Christianity

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Advent

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The month of spiritual preparation leading up to Christmas.

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Epiphany

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"Manifestation";in Christianity the recognition of Jesus's spiritual kingship by the three Magi.

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Ash Wednesday

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The first day of Lent; According to the Canonical gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, Jesus spent forty days fasting in the desert before the beginning of his public ministry, during which he endured temptation by Satan. marks the beginning of this forty day liturgical period of prayer and fasting.

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Lent

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The 40 days of spiritual preparation leading up to Easter.

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Easter

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Movable feast in spring celebrating the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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Pentecost

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The occasion when the Holy Spirit descended upon the disciples of Jesus after his death.

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Ordinary Time

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a season of the Christian liturgical calendar, in particular the calendar of the Roman rite and related liturgical rites

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Sacrament

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Outward and visible signs of inward and spiritual grace in Christianity

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Baptism

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A Christian sacrament by which God cleanses all sin and makes one a sharer in the divine life, and a member of Christ's body, the Church

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Sprinkling

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form of Baptism with water sprinkled

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Immersion

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form of Baptism with the individual being placed in water

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Eucharist (Lord's Supper)

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The Christian sacrament by which believers are renewed in the mystical body of Christ by partaking of bread and wine, understood as his body and blood

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Transubstantiation

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In some branches of Christianity, the idea that wine and bread are mystically transformed into the blood and body of Christ during the eucharist sacrament

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Consubstantiation

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Bread and wine remain bread and wine after being blessed.

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Christology

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the field of study within Christian theology which is primarily concerned with the nature and person of Jesus Christ as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament.[2] Primary considerations include the relationship of Jesus' nature and person with the nature and person of God the Father. As such, Christology is co

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Beatitudes

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Short statements by Jesus about those who are most blessed

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Sermon on the Mount

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The Sermon on the Mount is a collection of sayings and teachings of Jesus, which emphasizes his moral teaching found in the Gospel of Matthew (chapters 5, 6 and 7).[1] It is the first of the Five Discourses of Matthew and takes place relatively early in the Ministry of Jesus after he has been baptized by John the Baptist and preached in Galilee.

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New Testament

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he second major division of the Christian biblical canon, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament.

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Gospels

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In Christianity, the good news that God has raised Jesus from the dead and in so doing has begun the transformation of the wo

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Synoptic Gospels

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the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke; they include many of the same stories, often in the same sequence, and sometimes exactly the same wording.

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non-canonical gospels

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In addition to the four canonical gospels, early Christians wrote other gospels that were not accepted into the canon, including Thomas, Peter and Judas

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Parables

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An allegorical story

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Epistles

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a writing directed or sent to a person or group of people, usually an elegant and formal didactic letter.

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Constantine

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embraced Christianity in 312 ce

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Gnosticism

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Mystical perception of spiritual knowledge

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Marcionism

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Marcionism was an Early Christian dualist belief system that originated in the teachings of Marcion of Sinope at Rome around the year 144

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Montanism

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an early Christian movement of the late 2nd century, later referred to by the name of its founder, Montanus, but originally known by its adherents as the New Prophecy

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heresy

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a controversial or novel change to a system of beliefs, especially a religion, that conflicts with established dogma.

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Trinity

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The Christian doctrine that in the One God are three divine persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit

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Creeds

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A formal statement of the beliefs of a particular religion

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Canon

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Authoritative collection of writings, works, etc

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Immaculate Conception

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the conception of the Virgin Mary without any stain of Original Sin

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Filioque

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a phrase found in the form of Nicene Creed in use in the Latin Church. It is not present in the Greek text of the Nicene Creed as originally formulated at the First Council of Constantinople, which says only that the Holy Spirit proceeds "from the Father":

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Apocrypha

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books that the Protestant Christian Church considered useful but not divinely inspired

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icons

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A sacred image, a term used especially for the paintings of Jesus, Mary, and the saints of the Eastern Orthodox Christian Church

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Martin Luther

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German priest and professor of theology who initiated the Protestant Reformation

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Council of Trent

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the 16th-century Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church. It is considered to be one of the Church's most important councils;issued condemnations on what it defined as Protestant heresies and defined Church teachings in the areas of Scripture and Tradition, Original Sin, Justification, Sacraments, the Eucharist in Holy Mass and the veneration of saints

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Papal infallibility

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dogma of the Catholic Church which states that, by action of the Holy Spirit, the Pope is preserved from even the possibility of error

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Ecumenism

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Rapprochement between branches of Christianity or among all faiths

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Vatican II

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addressed relations between the Roman Catholic Church and the modern world

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Substitutionary Atonement

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name given to a number of Christian models of the atonement that all regard Jesus as dying as a substitute for others, "instead of" them

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Reconciliation model of atonement

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Reconciliation as a theological concept describes the end of the estrangement, caused by sin, between God and humanity