religion midterm 2
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- The king of Israel at the time of Jesus' birth was who?
- Herod the Great
- In Palestine during the time of Jesus, 90 percent of the population belonged to which social class?
- the poor
- Name 3 reasons house churches were important among the early Christians.
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1. provided space where they could gather
2. created envionment where they could pray
3. provided a community of support and hope - Describe 3 jewish beliefs at the time of Jesus.
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1. believed in God the creator
2. they were to carry his image through history
3. he made a covenant with his people. - Dorothy Day founded what movement?
- Catholic worker movement
- What do we know about St. Mark's Gospel?
- it's the shortest gospel
- Why does Mark conclude the Baptism of Jesus with the arrest of John the Baptist?
- to show the shadow of the cross will follow
- In Mark's Gospel when does Jesus first state that he is the Messiah?
- when he's on trial before Pilate
- Im Mark's Gospel who show faith in Jesus as he dies on the cross?
- Mary, John, the somen and the Roman soldier
- In Mark's Gospel who were the first four disciples to be called by Jesus?
- Simon, Andrew, James, John
- What is the message of the shorter ending by Mark's gospel?
- jesus calls us to continue his story by responding to his disciples
- What are the 3 themes found in both luke's gospel and the acts of the apostles?
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1. mary is our model of discipleship
2. jesus words, deeds and table fellowship through his follower
3. accepting all people as children of god - at the transfiguration, three apostles saw jesus talking with ___ and ___
- moses and elijiah
- the parable of the ___ exteds love of neighbor to include everyone- even ones enemies
- good samaritan
- on the rode to emmaeus, the two disciples recognize jesus as soon as he what?
- broke bread
- john's gospel contains (more, less) stories about jesus than the synoptic gospels
- less
- only in whose gospel is the divinity of jesus clearly stated from the beginning and highlighted throughout
- john's
- the ___ statements in John's gospel reminds the audience of moses encounter with god; they are meant to convey the divinity of jesus
- i am
- the book of revelation ( is, is not) a secret code book that describes the end of the world
- is not
- the book of revelation was most likely written by who?
- john's followers
- what are short stories of wisdom and truth that present listeners with a challenge to respond to the word of god
- parables
- which parable shows gods mercy and compassion to those who sin
- the prodigal son
- the romans (were, were not) the first to invent crucifixion as a form of capital punishment
- were not
- the what commemorate the stops along the via dolorosa, jesus' journey to calvary and the tomb
- stations of the cross
- how many of the new testament epistles were written by paul
- 13
- according to paul we (can, can not) achieve justification by our own efforts
- can not
- the body of christ is a phrase used only by who to express the relationship of christ the church and its members?
- paul
- which letter stresses the need to witness to faith in both words and actions. the writer indicates that controlling our speech is the hardest of all human skills
- james
- who were a jewish group whose main focus was obedience to the law
- pharisees
- who were a jewish group that did not believe in life after death
- sadducees
- the dead sea scrolls were found where, the northwest shore of the dead sea
- qumran
- throughout scripture and in marks gospel where was the place where people met
- mountains
- she walked thousands of miles to encourage people to overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth and hatred with love
- peace pilgrim
- a group in marks gospel who opposed jesus
- scribes
- the term that refers to the discovery that jesus is the messiah as shown by his healing, preaching and teaching
- messianic secret
- the term that refers to the paradox that the messiah that will have to suffer and die for others
- messianic mystery
- they were symbolic of the twelve tribes of israel; they are to be the leaders of the new people of god
- apostles
- the province containing jerusalem and the temple was what
- judea
- where did jesus grow up
- nazareth
- a name that means friend of god
- theophilus
- the first martyr of the church
- stephen
- paul saw his vocation as being a missionary to whom
- the gentiles
- followers of jesus were first called christians where
- antioch
- the first church council was held where
- jerusalem
- the wife of aquila, converted by paul and became a missionary
- priscilla
- the first city in europe where the gospel of jesus was preached
- philippi
- the symbol in revelation that means completeness
- twelve
- in johns gospel jesus first reveals his identity to who
- samaritan women
- expressions of truths or generalizations of human experience through the use of extended symbolic fictional figures or action
- allegories
- for john the basis for all of jesus miracles was the what
- incarnation
- he underwent a gradual and slow process of being reborn in the spirit
- nicodemus
- according to john, at the last supper jesus taught that love is the heart of Christian what?
- service
- what is a hypothetical source for verses in matthew and luke
- q document
- the four whats wrote down the oral traditions about the life, death, and resurrection of jesus
- evangelists
- what is an account of the saving action of god through human history
- salvation history
- hebrew scriptures plus addition books such as tobit, judith, and others
- old testament
- what are the books of the bible that come from the jewish people before the time of jesus
- hebrew scriptures
- what are writings accepted by the church as inspired by the holy spirit and thus part of the bible
- canon
- what is a greek word that means anointed one or messiah
- christos
- what is the term that means god made flesh
- incarnation
- ways of living that can bring true happiness
- beatitudes
- term that is never used in Matts gospel
- kingdom of god
- what are stories of jesus that give us clues about the kingdom of heaven
- parables
- the place where jews and christians worshiped together before the war against rome
- synagogues
- is the event at which the holy spirit appeared as a dove
- jesus baptism
- prayer that says to love god with your whole heart, sole and mind
- shema
- is the second volume of lukes writing to be found in the new testament
- acts of the apostles
- is a womans song in old testament that is similar to marys song of praise
- hannah
- is the prophet who appears with jesus at the transfiguration
- elijiah
- is the man in the parable of the good samaritan who refuses to help the beaten man on the road
- levite
- are those who are poor and outcasts of society
- anawim
- are romans, first and second corinthians, first and second thessalonians, galatians and hebrews
- pauline letters
- are colossians, ephesians, phillipians, and philemon
- captivity letters
- are first and second timothy and titus
- pastoral letters
- are james, first and second peter, first, second and third john, and jude
- catholic letters
- is the most articulate of pauls letters, paul traces gods gift of salvation from adam to jesus
- letter to the romans
- is the shortest of pauls letters
- philemon
- is probably the first new testament book written
- 1st thessalonians
- is the total number of books in the new testament
- 27
- a term given to the gospels of mark, matthew and luke
- synoptic
- what are the 3 stages of gospel development
- jesus life, oral proclamation, written proclamation
- who doesnt give a narrative of jesus birth
- st john
- which gospel reflects negative feelings toward the pharisees, who exommunicated jewish christians because they didnt fight in the war against rome
- matthew
- the beatitudes of jesus (accept, reject) the law of the 10 commandments
- accept
- according to jesus, true happiness (is, isnot) found in god, not things
- is
- the only meal of jesus that is recorded in all four gospels
- feeding of the 5000
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which of the following is an example of a miracle of healing?
a. jesus cures two blind men
b. jesus rids a boy of a demon
c. jesus walks on water
d. jesus raises lazarus from the dead - a
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miracle of exorcism
a. jesus heals an officials son
b. jesus heals a man with an unclean spirit
c. jesus raises the daughter of jairus
d. jesus stills the storm - b
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miracle over death
a. jesus feeds the four thousand
b. jesus heals a canaanite woman's duaghter
c. jesus heals ten lepers
d. jesus raises the daughter of jairus - d
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miracle over nature
a. jesus heals a crippled woman
b. jesus heals those possessed with demons
c. jesus turns water into wine at a wedding in cana
d. jesus raises lazarus - c
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which of the following statements about the passion accounts is true?
a. all four gospels present the passion of jesus in the same way
b. the passion of jesus is found in the synoptic gospels, but not in john
c. the goal of the evangleist - c
- the jewish sanhedrin charged jesus with what crime
- blasphemy
- the roman government charged jesus with what crime
- treason
- the new testaments records how many last words of jesus?
- seven