Origin and Spread of Christianity - Vocabulary

What is Christianity?

• the religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus

• the founder of Christianity upon whose life and teachings the religion is based

• the religious faith of Muslims

Who is Jesus?

• a man born around 570 C.E. who taught the faith of Islam

• the founder of Christianity upon whose life and teachings the religion is based

• the Buddha

What is the Messiah?

• a man born around 570 C.E. who taught the faith of Islam

• a soldier for the Roman Army

• a savior who many Jews believe had been promised to them by God

What are the gospels?

• the holy book of the religion of Islam

• an account of the life and teachings of Jesus; four of them are included in the New Testament of the Christian Bible

• a movement within Hinduism that emphasized personal devotion and social and religious equality

What is a disciple?

• a branch of Buddhism that became popular in China and focused on salvation through personal faith

• a person struggle with challenges within themselves and the world as they strive to please God

• a person who helps spread the religious teachings of another

What is a parable?

• a simple story that explains a moral or religious lesson

• a short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral.

• a person who speaks or interprets the words of God

What is The Resurrection?

• wealthy or successful

• extra attention or importance placed on something

• in Christian belief, Jesus’s rise from the dead

What is a missionary?

• a person who helps spread the religious teachings of another

• someone who tries to convert others to believe in a particular religion or set of beliefs

• a person who speaks or interprets the words of God

Who was Constantine?

• a man born around 570 C.E. who taught the faith of Islam

• the founder of Christianity upon whose life and teachings the religion is based

• Constantine

  Roman emperor from about 280 to 337 C.E.; the first Roman emperor to become a Christian