REL 231 - History of the Christian Church
Study Topics and Assignments
Week 2 - The Young Church
AD 100 - 300
Textbook Readings and Course Notes
- Chapter 2, pages 44-71
- Course Notes for Week 2
InterNet Resources for this assignment
- InterNet Links for Week 2
- Useful articles can be found by using GoodSearch
- You may use the Wikipedia to give a lead to other sources and material, but you should not use it as a main source - Do not quote from it
This Week's Assignment : Twenty Questions
Write a paragraph on each of the following topics - for some of these you may have to consult sources other than the textbook
- Justin Martyr
- The catechumenate
- Hippolytus
- Clement of Alexandria
- Tertullian
- Cyril of Jerusalem
- Ignatius of Antioch
- The Didache
- The conduct of Worship services during the second and third centuries
- Private devotions of Christians during the second and third centuries
- The Catacombs of Rome
- The problems of being a Christian in the Roman Empire during the second and third centuries
- Origen of Alexandria
- The Decian and Diocletian Persecutions
- Montanus and the Montanists
- The Ebionites
- Gnosticism
- Irenaeus of Lyons
- The "closing" (final decisions) on the canon of the New Testament
- The Codex Sinaiaticus and the Codex Vaticanus
Remember to cite your sources
Use MSWord or a text editor such as Notepad to prepare and save your work, then submit it as one document to Turnitin via the Blackboard link
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