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• Mary

  [People]

  Mary is the woman presented in the New Testament as the mother of Jesus Christ. Protestants and Catholics both confess the virgin birth, but they differ in their understanding of Mary's status and of the veneration due to her.

• The Seventy Disciples

  [Bible]

  The Seventy Disciples were a group of disciples whom Jesus Christ appointed in addition to the Twelve and sent ahead of him, two by two, into every city and place he was about to visit. They appear only in Luke 10. Some manuscripts and translations give their number as seventy-two.

• Threefold Office of Christ

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The threefold office of Christ is the doctrine that Jesus Christ accomplishes salvation by holding together the three offices of prophet, priest, and king. It was systematized in the Reformed confessions.

• Union with Christ

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Union with Christ is the Christian teaching that believers are joined to Jesus Christ through the Holy Spirit and thereby share in his death and resurrection, his righteousness, and his life.

• Dyothelitism

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Dyothelitism is the Christological doctrine that Jesus Christ possesses two wills, a divine will and a human will, in one person. It was formulated in opposition to monothelitism.

• Hypostatic Union

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The hypostatic union is the Christological teaching that in the one person of Jesus Christ true divinity and true humanity are joined in a single hypostasis (person), without being mixed or divided.

• Substitutionary Atonement of Christ

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The substitutionary atonement of Christ is the Christian doctrine that Jesus Christ, by dying on the cross, paid in humanity's place the price of sin that people owed and delivered them from sin and death. It is often called simply substitutionary atonement.

• The Twelve Disciples

  [People]

  The Twelve Disciples were the twelve men whom Jesus Christ kept close to him during his public ministry, teaching them and sending them out to preach. The New Testament also calls them "apostles."

• John the Baptist

  [People]

  John the Baptist was a Jewish prophet who came before Jesus Christ, calling people to repentance and baptizing in the Jordan River. The New Testament presents him as the one who prepared the way for the Messiah.

• Feeding of the Five Thousand

  [Bible]

  The Feeding of the Five Thousand is the miracle in which Jesus Christ fed a crowd of about five thousand men, not counting women and children, with five loaves of bread and two fish. It is recorded in all four Gospels.

• Stations of the Cross

  [Christian Life]

  The Stations of the Cross is a devotional practice in which Jesus Christ's journey, from carrying the cross to Golgotha through his death and burial, is divided into a series of scenes that are meditated upon and prayed through in order. In a broader sense, the term refers to the disciple's life of suffering and obedience.

• Discipleship

  [Christian Life]

  Discipleship is the path of following and learning from Jesus Christ as his disciple and living according to his teaching, or the way of life that results from doing so.

• Humiliation and Exaltation of Christ

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The humiliation and exaltation of Christ is a Christological term referring jointly to the state in which Jesus Christ was made low by becoming man, even unto death (humiliation), and the state in which he was raised high, from his resurrection to his place at the right hand of God (exaltation).

• Mediator

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  A mediator is one who stands between two estranged parties and restores the relationship between them. Protestants confess Jesus Christ as the one Mediator between God and humanity.

• Incarnation

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The Incarnation is a central Christian doctrine holding that the Son of God took on a human body and was born into the world as Jesus Christ. The doctrine expresses the confession that Christ is both true God and true man.

• James (Brother of Jesus)

  [People]

  James is recorded as a brother of Jesus and became the leader of the church in Jerusalem after Jesus' resurrection. Church tradition identifies him as the author of the Epistle of James.

• Epistle to the Hebrews

  [Bible]

  Hebrews is the nineteenth book of the New Testament. It presents Jesus Christ as the true High Priest who fulfilled the sacrifices and priesthood of the Old Testament, and it exhorts its readers to hold fast to the faith.

• New Testament Quotations of the Old Testament

  [Bible]

  The practice by which New Testament writers reproduce or borrow the words of the Old Testament to explain Jesus Christ and the church, and the passages in which they do so. These quotations are treated as a key resource for understanding the relationship between the Old and New Testaments.

• Acts of the Apostles

  [Bible]

  The Acts of the Apostles is the fifth book of the New Testament. It records how, after the ascension of Jesus Christ and with the coming of the Holy Spirit, the church began in Jerusalem and spread as far as Rome.

• Cross

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  The cross was an instrument of execution in ancient Rome. In Christianity it refers to the death of Jesus Christ, who was nailed to a cross, and to the confession that his death was an atonement in which he bore sin in the place of others. It is the foremost symbol of the Christian faith.