Christianity & Islam Flashcards
How many Christians in the world today
More than 2 billion
What was the Lingua Franca of Europe North Africa and the Middle East in the first century (Main Language)
Greek
The Gospels make the slightest references to Jesus’s?
Childhood
Which is not an author of the gospels
Paul
Albert Schwietzer argues Jesus teachers placed heavy emphasis on ?
Eschatology
Earliest period of the Church’s history comes from the biblical book known as
The acts of the Apostles
According to Christian tradition which was not true of Paul
He was one of Jesus’s first disciples from Galilee
List of twenty seven book that make up the New Testament
Canon
Who taught that the material world was evil and that Christ therefore could not really have been a physical embodied being
Gnostics
13th century theologian who, like the Jewish theologian Maimonides before him, attempted to synthesize the philosophy of Aristotle and the Bible
Aquinas
The word Qu’ran literally means what
Recitation