Christianity Quiz Religion

The ______ is a profession of faith formulated by the councils of Nicea in the 4th Century CE and articulates the Christian Doctrine of the ________

Nicene Creed ::::::::::::: Trinity

What are the two parts of the Christian Bible?

Old Testament and New Testament

According to the gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, Jesus made extensive use of ________ which are short, fictional stories that use the language and imagery of everyday life to illustrate moral and religious truths.

Parables

In the broadest sense of the term, _______ refers to a universal community of Christians, but the term can also refer to a particular tradition within Christianity or to an individual congregation of Christians.

Church

Which of the following is not a sacrament of initiation in the Catholic Church

Confession

What is the term used for the groups that developed during the protestant reformation?

Denominations

A _______ is one who is taught

Disciple

In what year was the Great Schism?

1054 CE

Where is the biographical information about the life of Paul found?

Acts of the Apostles

Methodism is an offshoot of which branch of Christianity?

Anglican

Though now considered to be part of the Protestant Revolution, which denomination was actually the direct result of Henry VIII wanting to be able to divorce his wife?

Anglican

An ______ is "one who is sent" and is understood to have been an emissary of Jesus.

Apostle

_______ is performed by immersion in water or sprinkling with water and is a sacrament in in which an individual is cleansed of sin and admitted into the Church.

Baptism

Which of the 7 sacraments of the Catholic Church are acknowledged by protestants?

Baptism and Eucharist

Which of the following groups would Jesus have viewed as too separatists?

Essenes

________ mean good news.

Gospel

Who is the most important figure in Christianity?

Jesus

Martin Luther promoted the idea of which became the cornerstone of the Protestant Reformation.

Justification by faith

Who is the most influential figure of the Protestant Reformation?

Martin Luther

Christianity is classified as which of the following?

Monotheism

Nearly half of the books of the New Testament are traditionally attributed to which man?

Paul

Who is the second most important figure in Christianity?

Paul

_________ is a holiday celebrated by Christians in commemoration of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the disciples of Jesus as described in the second chapter of the New Testament book of Acts.

Pentecost

Which Jewish group were both Paul and Josephus members of?

Pharisees

Which of the following groups would Jesus have viewed as too reliant on The Law?

Pharisees

In Roman Catholicism, _________ is an intermediate state between earthly life and heaven in which the debt for unconfessed sins is expiated.

Purgatory

____________ are rituals in which material elements such as bread, wine, water, and oil serve as visible symbols of an invisible grace conveyed to recipients.

Sacraments

Which of the following groups would Jesus have viewed as being too politically corrupt because of their acceptance of Hellenistic culture?

Sadducees

_________ is the violation of God's will in Christianity and can be either thought or action.

Sin

According to the Roman Catholic Doctrine of ___________ the bread and wine consecrated by a priest in the Eucharist becomes the body and blood of Christ and retain only the appearance, not the substance, of bread and wine.

Transubstantiation

Marriage and Ordination fall into which category of sacraments in Catholicism?

Vocation

Which group would Jesus have viewed as too violent in their approach to change?

Zealots/Sicarri

When applied to a group of texts, _______ refers to a recognized body of literature that (in a religious setting) is deemed authoritative by a religious body.

canon