Exam 3 Worship and Ritual Christianity

Question 1

How is prayer performed and who is the model?

Answer 1

Jesus is the model with various times, places, and postures.

Question 2

How is fasting performed and who is modeled?

Answer 2

Jesus and the Apostles as the example. Enhances prayer and penance on certain days.

Question 3

How many Sacraments are there?

Answer 3

7, influenced by Jewish ritual.

Question 4

What are the most discussed sacraments?

Answer 4

Baptism and Eucharist/Mass

Question 5

What is the significance of baptism?

Answer 5

Contact with water that is key for salvation, replaced jewish circumcision.

Question 6

What is the significance of Eucharist/Mass?

Answer 6

Commemoration of the last supper that replaced passover in Jewish. tradition.

Question 7

What is the transubstantiation?

Answer 7

Bread and wine is truly the body and blood of Christ and creates communion with him.

Question 8

How does orthodox and catholic eucharist and mass differ?

Answer 8

-Orthodox altar covered by screens
-vernacular language in orthodox and latin in catholic
-distribution of wine and bread
-catholics sit, stand, and kneel
-established in the 12th century in the west and 16th in the east

Question 9

What are all seven sacraments?

Question 10

What are the Christian holidays?

Answer 10

Easter
Christmas
Commemoration of Saints

Question 11

Significance and ritual of Easter?

Answer 11

Celebration of the resurrection of Christ on a Sunday between March 22 and April 25.
Prepared by prayer and fasting. Immediately followed by holy week.

Question 12

What is lent?

Answer 12

40 day period prior to easter that follows 2-3 days of fasting.

Question 13

Significance and ritual of Christmas?

Answer 13

Celebration of the birth of Christ. Celebrated by most orthodox on January 6th, as they follow the Julian calendar. Prepared for by Advent (4 sundays before christmas).

Question 14

What are pilgrimages grounded in?

Answer 14

Incarnate divinity in bodies.

Question 15

What did the Santiago de Compostela house?

Answer 15

The Tomb of Apostle James

Question 16

What is the reason for pilgrimage to Rome?

Answer 16

Tomb of Apostle Peter and thousands of martyrs.

Question 17

What is the reason for pilgrimage to Jerusalem?

Answer 17

the Church of the Holy Sepulchre

Question 18

Where might a small scale pilgrimage take place?

Answer 18

Around a church.

Question 19

What two sacraments were retained during the protestant reformation?

Answer 19

1) Baptism
2) Eucharist

Question 20

What did Calvin and Zwingli say about the Eucharist?

Answer 20

it is entirely metaphorical.

Question 21

What was the spiritualist approach?

Answer 21

Rituals are not required.

Question 22

What were two results of the protestant reformation on Christian Worship and Ritual?

Answer 22

1) Scripture reading and interpretation becomes key

2) elimination of latin

Question 23

What was the Syllabus of Errors and what was it in response to?

Answer 23

Promotion of catholic autobiographies, biographies, and spiritual manuals in response to private bible study among protestants.

Question 24

What was the liturgical movement?

Answer 24

A promotion and revival of catholicism; local language allowed following the second Vatican council

Question 25

What was a consequence of missionizing?

Answer 25

The adaptation or ritual.

Question 26

What is syncretism?

Answer 26

Convergence of two traditions.

Question 27

What was “the camp meeting”?

Answer 27

Informal church meetings in frontier America when there was no stationary church building.

Question 28

What are the roots of Pentecostalism?

Answer 28

The first pentecost in Jerusalem.

Question 29

Glossalia vs Xenoglossy?

Answer 29

Glossalia is when the language is know, xenoglossy the language is unknown but communicable.