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Middle Ages   the period after the collapse of the Roman Empire; characterized by a distortion of Christianity  
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A.D. 500 to 1500   The time period known as the Middle Ages  
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Paul   the apostle who had not been one of the original disciples,and to whom Christ made a special appearance  
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apostles   the twelve men who had firsthand knowledge of Jesus and whom God sent out to preach the gospel  
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Old Testament   the portion of Scripture which foretold Christ's coming and which Jesus used with reverence  
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New Testament   the portion of Scripture which records Christ's first coming, life, ministry, death, and resurrection; written by apostles or men close to the apostles under divine inspiration; consists of the permanent record of the gospel and admonitions to the church  
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A.D. 100   the approximate year the New Testament was completed  
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koine   the most common form of the Greek language; used for writing the New Testament  
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church   an assembly or body of people  
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Gentiles   non-Jews  
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Judaism   the religion of the Jews  
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Jerusalem   the city in which church leaders met to discuss the problem of Gentile believers and Jewish law; location of the first Christian church  
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Church leaders came to an agreement that Gentile believers did not have to practice all the Jewish laws of the Old Testament.   What was the decision of the church leaders in Jerusalem concerning Jewish law and Gentile believers?  
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deacon   name for a church leader which comes from the Greek word for "servant"  
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bishop   name for a church leader which comes from the Greek term meaning "overseer" or "superintendent"  
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elder   name for a church leader which comes from the Greek word which is also the source for the word priest  
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Christ   the true Head of the Church, according to the Bible  
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apostolic authority   the term which refers to the special leaders, authorized to speak and act in Jesus' name, appointed by Christ Himself  
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Diotrephes   the church leader who loved to "have preeminence" and who put himself above God's Word  
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catholic   the term which means "universal" or "one"; can be used to describe the great "invisible" church of all believers  
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Church of Rome   the first single, visible, large, organized church for all Christians; soon led to dominance of one local church over the other and distortion of Christianity  
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Irenaeus   the church leader in Gaul who said that every church must agree with the Church of Rome  
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apostolic succession   the idea which maintains that men like Peter and Paul handed down their power and authority from one generation of bishops to the next  
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Petrine theory   the belief that Christ made Peter the head of the Catholic church and that Peter passed this power to the first bishop of Rome, whom he appointed  
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Roman Catholic Church   the church founded on the belief that the bishop of the Church of Rome is supreme over all churches  
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pope   the bishop of the Church of Rome  
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Marsilius of Purda   the man who would not blindly accept the teachings of the Roman church, but instead knew that all beliefs must be measured against the absolute truth of God's Word  
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Defender of the Peace   the famous work of Marsilius in which he rejected unscriptural Roman doctrines with Biblical reasoning and logic  
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1) Arius 2) Arianism   1) a church leader in Egypt 2) the belief that Jesus was not God, but rather had been created by God the Father  
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Counsel of Nicaea   the counsel, presided at by Constantine, that affirmed Christ's divinity in A.D. 325  
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Nicene Creed   a statement of belief affirming Christ's divinity  
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Leo I "the Great"   the pope who went out to meet Attila the Hun from Asia to persuade the invaders not to attack Rome  
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Gelasius   the pope who said that, in matters relating to God, leaders of the church are supreme over all human rulers  
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mass   a Roman Catholic service  
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sacrament   term for "a sacred act"  
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Eucharist   term for the Lord's Supper, from the Greek words for thanks, favor, and grace  
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excommunication   being cut off from communication with the human rulers of the church and, therefore, being denied the sacraments; seemed to mean nothing less than loss of salvation  
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Christendom   the portion of the world in which Christianity prevails  
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