12. What was the nature of Julian's persecution? 13. A short history of the rise of Monachism. 14. The state of Christianity in Ireland during the sixth century. 15. What were love-feasts in the early Church? 16. When were they discontinued ? Why? 17. Have they ever been renewed in modern times ? 18. To what heresies do the following words refer, as applied to the union of the two natures in Jesus Christ? ἀσυγχύτως, ἀτρέπτως, ἀδιαιρέτως, άχω ρίστως. 19. When were they first used ? 1. To what heresy does the following passage refer? او Εἴ τις κυριακὴν ἢ σάββατον νηστεύει πλὴν ἑνὸς σαββάτου, οὗτος χριστοκτόνος Epist. ad Phil. ἐστί. 2. What are understood by Tithes? 1. A short life of Clemens Alexandrinus. 2. What bishop of Rome first attempted to exercise authority over other Churches? 3. Mention some circumstances which tended to increase that authority. 4. What effect had the rise of literature on the Reformation ? 5. Who was Lord Cobham, and how is he connected with the history of the Church of England ? 6. What are meant by Nonjurors in English ecclesiastical history? 7. Give some account of the discipline of the Church during the first century. 8. Had the Alexandrian Platonism a favourable or unfavourable influence upon early Christianity? 9. Give an account of the Nestorians. 10. Can they, strictly speaking, be called heretics? 11. To what sect did Tertullian lean? 12. A short account of the Pelagian heresy. Who was the champion against this heresy? 13. Quote those passages of Scripture which are said to have been written in special condemnation of the Gnostics. 14. What became of Gnosticism in the end? 15. What effect had Gnosticism upon the public mind in reference to Christianity? 1. State briefly the controversy between Hooker and Travers. 2. Who wrote the "Christian Letter" against Hooker? 3. Who were the principal defenders of Episcopacy during the seventeenth century? 4. What is meant by the terms " Canterbury and Geneva," as employed in an ecclesiastical sense and in juxta-position? What was the origin of this application? 5. What effect had the Great Rebellion, and the Interregnum which followed, upon the religious character of the English? 6. Who were the Non-conformists, and why were they so called? 1. Who was the first heretic that denied the divinity of Jesus Christ? 2. The principal sects of Gnostics. 3. The date of the great Council of Nice. 4. The object of that Council. 5. What facts bearing upon the question of the Pope's supremacy, are to be derived from that Council? 6. What language was spoken by the Jews at the time of our Saviour's advent? 7. An account of the Apollinarians. 8. An account of the Donatists and Novatianists. 9. Are any of the ancient heresies repeated in modern times under new names? 10. State some of them. 11. Who were the original Anabaptists, and when did they take their rise? 12. Give an account of the contests concerning Easter in the early Christian Church. 13. Did the Church of England originally practise the Eastern or Western method of keeping Easter? 14. What were the chief causes which led to the separation of the Eastern and Western Churches ? 15. Who were the Iconoclasts ? 16. A short history of the Reformation in Scotland. 1. A short account of Socinus, and the doctrines which he promulgated. 2. The character of Origen and of his theology. 3. Why was Episcopacy preserved in England, and lost in the foreign reformed Churches at the Reformation? 1. Were any synods or councils held by the Jews, before the coming of Jesus Christ? D 3 |