Catholic Christianity Final Exam Overview

Chief Priest

This person led the religious services and conducted animal sacrifices held at the Temple in Jerusalem.

High Priest

This person led the religious services and conducted animal sacrifices held at the Temple in Jerusalem. The High Priest was appointed by the Jewish king with the approval of the Roman Governor

Pharisees

This group of Jews was well known for its strict adherence to all laws of the Old Testament. The Pharisees believed in the resurrection of the dead.

Sadducces

This group of Jews consisted largely of the elite, wealthy class; many were chief priests. They did not believe in the resurrection of the dead.

Scribes

These people were scholars and teachers of the Jewish Law and Scripture. They were associated with both the chief priests and the Pharisees.

Zealots

These people believed that God wanted Israel to be an independent nation again, free from foreign rule. They preached a violent overthrow of the Roman occupiers.

Essenes

Group that wrote the dead sea scrolls; promoting the transformation in the temple, saying that the Templ had become corrupt

Procurator (Governor)

Role of the Pointues Pilate

Samaritans

Outcast in Judaism, living in the northern part of the Jerusalem.

Centurions

These men were commanders in the Roman army. A centurion commanded a group of eighty to one hundred soldiers and took his orders from a higher officer or the Roman governor.

Episcopacy

The position or office of a bishop

Parousia

The second coming of Christ as judge of all the living and the dead, at the end of time, when the Kingdom of God will be fulfilled.

Evangelizers

Those who proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ through Words and Witness

Kerygma

This refers to the initial Gospel proclamation designed to introduce a person to Christ and to appeal for conversion.

Ascension

The "going up" into Heaven of the Risen Christ forty days after his Resurrection.

Pentecost

Jewish feast that occurred fifty days after the resurrection

Cult

A small religious group that is not part of a larger and more accepted religion and that has beliefs regarded by many as extreme or dangerous

Synagogue

the building where a Jewish assembly or congregation meets for religious worship and instruction

Presbyter

A synonym for elder in the Acts of the Apostles and an alternative word for priest today.

Apocalypse

Greek word meaning "to reveal", pointing towards the end of the world when God is "revealed".