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| The belief that the second coming of Christ will PRECEDE the millennium. Most believe that a rapture will occur before the great tribulation. This is what most Evangelical and Radical Evangelicals believe. | Dispensational Premillennialism |
| A prophetic or symbolic revelation of the end of the world. These were written in a number of Jewish and Christian texts from around the second century B.C.E. to the second century C.E. | Apocalypse |
| Catholic term uses to express how the reality of bread and wine changes into the reality of Jesus' risen and glorified body and blood in the Eucharist. | Transubstantiation |
| The official teaching authority of the Church. Refers to the bishops in communion with the pope. | Magisterium |
| A series of military expeditions by Western Christians in the 11th through 13th centuries designed to take the Holy Land back from the Muslims. | Crusades |
| The belief that the millennium symbolizes Christ’s reign in the lives of his people from the beginning of the Church until the second coming. This is what most Roman Catholics believe. | Amillennialism |
| For Catholics, the 27 New Testament and 46 Old Testament books that are accepted as inspired books by the Church. | Canon |
| Studies relating to the end of the world | Eschatology |
| Grew out of radical evangelical movement in the late 19th – early 20th centuries. Adherents emphasize the necessity of “baptism with the Holy Spirit,” an emotional experience which may include the ritual of speaking in tongues. | Pentecostalism |
| A network of typically white, Anglo-Saxon radical evangelicals who in the 1910s established a distinct, definable, interdenominational apocalyptic movement. Felt the end of the world was imminent and it was necessary to restore the “fundamentals” of the faith which had been lost due to societal apathy. The term is no longer in popular usage among its adherents. | Fundamentalism |
| When used today, usually refers to the belief that the world will come to an end very soon, even within one's own lifetime. | Apocalypticism |
| Christians from various protestant denominations who over the last few centuries have emphasized the centrality of the Bible, the death and resurrection of Jesus, the necessity of individual conversion, and spreading the faith through missions | Evangelical Christians |
| Post-Civil War American Protestant Christians who aggressively integrated apocalyptic ideas into their faith. | Radical Evangelicals |
| A Biblical interpretation of 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17 that emerges in the late 19th century. Refers to an event in which all living Christians will mysteriously vanish from the earth and the dead will rise to heaven. The term does not actually occur in the Bible. | Rapture |
| Refers to Jesus’ Olivet discourse. Various Christian denominations interpret it as a period of affliction that will serve as a sign for the impending end of the world, though there is a vast differences of opinion over exactly how it will play out. | Great Tribulation |
| Also known as the “Babylonian Captivity of the Church.” | Avignon Papacy |
| Refers to a period of about 70 years when the pope resided in the Kingdom of France, rather than in the Vatican. | Avignon Papacy |
| Refers to a period of time when there were as many as three men claiming to be the pope. | The Great Western Schism |
| Refers to the sale of church offices | Simony |
| Refers to the practice of a bishop holding more than one office at a time | Pluralism |
| Refers to a practice of a bishop not participating in the administration of a diocese under his care, but he still receives all the payments and privileges. | Absenteeism |
| Evangelical Christian belief that hard work and material success are signs of God’s favor. For evangelicals, capitalism is fulfillment of God’s plan. | Protestant Work Ethic |
| Organization within the Evangelical Movement that promotes a patriarchal view of gender roles. Calls upon men to be the "head" of their households. | Promise Keepers |
| Within the Evangelical movement, refers to a very conservative view of men, women, children, and authority. Became one of the most important religious agendas in late twentieth-century American politics. | Family Values |
| Refers to various Christian interpretations surrounding a reference in the Book of Revelation to a “1000 year” reign of Christ on earth prior to the final judgement and the future eternal state. | Millennialism |
| Expression used to describe the bubonic plague that killed off 1/3 of the European population in the 14th century. | The Black Death |
| Official acknowledgement from the Church that a Christian has received spiritual graces for some good deed. It's theology, which is still part of the Catholic faith, was abused for profit during the years leading up the the Reformation. | Indulgence |
| What is the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States? | The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America |
