c. A.D. 313 – 386

Cyril of Jerusalem

Worth knowing

Bishop of Jerusalem from about A.D. 350. He was driven into exile three times in the arguments that followed Nicaea.
His Catechetical Lectures, given around 350 to people preparing for baptism, are the earliest full course of Christian instruction we have. He taught them the creed clause by clause.
He told his hearers not to believe even him unless he proved what he said from the Scriptures.
He was at the Council of Constantinople in 381.

In Scholar’s Dream, Cyril of Jerusalem has one book

Catechetical LecturesCyril of Jerusalem, CatechesesEcclesiologyBible

Cyril of Jerusalem’s quotes in the game

Every quotation from Cyril of Jerusalem that a player meets in Scholar’s Dream, attached to the move that says it. Or see them as a plain list →

In Scholar’s Dream, books argue with each other, and each thing a book can do in a debate is called a move. Every quote below is spoken by one of those moves. Open “How it works in the game” under a quote to see the move, which books learn it, and which arguments it answers best.

“This summary I wish you both to commit to memory when I recite it… not writing it out on paper, but engraving it by the memory upon your heart, taking care while you rehearse it that no Catechumen chance to overhear the things which have been delivered to you.”
Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lecture 5.12 (trans. Edwin Hamilton Gifford, NPNF² 7, public domain). (trimmed quote)public domain

How it works in the game: the move Handed Over, Line by Line

EcclesiologyArgument · power 56 · 100% accurate

In the gameCyril taught the creed to people who were not allowed to write it down — clause by clause, through Lent, until they could give it back. May convict the foe.

Learned byCatechetical Lectures (Lv 1)

Passages you can read in the game

Longer excerpts the Scriptorium holds on screen for a player to sit and read, word for word.

“This summary I wish you both to commit to memory when I recite it… not writing it out on paper, but engraving it by the memory upon your heart, taking care while you rehearse it that no Catechumen chance to overhear the things which have been delivered to you.”
Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lecture 5.12 (trans. Gifford, NPNF² 7, public domain). The ellipsis is “and to rehearse it with all diligence among yourselves.”

from Catechetical Lectures

“…it extends over all the world, from one end of the earth to the other…”
Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lecture 18.23, the first of four reasons he gives for calling the Church catholic (trans. Gifford, NPNF² 7, public domain).

from Catechetical Lectures

“For this body shall be raised not remaining weak as now; but raised the very same body, though by putting on incorruption it shall be fashioned anew…”
Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lecture 18.18 (trans. Gifford, NPNF² 7, public domain).

from Catechetical Lectures

“We did not really die, we were not really buried, we were not really crucified and raised again; but our imitation was in a figure, and our salvation in reality.”
Cyril of Jerusalem, Mystagogic Catechesis 2.5 (trans. Gifford, NPNF² 7, public domain).

from Catechetical Lectures

Words Cyril of Jerusalem’s books borrow from others

Moves these books can learn whose quotation comes from somebody else. The citation on each one names who actually said it.

“As this broken bread was scattered upon the mountains and being gathered together became one, so may your Church be gathered together from the ends of the earth into your kingdom.”
Didache 9.8–9 (trans. Lightfoot, public domain, lightly modernized).public domain

How it works in the game: the move The Broken Bread

EcclesiologyRestore

In the gameThe oldest eucharistic prayer we have. What was scattered is gathered into one: clears every status effect from your whole team.

Learned byCatechetical Lectures (Lv 9)

“For in him we live, and move, and have our being. As some of your own poets have said.”
Acts 17:28 (WEB) — Paul at the Areopagus, quoting the Athenians’ own poets back to them.

How it works in the game: the move Affirm

Status

In the gamePick the part of the opponent’s case that is true and affirm it. That point can no longer be used against you, and the opponent’s Defend falls sharply. It deals no damage. Affirm something false and you have only agreed with an error.

Learned byCatechetical Lectures (Lv 10)

“The Church, though dispersed … the whole world… has received from the apostles and their disciples this faith… carefully preserves it, as if dwelling in but a single house.”
Irenaeus, Against Heresies 1.10.1–2 (trans. Roberts & Rambaut, ANF 1, public domain; condensed).public domain

How it works in the game: the move Rule of Faith

ChristologyArgument · power 55 · 100% accurate

In the gameOne public tradition, handed down openly in all the churches.

Learned byCatechetical Lectures (Lv 22)

Strong against

×4Gos. Judasa book · why?

And this book is BUILT on that error — it has nowhere left to stand once the rule is read out.

×4Gos. Thomasa book · why?

And this book is BUILT on that error — it has nowhere left to stand once the rule is read out.

×2"That’s Three Gods"an argument · why?

Irenaeus points to the one faith held by the churches everywhere: one God the Father, one Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. The church has always named three and counted one God.

×2Hidden Sparkan argument · why?

Irenaeus shows the church has not grown through sharing secrets but by bearing witness (publicly!) to the truth, from Germany to Egypt.

×2Letter to Floraan argument · why?

Ptolemy wrote it privately, to one woman. Irenaeus’ test is a faith said aloud in every church, for anyone to compare.

×2The Traitor’s Handsan argument · why?

Irenaeus points to the one faith held by all the churches together. The Donatists kept a pure church in one province, but the true church is spread through the whole world.

×2Thirty Aeonsan argument · why?

Irenaeus’ complaint was that no two Valentinian teachers described the aeons the same way. He compared their disagreements against the shared and consistent testimony of the church — the Rule of Faith.

“There are two ways, one of life and one of death, and there is a great difference between the two ways.”
Didache 1.1 (trans. Lightfoot, public domain).public domain

How it works in the game: the move Two Ways

EthicsArgument · power 40 · 100% accurate

In the game"There are two ways…" May convict the foe, lowering its Contend.

Learned byCatechetical Lectures (Lv 26)

Strong against

×2"Haters of Mankind"an argument · why?

The Didache’s way of life begins with loving God and your neighbour, and blessing those who curse you. That is what these supposed haters of mankind were taught.

×2"We Are All Religious"an argument · why?

The Didache says there are two ways, one of life and one of death. Being religious is not enough, because not every way leads to life.

×2"What Good Are You?"an argument · why?

The Didache teaches a way of life: love your neighbour, give to anyone who asks, and care for the poor. A city is better off with people like that than with its games.

“the renewal of creation has been the work of the self-same Word that made it at the beginning. For it will appear not inconsonant for the Father to have wrought its salvation in Him by Whose means He made it.”
Athanasius, On the Incarnation 1.4 (trans. Archibald Robertson, NPNF² 4, public domain).public domain

How it works in the game: the move Word Made Flesh

ChristologyArgument · power 70 · 100% accurate

In the gameFrom Athanasius: only the Creator can recreate.

Learned byCatechetical Lectures (Lv 34)

Strong against

×4One Nature After the Unionan argument · why?

It holds the flesh in place — which is the one thing his union cannot do.

×4The Ugly Broad Ditchan argument · why?

Lessing’s ditch says history can never carry necessary truth. The claim on the table is that it did, once, on purpose — the Word made flesh, a fact about a Tuesday.

×3The Many Faiths, One Realan argument · why?

Hick says the faiths are level roads to one summit. Athanasius answers with a fact and not a view: God himself became a man. That cannot be one road among several, because it is not a road at all. It is an arrival.

×2Changeable by Naturean argument · why?

The Word who became flesh is the Word who made the world. He was truly tempted, but he was never a creature who might have gone the other way.

×2Devout Man Onlyan argument · why?

A devout man can teach, but he cannot remake the world. The Word who made creation became flesh to renew it, and that is why he is worshipped.

×2Exalted Creaturean argument · why?

Athanasius’ answer: only the one who made the world can remake it. A creature, however high, cannot save creation, because it is part of creation.

×2God by Gracean argument · why?

Athanasius says the Word who renews creation is the same Word who made it. That is who the Son is, not a title he was lent.

×2The Thaliaan argument · why?

The Word who became flesh is the Word through whom everything was made, time included. The one who made time did not begin within it.

×2The True Word: On the Godsan argument · why?

The Word who came down is the Word who made the world. Coming into his own creation does not change the Creator.

×2Thirty Aeonsan argument · why?

The thirty levels exist to keep God away from matter. John 1 answers that he came down all of them himself — the Word, made flesh.

Who else was alive

Cyril of Jerusalem against everyone else in the game.

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