Christian women traditions

Immaculate conception

Marys conception, she was conceived without original sin

Deacon

An ordained office in many christian traditions

What does religious art express

Ideas and not historical facts

What is theology

An ongoing conversation with God

When we refer to reason as a source..

We dont mean the capacity to think logically.

Orthodox typical elements

Domes, colorful, incence, icons, symbols. Pantokrator- Picture of jusus at the front.

Catholic church elements

Crucifix, altar, lecturn, baptisimal front, stoup (holy water bowl)

Sacraments, communal conciousness, intellectual rigor, standard liturgy.

Magestarium- Official teaching at the Catholic church.

Protestant church elements

No saints, cross without Jesus, simple design, plain.

Pentecostalism church elements

-Open, variety, flames/doves, stage, preacher, band.

-Joyful, testimony, Grassroot churches

Covenent

A deal with God

How did the Romans treat the Jews

They were oppressive

Characteristics of Jesus’s message

Peace, love, justice

What happened after to Judaism after the temple was destroyed in 70?

Jewish Dispora- Dispersion of the Jewish people from their ancestral homeland in the Land of Israel

Who is Saul/Paul?

A Roman missionary who spread Christianity by sending letters to the medeterranian.

Why did Christianity spread?

The dispersial, common language (latin), it became legalized.

Old Testament (TaNaKh)

Used by both Jews & Christians

New Testament

Used by Christians only, communal memories about Jesus and the formation of the Christian church.

Who was John the Baptist?

Cousin of Jesus, announces the coming of Jesus as the messiah.

Messiah

The anointed one.

Gentile

Non-jew

Judea

Roman kingdom, small and large

Disciples

Followers of Jesus

Pharisees

Witten and oral torah, believed in afterlife and messiah, individual prayer, assembly in synagouge, will for the basis of Rabbinic Judaism. Anti Roman and Hellenization

Sadducees

In charge of temple maintenance and worship, Pro-Roman Hellenization

Essenes

Thought that the Saudducees and Pharisees were corrupting influences.

Synoptic Gospels (First three books of the new testament)

Mark, Matthew, and Luke

Non-synoptic gospel

John

Incarnation

God taking on human flesh and human nature

Who killed Jesus

The Romans

What is resurrection?

The restoration of the whole person to a new transformed way of being.

Fellowship

Community support

Pauls missionary journey 50-60 CE

13 total letters, only 7 were written by Paul (undisputed).

6 disputed letters (Thelossians and Colossians).

There were many women leaders in the letters.

Who was Junia

First woman apostle

What are Deacons

Ordained office in many Christian traditions. Duties can include baptisms, preaching, and pastoral care.

3 Qualities of a Martyr

-Christian faith

-Free choice

-Executed by authority

What were Christians guilty for?

Treason, dissent from worship of state Gods, confessors of an unauthorized religion, Magic (Eucharist, baptism).

Execution of Criminals

By beasts and used role playing to dehumanize them

Patristics

Time period of the early church from 100 to 500 CE

Constantine

Emperor who legalized christianity in the Roman empire

Edict of Milian

Legalization of christianity in the Roman empire

Edict of Thessalonica

Christianity was made the official religion in the Roman empire

Eucmenical

“whole house” church representatives

Arians

Group of early christians who thought Jesus was a creature and not God.

Ecclesial

“Church”

Orthodox

Within the acceptable range of belief

Heresy

Outside the acceptable range of belief

Monotheism

Religion with one God

Who was St. Helena

Constantines mother

Pilgrim to palestine

Found the true cross

Established churches and monasteries in Egypt

Christiology

Who and what is Jesus

Person of Christ

Embodied life, human, and divine nature.

Works of Christ

Actions and what salvation is

Nicea

Divine nature of Jesus (325 CE)

Constantinople

Rejection of Arianism (381 CE)

Ephesus

Relationship between Christs human and divine nature

Chalcedon

Affirming the fully divine and human nature (451 CE)

Arianism

Jesus is not God and is a creature.

Apollinarism

Jesus had a human body but a divine mind

Niceno

Jesus is both God and human

Nestorianism

Divine and human nature are separated

Monophysite

Divine and human nature are mixed and cannot be separated

Chalcedonian

Jesus is fully God and fully human

Atonement theories

Doctrine of salvation

Humans and God are separated due to sin

Theories about how humans and God are brought together

Working definition of sin

Broken relationships between you and God

Propitation

Appeasing God. Humans make some sort of sacrifice to please God.

Expitation

Cleansing humans from sin.

Penal substitution

All humans are guilty of sin and should be punished.

Christ took human sin away by dying on the cross

Humans are declared innocent

Clergy

Men who have been ordained

Laity

Men and women who have not been ordained

Vita apostolica

Life dedicated to spreading the gospel.

Monostatic order

The different types of monks

Charism

The particular purpose of the monostatic order

Canons

Men who provide ministerial service for the city.

Friars

Men who teach, pray, and preach in multiple cities

Abbot

Leader of a monastary/covenant