Terms 1

Question 1

Messiah

Answer 1

(Hebrew) Anointed One

Question 2

Christ

Answer 2

(Greek) Anointed One

Question 3

Ascetics

Answer 3

A person who practices severe self-discipline and abstention

Question 4

Dessert Fathers

Answer 4

Early Christian hermits, ascetics, and monks who lived mainly in the Scetes desert of Egypt beginning around the third century AD

Question 5

Amen

Answer 5

(Hebrew) “it is so” or “so be it”

Question 6

Altruism

Answer 6

the belief in or practice of disinterested and selfless concern for the well-being of others.

Question 7

Affluent

Answer 7

having a great deal of money; wealthy.

Question 8

ecumenical

Answer 8

Representing a number of different Christian churches.

Question 9

Mysticism

Answer 9

Belief that union with or absorption into the Deity or the absolute, or the spiritual apprehension of knowledge inaccessible to the intellect, may be attained through contemplation and self-surrender.

Question 10

Perennial

Answer 10

Lasting or existing for a long or apparently infinite time; enduring or continually recurring.