Christian Flashcards
20th Century Christianity focused on what concerns of oppressed groups?
Liberation Theologies
Christian synoptic gospels refer to:
Matthew Mark Luke
Martin Luther in 1517:
Posted 95 Theses of indulgences
Central debate of Council of Nicaea?
Whether Jesus was same/similar but different substance as God (The Father)
Eucharist commemorate
Last meal that Jesus shared with his disciples.
What was decided at the 2nd council of Nicaea in 787?
Icons were permissible & would be tolerated as long as the faithful didn’t actually worship them.
Black elk was famous for:
Indigenous wisdom & Christian belief were complementary.
Important question that emerged within Christian community during Paul evangelism?
Whether or not gentiles needed to observe the Jewish law.
How did Christian monks who chose cenobitic paths live?
In a community with others committed to religious life.
True Jesus of Nazareth
Was an itinerant teacher in prophetic tradition of his day.
Term “anchorite” refers to in early Christianity:
A hermit devoted to silence, prayer, and sometimes mortification of flesh.
Renewal movement that gave rise to Christian Pentecostalism was led by what American Evangelist?
Charles Parham
How many distinct denominational groups are in Christianity?
25,000
what is heresy
Belief/Practice contrary to accepted doctrine of Church.
What is not required of medieval monks/nuns:
Ordination
In early Christianity, worldview that separated idea of God the creator from God the supreme being, positing that the creator was a lower being or “demi-urge”?
Gnosticism
What is Mysticism?
Specific tradition that emphasizes the certainty of profound personal experience
World glossolalia refers to?
speaking in tongues
Year that’s final break between Churches of Constantinople & Rome?
1054
How many books are in the Christian New Testament?
27
Under which Roman Emperor was Christianity first practiced freely?
Constantine
The Christian response to apartheid in South Africa was?
There were Christians on both sides of the debate
Christian Denomination grew out of Christian Anabaptist movement?
Mennonites
Event that began Jesus’s public ministry?
HIS BAPTISM
Largest Christian Denomination in the world?
Roman Catholic
Christian reformer believed only God could bring salvation and even by creation, he predestined some people to salvation?
John Calvin
Defining Roman Catholic religious order of Counter-Reformation
Jesuits
In Christianity, kind of heavenly senate/honor society and can serve as powerful allies in quest for spiritual benefit?
Archbishops
Scholasticism in Christian thought was:
Effort to reconcile philosophy of ancient Greek/Rome within Christian theology.
How did Christian deists envision God?
A divine clockmaker
Foundational office in early Christianity
episcopacy
Sacrament in all Christian denominations?
baptism
Year the crusades began?
1095
Formed in 1985 to study Jesus sayings and discuss/debate whether it originated with Jesus or was attributed to him later
Jesus Seminar
What two lesser offices opened to women in early Christian Church?
Widow and Deaconess
Which was not a change made to Roman Catholicism by 2nd vatican council?
Allowing women to be ordained priests
English word “icon” comes from Greek word that means
Image
When Christian New Testament became a standard canon
Shortly after Christianity became the established religion of the Roman empire
Pauline Epistles are:
Series of letters written by Apostle Paul
