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The document provides an overview of basic Christian teachings and practices, as well as a brief history of how Christianity began and spread. It discusses Jesus' main teachings including love, forgiveness and helping others. It also outlines the seven sacraments of Christianity and some of the major denominations and issues faced by Christians today including ecumenism, sexuality, and the ordination of women.

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The document provides an overview of basic Christian teachings and practices, as well as a brief history of how Christianity began and spread. It discusses Jesus' main teachings including love, forgiveness and helping others. It also outlines the seven sacraments of Christianity and some of the major denominations and issues faced by Christians today including ecumenism, sexuality, and the ordination of women.

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BASIC TEACHINGS OF

CHRISTIANITY
 Parables- short stories with hidden messages
 Main themes that Jesus taught:
 Love God
 Love your neighbor as yourself
 Forgive others who have wronged you
 Love your enemies
 Ask God for forgiveness of your sins
 Jesus is the Messiah and was given authority to forgive others
 Repentance of sins is essential
 Don’t be hypocritical
 Don’t judge others
 The Kingdom of God is near. It’s not the rich and powerful-but the weak and poor-who will inherit His
Kingdom
HOW DID CHRISTIANITY
BEGIN
 Began in the 1st century (AD) after Jesus died in a small group Jewish people of Judea, but quickly spread throughout
the Roman empire. Despite early persecutions of Christians, it later become the state religion. In the middle Ages it
spread into Northern Europe and Russia.
 Timeline of Significant Events in the history of Christianity
 4 B.CE- 29 C.E. - Life of Jesus
 4-64 C.E. - Life of Paul
 313 C.E. - Issuance of the Edict of Toleration by Constantine making Christianity legal
 354-430 C.E. - Life of Augustin
 476 C.E. - Collapse of the Roman Empire of the West
 480-547 C.E. - Life of Benedict
 638 C.E. - Muslim Conquest of Jerusalem
 1054 C.E. - Split between Eastern and Western Christianity
 1099 - Conquest of Jerusalem during the First Crusade
 1347- 1351 -Black Death
 1453 - Conquest of Constantinople by Muslim forces
 1483-1546 - Life of Martin Luther
 1492 - Expulsion of Jews
 1509-1564 -Life of John Calvin
 1517 -Beginning of Protestant Reformation
 1534 - Founding of the Church of England by King Henry VIII
 1565 - Christianity enters the Philippines
 1805-1844 - Life of Joseph Smith
 1914 - Founding of Iglesia Ni Cristo
 1948 - Founding of the World Council of Churches
 1962-1965 - Modernization of Catholicism by the Second Vatican
Council
PRACTICES OF CHRISTIANITY
 SACRAMENTS- sign of God’s grace

1. Sacrament of Baptism- the person is cleansed with water, to signify repentance


and cleansing.(cleansing the soul)
*Catholics and Orthodox-baptize babies while some Protestants baptize only those who are
willing.
2. Sacrament of the Eucharist- this is the commemoration of the Last
Supper where Jesus broke the bread and wine and shared the wine to represent His Body
and Blood, and the Apostles were sharing His sufferings.(communion)
3. Sacrament of Confirmation- final rite of initiation into the Catholic church, accomplished
when a priest blesses an individual and anoints them with oil
4.Sacrament of Reconciliation- it is a sacrament of spiritual healing, where someone
confesses his/her sins and gets absolution and gives the individual acts of penance to accomplish.
(confession)
 5. Anointing of the sick- offers the comfort of God’s grace to those who are ill,
provides spiritual and sometimes physical healing, accdg. To
God’s will but also allow the person to join his or her
sufferings to Christ and prepare for death.
- involve anointing with the oil of the sick and prayer
6. Sacrament of Matrimony- where two people commit themselves with each other
for life with God as the center
- marriage, joins a man and a woman together in a life-long
covenant of self-giving love
7. Holy Orders or Ordination- where someone commits himself to priesthood, they
are given the grace to live out their lives to the Church and
God’s people
VARIETIES OR TYPES OF
CHRISTIANITY
 ROMAN CATHOLIC
 EASTERN ORTHODOX
 PROTESTANTISM
ISSUES OF CHRISTIANITY
1. ECUMENISM:
 from the Greek word “oikoumene”, meaning “the whole inhabited world” (cf. Acts 17.6; Mt
24.14; Heb 2.5), is the promotion of cooperation and unity among Christians.
 is the concept and principle that Christians who belong to different Christian denominations
should work together to develop closer relationships among their churches and promote
Christian unity.
 is a vision, a movement, a theology, and a mode of action. It represents the universality of the
people of God and affects the way Christians think about their faith, the church, and the world.
 On an international scale the ecumenical movement really began with the World Missionary
Conference at Edinburgh in 1910. This led to the establishment (1921) of the International
Missionary Council, which fostered cooperation in mission activity and among the younger
churches.
 Purpose and goal

The ultimate goal of ecumenism is the recognition of sacramental validity, eucharistic


sharing, and the reaching of full communion between different Christian denominations.
 Ecumenism is needed because despite the will of God, we the people get divided up when
individuals and groups don’t hear God saying and doing the same thing to each and all of us.
 When divisions rise to a level that compromises the unity of the church, an ecumenical council
can be a gathering that clarifies and corrects who we are and what we are teaching in the name
of Jesus. The last ecumenical council convened was the Second Vatican Council that opened in
1962 and closed in 1965.
 2. SEXUALITY ISSUES:

*Contraception- Catholics are only permitted to use natural methods of birth


control. But the Church does not condemn things like the pill or condoms in
themselves. What is morally wrong is using such things with the intention of preventing
conception.
-More conservative churches suggest that contraception should be limited to married couples
who are using it to regulate the size and spacing of their family. They often teach that using
contraception to prevent children altogether is not desirable.
-The Roman Catholic Church only allows 'natural' birth control, by which it means only
having sex during the infertile period of a woman's monthly cycle. Artificial methods of
contraception are banned.
 HOMOSEXUALITY
- Homosexuality refers to attraction between people who are the same sex. It comes from the Greek
word homos, meaning “the same.” It is a sexual orientation, as opposed to a gender identity such as
male, female, and non-binary.
-Within Christianity, there are a variety of views on sexual orientation and homosexuality. Even within a
denomination, individuals and groups may hold different views, and not all members of a denomination
necessarily support their church's views on homosexuality. Various mainline protestant denominations
have taken a supportive stance towards blessing homosexual clergy and same sex marriage while others
have not. The Catholic church and Orthodox churches condemn homosexual activity.
 -TheCatholic Church views as sinful any sexual act not related to procreation by a couple
joined in marriage. The Church states that "homosexual tendencies" are "objectively
disordered", but does not consider the tendency itself to be sinful but rather a temptation
toward sin.
 ORDINATION OF WOMEN

-The teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, as emphasized by Pope John Paul II in the apostolic
letter Ordinatio sacerdotalis, is "that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly
ordination on women and that this judgement is to be definitively held by all the Church's faithful".
-Although the Papacy mandates that women not be ordained as priests, decreed by Biblical law, there
is debate among people as to whether the interpretation of the law is valid. Many people believe that
women are denied equal power in the church by their exclusion from the priesthood. Although
women have other important roles in the church and can be nuns, none of the roles they play have
the decision making capacity and the power that the priesthood has. In other words, they are denied
access to the top of the hierarchy and thus cannot make other decisions and doctrine which could
better women's situation in the church in general. Some women feel as though they are being cheated
within their faith because they cannot become priests and therefore cannot counsel the congregation,
say mass, and perform other priestly duties. However, there are also some Catholic women who
agree with the laws of the Catholic tradition and think that only men should be priests.

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