HIS104      TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD        LECTURE KEY TERMS

Lecture 5        Day 3.   July 25, 325 AD  The First Council of Nicaea Concludes
                                      State and Christianity in Western Civilization

Roman Tetrarchy

Sol Invictus

Emperor Diocletian

Diocletianic Persecution
(Great Christian Persecution)

Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus Augustus
Constantine I
("Constantine the Great" "St. Constantine")
 27 February 272 – 22 May 337

Maxentius

Battle of the Milvian Bridge
October 312

Eusebius The Life of Constantine (c. 337)

in hoc signo vinces  (Εν Τούτῳ Νίκα "En toutō níka")

chi and rho (ΧΡ)  "ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ" = Christ 
the monogram ☧

labarum (vexillum)

 pontifex maximus

 Edict of Milan

Licinius

Susan Wise Bauer,
The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade

dies Solis decree (March 7, 321)

Natalis Invicti

Apocrypha

Ebionites

Docetists

Gnostics

Arians
Arius the Bishop of Alexandria

 

 		Council of Nicaea 325

Nicene Creed
(Trinitarian Christianity - Nicene Christianity)

heresy

Council of Trent in 1546

Vulgate Bible

Donation of Constantine


Selected Biblical Aprocrypha
(for reference -- not key lecture terms)

Jewish-Christian Gospels
Gospel of the Ebionites
Gospel of the Hebrews
Gospel of the Nazarenes

Passion Gospels
Gospel of Peter
Gospel of Nicodemus (also called the "Acts of Pilate")
Gospel of Bartholomew
Questions of Bartholomew
Resurrection of Jesus Christ (according to Bartholomew)

Dialogues with Jesus Gospels
Apocryphon of James (also called the "Secret Book of James")
Book of Thomas the Contender
Dialogue of the Saviour
Gospel of Judas (also called the "Gospel of Judas Iscariot")
Gospel of Mary (also called the "Gospel of Mary Magdalene")
Gospel of Philip
Greek Gospel of the Egyptians (distinct from the Coptic Gospel of the Egyptians)
The Sophia of Jesus Christ

General Gospels concerning Jesus
Gospel of Truth
Gnostic Apocalypse of Peter (distinct from the Apocalypse of Peter)
Pistis Sophia
Second Treatise of the Great Seth

Sethian Gospel concerning Jesus
Apocryphon of John (also called the "Secret Gospel of John")
Coptic Gospel of the Egyptians (distinct from the Greek Gospel of the Egyptians)
Coptic Apocalypse of Paul (distinct from the Apocalypse of Paul)
Trimorphic Protennoia