Maddy J's History vocab for Christianity
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- laity
- church members who are not clergy
- salvation
- the act of being saved from sin and allowed to enter heaven
- icon
- Christian religous image or picture
- catacombs
- christian burrel tunnels
- parable
- stories that used events from everyday life to express spiritual ideas
- gospel
- one of the four accounts of Jesus' life teaching and preaching
- martyr
- a person willing to die rather than give up his or her beliefs
- orthodox
- a group that made their own Christian religon "officially accepted" Byzantine empire's official church based on Greek heritage
- messiah
- a deliverer sent by God
- apostle
- an early Christian leader who helped det up churches and spread the message of Jesus
- clergy
- religous officials, such as priests, given authority to conduct religous services; payed leaders of a church
- resurrection
- the act of rising from the dead
- Gentiles
- non-jews
- hierchy
- an organization with different levels of authority
- persecute
- to mistreat a person because of his or her beliefs
- schism
- separation in churches
- monastery
- religous community where monks live and work
- excommunicate
- to declare that a person or group no longer belongs to a church (pope)
- convent
- where nuns work
- Patriarch
- father or head archbishops of the orthodox church
- disciple
- close follower of Jesus
- pope
- the bishop of Rome, later the head of the Roman Catholic Church
- vencular
- everyday language used in a country or religon
- crucifixion
- to be hung on a cross while dying slowly
- doctrine
- official church teaching