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| Christians who believe that belief in Christ is a necessary condition for baptism and who re-introduced adult baptism as a ritual of initiation into the church |
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| A member of the selected twelve who became members of Jesus' inner circle of trusted disciples. |
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| Christian theologian who wrote many important Christian texts, including the City of God, and had several of his beliefs adopted as official stands of the church. |
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| A list of blessings spoken by Jesus |
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| The church formed by Henry VIII because the Pope would not grant him a divorce; it still maintained a similar structure and service to the Catholic Church. |
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| The mode of Jesus' death, it involves nailing the victim's hands and feet to wooden cross bars. |
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| An early division of Christianity that applies Gnosticism to Christology denying the integrity of the humanity of Jesus Christ. |
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| Orthodox Christianity in the Eastern part of the Mediterranean world that eventually divided into several different orthodox churches. |
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| Conferences of bishops, priests, and theologians that convened to settle disputes about doctrine. |
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| A movement to unify the different Christian denominations or to, at least, promote tolerance and dialogue. |
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| Letters in response to questions put forth to St. Paul and the other apostles regarding doctrinal issues, matters of ritual, concerns about marriage and the family, worries about death and resurrection, doubts about the second coming, issues about ecclesiastical matters, and leadership positions. |
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| When a person can no longer participate in the sacraments. |
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| A division in early Christianity that separated God from the material world, gave priority to the spiritual over the material, attributed the creation of the world to an inferior deity, demiurgos, and preached an esoteric knowledge, gnosis, to initiates. |
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| Meaning good news, they are stories about the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus and his teachings. |
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| The man Christians regard as the Lord and Savior and believe is the Son of God. |
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| A theologian and a preacher who led reform movements and taught a strict and rigid doctrine of predestination. |
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| A monastic ascetic Jew who preached baptism for the remission of sins on the banks of the Jordan River and was the man who baptized Jesus Christ. |
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| A commemoration of the Passover meal Jesus shared with his apostles the night before crucifixion. |
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| A Christian sect that rejected the Old Testament and canonized the Pauline epistles. |
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| A sixteenth century C.E. German Protestant reformer who took issue with the doctrine of transubstantiation and the Catholic Church's selling of indulgences. |
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| Individuals who withdrew from society to live quiet lives of spiritual reflection, celibacy, and self-denial. |
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| A collection of Christian scriptures that contains the Gospels, the Book of Acts, Paul's letters, and the Book of Revelation. |
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| A confession of faith affirming that the Father and the Son are one. |
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| Religious groups whose beliefs and practices don't conform to those of the Church of England. |
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| Short, homey stories that draw on events in the familiar world to convey a spiritual or moral point. |
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| Early Christian leader whose writings laid the foundation Christian doctrine, and by means of his missionary work he established churches in Europe and Asia Minor. |
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| A British monk who came to Rome early in the fifth century C.E. challenging Augustine's doctrines. |
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| The event of Jesus' rising from the dead three days after his death; it is the foundation of Christian faith. |
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| A means for dispensation of God's grace. |
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| The event in the Gospels when Jesus contrasted his teaching from the legalistic interpretation of the Torah. |
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| A violation of God's precepts |
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| Scholars who use scripture and philosophy to formulate and defend correct doctrine |
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| Catholic doctrine that holds worshippers are drinking the blood and eating the flesh of Christ not symbolically but literally |
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| Christian doctrine that states that God is one God in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. |
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| A Swiss Protestant reformer who disagreed with both the Catholic Church and Martin Luther; he taught the communion celebrating the last supper was entirely symbolic. |
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| Second Vatican Council where Catholic clerics and theologians met to discuss ways to open up the Catholic Church to the world. |
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