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RELST II Ch 3
Chapter 3 Terms People and Places
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| apocryphal gospels | Gospels that are not part of the canon of the New Testament. Apocryphal means "hidden." Most date from 2nd - 4th centuries, many years after the Apostolic era. |
| Canon | from Hebrew "kaneh" meaning "rule, measure, standard." The official list of inspired writings in sacred scripture. |
| evangelists | Authors of the Four Gospel accounts of the New Testament - Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John - and disciples closely associated with them. |
| Gospel | The "Good News," the story of the coming of the Savior, Jesus Christ, and the inauguration of God's Kingdom. |
| kerygma | A form of preaching used in the early Church that presumed an audience of unbelievers. |
| didache | A word that means "teaching" that described oral teaching to those who had already accepted Jesus. |
| liturgy | The public worship and communal worship of the Church. |
| Anno Domini | A Latin phrase meaning "in the year of Our Lord" used in reference to events that took place after the birth of Jesus Christ. |
| Gnosticism | A heresy from the 1st Christian centuries that taught that Jesus shared secret info or knowledge with only a few people who were guaranteed Salvation. |
| Synoptic Gospels | The Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke that have so much content in common that they are often studied side by side. Synoptic comes from Greek for "to see together." |
| source criticism | The study by Scripture scholars to determine what sources the Gospel writers used to compose their works. |
| form criticism | A type of literary criticism used by Scripture scholars that analyzes and compares different literary forms used in the Gospels. |
| redaction criticism | A scholarly approach to the study of Scripture that attempts to see how each of the Gospel writers edited, or redacted, materials for that Gospel's audience. |
| textual criticism | Scripture study that looks to the various early manuscripts of the biblical texts. |
| historical criticism | An approach to Scripture analysis that tries to discover what evangelists really wanted to say when they wrote a particular text. |
| martyrs | A Greek word meaning "witness," referring to those who were put to death because of their religious beliefs. |
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