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  • CHRISTIANITY -- developed in 100CE in Palestine
  • 3 SECTIONS OF CHRISTIANITY --
    1. ROMAN CATHOLIC
    2. PROTESTANTISM
    3. GREEK ORTHADOX CHURCH
  • HOLY TRINITY --
    1. God, the Father
    2. Jesus, the Son
    3. the Holy Spirit
  • SACRED SCRIPTURE OF CHRISTIANITY -- The Bible
  • TOTAL AMOUNT OF SACRED SCRIPTURES -- 66 books
  • OLD TESTAMENT (39) --
    1. GENESIS
    2. EXODUS
    3. LEVITICUS
    4. NUMBERS
    5. DEUTERONOMY
  • NEW TESTAMENT (27) --
    1. GOSPELS: stories of Jesus Christ
    2. Matthew
    3. Mark
    4. Luke
    5. John
    6. LETTERS: writings of the new Christians
  • SEVEN SACRAMENTS --
    1. Baptism
    2. Holy Communion
    3. Confession
    4. Marriage
    5. Holy Orders
    6. Anointing of the Sick
    7. Death
  • WORSHIP & OBSERVANCES (3) --
    1. ADVENT: preparation for the coming of the Messiah; from the Latin word, "adventus," meaning "coming or visit"
    2. LENT: 40 days of preparation for easter; from the Anglo-Saxon word, "lencten," meaning "spring"
    3. PENTECOST: 50 days after the resurrection; from the Greek word, "pentekostos," meaning "fifty"
  • ISSUES OF CHRISTIANITY (4)
    1. Ecumenism
    2. Sexuality
    3. Family and divorce
    4. Capital punishment and euthanasia
  • JUDAISM — monotheistic and Abrahamic religion; believe in one transcendent God
  • SACRED TEXTS (5) —
    1. TORAH
    2. POETRY
    3. PROPHETS
    4. TALMUD
    5. MISHNAH
  • CLASSIFIED AS POETRY (6) —
    1. JOB
    2. PSALMS
    3. PROVERBS
    4. ECCLESIASTES
    5. SONG OF SOLOMON
    6. LAMENTATION
  • PROPHETS (12) —
    1. Hosea
    2. Joel
    3. Amos
    4. Obadiah
    5. Jonah
    6. Micah
    7. Nahum
    8. Habakkuk
    9. Zephaniah
    10. Haggai
    11. Zechariah
    12. Malachi
  • TALMUD — central text of Rabbinic Judaism; primary source of Jewish religious law
  • MISHNAH — “study by repitition” … first major collection of the Jewish oral traditions
  • MAIN BRANCHES OF JUDAISM (3) —
    1. ORTHADOX JUDAISM: live accordingly to the Torah
    2. REFORM JUDAISM: product of modernity
    3. CONSERVATIVE JUDAISM: traditional … “Masorti”
  • ISSUES OF JUDAISM (3) —
    1. HOLOCAUST
    2. ZIONISM: religious and political effort to recreate a Jewish prescense in Israel
    3. ANTISEMITISM: discrimination against Jews
  • TORAH -- the substance of divine revelation to Israel ... signifies the first five books of the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament)