Exam 12: Christianity

The ________ was the first church statement of faith to clearly state the doctrine of the Trinity.

The central theme of Orthodox Christianity is not God's justice but his love.

In what year did the Christian Church launch the first military Crusade to capture Jerusalem?

Paul's missionary journeys and his writing of the letters took place a few years before the writing of the Gospels.

Describe Augustine's Confessions. How is it that this particular text could continue to influence people today?

Pouring sacramental wine on persons represents the raising of their spiritual standing in God's eyes.

Jesus celebrated Yom Kippur with a last meal, called the Last Supper, with his disciples.

Contrary to traditional Church positions, Martin Luther asserted that salvation had nothing to do with religious practice and good works.

Following the division of the Roman Empire into east and west, Western Christianity was led by a pope in Rome and Eastern Christianity by a ________ in Constantinople.

What are some of the ways in which the Roman Empire and its leaders affected the growth of Christianity?

The Eastern Church has always been inclined toward the theory of universal salvation.

From the death of Jesus to the present day, Christianity has never been a unified, fully coherent tradition.

According to the Pew Research Center, what is the estimated percentage of the world population who are Christian?

How have feminist scholars critiqued Christianity? How has the shift toward gender equality affected Christian practice?

Indulgences were ecclesiastical "vouchers" that gave the holder automatic salvation.

Today some scholars characterize ________ as an apocalyptic figure, while others say he was mostly a teacher of ethics.

Which of these best describes the Synoptic Gospels?

Which of these is not part of one of the miracles described in Matthew?

During the firsew centuries CE some people insisted that Christianity was not distincrom Judaism but part of it, being the fulfillment of Jewish prophecy.

Not until ________ ideas penetrated the East during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were Orthodox theologians compelled to take a position on the doctrine of justification.