Assignment:
1. What does it mean to live as a Christian compared to living as a Muslim and practicing Jew? What similarities are there? What are the differences?
2. How do the ethical principles contained in the Ten Commandments characterize Christianity in practice? Give concrete examples.
3. Compare food rules and dress code in Christianity with rules in Judaism and Islam. What similarities and differences can you account for?
4. a. What is the church year?
b. What are the most important holidays?
c. What are the Christian holidays based on?
Watch the slideshow with Jesus pictures. Use the internet to supplement these with more pictures. Discuss:
1. How can it be that there are so many different images of Jesus?
2. Is there any image or type of image that you have seen more often than the others?
3. Why do you think this is exactly the picture you have seen?
4. What do you think the artist / artists want to convey by portraying Jesus in this very way? A forum for the moment.
1. Explain Christianity's view of man. Compare the human view in Buddhism, Judaism and Islam with Christianity.
2. The different orientations in Christianity are usually called church families. Compare these families with each other. Also compare a Protest ant worship service with an Orthodox one. What unites them and what separates them?