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christianity Flashcards

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apocrypha

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certain books from the septuagint are what the apocrypha is made up of, it is in some bibles between the old and new testament. often used for roman catholic or Orthodox churches

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kerygma

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word used in the old testament meaning to preach
-jesus was the christ that was resurected (this influenced the kerygma)
-• A Jesus movement which claimed that Jesus was the Christ, came down to earth and was ressureted for the salvation of everyone
• Jesus was the Messiah promised in Hebrew scripture

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gospel

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“good news”, the news of redemption that the hebrew prophets had promised.

  • accounts of jesus’ life attributed to his disciples mark, mathew, luke , and john
  • The word of God
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synoptic (in relation to christianity)

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the gospels of mathew, mark, luke, and john are called synoptic (seen together) becasue there is so much overlap, and the same meaning told in different ways

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q source

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this is the hypothetical written collection of jesus’ sayings (Q is the “common” material found in the gospels of mathew and luke)

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eschatology

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the study of the end of things, so like death, heaven, the second coming, the end of the world, judgment day, the apocalypse

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messiah

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basically the anointed one. the liberator of a certain group of people. the jews think that he is still to come in the future, but the Christians believe that jesus was the messiah

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gnosticism

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a worldview that influenced christianity

  • gave priority to reason and spirit over physical
  • seperate view of god the creator, and god the supreme being
  • this contradicted the orthodoxy of the trinity
  • one of the gnostic gospels is the gospel of mary
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paul of tarsus

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  • at first he hated christians, but then he converted
  • he went to persecute christians, but then he had an God moment that made him a strong christian
  • makes jesus a jewish hero
  • he forged a christian identity in which there was no circumcision, or dietary laws, or festivals
  • he didnt really speak well to jews, cause they didnt accept jesus. he said that the jews just couldnt understand it, he did a verbal attack of jewish law
  • reconfigured what abraham was seen as, he said that abraham was good cause he had faith, not obedience
  • said that jesus is the new and only sacrifice
  • the pauline epistles were all written by paul (as letters)
  • he taught what a christian life should look like
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hellenism

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a hellenized jew is a jew that is very involved in greek practice
-hellenization was the spread of greek culture to other people

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deacon

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they collected charity and distributed alms

  • the third order of male ministry in the early church
  • was earlier than the bishop
  • the work supported that of the bishop’s, but took the form of service to the poor
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presbyter

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  • the elders
  • the episcopi gave some power (the power to administer sacraments) to people appointed for their special gifts, these were the presbyters
  • over time this role evolved to become priest
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bishop

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aka: overseer, episcopus, biskop
- the supervising priest?
- people that the 12 disciples appointed as local leaders, that would oversee things
- they preached the word, preside at sacraments, administer discipline
- they used to be all called pope, but then the bishop of rome was like, no im the only bishop now hahahahahahahahaah!!!

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baptism

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the ritual of initiation into the christian faith

  • one of the 2 key sacraments of christianity
  • it usually involves either dunking into water, or pouring water over the head, and “i baptize you in the name of the father, the son, and the holy spirit”
  • early christians believed that baptism: washes away sin, gives us a new identity in christ, and innitiates us into a new community (the body of christ)
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eucharist

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the sacramental meal of bread and wine that recalls jesus’ last meal before crucifixion

  • aka mass, or communion
  • this, along with baptism, are the two sacraments that all christians perform
  • this is a ritual act of remembering jesus life and death
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roman persecution

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the end of the persecution was the beginning of christian orthodoxy.
romans persecute christians because:
-they dont fit in
-considered themselves in the world but not of it
-worship was exclusive and secretive
-they wanted christians to recant
-they didnt do sacrifices 
-they didnt participate in roman life
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edict of milan

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313ce agreement to treat christians in the roman empire well, constantine had come in at about this time, and had agreed to this edict

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asceticism

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removing yourrself from the pleasures of the world to focus on religion

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cannonization

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a cannon is a standard, therefore, to canonize something is to make a standard
-a scriptural standard is a list of books that is aknowledged as the scriptrue, the scriptural canon is 27 books that are the new testament canon
-something that is canonical is something that is allowed as part of the christian standard
-there is a list of acknowledged saints, which is a canon
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marcion of sinope 2nd c. CE

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said that the true god was the father of christ, not the god of the old testament

  • he was excommunicated
  • was similar to the gnostics in the ways that he said that jesus was a dicine spirit that appeared in human form, but did not have a true physical body
  • different in the ways that he thought that God was in no part of the world and had no connection to it
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atonement

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christs restoration of humanity to a right relationship with god, variously interpreted as divine victory over demonic power, satisfaction of divine justice, or demonstration of a moral example
- usually it is the pardoning of the original sin, through the death of jesus christ

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irenaeus

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a second century bishop who wrote about the compiling of the main teachings of the bishops that were made into the rules of faith

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ecumenical council

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a confrence in which dignitaries and such get together and settle matters of church practice and doctrine

  • the first 3 ecumenical councils are about right belief and christiology and the trinity, they are:
    • the council at nicaea (325)- son of the same substance as the father
    • … at Constantinople (381)- the full humanity of the son
    • … at ephesus (431)- mary is the mother of God, not just the physical jesus, but the divine too
    • … at chalcedon (451)- jesus is human and divine at the same time
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trinity

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the father, the son, and the holy ghost

-God exists in 3 “persons”, or manifestations

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Christology

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a theory of who jesus was, by nature and in substance

-the church spent a lot of time trying to figure out what this was, and what they agreed that this was

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creed

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brief formal statements of doctrinal belief, it is a statement of shared beliefs
-the councils all settled disputes and came up with creeds that were what they had agreed that Christians believed in in the end

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heretic

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someone who commits heresy (a belief that is very different than the established beliefs, the term is sometimes used to refer to violations of religious teachings)
-someone who rejects doctrines prescribed by the church

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original sin

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the idea that human beings are sinful by nature because of our earliest ancestors, adam and eve, because they disobeyed god by eating the fruit

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saints

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people recognized by the church for their faith and virtue

  • most saints are believed to have worked at least one miracle
  • there was a canonical list of saints
  • there was a criteria for new saints
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doctrine

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a belief or set of beliefs taught by the church or group

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pope

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head of the roman catholic church

  • at one point there were many popes but then one took over and said that no one else could have that title
  • the leader of the catholic church
  • has final say in doctrine
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papal theory of governance

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the church and state should work together and consult each other
“the catholic church was consulted upon with political matters

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purgatory

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it is reached after death, people here undergo purification, then get to go to heaven
-a kind of holding area for the departed in the course of their passage from death to the next existance

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babylonian captivity of the papacy, or the avignon papacy

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when clement 5 was pope, he moved the papal court to avignon

  • the papal administration was influenced a lot by the french
  • this is the avignon period
  • when clement died the court moved back, but there was a second line of popes that were formed at avignon, but it didnt last long
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indulgence

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they were considered releases for time in purgatory

  • the church sold these to people
  • some people thought that this was unfair, so it was one thing that let to the protestant reformation
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sacrament

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a ritual action seen as signifying divine grace

  • the most common are baptism or eucharist
  • catholic and Anglican recognize a few others
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martin luther

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said to be the father of the protestant reformation

  • feared that he would not be worthy of salvation
  • he had the “tower experience” and then believed that people are only justified by faith
  • posted the 95 theses against indulgences on the door of a church in witteburg
  • was excommunicated
  • his doctrine was that you could only be saved through faith and grace alone, and that all people have direct access to God through the power of the holy spirit
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augustine

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wrote the city of god, which showed the relationship between the sacred and the secular

  • bishop of hippo regius in north america
  • his writings influenced theological tradition of north america
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jan hus

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an early christian reformer
-theorist of the ecclesiastical reformation
-before luther and zlingli
-key predecessor of the protestant movement
-said that the church is made of some predestined believers and that everyone else is hopeless
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divine right of kings

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everyone has to follow the king without question and the king is expected to follow Gods word and only God, and to keep order, the king has no clerical duties

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transubstantiation

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the view held by many roman catholics that bread and wine during eucharist are the literal blood and body of christ

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sola fide

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basically means that you can be justified by faith alone (luther believed this) distinguishes most protestant denominations from others

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sola scriptura

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the protestant christian doctrine that the bible is the supreme authority in all matters of doctrine and practice

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protestant principle

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the idea that god and god alone is to be worshiped, nothing is equal to god, nothing is god except god

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john calvin

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T-total depravity (totally vitiates a person’s soul)
U- unconditional election (only some people are chosen to be saved)
L- limited atonement (only takes away sin for the people that were meant to be saved)
I- irresistible grace (if you are gonna be saved you don’t have a choice)
P-perseverance of the saints (saints will always be saints)

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john wesley

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-thought that the church was boring
-wanted devotional reform of the church
-wanted to rejuvinate the church
-these people were called methodists
-primary catalyst of the first great awakening
-rejected the thought of predestination that calvin had
-thought that anyone could be saved by grace alone, but that once they were they needed to keep being more visibly holy
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Arminianism

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created by jacob arminius

  • he challenged the teaching of predestination
  • believed that gods sovereignty was compatible with free will
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predestination

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the idea that God chooses who will be saved, and you cant change that.
-the notion that god anticipates or controls human actions and foreordains every individual to either salvation or damnation

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treaty of westphalia

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this was something that was signed at the end of the 30yr war between the protestants and the catholics
-the treaties did not restore peace, but they did create a basis for national self determination
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enlightenment

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the enlightenment started when nicolaus copernicus said that the earth revolved around the sun.
-this sparked loosened ties between the church and the state
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pietism

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a movement that affected lutherans, and calvenists, they sought for expressing spontaneous devotion accompanied with a confident feeling of forgiveness and acceptance, it influenced the wesleyan movement, and contributed to methodism

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evangelical christianity

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  • there is emphasis on the necessity of personal conversion
  • don’t take scripture as literally as the fundamentalists
  • people are supposed to “feel” the spirit
  • they believe in lay leadership
  • they believe in personal sanctification, which makes them work for a better society
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natural theology

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proving the existance of God through reason and ordinary experience of nature, rather than scripture or religious experiences

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fundamentalism

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there are the 5 points of fundamentalists: the divinity of jesus, the virgin birth, the substitutionary theory of atonement, and the physical resurrection and second coming of christ
-they are very literal and take the bible very literally
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scopes trial

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john scopes went to court in 1925 cause he taught evolution in a classroom, he did this on purpose to bring publicity to it, it was basically a trial of christians and non christians

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conservative Protestantism h

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b

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glossolalia

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speaking in tongues, this is common in pentacostals, these people feel filled with the spirit so they start speaking in a special language, the ability to interpret such speech is considered a spiritual gift

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mysticism

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the pursuit of intensely felt spiritual union with the divine

  • emphasizes the certainty of profound personal experience
  • these people are sure of God because they have experienced a moment of awareness
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orthodoxy

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literally means the straight way. means correct belief, in any church it is the accepted doctrine, emphasizes correct belief, rituals, and ritualism.

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orthopraxy

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correct conduct, both ethical and lithurgical, as opposed to faith and grace

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religion of resistance

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religion of the status quo

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a version that in exchange for the material support of the dominant class propigate a religiosity taht is sensitive to that dominant class

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religious maximalism

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engaging in religiosity in all aspects of life

RLGN 1320 pt.2 (2 decks)

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