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Church - Early Church
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Religious Studies
11th Grade
01/13/2009

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Term
Gospels
Definition

means "good news"

 

basic source for knowledge about Jesus

 

4 of them (Matthew, Mark, Luke, & John)

Term

Jesus

Definition

lived 4 BC - 30 CE

 

Life is historically verified

 

Church believes him to ge God's only Son who proclaimed God's reign

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Peter
Definition

Original apostle

 

Carried some authority in the early Church

 

Believed by many to be the 1st pope

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Stephen
Definition
1st martyr (stoned to death)
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Paul
Definition

(aka Saul)

Jewish Pharisee from Tarsus (Asia Minor)

 

Conversion: vision, became missionary to gentiles

 

Wrote earliest books in New Testament (letter format)

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Acts of the Apostles
Definition

Luke's 28th chapter

about the growth of the early Church

 

Stresses the role of the Holy Spirit in guiding the Church

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Council of Jerusalem
Definition

49 AD showdown between Peter & Paul over Q of gentiles - must become Jewish 1st? circumcision??

Paul=don't have to Peter=must

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Diaspora
Definition

Term for the dispersion of the Jews from Israel to the Mediterranean Sea

 

Christianity spreads with it!

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Gentile
Definition
Term for non-Jew
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Martyr
Definition
one who dies for their faith
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Eucharist
Definition

Literal translation: "thanksgiving"

Celebrated in homes at first

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Messiah
Definition
Literal translation: "Anointed One"
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Pharisees
Definition

Jewish group of leaders

 

Adherent to the Law and study Scripture

 

also believe that there are other teachings in addition to the Torah (aka Oral Torah)

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Sadducees
Definition

Jewish priestly class

 

Elite class (only ones who are allowed to offer up sacrifices)

 

Very conservative, Jesus criticized them for hypocrisy

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Heresy
Definition

Beliefs that are contradictory to the accepted teachings of the Church

 

The early Church had to determine what's really true

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Apologists
Definition

"defenders of the faith"

 

Argue that Jesus is the Son of God; Christianity is reasonable

 

Helped define orthodox beliefs

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Lapsed Christians
Definition

Those who recanted their faith when pressured by the Romans

 

Evolved into a system of reconciliation when controversy over whether or not to let them back in arose

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Polycarp of Smyrna
Definition

Bishop in early Church martyred in 155 CE

 

Maintained a link between the original apostles and the next generation

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Justin Martyr
Definition

apologist

 

Jesus pre-existed creation of the world

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Marcion
Definition

Gnostic

 

rejected Old Testament because he says Judiasm is dead, rejects material world

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Tertullian of Carthage
Definition

Scriptures belong to the Church & are best interpreted by the Church

 

Apostolic authority

 

Earliest language for Trinity

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