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| A Palestinian Jew who was executed by authorities during the reign of Tiberuis |
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| Reigned during the execution of Jesus |
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| insisted on a strict interpretation of the Torah. Sadducees tried to maintain the Torah by taking its contents literally. They rejected the concepts of resurrection and an afterlife. |
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| They adopted a more liberal attitude towards Mosaic Law. They allowed discussion about interpreting the Torah, and the granted authority to the "oral Torah" (the Torah which was communitcated from one generation to the next). The Pharisees believed in life after death |
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| Wrote the Wady Qumran Manuscripts (The Dead Sea Scrolls). They rejected the temple priests as being corrupt. |
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| rebelled against Rome. They demanded that Jews neiter pay taxes to Rome, nor acknowledge the authority of the Roman emperor. |
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| was most likely apart of the Essene community. Influenced Jesus and preached the coming of God's perfect kingdom. |
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| what Jesus was. Came to earth to show people the way to heaven. |
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| (the Lord's anointed, the messiah) |
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| those sent out to preach the gospel about Christ. |
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| those sent out to preach the gospel about Christ. |
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| those sent out to preach the gospel about Christ. |
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| came from the Greek city of Tarsus. He was originally called Saul. At first he persecuted Christs followers, but became a convert to Christianity. |
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| ("dispersion") Jews living outside of Palestine |
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| an Alexandrian Jew who tried to demostrate that Hebrew Scriptures could be explained and justified in terms of Greek philosophy. |
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| a Pharisee teacher who taught Saul (Paul). |
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| A frail, young, Christian slave. A woman matyr. Though torutured, she would not renounce Christ. |
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| Issued by Constantine that gave toleration to Christians in Rome. |
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| Issued by Constantine that gave toleration to Christians in Rome. |
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| Issued by Constantine that gave toleration to Christians in Rome. |
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| made Christianity the state religion of of the Roman Empire |
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| brought reason to the support of faith in his attempt to make Christian more intellectually respectable in his world |
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| believed the Christianity rested solely on faith and did not include reason also |
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| breaking bread and offering wine as Christ had done in the last supper |
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| The Bishop of Rome . Pope means father. |
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| established a church in Rome. Believed to be the rock on which the church was built (Peter means rock) |
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| A greek bishop in Cappadocia. Established rules for monasteries in the East. |
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| founded a monastery in Italy. Shape monasteries in the West. |
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| The gospel thought to have written first. |
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| gospels that borrowed heavily from Mark. Were longer then Mark. Matthew, Mark, and Luke were called the synoptic gospels, because their approaches were similar |
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| The Gospel of John presents Jesus as the divine being. It differs greatly from the synoptic gospels. |
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| A Greek priest in Alexandria. He denied the complete divinity of Christ. To Arius Christ was more than a man but less than God. |
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| the first assembly, or bishops from all parts of the Roman world who were called to settle the controversy of whether Jesus was divine or not. |
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| Says that God and Christ were of the same substance, coequal. |
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| a contemporary of Jesus who founded a school and said one should love thy neighbor as oneself |
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| Translated the Old and New Testaments from Hebrew to Greek |
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| Stressed humility in the church. He thought that no one should be above the church. |
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| Converted to Christianiy from Manichaeism. He was influnced by Saint Ambrose. He wrote the City of God, which stressed that Christians should not be preoccupied with an earthly city, but should look towards a heavenly one |
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