WR Ch 11 - Christianity

A characteristic of the Roman Empire in the 1st century CE is

The Roman Empire combined elements of Greek and Roman philosophy and religion

In the first century CE much of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East were under the rule of the

The Romans

This is true of Eastern Christians between the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of Modern European Nations

most of the early councils that established Christian doctrine were held in the East

Opposition to Jesus and the responsibility of his death came mainly from within the body of Jewish leadership, especially from the party of the

Pharisees

Blesses are those who mourn, for they will be comforted" is a line from

The beatitudes

To whom did Jesus promise to give the church on the rock along with the keys to heaven to?

Simon Peter

Jesus was born during the rule of the roman emperor

augustus caesar

Who is sometimes called a second father of Christianity?

Paul

The communion meal, probably modeled around the Jewish seder meal is also called

Eucharist

In the early days of Christianity, which city exercised leadership over the church?

Jerusalem

What are the earliest writings of the New Testament?

letters

Little to nothing is known about what part of Jesus's life?

young adulthood/teen years

Our knowledge of the earliest period of Church history come from the biblical book

Acts of the Apostles

Which of the following authored one of the Gospels found in the New testament?

Luke

In 1378 the avignon cardinas elected this new pope who restored the papacy to Rome.

Urban VI

What was jesus's first public act

Baptism by John the Baptist

Which of the following was a result of the Council of Trent in 1545

a reaffirmation of the traditional seven sacraments

Jesus was arrested by temple guards in the Garden of Gethsemane and tried on charges of

Blasphemy

The first Roman emperor to support Christianity was

Constantine

The most revolutionary council since the Council of trent was john XXIII's

Second vatican council

During the late 300s C.E., Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire while all other religions were suppressed under the rule of

Theodosius

This thirteenth-century theologian attempted to Christianize the philosophy of Aristotle

Thomas Aquinas

What was one problem facing the catholic church in the twenty-first century?

difficulty finding priests to serve the lay communities

The New testamen mentions several kinds of leaders in the early church; one such leader's title means "shepherd" in greek.

bishop

Which is one of the reasons for the reformation in the sixteenth century

corruption and abuse of authority in the priesthood

Which of the following was a major impetus for Luther to post his ninety-five theses on the door of the castle church in wittenberg?

The sale of indulgences

Which of the following is true of the gospels

The exact details of Jesus's last few months differ among the four Gospels.

This contemporary of Luther was influenced byhis writings and led the reform movement in Switzerland

Ulrich Zwingli

The exact length of Jesus's public ministry

is not known

This reformation-era group that attempted to discard all of the elements of the Catholic Church that were not expressly found in the New Testament, such as infant baptism.

Anabaptism

This type of Christianity that appeals to Americans who live in complex and often alienating environments.

Evangelicalism

As a teaching device, Jesus used a short, easily recognized story about very human characters and events called a

parable

To remember the wise men who came to Bethlehem to find the infant Jesus, Western Christianity celebrates

Epiphany