Rel I Ch 3 Test - Tracing the Historical Life of Christ

The authors of the four Gospels of the New Testament are known as

• Evangelists

• Matthew, Mark, Luke and John

• spreaders of the Good News

• all of these

The story of the coming of the Savior, Jesus Christ is known as

• The Gospel

• Evangelism

• kerygma

• didache

The stages of the writing of the Gospels are

• oral tradition, written, editing

• oral tradition, editing, written

• historical Jesus, written, oral tradition

• historical Jesus, oral tradition, written

A form of preaching used in the early Church that presumed an audience of unbelievers.

• The Good News

• kerygma

• didache

• liturgy

A word that meant "teaching" that described oral teaching to those who had already accepted Jesus.

• kerygma

• didache

• liturgy

• evangelism

The public worship and communal worship of the Church.

• Mass

• liturgy

• kerygma

• Eucharist

All of the following are criteria for being included as a canonical Gospel EXCEPT

• Written in the first century and based on eyewitness testimony

• Circulated and accepted in the early Church

• Must have been written by one of Jesus' Apostles

• Must reflect the traditional faith of the early Church

A Latin phrase meaning "in the year of Our Lord,"

• Apocryphal

• Apostolic

• Anno Domini

• Canonical

This words means "hidden" and is used to indicate writings that do no meet Church criteria.

• Anno Domini

• Apocryphal

• Apostolic

• kerygma

A heresy from the first centuries that taught only those with secret knowledge were guaranteed salvation.

• Arianism

• Gnosticism

• Apocryphal

• Redaction