UCCP 101
Test 2 Study Guide
1. Virgil
2. The Aeneid- Key Themes and
Significance
3. Homer-Iliad and Odyssey author
4. Greco-Roman culture
5. Alexander the Great- influence.
Hellenism. Koine Greek.
6. Aeneas and the founding of Rome
7. Julius Caesar- History and Legacy and
Death
8. Rubicon
9. Rome’s move from republic to empirereasons why
10. Cicero- On the Laws
11. Seneca and Stoicism- Key Views
12. Caesar Augustus/Octavian- legacy
13. Bread and circuses
14. Pax Romana
15. Lucretius- views on human origins and
religion
16. Epicureanism. The role of the “swerve”
17. Synoptic Gospels vs Gospel of John.
Themes of Mark and John’s portrayal of
Jesus
18. Nero- and great fire. Reference to Rome
in book of Revelation
19. Destruction of Temple by Romanssignificance for Judaism20. Rise of Rabbinic Judaism
21. Jewish Diaspora
22. Significance of Paul and his message to
Gentiles
23. Justification by faith.
24. The emergence of early church structure
25. Gnosticism
26. Irenaeus and Response of Orthodoxy to
Gnosticism
27. Tertullian on the relation of Christianity
to classical culture (Athens and
Jerusalem)
28. Constantine- conversion and legacy
29. Battle of Milvian Bridge
30. Edict of Milan
31. The emergence of Christian orthodoxy
(e.g., Nicene Creed)
32. Augustine and his conversion
33. City of God and the Confessions
34. Augustine versus Pelagius
35. Augustine’s view of human nature and
predestination
36. Original sin according to Augustine
37. Augustine’s view on sinners in the
church
38. Fall of Rome as theological crisis
39. Augustine’s view on using political
power to enforce Christianity
40. What “Islam” means
41. Mohammed- his story and place in Islam
42. Koran. Its view of Christianity.
43. Allah and shirk
44. Shariah
45. Jihad- different meanings
46. Islam and problems with
modernity/West