1. Warm-Up
Discuss with a partner – What do the following holidays celebrate?
Chanukah
Rosh Hashanah
Passover
***Use your notes from friday

2. SWBAT explain major beliefs and practices of christianity
Objective
SWBAT explain major beliefs and practices of christianity

3. Housekeeping
New hall passes

4. Video
Make sure to take notes in your religion chart.

5. Christianity Monotheistic. Evolved from Judaism.
Moved east and south of its hearth area.
Constantine’s conversion
European contact with the “New World” brought Christianity.
World’s largest religion.
Segmented into three separate branches:
Catholics
Protestants
Eastern Christians

6. Christianity Catholicism - largest branch Headed by the Pope
direct link to God
Ceremonial - 7 sacraments
baptism, marriage, Eucharist, etc.
Very traditional
Christianity

7. Christianity Eastern Orthodoxy - 11th Century split
Rivalry between Pope and Patriarch of Constantinople (Istanbul)
Rome remained center for Roman Catholicism
Rejected some Roman Catholicism doctrine
by 1054 officially split
National Churches
Russian, Greek, Serbian Orthodox, etc.
Christianity

8. Christianity Protestantism - (1517) Reformation era Martin Luther
No Pope needed
individual has direct link to God
Grace through faith rather than sacraments
forgiveness for sins through indiv. prayers
Spread though N. Europe and England
arose same time as 1466 Gutenberg Bible and the printing press
Martin Luther