Christianity Midterm Flashcards
(29 cards)
Abbot
- Means “father”
- Title given to the head of a monastery
Adoptionism
Jesus is human and God adopted him as son at his baptism or resurrection or ascension
Anamnesis
- The remembering of things from a supposed previous existence (not amnesia)
- -> Christians remember during the Eucharist “Do this in memory of me”
Apocalypse
- A disclosure of hidden knowledge
- Commonly used in reference to any prophetic revelation
Apocrypha
- Books that are included in the subtuigent that are not included in the Hebrew Bible
- Unknown authorship
Apollinarianism
-Jesus had a human body and soul, but a divine mind (space suit Jesus)
Apostle
- Primary disciples of Jesus
- Teachers of gospel message of Jesus
Apostle Creed
- Earliest written Creed, statement of Christian belief
- 180 CE–> Not written by Apostles
- Used by many denominations for liturgical and catechetical purposes
Arianism
- Arius was a presbyter in Alexandria
-“Father is superior to Son, Spirit; all three combined=one whole God
-Opposed to the total divinity of Christ (heteroousia)
“If the Father begat the Son, he that was begotten had a beginning of existence: and from this it is evident, that there was a time when the Son was not. It therefore necessarily follows, that the Son had his substance from nothing.
-Council of Nicea gathered to discuss his ideas —> Result: Nicene Creed
Council of Constantinople—Added to the Nicene Creed
*Heretic
Asceticism
-Lifestyle characterized by abstinence from worldly pleasures, often for the purpose of pursuing spiritual goals
Atonment
- How human beings can be reconciled with God
- Pardoning of original sin through divine Jesus
Baptism
- A Christian sacrament, symbolic of spiritual regeneration
- A rite of initiation, performed with water, through which the individual is cleansed from sin and admitted into the church
- Death/life; burial/resurrection; old life/ new life
- Adoption, birth, naming, clothing, belonging, participation, citizenship, protection, illumination
Beatitudes
- Comes from Latin meaning “happiness”
- Eight blessings in the Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew
- “Blessed are the poor in spirit for….”
Canon
- The books of the Bible officially recognized by the church
- The calendar of saints accepted by the Roman Catholic Church
- A church law or code of laws
- A priest serving in the bishop’s church
- “Old Testament” + New Testament
Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John
Acts of the Apostles
Letters (Epistles)
Pauline Letters
General Letters
Apocalypse of John (Revelation) p. 24 in Riches to know the dates!
Catholic
1) Literal meaning, “universal”
2) Pertaining to the church led by the pope at Rome, also known as the Roman Catholic Church
Chastity
- No sex = no bodies; denial of the material world in its most absolute form
- Self-control: Greco-Roman ideals of virtue
- Denial of passion = avoidance of animal nature = proximity to God
- There is no male and female
Chrismation
- Sometimes called Confirmation
- holy mystery by which a baptized person is granted the gift of the Holy Spirit through anointing with oil
Difference between Old Testament and Hebrew Bible
The Christian Old Testament is not identical with the Hebrew Bible. It difffers in order and in content
Protestant. Orthodox, and Catholic Old Testaments are also different from one another. The Protestant Old Testament excludes the Apocrypha. The Orthodox Old Testament includes some books from the Pseudepigrapha
Christmas
Celebration of the birth of Jesus
Advent= weeks preceding Christmas
Christmas Day= fixed (Dec 25 or Jan 6/7)
Liturgically less significant than Easter
12 days later= Epiphany (celebration of the visitation of the magi)
Codex
- A Latin term designating a book composed of leaves bound together on one side
- This form of the book emerged in the first century CE and rapidly replaced the scroll as the way of recording knowledge
- Rabbinic Judaism retained the scroll as the preferred form for copying books of the Torah
Confession
- Sacrament in the Catholic Church
- 3 Acts: Contrition, disclosure of sins, penance
Council of Nicea
- Council of Christian bishops convened in Nicaea in Bithynia by the Roman Emperor Constantine I
- Accomplishments: Settlement of the Christological issue of the nature of the Son of God and his relationship to God the Father, and the construction of the first part of the Creed of Nicaea
Disciple
- Follower/student of Jesus
Docetism
- Jesus only appeared to have a human body– he was fully divine
- Heresy, remained popular among gnostic Christians
