Christianity long answer

Question 1

Two ways Christians use the Bible

Answer 1

• Using the Hebrew Bible to point to Jesus
• Using “scripture in ritual contexts
• Lectionary details the schedule of readings
  Each Sunday:
• Old Testament
• Psalm
• Epistle
• Gospel

Question 2

“Multi-lane highway” metaphor

Answer 2

• Judaism and Christianity split gradually over time
• Separated in different ways in different places
• Not a continuous roadway, branches off at different places

Question 3

Differences between the different “Old Testaments”

Answer 3

• Include different books: Protestant excludes the apocrypha, Orthodox includes some books from pseudopigrapha
• Set up for different purposes
• Differs in order and content

Question 4

Importance of memory/remembering during the Christian meal

Answer 4

• Remember the salvation that Christ gave to Christianity

- Eat the bread and wine = body and blood, to remember his sacrifice

Question 5

How do Christians sanctify daily life?

Answer 5

Sacraments–each one indifferent ways

Word of God

Question 6

Reason for monastic communities

Answer 6

• Show self denial
• Renounce worldly pursuits to serve God
• Men and women went out to the desert
• Then became communities of monks under an abbot

Question 7

Relationship of God, Jesus, and Holy Spirit

Answer 7

• There is one God, but who is three persons: The father, the son, and the Holy Spirit
• Each person of this “trinity” is fully divine, eternal, and distinct
• NOT three gods
• Caused a lot of divisions and rivalry
• Orthodox Christian Monotheism proclaimed the existence of a triune God who had become a human being
• The Trinity was explained as three distinct persons (hypostases) in one essence (ousia)
• Christ was defined as one person (hypostasis) in two natures (physis)

Question 8

Kingdom of God’s Influence on the Christian political movement

Answer 8

• Kingdom of God vs. Kingdom of Satan, any kingdom divided agains itself will be ruined
• Right Evangelical movement–opposes big government because it’s like “God’s Kingdom” against “Earth’s Kingdom”

Question 9

Two goals of the Reformation

Answer 9

• Search of religious freedom
• Destroying the clerical hierarchy
• Translate scripture