Definitions
- Apostle –One who followed Jesus.
- Succession: The ministry of the Church is resultant from Christ through successive bishops.
- Old Testament: The first part of the Christian biblical canon.
- Bible – Book of sacred and holy texts and scriptures. Studied and practiced by Christians
- Gnostic – Personal over orthodox.
- Codex Sinaiticus – Mid-4th century bible.
- Bishop – ordained clergy
- Predestination: The teaching that God has determined beforehand who is to be saved
- Christianity: The religion based on the person and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, or its beliefs and practices Pentarchy – Eastern orthodox. Justinian
- Eremetic monasticism – Hermit
- Cross: Wooden beams perpendicular to each other. Known for its crucifixion.
- Cenobitic monasticism – Community
- Jerome: Monk who translated the Bible into Latin (the Vulgate)
- catholic (as opposed to Catholic): Latin word for universal
- Miaphysite – fully divine and fully human in one
- Theotokos – Mary in Eastern Christianity
- Disciples: A personal follower of Jesus during his life, especially one of the twelve Apostles.
- Patriarchate – Three jurisdictions of rule – Rome, Antioch, Alexandria
- Creed – statement of shared beliefs.
- Creed: Concise formal statement of Christian doctrine
- Oecumenical – representing the whole of the body of the church
- Basilica – rectangular chamber of church
- Julian of Norwich: An anchorite who had intense visions of Jesus Christ
- Holy Sepulchre – site where Jesus was crucified
- Ousia – essence or substance
- Homoousios – one essence
- Prosopon – person, from Greek for mask of person on stage to reveal character
- Physis – nature
- Great Papal Schism – A split within the Catholic Church from 1378 to 1417 where 2 men claimed to be popes.
- Hypostasis: A nature in its concrete realization in a particular thing or person
- Hildegard of Bingen: Widely recognized as a seer this gave her special authority rare for women
- Canon – religious texts regarded as authoritative
- Trinity – Three in one
- Teresa of Avila: Desired to be a spiritual guide, wrote “Interior Castle” and was friends with John of the Cross
- Crucifixion: The Roman’s method of punishment
- Christology – the study of Christ
- Calvary – Death place of Christ
- Catherine of Siena: Showed considerable spiritual insight in her “Book of Divine Providence
- Charlemagne: Was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the Pope at Christmas in 800
- Ethiopia: Fourth century historical accounts indicate missionaries came from the east across the Red Sea.
- Prosopon: Greek for person or persons or mask (as in play)
- The Arian Controversy: The debate over the nature and extent of the divinity of Christ
- Original Sin: The sin of Adam and Eve which is passed on to children through sexual intercourse
- The church of the East: They traveled east astonishing distance including to India and China
- Ethiopian Church: The presiding bishop was not native but from Alexandria as late as 1951
- Thecla: Virgin disciple of Paul known from apocryphal Acts
- Erasmus – a Dutch philosopher who is widely considered to have been one of the greatest scholars.
- Huguenots – religious groups of French protestants.
- Episcopate – Office of a Bishop
- Schism: When Christians formally separate from one another
