Christian Trad: Women's Voices Unit 1

John the Baptist

Jesus’ cousin

Immaculate Conception

Mary being conceived without original sin

Covenant

a deal with God

What happened in 70 CE

The temple was destroyed; Jews had to solidify their belief in Judaism or convert to Christianity

Who is Saul/Paul?

First Christian-Jew; solidified Christianity as it’s own practice/religion rather than a branch of Judaism; opened up Christianity to gentiles

True or False: The Old Testament is used by both Jews and Christians

TRUE

True or False: The New Testament is used by both Jews and Christians

FALSE

Gospels

memories of Jesus

Messiah

anointed one; political not religious savior

Disciples

followers of teachers

Apostles

Sent ones used to act out God’s mission

Pharisees

practice written/oral torah; believed in the Messiah + afterlife; individual prayer; assembly in synagogues; HATES romans/helinization

Sadducees

In charge of temple maintenance + worship; stressed written torah; PRO romans/helinization

Essenes

Thought of Pharisees and Sadducees as corrupting influences; moved to remote locations and practiced asceticism

Ascetism

abstention to achieve a higher spiritual/moral state

Which Gospels are synoptic (feed off each other)

Matthew, Mark, Luke

House of Jacob

Jews

Incarnation

God taking on human flesh and human nature (second person of the trinity)

Ascension

Jesus’ body ascends into heaven after 40 days

Holy Spirit

God (3rd person of the trinity)

Pentacost

coming of the Holy Spirit; granted the apostles ability to spread God’s mission to everyone through multiple languages

Fellowship

Community Support

True or False: female deacons are allowed dependent on local bishops

TRUE

Ammas

a group of women who moved between city and desert to practice more traditional Christianity (practical wisdom with NO systematic teaching)

Baptism in water

traditional baptism

Baptism in Spirit

the spirit desired baptism, but circumstances prevented it

Baptism in blood

A martyr’s death counted as baptism if they had not already been previously

Martyr

a person who chooses to live openly as a Christian knowing they may suffer death

Thecla

called a Martyr but not executed

What were Christian Martyr’s guilty of?

Practicing unauthorized religion that went against roman religion (Gods) and “magic”

What was Perpetua’s vision

Narrow bronze ladder to heaven

What made Perpetua’s death so unique

She guided the blade to her own throataP

Patristics

time period of the early church; Many of Christianity’s central doctrines; conceptual frameworks established

Edict of Milan

the legality of Christianity in the Roman Empire

Edict of Thessalonia

making Christianity the official state religion of Rome

Ecumenical

church representatives from throughout the empire

Person of Christ

Christ’s human and divine natures

Work of Christ

What Jesus did with his life; salvific actions

Sin

broken relationship between you (or a group) and God, other people, self, and creation

Propirlation

satisfying God

Expiation

cleansing humans from sin

Scapegoat

tradition to transfer sins to goat and send it away

Redemption

“buying” our freedom from Sin; God owns us

Sacrifice

Jesus dying for us on the cross

reconcilliation;adoption

becoming a child of God + benefits

Noble death

Martyrs (connects with Jesus’ death)

Clergy

men who have been ordained

Emperor Constantine

converted Rome to Christianity

Saint Helena

Emperor Constantine’s mother

Laity (lay people)

men and women who are not ordained

Popular Religion

Practices Christians do to draw closer to God; may or may not be theologically sound; optional (ex: praying to saints)

Pilgrimage

travel to a holy site

Vita Apostolica

“apostolic life” dedicated to spreading the gospel and service to the community

Renewal Movement

effort aimed at spiritual/ecclesial revival

Monastic Rule

the handbook for monks and nuns

Monastic Orders

different types of monks or nuns

Charism

Spiritual gift given by God to build up the church

Canons

Urban setting; community of men who provide ministerial service for the city (take vows)

Monks

rural setting; men who live in a monastery with typically no contact with the secular world (take vows)

Friars

Men who preach, teach, and pray in multiple cities (take vows)

Nuns

women; cloistered in many settings; take vows

Monastery/Convent

building where the religious community lives

Vows

obedience; poverty;chastity

Benedictines

major monastic order; work prayer community; monks

Cistercians

stricter form of benedictines; remote, austere, more times of silence monks

Franciscans

mobile men, preachers, friars

Dominicans

mobile, mendicant, preachers, friars

1st order of Franciscans

men; lead by St. Francis

2nd Order

female; lead by Clare of Assisi

Elizabeth of Hungary

lay women who was inspired by Francis’ teachings; gave to poor; personal vows of celibacy and obedience; people healed at her gravesite; became a st. 4 years post death

Third Order

lay people who live a modified form of St. Francis’ rule

Beguines and Beatas

lay women who live within a community and informally practice modified versions of Franciscan rule; eventually forced to become benedictine or Franciscan

Mysticism

Special consciousness of the presence of God that exceeds description and results in transformation in the subject receiving it

Exceptionalism

spiritual uniqueness of the individual

Ordinary Mysticism

Anyone who has had a spiritual encounter a

cataphatic

aphermative language (God is good)

apophatic

negative language (God is in-finite).

Julian of Norwich

anchorite who received revelations of the Trinity and Christ’s Crucifixion (in English)

Anchorite

mystic who provides spiritual council for pilgrims and esteemed by their community (3 windows) (cell is the womb for rebirth for the community)

Short Text

What was just experienced

Long Text

experience with meaning once proven by a priest

Catherine of Sienna

lay Dominican who received the stigmata (only she could see it); female doctor of the church

Scholasticism

rigorous use of logic to reconcile Christian theology

General Revelation

God’s self disclosure that is available to all

Unequivocal Revelation

open to more than one interpretationumS

Rabbinic Judaism

after temple destruction in 70 CE

Anti-Judiasm

religious prosecution

Anti-Semetism

ethnical/racial prosecution against Jews

Deicide

A charge against Jews for the death of Christ

Blood Libel

Jews facing child murder accusations

Rachel

Jewish woman who killed her own children so they would not be forced to convert to Christianity

First Crusade

multiple attempted assaults on the Jewish community led by Count Emmico