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Theology
Ch. 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The earliest account of a Christian martyre | St. Polycarp |
| primary source of information about the Jesus of history | Gospels |
| The principle theme of Jesus preaching was the coming of God's ___ | Kingdom |
| Aristocratic Jewish leaders who controlled temple worship | Sadducees |
| The Jewish sect with whom Jesus had most in common | Pharisees |
| believed that Jesus was going to be a military leader | Zealots |
| the celebration of the ___became Jesus' followers most important religious ritual | Eucharist |
| sometimes called the gospel of the church | acts of the apostles |
| celebrates the birthday of the church | pentecost |
| the apostles responded to the first crisis in the christian community by appointing___ | deacons (7) |
| st paul is known as the___ | apostle to the gentiles |
| st paul made ___ missionary journeys | 3 |
| council that declared the Gentiles could become Christians without first adhering to the mosaic law | Council of Jerusalem |
| the most severe persecutions of Christians in the first century took place under the roman emperor | Domitian |
| the last and worst of all the roman persecutions of christians took place under the roman emeror | Diocletion |
| wrote to convince gentiles of the truth and high morals of christians | Apologists |
| number of books in the New Testament | 27 |
| boks in the old testament | 46 |
| categories of books in the new testament | (4) - Gospels, Acts, Revelation, Epistles |
| categories of books in the old testament | (4) - historical, prophetic, torah, wisdom |
| a false teaching or belief about a major doctrine | heresy |
| men who personally knew the apostles or their disciples | apostolic fathers of the church |
| the complete list of books of the bible | canon |
| love feast | agape |
| roman historian | tacitus |
| jewish historian | josephus |
| right belief | orthodoxy |
| church father who argued against Gnosticism | St. Irenaeus of Lyons |
| apologist who constructed crucial doctrine formulations | tertullian |
| church father who provided critical edition of the Septuagint anf taught ways of interpreting scripture | origen |
| right living | orthopraxis |
| member of the Sanhedrin who advocated a "look/see" policy toward Christians | Gamaliel |
| apologist | St. Justin Martyr |
| declared that moral sins can be forgiven if the sinner repented and did penance | Pope St. Cornelius |
| key points of Jesus' teachings | Gods kingdom is here, service and commitment, God's Kingdom is a gift open to all, following God requires to love everyone even our enemies |
| synoptic gospels | matthew, mark, luke |
| stages of recording the gospels | life of Jesus, oral, written |
| major religious teacher for jews. appointed by the roman emorer | high priests |
| 1st christian community | philippi |