Key Terms And Definitions Yr9 Winter Exams

Question 1

Christianity

Answer 1

Largest world faith which follows the teachers of Jesus Christ

Question 2

Messiah

Answer 2

Messiah is the ‘Hebrew’ word meaning ‘saviour’ or ‘rescuer’

Question 3

Resurrection

Answer 3

Being brought back to life after dying

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Ascension

Answer 4

Jesus physically rising up to heaven

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Trinity

Answer 5

The belief that God is three as well as one-father,son and Holy Spirit

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Denomination

Answer 6

A group within Christianity

Question 7

Evangelism

Answer 7

Spreading the Christian message in order to convert people

Question 8

Early church

Answer 8

Christians in the first 3 centuries

Question 9

Disciple

Answer 9

The 12 main followers of Jesus who helped spread his message

Question 10

Missionaries

Answer 10

People who spread the Christian faith, mainly travel to do so

Question 11

Persecution

Answer 11

Discrimination against a group of people who share an aspect of identity

Question 12

Gentiles

Answer 12

A name given to non-Jews in the Bible

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Martyred

Answer 13

The word ‘martyr’ comes from the Greek word meaning ‘witness’. It is when a person is killed for their beliefs

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Scapegoat

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A term used when deliberately placing the blame of an action on person/group of people

Question 15

Confessional

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A booth where catholics ask a priest to grant them Gods forgiveness for their sins. (Absorbed of your sins)

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Eucharist

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The practice of eating bread and wine during a church service to remember Jesus’ death and resurrection. Derived from the Greek work ‘eucharista’ to mean ‘thanksgiving’

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Excommunicated

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Officially kicked out of the Catholic Church

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Indulgences

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Certificates bought from the Catholic Church so they could spend less time in purgatory

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Protestantism

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A form of Christianity that began in the 16th century as a protest against the Catholic Church

Question 20

Reformation

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A 16th century movement to reform the church resulting in the division of the western church into Catholicism and Protestantism. Was led by Martin Luther

Question 21

Penance

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Prayer for some action to show that one is sorry for committing a sin

Question 22

Transubstantiation

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The belief that bread and wine becomes the actual body and blood of Jesus during the Eucharist

Question 23

Heresy

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Beliefs that are opposed to the core beliefs of the church

Question 24

Religious scriptures

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Religious texts, such as the Bible