Christian beliefs and teachings key terms

• Benevolent


  Loving
• Omniscent

  All knowing
• Omnipotent

  All loving
• Monothesim


  Belif in one god
• Eternal


  without beginning or end
• Transcendent

  Beyond understanding, outside space and time
• Immanent


  ‘At hand’, involved with people
• Roman Catholic


  Largest Christian denomination, headed by the Pope
• Protestant

  Denominations coming from 16th Century Reformation
• Orthodox


  Russian, greek and other eastern churches
• Trinity


  One god, in three persons
• Unitarian

  Not believeing in the trinity
• Fall


  Adam and Eve's first sin and its consequences
• Original Sin


  Humans inherit sinfullness and guilt from adam and eves
• Theodicy

  Justification of God
• Messiah


  annointed one
• Agape


  Selfless love
• Incarnation


  Jesus is human form
• Cruisifixion


  jesus death on the cross
• Resurrection


  jesus came back to life physically on earth
• Ascension


  40 days after resurection, jesus physically returned to heaven
• Salvatioon


  jesus saves from human judgement
• atonment


  reconciliation
• Sin


  falling short of gods standards
• Apocolyptic

  concerned with the second coming, final judgement, end of the world
• Parousia


  Jesuss second coming
• Purgatory


  Roman catholic belif in place between death and heaven where you are purged of your sins
• Worship


  to show honour, respect and adoration of god
• Mass


  RC word for communion
• Liturgy


  a set way of conducting worship
• Charistmatic


  christians expecting the holy spirit to do supernatural things today
• Rosary


  prayers beads used by roman catholics
• Sacrement


  visible signs of invisible grace
• Baptism


  being immersed in water in the name of the trinity
• Communion


  lords supper
• Transubstantion


  catholic belif of bread actually becoming the body
• Pilgrimage


  journey for religious purposes
• Christmas


  festival celebrating jesus's birth
• advent


  4 week period before christmas looking forward to the second coming
• lent


  period of 40 days fasting pre easter