By the end of this chapter you will have encountered the following terms, which will recur during the work. Ensure that you are familiar with them! They have been capitalized as you are likely to encounter them in normal use.
Apollinarianism
ecclesiology
Arianism
ecumenical council
Augustinianism
extra-canonical
canon
incarnation
canonical
patristic
Cappadocian fathers
patrology
Christological
Pelagian
Christology
Pelagianism
creed
soteriology
Donatist
Trinity
Donatism
Trinitarian
ecclesiological
Questions
Locate the following cities or regions on map 1.1 (p. 23): Alexandria; Antioch; Cappadocia; Constantinople; Hippo; Jerusalem; Rome.
Now find the Latin/Greek dividing line on the same map. Latin was the main language west of that line and Greek east of it. Identify the predominant language in each of the cities mentioned in question 1.
Which language would you associate with the following writers: Athanasius; Augustine of Hippo; Origen; Tertullian?
The following movements were of major importance during the patristic period: Arianism; Donatism; Gnosticism; Pelagianism. Associate the controversies centering on each of these movements with one of the following theologians: Athanasius; Augustine of Hippo; Irenaeus of Lyons. (Note that one of these theologians is associated with more than one controversy.)
Why was there relatively little interest in the doctrine of the church in this early period?
Map 1.1 The Roman Empire and the church in the fourth century (note that modern rather than ancient place names are used)
