Early Christian Churches
Three Waves of Pentecostalism
Terms and Concepts
Secularism
New Age
100
An early symbol which combines the letters X and P which are the first two letters of Christ's name in Greek.
What is the Chi Rho?
100
He was associated with a revival that included speaking in tongues in Topeka, Kansas.
Who is Charles Parham?
100
A division of the church into separate groups over a strong difference of doctrine, teaching or practice.
What is a schism?
100
This scientist, also a Christian, used a telescope to show that Kepler and Copernicus had correctly identified the sun as the center of the solar system.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
100
The Fox sisters popularized this technique for contacting the spirits in North America.
What is "channeling?"
200
This symbol represents an acronym for Jesus Christ Son of God, Saviour, and was used during times of persecution for Christians to identify each other.
What is the fish/ICHTHUS?
200
An African American church leader, his preaching in Los Angeles in 1906 led to the first Pentecostal movement.
Who is Charles Seymour?
200
Temporary stage in Roman Catholicism, in which the souls of those who died are purified before entering heaven.
What is purgatory?
200
Published the Origin of Species, and proposed that life forms had resulted from random natural selection, not the design of an intelligent Creator.
Who is Charles Darwin?
200
This form of witchcraft has become popular in the New Age movement.
What is Wicca?
300
The addition of this word (meaning "and the son") to the Nicene Creed by the Roman pope, eventually caused a schism with the Eastern Orthodox church.
What is the "filioque" clause?
300
This humble building was the location of the initial Pentecostal revival movement in Los Angeles, in 1906.
What is the Azusa St. Mission?
300
Sacrament by which Christians remember the Last Supper and Jesus' sacrificial death.
What is Eucharist or Holy Communion?
300
In secularism, the ultimate standard of truth is not Scripture but....
What is science or reason/rationality?
300
The use of the 12 signs of the Zodiac and analysis of stars to predict the future.
What is astrology?
400
Ornate vestments, chanting of songs, burning of incense and icons are all part of the Orthodox services known by this name.
What is the Divine Liturgy?
400
The church leader and former band leader whose teaching contributed significantly to the Third Wave, "Signs and Wonders"/Vineyard movement.
Who is John Wimber?
400
In this Roman Catholic Church teaching, the pope is free from error when speaking about matters of official faith and doctrine.
What is papal infallibility?
400
This movement in Europe, from 1600 to 1800, produced many thinkers who elevated science as the ultimate standard for reliable knowledge.
What is the Enlightenment?
400
The tendency of New Age religions to blend a variety of beliefs and rituals from a variety of sources into a new mixture of beliefs attractive to Western thought
What is syncretism?
500
Someone who has died or suffered for his beliefs; literally, "witness."
What is "martyr?"
500
This second wave of Pentecostalism took Seymour's emphases and spread them into the major US church denominations in the 1960's.
What is the Charismatic movement?
500
Philips Jenkins coined this term to describe the unique emphases of churches in the "developing world" of Latin America, Asia and Africa.
What is "Southern Christianity"/ Christianity in the "global South?"
500
This French thinker (1596-1650), famous for " I think, therefore I am," perhaps unintentionally, shifted the basis of certainty from God to man
Who is (Rene) Descartes?
500
The two major sources for the religious worldview of the New Age Movement: identify one of the two correctly.
What is Neo Pagan? What is Eastern Religions: e.g. Buddhism or Hinduism?
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