Christian Story Final Exam Set #4

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Circumcision

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- Removal of the foreskin. This is a sign of membership in the Mosaic covenant.

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Election

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Being chosen. In the Hebrew Bible, the Israelites are God’s people. NT writers also attach this designation to those who come to believe in Christ, in addition to those in the Mosaic covenant.

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Justification

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A legal terms Paul uses to refer to the forgiveness of sins believers receive through Jesus.

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Lord's Supper

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-- Ritual meal in the early church that commemorated and interpreted the death of Jesus. The synoptic gospels give an account of Jesus instituting this meal and remembrance of his arrest.

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Parousia

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Second coming of Christ at the end of things as the world knows then

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Philemon

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Owner of Onesimus and primary addressee of one of Paul’s letters

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Reconciliation

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- A relational term that Paul uses to speak of the peace between believers and God that Christ effects. In other Pauline and NT contexts it can refer to the forced surrender of powers that are opposed to God.

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Redemption

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A transaction in which persons or things are exchanged for some kind of payment. This includes buying slaves out of slavery. In the Bible it’s used as a metaphor for salvation.

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Baptism

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The first initiation ritual for the early church. In the fist century, it involved the immersion of the person in water. It was patterned on other ritual washings, particularly within Judaism. The church interpreted the act of immersion as a reenactment of the burial and resurrection of Chirst, which symbolically also brought new life to the baptized person.

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Body of Christ

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A metaphor for the church that indicates the close relationship among members and that the church is the presences of Christ in the world. In early usage, it was applied only to individual congregations; as time passed, the image enlarged so that the church worldwide was identified as the one cosmic body of Christ.

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Deutero-Paulines

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The writings in the NT that claim to be written by Paul, but that most scholars believe were written by someone else after his death. Those most likely to fall into this category are Ephesians, 1&2 Timothy, and Titus. Many scholars also think that Colossians and 2 Thessalonians were written after Paul died. These writings were intended to apply Paul’s teachings to a new situation.

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Eschatology

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Study of the end times, when it will be and what is to happen at that time. Often this area of study also includes a discussion of the state of the dead in the present.

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Pastoral Epistles

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1 & 2 Timothy and Titus. They are called this because they give instructions about church leaders.

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Docetism

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Belief that Jesus did not have a physical body, but was only a spiritual presence in the world

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Gnostics

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Belief system that incorporates he elements of mysticism and a radical rejection of the value of the material world. Began with Judaism and then quickly moved to Christianity.

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Apocalyptic

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–A genre of literature and a way of understanding the world. The genre has a heavenly being bring a message about God’s actions to enact justice. Book of Revelation is the best example.

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City of Seven Hills

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Nickname for the city of Rom in the 1st century. Revelation alludes to this name in one of its imagees as a sign to readers that it is talking about the empire

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Cognitive Dissonance

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– A distressed mental state that occurs when a person’s beliefs about the self or the world are significantly different from the way they actually experience the world or from the other ideas about the world they continue to hold

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Domitian

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Roman emperor 81-96 CE. Some thin he instigated the persecution of Christians that broke out soon after his reign.

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Ex Eventu Prophecies

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A prophecy written after the even that fulfills it has already happened. Many pseudepigraphic works employ this technique so that they seem reliable when they predict what is truly still in the future

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Numerology

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–-Use of numbers to represent letters

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Relative deprivation

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The experience of not having things one thinks one is entitled to or deserves. Those who have this experience may not be impoverished, but only lack the things others have around them.

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Pseudepigrapha

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–(1) any document written under the name of someone other than the true authors. (2) A collection of 65 writings by Jewish and Christian authors, often purporting to be written by ancestors of Jews or other prominent characters in the Hebrew Bible.

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Twenty Four elders

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Powerful figures among the beings that surround the throne of God in the vision of heaven in Revelation4-5. They represent the combination of the twelve tribes of Israel and the 12 apostles.