西方文化导论Unit4

A. Lutheran Church
B. Anglicanism
C. Presbyterian
D. Free Churches
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Fill in the blanks. (1) The New Testament contains altogether ___ 27 parts, and the earliest manuscript was written in _____ Greek. (2) The New Testament consists of the four _______ Gospels , a book of ________________ Acts of the Apostles , ______ The Revelations of John . Letters and ____________________
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Multiple choice. (1) _____, the Christian Church was divided into the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church.
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Fill in the blanks. The Mass is a formal rite, ceremony or service of religious (4) ________ worship. (5) _______________ Excommunication means a Christian is partly or completely expelled from the church, usually with the loss of his citizenship.
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Fill in the blanks. (1) Owing to the repeated conquests of Jerusalem by various aggressors, like _________________ Alexander the Great and __________ the Romans , the Jews suffered a great deal from the violent suppression and the final loss of their homeland. (2) _____ Plato ’s ideas provided a more intellectual and reasonable framework for the basic beliefs of pious Jewish people.
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True of false questions.
F (1) When Jesus Christ fled from his brother Esau, he imagined __ the ladder to heaven. T (2) Christianity is a kind of culture. __ T (3) Before the 4th century, Christians had been persecuted in __ Roman Empire. F (4) Jewish culture and religion were immensely enriched by __ Christianity and Western culture. T (5) The Trinity is the unity of Holy Father, Holy Son and Holy __ Spirit in one divine being.
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Jacob’s Ladder 天梯: A Biblical term suggesting a ladder to heaven which appeared in the Book of Genesis. When the Biblical patriarch Jacob fled from his brother Esau, he imagined the ladder to heaven.
(3) ___________________ The Gospel of Matthew mainly talks about the story of Jesus’ life.
(4) ______________________ The Revelations of St John is considered the most remarkable and most imaginative book of the New Testament.
A. In 1054
B. In 1054 BC
C. In 1055
D. In 380
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Multiple choice. (2) In 451 AD, the archbishop of Roman Church, ____________, made himself Pope.
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Fill in the blanks.
(1) _______ Baptism is to wash off one’s original sin by sprinkling water over one’s body to indicate that one’s original sin is washed off and that one is admitted into the church. (2) __________ Anointment is a ritual where a priest put specially-made oil on the dying to show benefaction and forgiveness of the sin in that person’s lifetime. (3) ________ Purgatory is a state or place of temporary punishment for the removal of sins not possible in any other ways.
A. St. Peter
B. Saint Leo I
C. Martin Luther
D. John Calvin
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Multiple choice. (3) The largest and earliest of non-Roman Catholic Groups in the West is ___________.
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Fill in the blanks. (5) Most part of Letters in the New Testament was written by ______ St Paul .