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- Parables
- short stories in which some important truth is taught by comparing one subject to another
- Trinity
- the 3 persons in god- father, son, holy spirit
- Apocrypha
- Boooks not considered to be authoratative
- Canon
- "measure", "rule"; a list of authoratative books or documents
- Apostle
- One of Jesus' 12 disciples; also any early preacher of Christ
- testament
- "contract"; the old test, and new test. constitude the christian scriptures
- Epistle
- letters, such as the 21 epistels of the new test.
- creed
- concise, authoratative statement of important pts of basic doctrine
- catechism
- a manuel of instruction often used to prepare one for Baptism or confirmation
- pentecostal
- emphasizes the gifts of the holy spirit
- evangelical
- emphasizing the authority of scripture, an adjective used to identify certain protestant groups
- sacrament and Ordinance
- one of the essential rituals of Christianity such as Baptism
- ecumenism
- the ecumenical movement unites denominations as fellow believers
- gospel
- "good news"; an account on the life of Jesus
- Incarnation
- "In flesh"; a belief that god became visible on Jesus
- Mosque, masjid
- a muslim place of worship
- Jinn
- Spirit- can be good or evil- capable of assuming human and animal shape, not an angel
- shari'a Law
- qur'anic laws- usually refers to a strict legal interpretation
- jihad
- "struggle"; the ideals both of spreading islamic belief and practice and heroic self sacrifice
- caliph
- "successor"; a religious and political leader
- imam
- a religious leader, specifically one of the hereditary successors of Muhammed venerated in Shiite Islam
- Muezzin
- a chanter who calls people to prayer
- surah, sura
- a chapter of the qur'an
- hajra
- "flight"; muhammeds escape frm mecca to yathrib
- hajj
- pilgrimage to mecca
- ramadan
- the month of fasting- 9th month of the muslim calendar
- Ka'aba, kabah, ka'ba, kaba
- "cube" the swuare shrine at the center of the great mosque of mecca
- minaret
- a tower used by a chanter to calislaml people to pryer
- Islam
- "submission"the muslim religion and the community of believers who have submitted themselves to allah
- hadiths
- recollection