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what are the 6 theories of life after death?: 1. Resurrection
2. Reincarnation
3. Pantheism
4. Materialism
5. Immortality
6. Paganism
What is the main goal of the Protestant Church?: to protest against and bring down the Catholic Church
What issues do the protestans agree with the catholic church?: -church saves
-Trinity
-Baptism
How do you determine wheather a church is liberal or conservative?: Liberal is less structured and Conservative is more structured
Name 2 Liberal churches: Evangelical and Baptist
Name 2 conservative churches: Lutheran and Anglican
Name 2 churches in the middle of conservative and liberal: Methodist and Presbyterian
What are the 3 main differences between Catholics and Protestants?: 1. Salvation
2. Grace and the Human person
3. View of the Church
How do protestants view the church?: They view it as a place where like minded people worship
What is the difference in ow the protestants and the catholics views on grace?: Catholics say grace changes inwardly and saves us but protestants don't.
How do Protestants say they recieve salvation?: Through Faith alone
What does "sola fida" mean?: faith alone
Which protestant reformer said "sola fida"?: Martin Luther
What is the quote on salvation from Romans 5?: "since we are justified by faith"
What quote from the bible explains the Catholic stance on Salvation?: 1 Corinthians 13:2 - "if I have faith, but do not have love, I have nothing"
When was the eastern Schism and what issues was it about?: 1054 Filioque and Politics
Name two popular reformers before the schism.: Wycliff and Huss
What did Wycliff do?: Taught sola scriptura at Oxford and denied the Eucharist in 1382
What did Huss do?: Taught in Prague in 1415
What are the four parts of the Schism?: 1. Nationalism
2. decadence of the clergy
3. Uneducated clergy
4. Indulgences
What were the 2 responses from the people about the Schism?: Reform from within or leave
What were the people who reformed from within called?: Catholic Counter Reformers
Name some popular saints from the time of the schism.: -St. Teresa of Avila
-St. Idnatius of Loyola
-St. Catherine of Siena
Who were the four big Protestant reformers, where were they from and tell weather they were conservative or liberal?: -Martin Luther: Germany (conservative)
-John Calvin: France (Liberal)
-Henry VIII: England (conservative)
-Ulrich Zwingli: Switz. (Liberal)
What sacraments did Martin Luther keep?: -Baptism
-Confirmation
-Eucharist
What changes did John Calvin make as a reformer?: -No priesthood (authority)
-Sola scriptura
-No Eucharist
What changes did Ulrich Zwingli make as a reformer?: -No authority
-Only God and you
What changes did Henry VIII make as a reformer?: -Claimed himself head of the church of England
What does Septuagint mean?: It is the translation of the Old Testament.
What does Deuterocanonical mean?: This is what we as Catholics call the "2nd Canon" The 7 books the Protestants took out.
What does Protocanonical mean?: "First Canon" All the books besides the 7 taken out by the protestants. The books everyone else excepts.
Who lead the council of Jamnia in 100?: Jewish Leaders
What was the goal of the Council of Jamnia?: To take out 7 Books of the Bible.
What 7 books of the bible did the council of Jamnia wish to take out?: -1 and 2 Maccabees
-Sirach
-Judith
-Wisdom
-Tobit
-Baruch
What 2 books did the Council of Jamnia remove parts of?: Ester and Daniel
Why did the Council of Jamnia want to remove these book?: To get back to the "Original Hebrew"
What is the Didache?: The teaching of the Apostles
Sybically, why did the Protestants take out the books?: Becaue they seemed catholic
Synically, why did the Jewish take out the books?: Because they seemed Christian
What does Judaism mean?: People of the Covenant
What were the main points of Judaism?: religion, culture, ethnis, country.
In judaism, beliefs come from 3 different areas. What are they?: 1. law
2. Prophets
3. Historic events
What are some characteristics of Judaism?: Monotheistic, worship in synogogues, instead of priests, they have rabbi(teachers of law)
What is the basic theological statement of Judaism?: Shema
What was the name of the written and oral teaching of the jews?: Written-Torah
Oral- Talmud
The Talmud is composed of two sections. What are they?: Mishnah and Germara
What are th 3 main groups of Jews?: Orthodox, Conservative, and Reformed
What do the Jews call their group of holidays through sept-oct?: Tishri
What is the jewish new year called?: Rosh Hashanah
Name the 2 other holidays of the jews?: Yom Kippur and The feast of the Taberacle.
What is the meaning of Islam?: Submission to God
What is Islamic based on?: The realtion and travels of Abraham and Muhammed to MECCA
In what country is Mecca?: Saudi Arabia
When the Angel Gabriel comes to Muhammed what happens?: He guides him for 23 years to write the Koran
How many suras (chapters) are there in the Koran: 114
What happens to Muhammed in 622?: He is dragged out of Mecca and he goes to Medina
What does Mohammed do in Medina?: He forms a militia of 40,000 men and they go to mecca.
When Muhammed died, what 3 countries did his men go on to take?: Palistine, Mesopotamia, Syria, and Egypt.
Who led men to stop the Muslims from taking Rome?: Charles Martel
What are the 5 Pillars of Islam?: 1. Creed (Shahada)
2. Pray 5x a day facing Mecca
3. Alms giving
4. Fasting druing Ramadan
5. Hadj- pilgrimage to Mecca
Wheredo muslims worship?: Mosques
What is a mineret?: A tower on the top of Mosques that calls people to prayer
What are the two types of Muslims?: Sunni and Shiite
What do the Shiites believe?: They believe that the line of successors of blood comes from Ali and that he was martyred by the Sunni
What is Caliphs?: Successors of Muhammed
What are the seven types of Religion?: 1. Agnosticism
2. Atheist
3. Polytheism
4. Pantheism
5. Deism
6. Unitarian
7. Trinitarian
Name 2 religions that are Unitarian?: Jews and Muslims
What type of religion are christains?: Trinitarians
What type if religion are Buddhists?: Pantheists
Who was the founder of the Mormons and where was he from?: Joseph Smith from vermont
What becomes the book of Mormons?: The gold tablets revealed to Smith by the Angel Moroni
Who did Joseph Smith say ordained him?: John the Baptist
Who did Joseph Smith say ordained him in the order of Melchizadek?: Peter, James, and John
What 2 tribes in the book of mormon made there way to America?: Jaredites and Nephites
What did the Mormons say the U.S. was?: the land of zion
Where did Jseph and his brother Hyrum form a malitia?: Nauvoo, Illinois
What happened in Nauvoo?: Joseph and his brother were put in jail and the Christians attacked the jail and killed them
Who is responsible for taking mormons to Utah?: Brigam Young
What are the 3 levels of Heaven for the Mormons?: 1. Low end- recieve the holy ghost
2. Middle- recieve Jesus
3. High end- become a god and get your own planet
Who was the founder of Jehovah's Witnesses?: Charles Taze Russell
What do Jehovah's Witnesses do?: openly reject the trinity and don't believe in hell.
What do Jehovahs say about heaven?: They say it can only hold 144,000 people and it is already full and everyone else lives forever in paradise on earth.
What are adventists?: predict the end of the world
What is the goal of the East?: To be one with everything
What is the main belief of Hinduism?: everything is a part of who God is, we are all one with eachother and if you don't believe that then you aren't enlightened.
What else do Hidu's beleve?: They believe in polytheism where they don't see God as personal.
What do the Hindu's learn from?: The Upanishads
What are the Upanishads?: ancient theological texts that teach about the "one" which is everything
Hindu's believe in the Atman. What does that mean?: Eternal self
What is the goal of the Atman?: to "dissolve" the self or "liberate" the self
What is the goal of the Atman known as?: Moksha
What do Hindus call reincarnation?: Samsara
According to Hindus what is reincarnation based on?: Karma
Besides reincarnation what else do Hindus believe is based on Karma?: Liberation
What is the standard for ethical living according to the Hindus?: Dharma
What are the 4 beliefs of Dharma?: 1. Revelation
2. Tradition passed on
3. look to those who are wise
4. Conscience
What do Hindus believe the 3 paths of Liberation will do?: dissolve the self
What are the 3 paths of Liberation?: 1. Path of work (Karma Marga)- do actions marked by unselfishness
2. Path of Knowledge (Jnana Marga)- through contemplation you gain knowlege to be one w/ everything
3. Path of Devotion (Bhatri Marga)- worship of gods to focus less on self
What does Budh literally mean?: to awaken
Who do Buddhists say is the enlightened one?: Guatama
What are the 4 passing sights?: 1. decrepit old man(age)
2. diseased man(sick)
3. corpsi(die)
4. ascetic(self denial)
What were the noble truths based on?: The passing sights
What are the last four things to happen to a person?: 1. Death
2. Judgement
3. heaven
4. hell
Name the last rites.: 1. Reconciliation
2. Apostolic Pardon
3. Annointing of the sick
4. Viaticum- "to go with"

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