CTST 200 Study Flashcards

Lifetime of Jesus (4BCE to CE 33) → “facts”

• jewish rabbi, leader of reform movement (religion and political)

• historians agree that he existed, was teacher & leader was crucified

Lifetime of Jesus (4BCE to CE 33) → Christian understanding

Christians belived be was the divinely conceived Son of God and that he performed miracles and rose again, ascended into heaven

The Early Church: Pentecost

• Acts 2:1-4, RSVCE

• they were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in tongues

• so they could continue what Jesus started

Septuagint

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Apocrypha

Means of doubtful origin (deutero-canonica)

• 2nd coming

• valuable, but not written with Gods influence

The Early Church: Worship & Life

• for the 1st decade or two, Christians continued to attend worship at the Jewish temple

• Christians also shared mush of daily life together (including, we read in Acts, their possessions)

• Attitude was one of joy & celebration (not sorrow/sin focus)

• House churches development in the early years (earliest church building predates 256, appears…

The Early Church: Participants

• Jews

• Gentile converts (later)

• some powwerful women

• urban centers—immagrants

• Galations 3:28 RSVCE

  • encourage participants from Jesus

The Early Church: Missions

• Diaspora Judaism (Septuagint)

• fall from Jerusalem

• Peter, John, Paul

• Urban, travel of slaves, merchants, exiles

The Early Church: Leadership?