Basic Facts
What is the central figure of Christianity, whose teachings and life form the foundation of the religion?
Who is Jesus Christ?
What is the sacred text of Christianity that contains the Old Testament and New Testament?
What is the Bible?
Christianity is currently the world's largest what?
What is religion?
What religion did Christianity separate from?
What is Judaism?
What are the three aspects of the Trinity?
Who are the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit?
What is the Christian practice of communicating with God?
What is prayer?
Which region of the world now has the largest Christian population, surpassing Europe?
What is Sub-Saharan Africa?
What was the name of the turning point meeting that abolished requirements of Jewish laws like certain diets?
The council of Jerusalem?
The ritual in which you “wash away” your sins and enter the Christian culture.
What is baptism?
Christians believe in one God who exists as the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. What is this belief called?
What is the Trinity?
In 2025, who became the first pope from the United States?
Who is Pope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost)?
What was the rule that allowed leaders to give authority to war?
What is “Just War”?
The first book of the New Testament.
What is the Gospel?
What are the two commandments Jesus identified as the greatest: one involving God and one involving other people?
What are loving God and loving your neighbor?
Why can the election of Pope Leo XIV be considered an example of both continuity and change in Christianity?
Sample Answer:
Continuity: The Catholic Church continues the tradition of having a pope as its spiritual leader.
Change: The first American pope reflects Christianity's increasingly global nature.
This 16th-century movement challenged the authority and practices of the Catholic Church and resulted in the growth of Protestant Christianity.
What is the protestant reformation?
What are the three major branches of Christianity?
What are Catholicism, Protestantism, and Eastern Orthodoxy?
God’s loving mercy that is given freely to humanity to bring about salvation.
What is grace?
Christianity has existed for nearly 2,000 years, yet its demographics and practices have changed. Give one example of continuity and one example of change in Christianity today.
Sample Answer:
Continuity: Christians still follow teachings about Jesus, love, forgiveness, prayer, and faith.
Change: Christianity has spread globally, developed many denominations, and its population has shifted toward regions such as Sub-Saharan Africa.
What is the specific name of the sacred agreement that Christians follow
What is the old Testament?