Philo to Mohammed

1. _____ was a Jewish Platonist who equated Plato's "Good" (and other Ideas or Universals) with ____.

2. _____ was a Christian Platonist who read the Bible as _________.

3. In Plotinus's neo-Platonic philosophy God, also known as _____, "emanates" power (as the sun emanates light) down through _____, then soul, and finally to _______. On this view the body is ____. (good, bad, unreal)

4. (T/F) Christianity after Plotinus tolerated all forms of free thought.

5. The end of scientific free thinking and the beginning of the Dark Ages are symbolized in the death of pagan philosopher/scientist/mathematician _______, probably ordered by ________.

6. (T/F) The Roman Empire fell, in part, because (unlike Christianity) it was widely thought to be overly superstitious and austere.

7. The Nicene Creed established the ______ as Christian orthodoxy (with the Emperor's support) in 379.

8. ________ (Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine, Gregory) was the only "Father" who was also a  philosopher. He said only the ______ (past, present, future, eternal) truly exists. (T/F) He concluded that reason alone can discover truth.

9._________, condemned to death by Emperor Theodoric, sought happiness and found consolation in _________.

10. ________ said the the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

11. Under Mohammed, Muslim religion rose in the ___ century.