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Book 1 - Chapter 3 Flashcards

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1
Q

What has been the function of ecumenical councils in Church history?

A

Make decisions about matters of Faith and morals

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2
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What Council serves as a model for the Ecumenical Council?

A

The Council of Jerusalem

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3
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What is the pillar and bulwark of truth?

A

The Church

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4
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What are the three literary forms or genres present in the Bible?

A

1) moral
2) anagogical
3) allegorical

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5
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What is the study of the end things?

A

Eschatology

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6
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What is the historical lineage of each bishop back to one of the twelve Apostles?

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Apostolic Succession

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7
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What does it mean to say that Sacred Scripture is inspired?

A

The main author is God

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8
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What are the three conditions that the Fathers of the Church meet?

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1) Antiquity
2) Orthodoxy
3) Holiness of life

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9
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How can we be assured that the Deposit of Faith has been faithfully transmitted down to our present day?

A

Christ promised this - and provided for it through the magisterium of the Church

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10
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What is the teaching office of the Church?

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Magisterium

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What revelation was handed on from Christ to the Apostles and to the modern era through the Church?

A

Sacred Tradition

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12
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What does the Deposit of Faith contain?

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1) Faith

2) Morals

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13
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What are the two main senses of interpreting the Bible?

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1) Literal senses

2) Spiritual senses

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14
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What is the spiritual sense that presents the heroes of Scriptures as models for emulation?

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Moral sense

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What is papal infallibility? - - does it mean that the pope can never make a mistake?

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When the pope proclaims a doctrine about faith or morals or he is without error - - he is able to make mistakes

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16
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What is how the meaning of the text was originally understood?

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Literal sense

17
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What is the spiritual sense that describes how persons or events in Scripture point to future persons or events?

A

Allegorical sense

18
Q

What is the interpretation of persons or events in Scripture as signs or symbols of other people or events?

A

Spiritual sense

19
Q

Who makes up the Magisterium?

A

Pope and Bishops

20
Q

Who are the early Christian writers whose writings faithfully transmitted and illuminated the Faith?

A

Fathers of the Church

21
Q

What is the Spiritual sense that shows how persons or events in Scripture point to the realities of Heaven?

A

Anagogical sense

22
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What is incapable of error - applies to the Magisterium in matters of Faith and morals?

A

infallibility

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