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Beatitudes
[Bible]The Beatitudes are the eight blessings that Jesus Christ proclaimed at the opening of the Sermon on the Mount. They are recorded in Matthew 5:3-10, and similar sayings appear in Luke 6:20-23.
Christology
[Doctrine & Theology]Christology is the field of Christian theology that deals with who Jesus Christ is and what he has done. It explains the person of Christ (his divinity and humanity) and his work (atonement, resurrection, and related themes).
Active Obedience
[Doctrine & Theology]Active obedience is a theological term for the obedience by which Jesus Christ perfectly kept the law of God throughout His entire life. It is used chiefly in Reformed accounts of justification, where it is paired with passive obedience, which refers to His suffering on the cross.
Passive Obedience
[Doctrine & Theology]Passive obedience is a theological term for the obedience by which Jesus Christ, in the place of sinners, bore the penalty of sin through his suffering and death on the cross. It is paired with active obedience, by which he kept the law perfectly.
Titulus Crucis
[Bible]The titulus crucis was the placard stating the charge against Jesus Christ, fastened above him on the cross at his crucifixion. All four Gospels record that it bore the words "the King of the Jews."
New Commandment
[Bible]The new commandment is the command Jesus Christ gave his disciples at the Last Supper: "as I have loved you, that ye also love one another." It appears in John 13:34-35.
Lord's Supper
[Worship & Rites]The Lord's Supper is the rite instituted by Jesus Christ at the Last Supper. In it believers share the bread and the cup in remembrance of Christ's death, and it is one of the two sacraments observed by Protestants.
Sermon on the Mount
[Bible]The Sermon on the Mount is the collection of Jesus' teachings recorded in Matthew 5–7, delivered on a mountain to His disciples and the multitudes. It contains the Beatitudes, the Lord's Prayer, and the Golden Rule.
Malchus
[People]Malchus was the servant of the high priest whose right ear Peter cut off with a sword when Jesus Christ was arrested in Gethsemane. His name appears only in the Gospel of John.
Lord's Prayer
[Worship & Rites]The Lord's Prayer is the prayer that Jesus Christ taught his disciples. It is recorded in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, and nearly all churches, regardless of denomination, recite it together in worship and use it in instruction.
Atonement
[Doctrine & Theology]The atonement is the Christian doctrine concerning the work by which Jesus Christ, through his death on the cross, dealt with human sin and reconciled God and humanity. It is also referred to as substitutionary atonement.
Second Coming
[Doctrine & Theology]The Second Coming is the Christian teaching that Jesus Christ, who ascended into heaven, will return at the end of the world. Many Protestant denominations share this confession, though they differ in how they understand its timing and the order of end-time events.
Matthew
[People]Matthew was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus Christ, a tax collector who was called to become a disciple. The Gospels of Mark and Luke call the same figure Levi, and he is traditionally regarded as the author of the Gospel of Matthew.
The House Built on the Rock
[Bible]The house built on the rock is a parable Jesus told at the close of His sermons in Matthew 7 and Luke 6. It compares the person who hears His words and does them to a man who built his house upon a rock, and the person who hears but does not do them to a man who built his house upon the sand.
Nazareth
[Bible]Nazareth was the small village in Galilee where Jesus Christ grew up. It appears only in the New Testament, and its name became widely known because Jesus was called "Jesus of Nazareth."
Parable of the Wedding Feast
[Bible]The Parable of the Wedding Feast is a parable of Jesus found in Matthew 22:1-14. A king invites guests to his son's wedding feast, but they refuse; he then has people gathered from the highways to fill the feast. Luke 14 contains a similar "Parable of the Great Banquet."
Apostolic Age
[History]The Apostolic Age is the period of first-century Christianity during which the apostles led the church after the ascension of Jesus Christ. It is usually dated from the early AD 30s to around AD 100, when John, traditionally regarded as the last surviving apostle, died.
Rapture
[Doctrine & Theology]The rapture is the belief that, when Jesus Christ returns, living believers will be caught up into the air to meet the Lord. Denominations and theological traditions differ on when it will occur.
Family Salvation
[Doctrine & Theology]Family salvation refers to unbelieving members of a family coming to faith in Jesus Christ and being saved, or to the practice of praying and evangelizing in the hope that this will happen.
Penal Substitutionary Atonement
[Doctrine & Theology]Penal substitutionary atonement is an understanding of the atonement which holds that Jesus Christ died on the cross bearing, in the sinner's place, the punishment from God that the sinner deserved, and that God's justice was thereby satisfied and the forgiveness of sins accomplished.