Boniface VIII
Unam Sanctam (1302)
Catherine of Siena
Avignon Papacy [=Babylonian Captivity of the
Church] (1305-1378)
Great Western Schism (1378-1418)
Black Death, Bubonic Plague (1348)
mysticism
Meister Eckhart
John Wycliffe
John Hus(s)