Biblical Christianity
This event marked the beginning of Jesus' ministry
What is Jesus' Baptism
It is the way in which the early church decided issues of church administration and theology.
What are councils?
It happened in 1054 between the centers of the church in the East (Constantinople) and in the West (Rome).
What is the Great Schism?
This invention around 1450 helped spread the Bible and Reformation ideas rapidly across Europe.
What was the printing press?
This smaller group within the Separatists came to what is now Massachusetts to find religious freedom.
Who were the Pilgrims?
He was a Roman Jew who hated Christians and helped to persecute them, but on the road to Damascus he had a powerful, blinding vision of Jesus and was converted.
Who was Paul?
In the year 312 C.E., after becoming the new Roman emperor, he made it legal for Romans to be Christian and declared an end to persecution.
Who was Constantine?
They were the violent, unsuccessful attempts by Christians in Europe to win back the Holy Land from the Muslims.
What were the Crusades?
He translated the Bible into English from the Latin Vulgate.
Who was John Wycliffe?
Coming from Germany and Switzerland, immigrants settled in the middle U.S. Atlantic states and eventually gathered and formed this church in 1710.
What is the Reformed Church?
It is the book which contains the history of the early church.
What is the Acts of the Apostles?
It was the year the Christian Scriptures were completed and canonized.
What was 135 CE
Among the many corrupt practices of the church around 1300, this one provided the only way to have your sins forgiven.
What are indulgences?
It is the name of the church Martin Luther founded.
What is the Lutheran Church?
In Missouri, these German immigrants gathered and formed this church in 1840.
What is the Evangelical Church?
At the conference in Jerusalem in the year 49, it was decided that these two apostles would each lead the building of the church, one among Jewish people, the other among the Gentiles.
Who were Peter and Paul?
It is the system of church government that became dominant in the early church.
What is the episcopal system?
During this period of wealth and power of the church (up to 1500), they were the only people able to read Scripture and allowed to sing hymns in church and receive Holy Communion.
Who were the priests?
Another reformer in Switzerland hoped to create a model city based on biblical principles and, in the process, started the Presbyterian Church.
Who was John Calvin?
In 1853 this church was the first to ordain a woman into Christian ministry.
What is the Congregational Church?
He was the first Christian to be killed at the beginning of 300 years of persecution.
Who was Stephen?
Around the year 800, he rallied the church in Europe after it had been sent into exile by those who attacked Rome. When he became Roman emperor, he gave his subjects two choices, baptism or death.
Who was Charlemagne?
This event in 1215 forced the English king to recognize that even the monarch was subject to law and helped lay groundwork for later ideas about rights and government.
In the early 1600s, this group separated from the Church of England because it opposed the church's dictatorial, rigid, and oppressive ways.
Who were the Separatists, or Puritans, or Quakers?
This is the year the Congregational Christian Churches and the Evangelical and Reformed Church merged to form the United Church of Christ.
What is 1957?