Christian Definitions

Question 1

What is agape?

Answer 1

Christian love

Question 2

What is Anglican?

Answer 2

A worldwide denomination that includes the Church of England

Question 3

What is ascension?

Answer 3

Jesus being taken up to heaven on the 40th day after Easter

Question 4

What is atonement?

Answer 4

The action of making amends for wrong doing

Question 5

What is baptism?

Answer 5

A ceremony to welcome a person into the Christian religion

Question 6

What is crucifixion?

Answer 6

A capital punishment used by the romans which nail a person to a cross to kill them

Question 7

What denomination?

Answer 7

The name for the different branches of the Christian church

Question 8

What is fundamentalist?

Answer 8

Christians who take the Bible literally

Question 9

What is gospel?

Answer 9

The names of the books about the life of Jesus in the bible : Matthew, Mark, Luke and John

Question 10

What is grace?

Answer 10

Unconditional love that god shows to people who don’t deserve it

Question 11

What is historic truth?

Answer 11

Facts about historical events, usually from evidence

Question 12

What incarnation?

Answer 12

God in human form, god made flesh

Question 13

What is imminence?

Answer 13

The idea that god is in the world and knowable

Question 14

What is inconsistent triad?

Answer 14

Concept developed by JL Mackie to show that god cannot be both all loving and all powerful due to the existence of evil

Question 15

What irenaeus?

Answer 15

Stated the god created the best of all possible worlds to enable humans to develop empathy and love for each other by learning from suffering

Question 16

What is Lord’s Prayer?

Answer 16

The prayer Jesus taught his disciples to show them how pray

Question 17

What is messiah?

Answer 17

The anointed one who is seen as the saviour by Christians

Question 18

What are miracles?

Answer 18

Events that have no scientific explanation for them happening; these were performed by Jesus and described in the Gospels

Question 19

What is mission?

Answer 19

An organised effort to spread the Christian message

Question 20

What is moral evil?

Answer 20

Evil that is caused by human action

Question 21

What is natural evil?

Answer 21

Evil that is caused by nature but directly impacts on humanity

Question 22

What is nicene creed?

Answer 22

A statement of belief used in Christian services

Question 23

What is omnibenevolent?

Answer 23

The idea that god is all-loving

Question 24

What is omniscient?

Answer 24

The idea that god is all-knowing

Question 25

What is omnipotent?

Answer 25

The idea that god is all-powerful

Question 26

What is omnipresent?

Answer 26

The idea that god is present everywhere

Question 27

What is oneness of god?

Answer 27

The idea that god is ‘one’

Question 28

What is orthodox?

Answer 28

A branch of the Christian church, largely found in Greece and Russia

Question 29

What is penitence?

Answer 29

To feel regret for someone’s sins

Question 30

What is Protestant?

Answer 30

A branch of the Christian church that broke away from the Roman Catholic Church

Question 31

What is reconciliation?

Answer 31

The process of making people in conflict friendly again

Question 32

What is religious truth?

Answer 32

Knowledge gained through interpretation of religious texts, rather than taking them literally

Question 33

What is resurrection?

Answer 33

The physical return of Jesus on the third day after he died

Question 34

What is Roman Catholic?

Answer 34

The largest Christian group, based in Rome with the pope as its leader

Question 35

What is salvation?

Answer 35

The saving of the soul from sin

Question 36

What is Sanhedrin?

Answer 36

The ruling council of Jews in Israel

Question 37

What is secular?

Answer 37

Relating to worldly as opposed to religious things

Question 38

What is St Augustine?

Answer 38

Stated that god created the best of all possible worlds but it was human sin and misuse of free will that led to the fall and the existence of evil

Question 39

What is St Paul?

Answer 39

A man who taught the teachings of Jesus - originally Saul of Tarsus before his conversion

Question 40

What is transcendence?

Answer 40

The idea that god is beyond the world and unknowable

Question 41

What is trinity?

Answer 41

The belief in God the father, God the son and God the Holy Spirit