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Theology
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- 1Acts of the Apostlesthe book of the New Testament that tells the story of the early Christian community
- 2Ascensionthe risen Christ enters into heavenly glory
- 3Babylonian CaptivityPeriod from 587 to 539 b.c. when the Jewish nation didn't exist and Jewish leaders were exiled to Babylon
- 4ConversionA radical reorientation of one's whole life away from sin and evil and toward God
- 5Council of Jerusalemfirst Church council, which was called to resolve the growing controversy over whether or not Gentile Christians would have to observe Jewish law
- 6CovenantAn agreement or contract between two parties originally. Came to be applied exclusively to the promise God made o the Jewish people and then through Christ to the Church
- 7DiasporaScattering of the Jewish people from their homeland
- 8ExodusGod's saving intervention in history, as narrated in the Book of Exodus, by which he liberated the Hebrew people from slavery in Egypt and brought them into the Promise Land.
- 9Gentilespersons of non-Jewish faith or origin
- 10Gospelsfour accounts of the life of Jesus in the New Testament. The word "gospel" means "good news"
- 11Hebrewthe tribe of Abraham, later to be known as Israelites and then Jews
- 12Hellenizationthe spread of Greek culture, begun during the time of Alexander the Great
- 13Marks of the Churchthere are four marks of the Church: the Church is one, holy, catholic, and apostolic. These are mentioned in the Nicene Creed.
- 14Paschal Mysterythe mystery of and evens involved in our redemption; Jesus' suffering, death, resurrection, and Ascension
- 15PassoverJewish feast commemorating the deliverance of the Jewish people from death by the blood of the lamb sprinkled on their doorposts
- 16Pentecostthe "fiftieth" day after Easter when the Holy Spirit was manifested, given, and communicated to the followers of JEsus, beginning the new "age of the Church," when Christ lies and acts in and through his Church
- 17reign of Godalso known as the kingdom of God or kingdom of heaven, God's presence in the world through Christ. The Church "is the Reign of Christ already present in mystery."
- 18Resurrectionthe bodily rising of JEsus from the dead on the third day after his death on the cross and burial in the tomb
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