Christianity Webquest

How many followers are there of Christianity worldwide?  2.1 Billion

Place of Origin:  Jerusalem

Founder:_  Jesus____

Sacred Text:_Holy Bible (New Testament)__________

Name the two major Christian festivals: Christmas and Easter.  (Assumption, Lent, Shrove Tuesday, Ash Wednesday.)

What are the four names that Jesus is known by? Lord, Christ, Son Of God, Messiah.  (Savior, Emmanuel)

What is the name of the people who believe in Jesus Christ and follow His teachings?___Christians___

Christians believe that there is only one God, but that this one God consists of 3 “persons”.  Name the three persons:

Father Son and Holy spirit. (The trinity)

The place of Christian worship is called a ____Church_____

Name the writers of the Gospels,: _____Matthew, Mark, Luke and John____,

Draw and name the three Christian symbols:

                                  Fish                                          

The Cross








Dove with olive branch

Christian events

The seven Sacraments:

Baptism

Reconciliation

Confirmation

Holy Communion

Matrimony (marriage)

Holy orders

Anointing of the sick

Shrove Tuesday

Ash Wednesday

Palm Sunday

Holy Thursday

Good Friday

Easter Vigil

Stations of the Cross

Pentecost

Corpus Christi

The Assumption

Advent

Epiphany

Christmas

Christianity

Introduction

·         Christianity (“Christ”), literally means “anointed one” and is a monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as presented in the New testament.

·         Christians believe Jesus is the son of God having become man and the saviour of humanity. Christians, therefore, commonly refer to Jesus as Christ or Messiah.

Christian Beliefs

·         There is one God

·         The belief in the Trinity

·         God created the world and it is good

·         Man is created in the image of God

·         Jesus, the son of God, was sent to save mankind

·         Belief in God brings salvation

·         The Holy spirit directs the Church

·         Man has free will

Denominations/variants

Christianity contains three main branches which are;

·         Roman Catholicism

·         Orthodox Church

·         Protestantism

Catholic Church

The Catholic Church compromises those particular churches, headed by Bishops, in communion with the Pope, the bishop of Rome, as its highest authority in matters of faith.

Orthodox Church

Comprises those churches in Communion with the patriarchal Sees in the East, such as the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.

In the 11^th Century, the Catholic Church in Rome splits with the Eastern Church of Constantinople (known as Turkey today.)

This split is called the Great Schism, as a result the Orthodox Church was formed

Protestantism

In the 16^th Century, Martin Luther, Huldrych Zwingli, and John Calvin inaugurated what has come to be called Protestantism. There are many different forms of Protestant religions

Protestantism is a branch within Christianity, containing many denominations with some differing practices and doctrine, hat principally originated in the sixteenth- century Protestant Reformation.

Task:

Choose and name two Christian variants and answer the following questions:

·         Orthodox Church

·       Protestantism

1)      How many worldwide followers does the variant have?

Orthodox: 225-300 million

Protestantism:  370 million

2)      What are the key central beliefs?

Orthodox:

·         Holy Tradition is an important and distinct source of faith. It describes how the Holy Spirit infuses the life of the church, providing continuity and unity among the faithful.

• Holy icons (consecrated pictures) are important elements in both public and private devotion.
• Orthodox Christians believe that saints, created through the process of canonisation, can intercede with God on behalf of people who are alive and petition for their memory.
• Orthodox Christians do not believe in the Catholic teaching of the eucharist or of the immaculate conception of Mary.
• The Virgin Mary is honoured as theotokos (Mother of God).

Protestantism:

• Doctrine should not be based upon church tradition. Protestants base religious authority solely on the 66 books of the Old and New Testament.

• “Justification by faith alone” which asserts that salvation is achieved individually through the merit of faith, and not faith plus the efforts of oneself and others. This means that Protestant Churches do not create saints and saints are not considered capable of interceding with God on behalf of believers.
• Baptism and Eucharist are the central sacraments.

3)      What is the logo of the church? Draw this

The crucifix

4)      Who is the head of the church?

The Pope

5)      What are two features of this church?

The redemption and atonement of Jesus Christ the Son of God, and, the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Variants in Judaism

What is a Variant?

Two or more people or things that have slight differences in opinions.

The three major variants or streams in Judaism are Conservative, Orthodox and Reform (Liberal or Progressive)

Orthodox:

·         Very strict/many rules

·         Men and women do not sit together in synagogues

·         Women do not participate in some rituals

·         They wear long black coats, kippahs and have long beards

·         Speak in Hebrew

·         Following kosher dietry laws

·         Do not marry to other religions

Conservative:

·         Moderate

·         Believe Jewish laws can be changed

·         Women and men separates in synagogue

·         Men and women are allowed to sit together during prayer and synagogue services

·         Believes that God's will is made known to humanity through revelation.

Progressive:

·         Relatively new (19^th century)

·         Regards the torah as able to evolve/adapt to the modern world.

·         Allowed to marry other religions

Can you categorise these statements?

1)      Relaxed and fits into society      P

2)      Individual praying and occasional conversation in services     P

3)      Traditional beliefs but addressing contemporary needs     C

4)      Men and women sit separately in the synagogue      O

5)      Men and women sit together and participate fully in service, prayers and rituals      P/C

6)      Women do not practice in all rituals     O

7)      English used for part of service      P

8)      Strict dress and dietry law     O

9)      Always worship in Hebrew     O

10)   Women can lead services and can become rabbis      P

Jewish Kosher Menu

Kosher Menu

Breakfast:

Fruit salad: Served with fresh pineapple, rockmelon, watermelon, apple, kiwi fruit, strawberries

Preparation:

1)      Place a clean chopping board down, used for fruit only (separate to a meat board).\

2)      Carefully inspect each fruit for bugs.

3)      Cut up each fruit into pieces using a sharp knife used for fruit/ vegetables ONLY.

4)      Add into one large bowl.

Lunch:

Burger: A fresh burger bun with a plain meat patty (killed specifically by a Shechitah) in between, served with fresh tomato, lettuce and pickles. (The vegetables are to be carefully inspected for bugs)

Dinner:

Shechitah lamb: served with freshly oven roasted vegetables (broccoli, carrots, capsicum)

Dessert:

Banana Cookie Ice Cream: Banana ice cream combined with finely chopped crunchy nuts, chocolate chips and crumbled cookies and coated with a rich chocolate sauce.

Jewish Kosher Food

Kosher is Jewish dietry requirements that link back to the Torah. Moses enforced these kosher laws due to believing certain foods would cause Jews to be ill.

Kosher- food which is allowed

Treyfah- food which is NOT allowed

In Leviticus it says...

All plants are kosher, but not all animals, birds or fish are.

Animals must also be killed in a special manner and have all the blood removed before the meat can be eaten by Jews.

How are animals killed?

Jews may only eat animals and birds that have been killed by Shechitah.

Shechitah is killing the animals by slitting the throat with a very sharp knife.

This has been shown to be painless to the animals, as causing pain to living things is against Jewish law.

The theory is that the sharp knife cuts the carotid so that the animal loses consciousness before they are able to feel pain.

Which animals are Kosher

Kosher	Non-kosher
Chicken	Pig
Sheep	Rabbit
Cow	Camel
Fish with fins	Eel
Goat	Most birds

All vegetables and fruit and dairy products are kosher.

A Kosher kitchen

“You must not cook a young goat in its mother milk”

Jews who keep kosher kitchens do not eat meat and dairy foods together.

Separate sets of crockery, cutlery and cooking utensils are used. After eating meat, strict Jews will wait several hours before eating dairy products.

Foods which contain neither meat nor milk, fruit, vegetables, may be eaten with either meat or vegetables.

Jewish events

 Rosh hushanah

·         Jewish new year

·         Falls once a year during the month of September

·         Lasts 1-2 days

·         Apple is dipped in honey

Passover

·         Begins on 15^th day of Jewish month Nissan.

·         Related to the exodus, around the time of Moses and Aaron

·         Cannot eat food containing yeast.

·         Celebrated for 7 or 8 days.

Shabbat

·         The day of rest

·         Takes place from Friday to Saturday

·         The family leaves work early (3pm) gets dressed into religious clothes, eat a meal, go to a service, come back and have another meal.

·         Turn off all lights (part of the 39 categories of forbidden acts.)

Shavuot

·         Known as the festival of weeks

·         Commences 7 weeks from Passover

·         Must eat a dairy meal at least once during Shavuot

·         Stay up the entire first night studying the Torah and pray as early as possible the next morning.

·         No work is allowed during this event.

Hanukkah

•       Hanukkah is a celebration of Jewish people gaining freedom. It is the most well known Jewish festival, but not the most significant as it is not written in the Torah.

•       It is celebrated for eight days and nights.

•       It begins on the 25^th of the  Jewish month of Kislev (late November/December)

•       In Hebrew the word “Hanukkah” means “dedication.”

•       Some of the Hanukkah traditions include: lighting the hanukkiyah, spinning the dreidel and eating fried foods.

•       Jews celebrate Hanukkah in replace of Christmas because they do not believe the Jesus is the Messiah.

     •Hanukkah means “Festival of Lights.”

     •This festival is observed for eight days, during which candles are lit

     •one on the first evening, another on the second, adding one more for every day in succession until eight candles are lit on the last day.

     •These lights symbolize growing faith.