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| A person who believes that at the baptism of the man Jesus, God adopted him as his Son |
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| A revelation. A prophetic vision of the destruction of evil and salvation of righteous people. |
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| A person who was a disciple of Jesus sent out to proclaim the coming of the kingdom of God. Traditionally, Jesus chose twelve apostles. |
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| The list of books accepted as scriptures by Christians. |
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| The Greek word meaning "the anointed one." The Hebrew word for the concept was messiah. Christians believe that Jesus was the long- waited messiah. |
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| The Christian church of the orthodox tradition. The churches of the eastern Mediterranean countries retained a more democratic form of government. |
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| Refers to the whole household of faith. It is in contrast to matters of local or special interest. |
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| Letters, particularly those that have become part of the New Testament scriptures. Many epistles of the New Testament were attributed to Paul and to the apostles that walked with Jesus. |
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| The forced exclusion of a person from a religious organization, such as a church. People who continued, after warning, to practice errors, often were excommunicated from the church. |
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| Messages of good news. The four stories of the life of Christ found in the New Testament. |
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| Beliefs contrary to accept teachings of the religious organization. |
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| People who have been judged by the church to teach doctrine dangerously contrary to the teachings of the church. |
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| A person who believes the values of humans are the highest in the universe. Humans are "on their own" in the universe. A Christian humanist, such as Erasmus, believed in God. |
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| A screen at the front of an Orthodox church that displays many precious icons. |
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| To invest God in human flesh. Christians consider the Christ as God in human form. |
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| A simple story told to illustrate a religious truth or lesson. |
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| A belief that a person who has been dead will be restored as a whole, living person. |
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| Rites instituted by Jesus as recorded in the New Testament to bestow a grace of God. |
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| The discipline that describes and explains God and his relationship to the world. Theology is a formal, reasoned explanation of the beliefs of the faithful people of a religion. |
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| The Christian belief that three person in union, Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit are one God. |
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