Sacraments
The initiation rite central to almost all of Christianity.
What is baptism?
The founder of Christianity and one of the three persons of God.
Who is Jesus?
The three persons of the Trinity.
Who are God the Father (or Creator), the Son (Jesus), and the Holy Spirit?
The name of the Christian scriptures that come after the Hebrew Scriptures in the Christian Bible.
What is the "New Testament?"
The painted word of God, according to the Orthodox Church.
What are icons?
The sacrament involving ritual consumption of two key substances, referencing back to Jesus' last supper with his disciples.
What is Eucharist / Communion?
The mother of Jesus. She is particularly important to Catholics and Orthodox Christians.
Who is Mary?
The document/text that was produced at the ecumenical council held in 325 CE, which clarified Christian beliefs regarding the trinity.
What is the Nicene Creed?
The written accounts of Jesus' life and ministry.
What are The Gospels?
This is what the sacrament of Confession / Reconciliation entails.
What is the confession of sins (usually to a priest), followed by acts of penance to repair harm and reconcile the sinner with God and the community.
What is Ordination / Holy Orders?
Who is Paul?
(Bonus: Who was Saul prior to becoming Paul?)
The central redemption story in Christianity, which explains the reason for God's incarnation and affirms God/Jesus' triumph over death and the promise of eternal life after death for Christians/people who repent for their sins.
What is the resurrection?
The names of the four writers of the first four books of the Christian scriptures.
This term describes structured, ritual worship in a communal setting (often a church during Sunday services/ masses).
What is liturgy?
This sacrament is a rite of passage for Christians to affirm their faith within the context of a particular Christian denomination. Even churches that do not consider this a sacrament frequently do this.
What is confirmation?
A Jewish mystic and reformer who believed in the imminent coming of a new age on earth, he commissioned Jesus' ministry via a notable aquatic ritual.
Who was John the Baptist?
This term describes the Protestant view that the bread and the wine merely symbolize the body and blood of Jesus.
What is consubstantiation?
The name of the text we read in class that chronicles many of Jesus' core teachings on morality and ethics.
What is the Sermon on the Mount?
The list of people who are blessed, according to Jesus, which is often considered the core of Christian ethics.
What are the Beatitudes?
What is Anointing of the Sick / Last Rites?
The leaders of the two main factions at the Council of Nicea.
Who were St. Athanasius of Alexandria and Arius?
This is the focus of Liberation Theology.
What is transforming unjust social structures and institutions in alignment with God's will for human life on Earth?
The three sections of the Christian Scriptures that DO NOT include accounts of Jesus' life.
What are Acts, the Epistles (Letters), and Revelation?
The meaning of the word "Grace" in Christianity.
What is God's unearned and infinite love, forgiveness, and mercy, which God offers continually to people despite sin and imperfection?