World Religions (Christianity)

• Catholicism 4 pillars

  • One
  • Holy
  • Apostolic
  • Church
• Christian Bible

  I. Hebrew - Old Testament

  II. New Testament
• New Testament

  • Gospels
  • Acts of the Apostles
  • Epistles
  • Revelation
• Gospels

  • The life and teaching of Jesus
• Acts of the Apostles

  • The spread of early Christianity
• Epistles

  • Letters to the early Christians by Paul
• Revelation

  • Foretells in symbolic language, the triumph of Christianity
• Holy Trinity

  • Father
  • Son
  • Holy Spirit
• Christianity

  • Harvey Cox (1993) said that the best analogy of their relationship to each other is that of a family with a large number of siblings.
• Confirmation

  • A blessing of initiation after baptism
• Reconciliation

  • Someone confesses their sins and gets absolution
• Matrimony

  • Two people commit themselves to each other for life with God as the center
• Ordination

  • Someone commits himself to priesthood
• Anointing of the sick

  • Taken by a sick person
• Baptism

  • Conversion to Christianity
• Eucharist

  • The breaking of bread and sharing of the wine
• Bread

  • Represents Jesus Christ's Body
• Wine

  • Represents Jesus Christ's Blood
• Parable

  • a short story illustrating moral and spiritual truth
• Christos

  • It means "Messiah"
  • Where the name "Christianity" comes from
• Jesus Christ

  • Son of God
• Judea

  • The origins of Christianity, a region which is the modern-day Israel and Palestine
• River Jordan

  • Where Jesus was Baptized
• Sea of Galilee

  • Where Jesus and the Disciples first met
• Nazareth

  • The Town where Jesus grew up
• Bethlehem

  • Birthplace of Jesus
• 3 Provinces

  • Galilee
  • Sameria
  • Judea
• Messianic Expectation

  • Waiting for the Messiah (Anointed One) by God
• Religious Leaders in Palestine

  • Pharisees
  • Sadducees
  • Zealots
  • Essenes
• Pharisees "the separated"

  • Lay men called "Rabbi" and controlled the "Synagogue"
• Sadducees

  • A small group of wealthy men who followed Roman Rule (Accepted only the Torah )
• Zealots

  • Deeply Religious Jews who believed that violent action is justified if used for Jewish Religion
• Essenes

  • Authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls
  • Monks settled in remote areas
  • Rejected Roman rule
• Sanhedrin "Assembly"

  • Court of Law for Jewish people (Men)
• The Temple

  • Women sat in "Court of Women" only
  • Men in "Court of Israelites"
  • Only Priests in "Court of Priests" and "Sanctuary"
  • Only the High Priest in "Holy of the Holies" to pray
• The Temple

  • Jews saw it as the House of God
• Court of Gentiles

  • an outside court in the Temple
  • used for business of money
• Court of Priests

  • Sold birds and animals to be sacrificed for God
• Menorah

  • A candelabrum with 7 branches