Religious Terms and Concepts in Early Christianity, Quizzes of Christianity

Download Religious Terms and Concepts in Early Christianity and more Quizzes Christianity in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Pagan DEFINITION 1 o Human divine relationship o Practice, not belief o All of the gods deserved worship whether they did good or bad o Significance of festivals- most ppl lived worked during the day to eat that night; great festivals and local festivals was the only time most ppl could take off from working o Significance- converts start Jesus movement. TERM 2 "Cult of the Gods" DEFINITION 2 always trying to make gods happy polytheism TERM 3 Covenant DEFINITION 3 o Ten commandments o Practices like circumcision o If you worship one god then the other gods will be satisfied o Agreement between God and his people o Exodus 20 o Deuteronomy TERM 4 Torah DEFINITION 4 o The first five books of the Jewish bible o Law o Teaching- status of authoritative teaching o Constitution for ancient Jews o Expressed covenant TERM 5 Circumcision DEFINITION 5 o Removal of foreskin on a mans penis o Related to Jewish kinship o Sense of identity o Considered just as important or more important as the 10 commandments o Genesis 17 TERM 6 Tacitus DEFINITION 6 roman historian mentions Jesus saying that he was crucified under roman emperor pontiuos Pilot Pagan in 110 of Common era First record of Jesus being called the Christ Global Text Superstition TERM 7 Gospel DEFINITION 7 Christian literary genre; "good news" in Greek. An extended narrative about Jesus as Christ (Messiah). Four canonical Gospels (70-100 CE) are anonymous. Some extracanonical ones (Gospel of Thomas) survive. Written gospels may have used earlier oral tradition. Signif.: Not objective; Gospels express faith perspectives of early Christian communities (Mark 1:1, John 20:31). TERM 8 Christ (Messiah) DEFINITION 8 Mark Chapter 1: 1 Proclaims Jesus is the Messiah and the son of God Savior Anointed one Memory of Jesus as the Christ TERM 9 Kingdom of God DEFINITION 9 One day we all will be judged by god at his kingdom Judgement day at the Kingdom New testament adaption from the jewish scriptures Mark 1 and Global text God is king Future restoration of divine order TERM 10 Apocalypticism DEFINITION 10 o Impending crisis o Veiled o Sources 200 BCE- 200 CE o Religious interpretation of the way things are and theory about the way things ought to be Dualistic understanding of good and evil o Imminent change o Believed the ppl of Israel lived in oppression because they lived with the rule of Satan o Casting demons out is a major sign o Mark: Jesus predicts everything that is going to go wrong but still performed exorcism which proves apocalyptic thinking TERM 21 Epistle of Barnabas DEFINITION 21 o Close companion of Paul o Attention because the letter is attended to Barnabus because he is a companion of Paul TERM 22 Marcion DEFINITION 22 o Active in Rome during the year 140 of common era o Christians should have their own biblical cannon instead of following jews o 10 Paul letters and gospel of luke o only an edited version of Paul and Lukes books should be accepted o took out all positive reference to jewish scriptures o Jesus just looked human but had no flesh o Ascetic self denial o Global Text TERM 23 Docetism DEFINITION 23 o Greek word meaning to seem or to appearo Jesus only appeared to be human but in reality he was a divine figure o Christ was so divine he could not have been human, since God lacked a material body, which therefore could not physically suffer. Jesus only appeared to be a flesh- and-blood man, his body was a phantasm. Other groups who were accused of docetism held that Jesus was a man in the flesh, but Christ was a separate entity, who entered Jesuss body in the form of a dove at his baptism, empowered him to perform miracles, and abandoned him on his death on the cross o Global Text TERM 24 gnosis DEFINITION 24 o Greek word for knowledge Interpretation (teacher/ student) o Lessons conveyed o Up to reader to determine significance of any given writing o Thom 21: let there be among you a person who understands o Global text: Gnostic thought from Valentinus TERM 25 Gospel of Thomas DEFINITION 25 Consists of all quotes from Jesus himself Leaves out Jesus birth and resurrection An additional gospel Makes Jesus seem real but hard to believe