Christianity test

External sources (i.e., outside of the Gospels) that mention Jesus

-Josephus, Tacitus

Christianity is an example of blank monotheism, versus the blank

monotheism of Judaism and Islam

-soft, strict

Christians beleive in the blank, which has three members

-holy trinity (father, son, holy spirit)

Is Christianity the biggest religion globally?

-yes(32%)

three major branches of Christianity

-Catholicism, Protestantism, Eastern Orthodoxy

Smallest branch of Christianity globally

-Eastern orthodoxy

Biggest branch of Christianity in the US

-Protestanitsm

Problem christianity seeks to solve

-sin

Christianitys solution to that problem

-salvation

Protestants believe in salvation by blank, wheras Catholics and Orthodox Christians believe in salvation by blank and blank

-fath, good deeds/works, faith

the first Gospel to be written

-Mark

earliest list of books considered part of the New Testament canon (ca. 190)

-Muratorian Fragment

Paul belonged to this group in late Second Temple Judaism prior to

his conversion

-Pharisees

The Great Persecution (303 CE) took place under this Roman

emperor

-Diocletian

The Roman emperor blank made Christianity legal in the Roman Empire in 313 CE by issuing the blank

-Constantine, Edict of Milan

The blank in 380 CE made christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire

-Edict of Thessalonica

The council of blank (325 CE) condemned these two heresies:

-Nicaea

Jesus only seemed to be human

-docetism

Jesus was a created being, not eternal like God

-arianism

the council of blank (451 CE) led to two groups breaking away from the rest of Christianity

-Chalcedon

The monophysistes became the blank Church

-Oriental Orthodox

The nestorians became the Church of the blank

-East

A total of blank ecumenical (church) councils are recognized as

authoritative by all three branches of Christianity

-seven

A total of blank creeds are recognized as authoritative by

Christians, including

-three (Apostles’ creed, nicene creed, athanasian creed)

The blank (1054) led to the split between two major branches of Christianity, blank and blank

-Great Schism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholocism

Blank of canterbury developed the blank theory of atonement

-anselm, satisfaction

blank authored the blank (1265-1274), which he never completed

-Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

The mystic blank of Assisi is now recognized as the patron saint of blank and blank

-Francis, animals and environment

blank (1331-1384), a professor at the University of

Oxford, oversaw one of the earliest translations of the Bible into

the English language

-John Wycliffe

blank (1483-1546) penned the blank (1517), which

condemned certain Roman Catholic practices like the sale of blank

-Martin Luther,95 Theses, Indulgences

The theology of blank was later distilled into the five points

of “TULIP” at the Synod of Dort

-John Calvin

The English king blank ended the relationship between the

church in England and the Roman Catholic Church over a conflict

relating to blank

-Henry VIII, marriage annulment

The Archbishop of Canterbury, blank, authored the book of common prayer

-Thomas Cranmer

This group blank opposed infant baptism and “rebaptized”

adults

-Anabaptists

The Protestant Reformers rejected the theory of communion held

by the Roman Catholic Church

-Transubstantiation

The theology of the Protestant Reformation was characterized by

these three principles (Latin or English)

-Sola scriptura/scripture alone

-sola gratia/grace alone

-sola fide/faith alone

The first Christians to come to the Americas belonged to this

branch of Christianity

-roman catholocism

The first Protestants to come to the Americas were the

blank and the blank

-Pilgrims, Purtians

These two movements were popular among many early political

figures in the US

blank which argued that God was a distant creato

blank which argued that God was one (denying the

Holy Trinity)

-Deism. Unitarians

An early American preacher associated with the First Great

Awakening, best known for his sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an

Angry God”

-Jonathan Edwards

This nineteenth-century figure made multiple failed predictions of

the date of the Second Coming of Chris

-William Miller

The most infamous of these predictions came to be known as

the (1844)

-Great Disappointment

A nineteenth-century new religious movement developed out

of this event, blank, and is best known today for distinctive religious practices like following, blank food laws and worshiping on blank

-Seventh day adventism, kosher, saturdays

The twentieth-century movement of blank championed by Lyman Stewart, played a major role in the blank Trial (1925)

-fundamentalism, Scopes monkey

The twentieth-century movement of blank traces its origins to the blank Revical (1906) and is now popular in Latin America

-pentecostalism, asuza street

christiants participate in blank, rituals of religious significance

-sacraments

protestants only recognize two sacraments

-baptism and communion

orthodox and catholic christians recognize seven sacraments

-baptism, communion, confirmation, holy orders, matrimony, anointing of the sick, confessions

two most imporant holy days in christianity

-christmas, easter

blank is a period of fasting beginning blank days before Easter

-lent, 40