Christian Denominations Flashcards

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Practiced:
• Sacraments
• Fasting
• Worship Service

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Coptic Christianity / Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria

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derived from Greek term meaning Egyptian

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Coptic Christianity / Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria

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Oldest branches of Christianity, claiming to be founded by one of the 72 Apostles sent forth by Jesus Christ

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Coptic Christianity / Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria

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4
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The _______ Split from other Christians around the Mediterranean, in a disagreement over THE TRUE NATURE OF JESUS CHRIST

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Coptic Christianity / Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria

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Steeped in ritual and tradition and places a heavy emphasis on Asceticism, or denying the self.

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Coptic Christianity / Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria

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severe self-discipline and avoidance of all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons

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Ascetism

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Protestant Christians who believe on the manifestations of the Holy Spirit are alive

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Pentecostalism

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may also be described as “Charismatics”

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Pentecostalism

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Pentecostals believe in the baptism in the Holy Spirit as evidenced by ________ -

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Speaking In Tongues

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Worship: motional, lively expressions of worship with great spontaneity.

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Pentecostalism

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term defining the religious beliefs and practices of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

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Mormonism

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12
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The _______ is the central to Mormonism

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savior

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13
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The mormon’s prophet is?

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Joseph Smith (typical white guy name)

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14
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They see themselves as a worldwide brotherhood that transcend national boundaries and national and ethnic loyalties

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Jehovah’s Witnesses

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15
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The slave class is entrusted with (Jehovah’s Witness) _____________________________

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caring for Jesus’ earthly interests and with providing timely spiritual food

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16
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(Jehovah’s Witness) The bible was____________

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inspired by God and historically accurate

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17
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They believe that God the Father is “the only true God”. Jesus Christ is his firstborn son, is inferior to God, and was created by God. The Holy Spirit is not a person; it is God’s active force

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Jehovah’s Witness

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Jesus did not die on the cross but on SINGLE STAKE - The belief is based on the Greek words used in the Bible for the Cross which literally translates as “stake” and “tree”

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Jehovah’s Witness

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They believe that when a person dies, their existence completely stops

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Jehovah’s Witness

20
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In the baptist movement everyone is ______

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equal

21
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Baptists are ______ ; each church is self-governing and self-supporting, made up of members, each with a role to play

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Congregational

22
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FIFTH LARGEST Christian Church in the world

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Baptist Christianity

23
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A SECT of christianity that believes, among other things, that worship services should be conducted on the “seventeenth day” (The Sabbath) instead on Sunday

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Seventh-day Adventist Church

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_______ , a false prophet who predicted Jesus would return in either 1843 or 1844.

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William Miller

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When Miller’s prediction of Christ’s second coming failed to come to pass, the _______ disbanded in dismay; this event became known as __________

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Millerite

“The Great Disappointment”

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When a person dies they believe that they remain unconscious until they are resurrected

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Seventh-day Adventist Church

27
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________; “the law of God, the law of good…” (Rudimental Divine Science, p. 1)

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Mark Baker Eddy

28
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As adherents of truth, they take the inspired word of the Bible as our _________ (Christian Science)

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sufficient guide to eternal life

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Jesus atonement as the evidence of divine, efficacious love, unfolding man’s unity with God through Christ Jesus the Way-shower; and we acknowledge that man is saved through Christ through truth, life and love as demonstrated by the Galilean prophet in healing the sick and overcoming sin and death
WHICH CHURCH BELIEVES THAT TINATAMAD NA AKO ^^^^

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Christian Science

30
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They solemnly promise to watch, and pray for that mind to be in us which was also in Christ Jesus; to do unto others as we would have them do unto us; and to be merciful, just and pure.

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Christian Science

31
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largest unified religious organization in the world

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Roman Catholicism

32
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collection of at least 14 self governing churches, united theologically yet without a centralized institutional structure

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Eastern Orthodoxy

33
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95 theses on a church in Wittenburg, questioning the validity of indulgences, widely seen as the start of the Reformation

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Lutheranism

34
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made by ______ who protested against “indulgences”, affirmed that God could grant forgiveness alone.

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Martin Luther

35
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teaches absolute sovereignty of God and total depravity (original sin) of humanity

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Calvinism

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_______ , a Prostestant thinker who developed the “reform” of Christianity begun by Martin Luther,

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John Calvin

37
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or Episcopalianism, ordain women as priests and some permit the ordination of women to Bishops

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Anglicanism

38
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Accounts for highly methodological habits of a group of students who met at Oxford, regular communion and fasting and abstinence from amusement and luxuries

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Methodism

39
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Direct experience of God though Christ is available to all people, inner light of God exist in every man

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Society of Friends

40
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_______ was sentenced to Prison and mocked as “quaker”

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George Fox