Christianity
Faith following Jesus
Christianity is the religion centered on Jesus Christ, believing him to be the Son of God whose death and resurrection offer salvation.
With over two billion adherents, it is the world's largest religion, encompassing Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox branches.
She converted to Christianity in college.
Christian practices typically include prayer, worship, and biblical study.
Recovery or moral restoration
- graceEffortless beauty of motion
- forgivenessReleasing resentment toward offenders
- atonementCompensation for wrongdoing
- justificationReason proving rightness
sanctification · resurrection · heaven · eternal life · repentance · conversion · rebirth · deliverance
Address to deity
- worshipReligious reverence and praise
- communionProfound shared closeness
- baptismRitual water purification ceremony
- confessionAdmission of wrongdoing
fasting · pilgrimage · tithe · Lent · Advent · Easter · Christmas · Pentecost
Unified set of three
- incarnationQuality given bodily presence
- atonementCompensation for wrongdoing
- original sinInherited spiritual corruption
- resurrectionRevival from death
eschatology · predestination · transubstantiation · creed · dogma · orthodoxy · heresy · heterodoxy
Religious movement splitting Christianity
- CrusadesMedieval wars for Jerusalem
- InquisitionChurch tribunal against heretics
- Counter-ReformationChurch's internal reform movement
- monasticismCloistered religious living
martyrdom · missions · iconoclasm · Protestantism · heresies · Scholasticism · Great Schism · Constantine
Quantity of matter
- liturgyFormal worship structure
- vespersEvening devotional service
- matinsLiturgical dawn devotions
- evensongAnglican evening prayer service
ordination · anointing · penance · lectionary · canticle · vestments · altar · chalice
Catholic Church's supreme leader
- bishopDiocesan clergy head
- priestOne who performs sacraments
- pastorChristian congregation leader
- ministerReligious leader or serve
deacon · cardinal · archbishop · nun · monk · friar · chaplain · vicar
Christian sacred writings
- GospelChristian salvation teaching
- Old TestamentPre-Christian biblical canon
- New TestamentSecond biblical division
- PsalmsBiblical book of songs
Revelation · Genesis · canon · apocrypha · exegesis · hermeneutics · parables · Sermon on the Mount
Papal Christian denomination
- ProtestantismReformation-era Christian movement
- Eastern OrthodoxyEastern branch of Christianity
- AnglicanismEnglish Protestant denomination
- LutheranismProtestant tradition emphasizing grace
Calvinism · Methodism · Baptist · Pentecostalism · Presbyterianism · Coptic · Mormonism · Jehovah's Witnesses
redemption
Recovery or moral restoration
- graceEffortless beauty of motion
- forgivenessReleasing resentment toward offenders
- atonementCompensation for wrongdoing
justification · sanctification · resurrection · heaven · eternal life · repentance · conversion · rebirth · deliverance · savior
prayer
Address to deity
- worshipReligious reverence and praise
- communionProfound shared closeness
- baptismRitual water purification ceremony
confession · fasting · pilgrimage · tithe · Lent · Advent · Easter · Christmas · Pentecost · Sunday service
trinity
Unified set of three
- incarnationQuality given bodily presence
- atonementCompensation for wrongdoing
- original sinInherited spiritual corruption
resurrection · eschatology · predestination · transubstantiation · creed · dogma · orthodoxy · heresy · heterodoxy · millennialism
Reformation
Religious movement splitting Christianity
- CrusadesMedieval wars for Jerusalem
- InquisitionChurch tribunal against heretics
- Counter-ReformationChurch's internal reform movement
monasticism · martyrdom · missions · iconoclasm · Protestantism · heresies · Scholasticism · Great Schism · Constantine · persecution
mass
Quantity of matter
evensong · ordination · anointing · penance · lectionary · canticle · vestments · altar · chalice · crucifix
pope
Catholic Church's supreme leader
minister · deacon · cardinal · archbishop · nun · monk · friar · chaplain · vicar · reverend
Bible
Christian sacred writings
- GospelChristian salvation teaching
- Old TestamentPre-Christian biblical canon
- New TestamentSecond biblical division
Psalms · Revelation · Genesis · canon · apocrypha · exegesis · hermeneutics · parables · Sermon on the Mount · Beatitudes
Catholicism
Papal Christian denomination
- ProtestantismReformation-era Christian movement
- Eastern OrthodoxyEastern branch of Christianity
- AnglicanismEnglish Protestant denomination
Lutheranism · Calvinism · Methodism · Baptist · Pentecostalism · Presbyterianism · Coptic · Mormonism · Jehovah's Witnesses · Quakers
- belieffaith, belief, belief systems, creed, dogma
- religionIslam, beliefs, Judaism, Hinduism, bible
- religionsIslam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism
- world religionsIslam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism
- Abrahamic faithsJudaism, Islam, Abraham, God, Catholicism
- Western civilizationphilosophy, history, literature, classics, art history
Christianityatheism
Rejection of deities
secular humanism · irreligion · nonbelief · godlessness · secularism
- Orthodox ChristianityAncient apostolic church tradition
- Eastern ChristianityChristian traditions from Byzantium
- early ChristianityFaith's founding centuries
- Syriac ChristianityAramaic-based Eastern religious tradition
- liberal ChristianityReason-based Protestant theology
- American ChristianityReligious practice stateside
Christianization, Christianized, Christianize, Christianizing, Christianizes