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39 Cards in this Set
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atonement
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Christ's restoration to right relationship with God
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excommunication **
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Formal expulsion from the Catholic church
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friar **
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member of a Latin mendicant i.e. Dominicans, Francisans, or Carmelites
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Immaculate Conception
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doctrine that Mary was conceived without sin
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indulgences **
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Releases from specified amounts of time in purgatory
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lectionary **
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schedule of scriptural passages to be read in worship
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mendicant orders
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Medieval Latin religious orders other than monastaries
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mysticism
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tradition cultivating and reflecting on the content of moments of spiritual union with the divine
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ontological argument
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argument based on logic that God must necessarily exist and formulated by Anselm
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Puritanism
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movement in England seeking to purify the Church of England of Catholic influences for Calvinist ones
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Reformed Churches
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churches that are Calvinist in doctrine and Presbyterian in Church government
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rosary **
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fifty-eight beads and a small crucifix used in devotion
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Stations of the Cross
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fourteen locations marked in the nave of a Catholic church recalling events along the pilgrimage
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ecumenism **
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movement for reunion between separated branches of Christianity
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fundamentalism
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20th century reaction to modernity by Protestants who advocated strict literal inerrancy of scripture and doctrine
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glossolalia
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speaking in strange tongues
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imprimatur **
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permission given by a Roman Catholic ecclesiastical official before something is printed
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Pentecostal churches
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Protestant groups emphasizing outbursts
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Pietism
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movement expressing a spontaneity of devotion and certainty of forgiveness
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transubstantiation **
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Catholic doctrine that the bread and wine were transformed into the body and blood
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Fatihah
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short, oft recited opening surah of the Quran
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hadith **
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literature considered as a corpus
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hajj **
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annual pilgrimage to Makkah
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hijrah **
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Muhammads migration from Makkah
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isnad
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pedigree of the transmitters of a unit of hadith
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ijtihad
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process of developing legal opinions
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Ramadan **
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month when Muslims fast during the day
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salat **
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prescribed daily prayers, said five times
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shahadah **
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declaring one's faith as a muslim
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shari'ah **
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specific regulations and conduct of Islamic law
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Shi'is
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one of two main divisions of Islam; prophets authority from imam
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sunnah **
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life example of Muhammad's, guide to proper conduct
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Sunnis
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one of main division; prophets authority through caliphate
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surah **
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chapter of the Quran
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ummah **
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Muslim community
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zakat **
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prescribed welfare tax
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dhimmis
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non-Muslim religious minorities accorded tolerated status
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halal
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ritually acceptable; slaughter of animals
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hijab
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woman's veil
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