People
The two groups who assisted bishops in the early Christian Church.
Who are deacons and presbyters.
Jesus used these stories cast in language and circumstances familiar to common people to teach moral lessons.
What are parables.
Humanity's state of moral and spiritual corruption inherited from Adam and Eve.
What is Original Sin.
What is ecumenicism.
Paul believed this group should be exempt from most requirements of the Torah.
Who are Gentile Christians.
He was originally a devoted monk who wrote the Ninety-five Theses and led the Protestant Revolution.
Who is Martin Luther
What are the New Testament Gospels.
The council that established that Jesus the Son and God the Father are one in Being.
What is the Council of Nicaea.
These two sacraments signified unity and equality of early Christians.
What are Baptism and the Eucharist.
The time period when great cathedrals were constructed, Christian monasticism reached new heights, and the Crusades occurred.
What is the Middle Ages.
The bishop of Rome, considered by Catholics to be the direct successor of the Apostle Peter.
Who is the Pope.
The doctrine in the Gospel of John stating that God's Son became fully human in Jesus Christ while remaining fully divine.
What is the Incarnation.
The group described as accepting Christ as one's savior, believing in Christian doctrine, and belonging to the Church.
Who are Christians.
The two events sparked by the Protestant Reformation.
What are 1962-1965.
Someone who chooses to die rather than violate his or her religious convictions.
Who is a martyr
These men strove to present Christ's teachings and to express the meaning of the events in Christ's life.
Who are the Gospel authors.
The general purpose of the Second Vatican Council directed at all Christians.
What is to promote unity.
The general purpose of the Second Vatican Council directed toward the Catholic Church.
What is to update Church teachings to respond to the modern world.
Paul's exact words of what the Church was meant to be.
A unified body of people.
He authored the doctrine of predestination stating that God has already chosen those who will be saved from sin.
In Roman Catholicism this is the primary oral means of God's Revelation of Christ.
What is Sacred Tradition.
The four main branches of Protestantism.
What are Lutheran, Calvinist, Baptist, and Anglican.
The two creeds formulated by the year 325.
What are the Apostles and the Nicene.
He issued the Edict of Milan which ended the persecution of Christians and he convened the Council of Nicaea.
Who is Emperor Constantine.