Christianity Terms

Giving up your time or money to help your neighbor. Two Love commandments. Love God and love thy neighbor. Parable story, which was told by Jesus

Minimum ethical effort, not harming others. Little or no cost to yourself. Love thy neighbor command.

Father (God), Son (Jesus), and the Holy Spirit. 3 forms of 1 God. 

Main figure that branched out Christianity. Creating Protestantism. Reformist of the Roman Catholic Church. Didn’t like that the church sold indulgences. Excommunicated.

Saul- Jewish who persecuted Christians. Struck down by light and then was Baptized and turned Christian Paul- new form of Saul, one of the main figure in Christianity 

Jesus is perfectly divine and perfectly human at the same time.

Good news, Jesus is the divine son of God. Come to save humans from sinful nature. Mark, Matthew, and Luke- Synoptic Gospels (similar) John- 4th gospel

Son or incarnation of God. Preaches to seek the kingdom of heaven through his teachings. Born a Jew. 

Followers of Jesus. Extremely devout, gave up everything to follow Jesus.

The Pope cannot be wrong when it comes to Church matters

System where pope is head of church. Must go through church to get to God

One of the main branches of Christianity. Protest the Roman Catholic church. You can be “saved” or access God through faith alone

Traditionalist. More conservative than Western Church. Do not accept the Filique. God is greater than Jesus

Holy Spirit comes from father and from the son. Jesus and God are equal

Communion. Blood=wine. Body=bread. Last supper.

Roman Emperor who converted to Christianity. Brought Christianity from persecution to the main religion.

Statement of belief. Church unifying under God.

The communion is actually the blood and body of Christ.

Basic belief sees the bible as literal truth. Very traditional

Gospels (3), John, Letters (Paul)