religion 3.2
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mconnellabw on April 13, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Hebrew | those who insisted on maintainig the purity of Judaism, strictly adhering to all of the customs of their ancestors |
| Hellenist | more open to Greek and Roman influences and were more willing to allow their faith and religious practice to be shaped, to some extent, by the culture around them |
| Confessors | those Christians who redues to respond to Decius's decree to offer sacrafices to Roman gods |
| synod | a representative body of bishops assembled preiodically by the pope to advise him on important Church concerns, NOT a legislative body |
| Penance | the name for the sacrament that allows a sinner to return to communion with Christ and the Church |
| religious indifferentism | the attitude which holds that all religions and all ways of expressing one's faith are equal or essentially the same |
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