Book 1 - Chapter 3 Flashcards
What has been the function of ecumenical councils in Church history?
Make decisions about matters of Faith and morals
What Council serves as a model for the Ecumenical Council?
The Council of Jerusalem
What is the pillar and bulwark of truth?
The Church
What are the three literary forms or genres present in the Bible?
1) moral
2) anagogical
3) allegorical
What is the study of the end things?
Eschatology
What is the historical lineage of each bishop back to one of the twelve Apostles?
Apostolic Succession
What does it mean to say that Sacred Scripture is inspired?
The main author is God
What are the three conditions that the Fathers of the Church meet?
1) Antiquity
2) Orthodoxy
3) Holiness of life
How can we be assured that the Deposit of Faith has been faithfully transmitted down to our present day?
Christ promised this - and provided for it through the magisterium of the Church
What is the teaching office of the Church?
Magisterium
What revelation was handed on from Christ to the Apostles and to the modern era through the Church?
Sacred Tradition
What does the Deposit of Faith contain?
1) Faith
2) Morals
What are the two main senses of interpreting the Bible?
1) Literal senses
2) Spiritual senses
What is the spiritual sense that presents the heroes of Scriptures as models for emulation?
Moral sense
What is papal infallibility? - - does it mean that the pope can never make a mistake?
When the pope proclaims a doctrine about faith or morals or he is without error - - he is able to make mistakes
What is how the meaning of the text was originally understood?
Literal sense
What is the spiritual sense that describes how persons or events in Scripture point to future persons or events?
Allegorical sense
What is the interpretation of persons or events in Scripture as signs or symbols of other people or events?
Spiritual sense
Who makes up the Magisterium?
Pope and Bishops
Who are the early Christian writers whose writings faithfully transmitted and illuminated the Faith?
Fathers of the Church
What is the Spiritual sense that shows how persons or events in Scripture point to the realities of Heaven?
Anagogical sense
What is incapable of error - applies to the Magisterium in matters of Faith and morals?
infallibility
