Episode 98 Quiz

Welcome to the quiz for Episode 98: The Life and Works of Saint Jerome. See what you can recall about one of the most energetic and controversial of the Christian church fathers by clicking “START” below!

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Jerome (and Augustine) sparred with their contemporary Pelagius. What was the subject of their contention?

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Jerome spent some time in relative isolation during his early adulthood in imitation of Christian hermits whose stories he’d read. Near which modern day city did Jerome’s period as a hermit take place?

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In the 380s, the city of Rome had a number of independently run Christian centers operated by aristocrats like Jerome’s friend Paula and her daughter Eustochium. These operations could be best described as:

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Jerome got in trouble in the 390s because he had written extensively, and favorably, on this earlier theologian – a thinker who had been pinpointed as heretical by Jerome’s generation of theologians.

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One of Jerome’s longer works is his a volume on the subject of Christian ____________, modeled after a similar work by his predecessor Eusebius.

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This ruling passed in 380 CE and was the most important event in Christian history for Jerome’s generation.

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Reading Athanasius’ Life of Antony inspired Jerome to envision an ideal Christianity that was more __________ than what was being practiced at a general level during his adulthood.

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Under what circumstances did Jerome depart from Rome in 385, after establishing himself as a successful house minister there?

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Reading Athanasius’ Life of Antony inspired Jerome to write three novellas that have survived. These novellas are about:

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Before Jerome, Latin language translations of the Old Testament were translated from:

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Jerome lived from:

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Jerome espoused a doctrine about Mary that was a non-biblical invention of the patristic period. This doctrine was:

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Jerome sparred with a rival theologian named ___________ on the subject of chastity and virginity.

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This modern practice in Catholicism can be traced back to Jerome’s generation and the two that bookended it.

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In which of the following regions of the Roman Empire was Jerome born?

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