Christianity Flashcards
Map
- Jerusalem
- Constantinophel
- Rome
- US
- Germany
Subdivisions
Catholics - 1.25 billion
Protestant - 800 million
eastern orthodox - 275 million
other - 250 million
Palestian/Israel
baptised in the river Jordan
Torah
old testament
Demographics number of christians
2.2 billion - 31,5% of world population
Christianity
Began 2000 years ago in palestine
-Jesus of nazareth is the christ
Messiah and the son of god
crucified
The messiah
- Anointed one (king)
- Savior
- Line of David
- Deliverer (Palestian Jesus and Roman oppression)
A new vision of Monotheism
The doctrine of the trinity 1 essence 3 persons
the father, son and holy spirit.
A new vision of the torah
Law
Torah old testament
Original sin: all humanity is inheretly separated from God, and thus there is a sinfulness to human nature
- Garden of Eden
- Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac
- Shavoust - the pentacost (the day that made Jesus aware of the holy spirit.
Passover, the last supper
As a proof text for Jesus coming - Sacrificed for the sins of all
New testament
written after jesus death
by his followers
during the first century: not cannonized until the 4th century
Four gospels ( good words ) about the birth, life, teaching, acts, death and resurrection of Jesus
Synoptic: Mark, Mathew, Luke
John- Divinity (logos - revelation of God in Human form )
Scriptural Sources
The Christian Bible
- The book of Acts of the apostles - earliest history of the developing church
- Epistels (letters) of Paul and other evangelists adressed to the churces they founded and led throughout the Mediterrean
-The Book of Revelation – a vision of the future, the
ultimate destiny of mankind, the culmination of
God’s plan for humanity
Who was Jesus?
Born, bred, lived, and died a Jew in first
century Roman occupied Palestine
Around age 30, took on a mission of
preaching & teaching
Had a following of 12 primary disciples
Seen as a political threat by Roman and
Jewish authorities, is put to death through
crucifixion (a Roman punishment)