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324 THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT £cctatia4tttal ytfltorg How may Church History be conveniently divided into seven periods Name the ecclesiastical historians of the fourth fifih and sixth centuries Give an account of the controversies of the second and third centuries Give the dates and some account of the principal persccu- tions before the lime of Constantine Mention some of the heresies and heretics of the third century Give an account of the Catechetic School at Alexandria and its principal teachers Give the dates of the first four General Councils and describe the pi ogress of the controversies connected with them Give an account of the rise and progress of Monachism Which was the great controversy of the eighth century How did it ar and who were the chief persons engaged in it 10 To what writer of the ninth century are certain errors of Romanism to be ascribed and what reception did they meet with at the time and since 11 When and with whom did the Papal residence at Avignon commence and terminate 12 How long did the great Papal schism last and how did the means employed to terminate it tend to the overthrow of Papa power 13 How was it that the doctrines of Wiclif spread so widely in Bohemia and what Reformed Church was constituted before the birth of Luther 14 Give some account of Luther Zwingli and Calvin and of the great Sovereigns of Europe at the beginning of the sixteenth century 15 The successive steps in the progress of the Reformation in England