Take the example of the story of the Creation to illustrate Christianity’s influence on Western Culture.Write your answers in English.
What is the influence of the Bible on Western Culture? List at least five aspects in which Christianity influences Western Culture.
Questions for reviewing:
1.What are the two major components of European culture?
2.In what aspects does Christianity influence on the Western Culture?
3.Summarize the influence of Christianity on the Western Culture as a religion.
4.Summarize the contribution that Christianity made to the human rights.
5.What is the Christian view on sexual ethic and lifestyle? How does it affect the Western Culture?
6.What is the Christian attitude towards women? How does it affect the Western Culture?
7.How does Christian charity affect the Western Culture?
8.What contribution did Christianity make to the Western hospitals and health care?
9.How does Christianity affect education?
10.What is the Christian view on labor? How does it affect the Western economic life?
11.How does Christianity affect science research?
12.What contribution did Christianity make to liberty and justice?
13.How does Christianity affect art and Architecture?
14.How does Christianity affect music?
15.How does Christianity affect literature?
16.What other influence can you find Christianity have on the Western Culture?
17.Can you take the specific examples to show Christianity’s influence on the Western Culture in different aspects?
Questions for reviewing:
1.What’s the origin of Christianity?
Christianity started about 2000 years ago in Judea (present-day Israel) with Jesus Christ and His faithful group of disciples.
2.When and where did Christianity begin?
About AD30 ,Christianity began in Jerusalem .
3.What responses did Christianity received at its beginning? And what’s the result?
Christianity was a big succe, and quickly spread all over the Roman Empire, and also (though not as much) into the Parthian（帕提亚人） Empire and to the Goths（哥特人） and other Germanic people.The result is that many Romans and many Parthians hated the Christians and sometimes Christians were killed.
4.How did Christianity rise?
Many fervent believers carried the meage of Jesus throughout the Roman Empire.One of the most succeful was a Greek-speaking Jew named Paul of Tarsus, known to Christians as Saint Paul.As a young man, he helped to persecute Christians, but one day he had a vision in which he believed Jesus spoke to him from heaven.Paul spent the rest of his life thinking and writing about Christianity and winning new converts to the faith.Through the persistence of Paul and other Christian miionaries, small Christian communities developed
throughout the Roman Empire.
5.What’s the meaning of Christ/Christian/Christianity?
The followers of Jesus called him Christ.Christ is a Greek word that means “chosen one,” because they believed he was chosen by God to be his meenger.In time the followers of Jesus became known as Christians.The Christians taught that people’s sins would be forgiven if they became Christian.This meage was not succeful with many Jews, but many pagans responded to the idea of Christian salvation.
6.What’s the meaning of pagan?
One who worships false gods; an idolater; a heathen; one who is neither a Christian, a Mohammedan, nor a Jew.
7.What’s the idea of Christian Salvation?
Theidea of Christian Salvation is thattheChristians taught that people’s sins would be forgiven if they became Christian.
8.Who responded to the idea of Christian salvation positively/negatively?
They are many pagans responded to the idea of Christian salvation.
9.How did Christianity spread? And what’s the result?
Many fervent believers carried the meage of Jesus throughout the Roman Empire.
10.Who is Saint Paul? What contribution did he make to Christianity?
he helped to persecute Christians, but one day he had a vision in which he believed Jesus spoke to him from heaven.Paul spent the rest of his life thinking and writing about Christianity and winning new converts to the faith.Through the persistence of Paul and other Christian miionaries, small Christian communities developed throughout the Roman Empire.
11.How was the New Testament written?
The New Testament of the Bible includes the Gospels, along with letters written by Paul and other Christian writers.The first Christians believed that Jesus would quickly return to earth, so there was no need to create any written records of his life.After about thirty years, Christians began to see a need to write down an account of the life and wisdom of Jesus.About fifty years after Jesus died, Christians combined the stories of the life and wisdom of Jesus into four books known as Gospels.
12.What’s the meaning of Gospel?
Gospel means “good news.”
13.How did the Romans treat Christianity?
At first the Romans did not mind that Christians did not worship their gods.The Empire was prosperous and there were not many Christians.Within the next two hundred years, barbarian（野蛮人） warriors attacked the empire.Many Romans suggested that bad times were coming to the empire because a growing group of Christians did not worship the Roman gods.
Roman emperors became increasingly intolerant of Christianity.In 202 AD, Emperor
Septimius Severus（谢普提米乌斯·塞维鲁）banned any Roman citizen from converting to Christianity or Judaism.Those who disobeyed the emperor were often tortured by soldiers or wild animals at sporting events.Despite the persecutions, Christianity continued to grow.
Constantine（君士坦丁） ended persecution of Christians when he seized power in 306 AD.
14.How did the early Christians respond to the persecution? And what’s the result?
15.When did Jesus begin his teaching?
In His early thirties,
16.What’s Jesus’ teaching about?
Jesus’ teachingis about religious authorities
17.What’s the heart of Christianity?
The heart of Christianity is Bible .
18.What are the points of the Christian teaching?
The points of the Christian teaching are that their sins are forgiven, and that they can believe the promise of God, the news that they have received everlasting life from him.
19.What are the major branches of Christianity?
As time progreed, Christianity divided into three major branches:The Roman Catholic ,the Eastern Orthodoxand the Protestant
20.How was the Roman Catholic branch formed?
The Roman Catholic branch of Christianity is the succeor of the church established in Rome soon after Christ\'s death.It traces its spiritual history to the early disciples of Jesus.The Pope, or spiritual leader, traces his office\'s lineage back to St.Peter, the first Pope, one of Jesus\' disciples.
21.How was the Eastern Orthodox branch formed?
During the fourth century, the Roman Catholic church split and the Eastern Orthodox branch was formed.The split was primarily a political one due to the division of the Roman Empire into western and eastern components.
22.How was the Protestant branch formed?
The Protestant branch split from Roman Catholicism during the Reformation, a sixteenth and seventeenth century series of church reforms in doctrine and practice.
Questions for reviewing:
1.How many parts is the Bible divided into? What are they?
2.How many books are there in the Bible/the Old Testament/the New Testament?
3.What’s the meaning of “testament”?
4.What is the heart of the Bible meage?
5.How is the Bible divided into the Old Testament and the New Testament?
6.What’s the center of the Old Testament?
7.How many writers is the Old Testament authored by?
8.When was the Old Testament written down?
9.What are the content of the Old Testament?
10.What’s the theme of the Old Testament?
11.What’s the central idea of the New Testament?
12.What’s the difference between the Jewish and Christian idea of the Bible?
13.How many categories is the Bible divided into? What are they?
14.What’s Genesis about?
15.What’s Exodus about?
16.What’s The Historical Books about?
17.What’s the Poetical Books about?
18.What’s the Prophets about?
19.What’s the Gospel about?
20.What’s the Acts about?
21.What’s the major theme of the Bible for Christians?
22.How long did it take to finish writing the entire Bible?
23.What’s the meaning of “canon”?
24.How many writers was the entire Bible authored by? What are their backgrounds?
Its authors include more than 25 men from a variety of backgrounds including prophets, priests, fishermen, kings, tax collectors, and doctors.
25.When was the Bible written?
The entire Bible was written over a period of 1,500 years from about 1450 BC to 100 AD.
