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Chapter 2 Facts
Jesus Christ: God's Revelation the World
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is Inspiration? | The gift of the Holy Spirit by which a human author was able to write a biblical book which really has God as the author and which teaches faithfully and without error the saving truth that God willed be consigned to us for our salvation |
| Who wrote Sacred Scripture? | written fully by God and fully by man |
| What is Literary Genre? | A type of writing that has a particular form, style or content. |
| What is exegesis? | A process used by scholars to discover the meaning of the biblical text |
| What are Literary Forms? | the kinds of writing in the Bible |
| What is Literal Sense? | The meaning conveyed by the words of SS and discovered by exegesis |
| What is Spiritual Sense? | Understanding SS not by the words themselves, but by the realities and events signified by them. |
| The Spiritual Senses can be broken down into 3 categories. Which are what? | 1:The Anagogical Sense 2:The Moral Sense 3:Allegorical Sense |
| The Allegorical Sense: | An allegory is a metaphor, or a comparison. Therefore, viewing SS in this sense means viewing all the realities and events in SS as comparisons to spiritual realities. What should we believe? |
| The Moral Sense: | Viewing SS as a guide to living a good, moral life. How should we act? |
| The Anagogical Sense: | Anagogy means “to lead.” Therefore, the Anagogical Sense views the events in SS as a guide, leading us to our ultimate goal: eternal union with God. Where are we going? |
| Who is Saint Jerome? | Church Father that translated the Bible into Latin |
| What is a “Church Father?” | a traditional title given to theologians of the first eight whose teaching made a lasting mark on the church |
| Protestant Translations of the Bible | 1:King James Version 2:New Revised Standard Version 3:Revised English Bible 4:New International Version |
| Catholic Translations of the Bible | 1:Douay—Rheims Version 2:New American Bible 3:New Jerusalem Bible |
| Translation used at Mass | New American Bible |
| The types of Criticisms | 1:Historical 2:Source 3:Form 4:Redaction |
| What is Historical Criticism? | tries to determine the historical context of biblical text |
| What is Source Criticism? | helps to discover where biblical author got their material |
| What is Form Criticism? | involves studying small units of biblical text to attempt to determine how each book took shape during oral tradition before being written down |
| What is Redaction Criticism? | how various editors put together their sources and arranged them the way they did |