The nine expeditions by Christians beginning in 1095 and ending in 1291 which were intended to drive the Muslims out of the Holy Land and in the process reunite Christians of East and West.
What are the Crusades?
100
Gentiles.
What Jewish Sect were non Jews?
100
The New Testament.
In what testament is Christ described as the head of this Chosen People?
100
Divine and human.
The Church is both _____ and ______?
100
One of the four main religious groups of Jews in Jesus’ day. The faith of the Pharisees was based on scripture and on Jewish oral tradition. The Pharisees believed that faith should shape everyday life. They were particularly concerned with making Judaism rele-vant under Roman rule.
What are Pharisees?
200
Literally, the “writings.” The term Scripture is used to refer to those books which have been determined by the Church to be the Word of God and to be normative for faith and morals.
What is scripture?
200
Pharisees were a sect concerned not only with what people believed and how they worshipped, but also with how they lived from day to day.
What were the Pharisees concerned with?
200
The Old Testament.
What Testament images point us toward a deeper understanding of the Church as the “chosen People of God.”?
200
God
Our understanding of _____ is limited?
200
Jews living in Jesus’ time who believed that God called them to over-throw the Roman govern-ment in Palestine.
What are the zealots?
300
A non Jew
What is a gentile?
300
Essenes
Which Sect was the strictness?
300
Jesus
Who is the head of the "Chosen People"?
300
Listen, ancestors in faith
In order to understand God more completely we must ______ not only to the voices of other people in our own time, but also to the voices of our _________ ___ ______.
300
The strictest of the four main Jewish groups of Jesus’ day. The Essenes lived celibately, interpreted every law in the strictest possible way, and separated themselves from all who did not live as they did.
What are the Essenes?
400
Another of the religious groups of Jews in Jesus’ day. The Sadducees were religiously conserva-tive. They rejected all reli-gious teaching which was not from the Torah, including belief in the resurrection of the dead. They were willing to accept many elements of Roman culture.
What is Sadducees?
400
Sadducees, Pharisees, Essenes, Zealots, and Gentiles.
What are the 5 names of all the Jewish Sects?
400
A Variety Of Images
In Scripture, what has been used to describe the Church?
400
"Teepee Teaching"
There is a way of teaching about God in some Native American communities that is known as what?
400
It means God.
What does Yhwh?
500
The attempt to reconcile or blend the beliefs and practices of various religions into one.
What is religious syncretism?
500
The Temple.
What was the focal point of Jewish life for the Sadducees?
500
“The Body of Christ”
The Church as what is its central and most complete image?
500
Perspective
Our __________ is limited to the present, and the way we understand God is limited by the thought categories of our own period in history
500
The Church is a mystery because it is both part of the world and tempted by sin, and apart from the world and shaped by grace.