Learn Christianity in 185 Flashcards: Doctrine, the Bible and the Councils That Shaped It
Work through the HS2025 deck in three blocks: doctrine and sacraments, church history and vocabulary, then the Bible. Includes two cards worth correcting.
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HS2025 — Christianity: Bible, Beliefs & History holds 185 cards, and unlike most survey decks it is cleanly blocked: doctrine and sacraments first (cards 1–63), church vocabulary, feasts and figures next (64–99), then a long Bible section (100–185) covering canon, books, verses, parables and the Old Testament narrative. Study it block by block and it behaves like three short courses instead of one shapeless pile.
Study this deck: Christianity: Bible, Beliefs & History
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Tap the card for the answer · swipe right if you knew it, left if not
Sample of the real cards
| Front | Back |
|---|---|
| The title 'Christ' | It means 'Messiah' or 'Anointed One' in Greek |
| Trinity | God exists as three persons in one being: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit |
| Edict of Milan | A proclamation in 313 AD granting religious tolerance to Christianity in the Roman Empire |
| How many sacraments do Catholics recognize? | Seven: Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Penance, Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders, Matrimony |
| How many books are in the Protestant Bible? | 66 books |
| Which Gospel is believed to have been written first? | Mark |
| Septuagint | An ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, 3rd–2nd century BCE |
| Deuterocanonical books | Books in Catholic and Orthodox Bibles but not in Protestant or Jewish canons |
What you will be able to recall
Doctrine: incarnation, resurrection, atonement, salvation, grace, original sin, repentance, redemption, the Second Coming, heaven and hell, the seven sacraments, the Nicene and Apostles' Creeds. History: Judaea under Rome, the Jewish-sect origins, Constantine, Nicaea 325, state religion around 380, the 1054 schism, Luther and 1517, the three branches and their sizes. Church life: diocese, cathedral, liturgy, hymn, canonization, ecumenism, Augustine, Jerome, Origen, Aquinas. Bible: Torah and Pentateuch, Tanakh, Synoptic Gospels, Pauline epistles, Revelation, Genesis 1:1, John 3:16, the first Beatitude, five parables, the Ten Plagues, the Vulgate, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the King James Version, biblical inerrancy and criticism.
Two cards worth arguing with
The "three main Apostles" card contradicts the deck. Card 19 defines the Apostles as the twelve disciples chosen by Jesus, and the roster card lists them — Peter, Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Thomas, Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon, Judas Iscariot. Yet another card answers "Peter, Paul and John" for the three main Apostles. Paul never met that definition: he is an apostle by later calling, and Matthias replaced Judas among the Twelve. Edit the back to say so, or you will fumble the exam question that tests exactly this distinction.
Immaculate Conception is the single most-missed card in the deck. It is the Catholic doctrine that Mary was conceived without original sin — not a statement about the conception of Jesus, which is the Annunciation card two rows away. Study those two consecutively, out loud, until the confusion is dead.
Clean it up first
Roughly ten pairs are near-duplicates: Peter and Saint Peter, Paul and Saint Paul, "Easter" and "What day is Easter?", the same for Good Friday, the Golden Rule, Pentecost and the original biblical languages. Delete one of each — your progress bar is inflated by about 5%. Keep, however, the six reversed cards where the definition is on the front and the term on the back (Holy Spirit, Pope, Virgin Mary, Church Fathers, Prophets, the Three Wise Men): those force production rather than recognition, which is exactly what a written exam asks for.
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