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28 Cards in this Set
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What do we study about religious heritage?
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Thought
Worship Organization Christian Life Christianity and Society Christianity and Culture |
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Why do we study religious heritage?
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Historical Awareness
Promotes Critical, reflective thinking Humility |
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What are the the sections of religious history?
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Ancient, Medieval/Middle, Reformation, Modern
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Describe the Ancient period of religious history?
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Roman Empire+ Hellenistic Culture
Beginnings to fall of Western Empire |
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Describe the Medieval/Middle period of religious history?
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Split between East and West
Major Christians MLK wrote the rights to the Catholic Church |
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Religion
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our belief and living that is ordered by that belief
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Theology
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is the effort to give a rational and explanation of our belief about religion
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Heresy
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is that is deemed a mistake in the thinking
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Orthodoxy
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good theology whereas heresy is the bad theology
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Denominations
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names of Christian Churches
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What is the order of the denominations in Christian History?
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1. Jesus Movement
2. Early Church 3. Roman Catholicism 4 Protestant |
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Persian Period
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539 -332 BCE
Persians replaced Babylons Aramaic Replaced Hebrew Return from Exile, reaffirmed distinctives( Monothesim, Priesthood as dominant leadership, Centrality of Torah and Temple) Diaspora and messianic hope( Dispersion of Jews) |
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Alexander the Great
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332 - 323 BCE
Ptolemaic (Ptolemy) -Rule from the South -Septuagint and Alexandria 198 - 167 Seleucid - Rule from the North -Antiochus Epiphanesusrial -Maccabean Revolt -Liberation of the Temple 192- 63 BCE Hasminean Dynasty |
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Roman Empire
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- Pompey
- Marks end of Selecuid Empire/ End of Herod the Great who was king over Palestine |
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Ethnarchs and Procurators
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the ruler of a people, tribe, or nation.
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1st Jewish Revolt 60 - 73 CE
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Temple Destroyed 70 CE
Masada |
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2nd Jewish Revolt 132 -35 CE
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Simeon Bar Cocheba
Total overthrow of Jerusalem Total Banishment of Jews from Jerusalem Rise of Rabbinic Judaism |
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Rabbinic Judaism
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Judaism without a temple
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Roman Empire
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Politics- Roman Empire
Culture- Mainly Greek |
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Religion in the Roman Empire
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Judaism, Christianity, Three Broad Strands of Greco-Roman Religions
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Religion in the Roman Empire
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Judaism, Christianity, Three Broad Strands of Greco-Roman Religions
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Three Types of Greco-Roman Empire Religions
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Polytheistic, Mystery Cults, Philosophical Schools
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Polytheistic-Civic Religion
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Symeretistic
Public, Social, Traditional - well-being depends on pleasing the cosmic powers - Impersonal about order and harmony on the whole Emperors worship -Roman power as manifestation of divine power |
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Mystery Cults
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-Eastern "Nature" Religions
-Personal Enthusiastic even orgiastic -Experience of the divine belonging, new life -Religions of salvation which drank and fed on the sense of transcendence |
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Epicureans
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pleasure, an absence of mental distrubances is human good
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Stoics
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Living" with the grain" of human natures highest good that is logos spermitikos
-freedom and dispassion from external stuff of life -unaffected by events going on in life -people that are not moved by events going on in the world |
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Platonism
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- more dualistic distinction of material and spiritual
- ideas/forms -Being and Becoming that which come to be |
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Aristotelian
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-more materialist
-systematization of knowledge whose foundation is right here with which we have access |
