Important Terms for the History of Christianity

Unit One

• differentiated afterlife
• messiah
• Greek
• Aramaic
• Syriac
• Septuagint
• gospel
• canon
• Gentile
• orthodoxy
• heresy
• demiurge
• Docetist
• Ebionite
• Gnostic
• schismatic
• apologist
• eremitic
• cenobitic
• stylite
• ascetic
• creed
• Trinity
• catholic (as opposed to Roman Catholic)
• apostolic succession
• homoousios
• homoiousios
• homoios
• semi-Arian
• ecumenical council
• Vulgate
• theotokos
• Three Chapters
• monophysite

Unit Two

• iconoclast
• iconodule
• cathedral
• Holy Roman Empire
• Byzantine Empire
• Cyrillic alphabet
• Normans
• Al-Andalus
• Reconquista
• clerical celibacy
• simony
• nepotism
• excommunication
• Outremer
• pogrom
• Filioque clause
• transubstantiation
• scholasticism
• atonement
• humanism
• Renaissance
• Enlightenment
• mendicant orders
• Conciliar Movement
• Apocrypha
• Purgatory
• Huguenots
• Anabaptists
• Puritans
• Deists
• religious liberty
• Great Awakening
• Unitarians
• Pentecostals
• Neo-Orthodoxy
• Fundamentalism
• biblical inerrancy
• Papal States
• papal infallibility
• dialectical idealism
• dialectical materialism
• existentialism
• liberation theology
• orthopraxy
• demythologizing
• panentheism
• Modern Missions Movement
• Ecumenical Movement