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Religion Mid Term
10/11/12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Sacred Tradition | living transmission of the message of the Gospel in the church |
| Divine Revelation | God's self communication whereby he makes known the mystery of his divine plan. God must fully revealed himself when he sends us his own divine son Jesus Christ |
| Salvation History | story of God's saving activity in human history |
| magisterium | official teaching authority of the church that resident the pope (successor of Peter) and the bishops in communion with him |
| incarnation | core catholic teaching that the son of God took on human flesh in the person of Jesus Christ |
| dogma | central truth of revelation that catholics are obliged to believe |
| gospel | the good news preach by Jesus |
| Christ | title given to Jesus means 'anointed one" |
| Lord | title for Jesus translate the Greek word Kurios. Rendered Hebrew word for God. To call Jesus "Lord" is to call him God |
| Kerygma | core teaching about Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord |
| Testament | "covenant" open-ended contract of love between God an human beings Jesus' Death and Resurrection sealed God's new covenant of love for all time |
| septuagint | second century bc greek translation of the hebrew bible made at Alexandria Egypt |
| New Covenant | the climax of salvation history the coming of jesus christ, the fullness of God's Revelation |
| Inspiration | the guidance given to the human authors of Sacred Scripture so they wrote what God wanted written for our benefite |
| evangelist | person who proclaims the good news of jesus christ the four evangelists refers to the authors of the four gospels:mathew,mark,luke,john |
| canon | official list of the insipred books of the bible catholics list 46 old test. 27 new test. |
| Catechesis | process of religious instruction and formation in the major elemnts of the catholic faith |
| synoptic Gospels | gospels of mathew mark luke which because of their similarities can be seen together in parallel columns and mutual compared |
| Q | a common source of saying by jesus |
| M | saying unique to Mathew |
| L | saying unique to Luke |
| Form Criticism | Examines literary differences among New Testament writings |
| Source Criticism | tries to discover what source Nt writers used to compose their work |
| historical criticism | tries to discover what writers would have originally meant when writing particular texts |
| redaction criticism | examines how and why writers arranged material in a particular way |
| textual criticism | examens the main changes and mistakes that copyist made through the centuries of handwriting copies of the text |