Finals Deck Vocab Flashcards
Sanctuary
a sacred place in front of the church
Amdg
For the greater glory of god
Sanctuary lamp
The lamp that tells when the Eucharist is in the tabernacle.
Stole
Scarf like piece of clothing
Divine revalation
communication of knowledge to man by a divine or supernatural agency
Catholic
One of the three main religions
Contextual
Deeper than just words.
Literal
The reading no deeper than the words.
Covenant
A promise with god.
Salvation history
How god will save us over time.
Torah
The first five books of the Hebrew bible
Pentateuch
The five Books of Moses.
Genesis, exodus, Leviticus, numbers and Deuteronomy.
Altar
The table where the priest preforms the liturgy oft hr Eucharist.
Crucifix
A symbol of Jesus on the cross.
Eucharist.
The body of Christ.
Transubstantiation.
The spirit changes but the body stays the same.
Liturgy
Public worship
Ritual
A repeated system of events.
Testament
The first and second part of the bible
Cannon
A type of Eastern Orthodox hymn
Tradition,
A ritual repeated over centuries.
3 levels of understanding scripture
Informal
Formational(form values)
Transformational
Literary genres
Repartition, repeating,
Opposition good/bad
Completion if/then
Parable
Short story that conveys a message.
Oral tradition
Passing history down through word of mouth.
Scribes,
People who wrote down the histories of the land.
Septuagint
A translation of the Hebrew bible.
Innerant
Incapable of being wrong.
Apastolic times
The time of the apostles.
Vulgate
The translation of the bible made by st jerome.
Magisterium
The authority of the Catholic Church.
Biblical citation
Book: chapter: verse
Genesis
He first book of the bible
Prehistory
The time before recorded history.
Myth
A traditional story containing a history of early people
Creation
How god created everything and everyone
Evolution
The change over time.
Sabbath
Sunday
Sin stories
How we turned away from god
Sin
Turning away from god
Conversion
Turning back to god
Original sin
The first sin committed by Adam and Eve
Rainbow
A sign of hope given to Noah by god.
Geneology
A family tree
Salvation history
Free will in the ways we see and interpret god.
Patriarch
A founding father of a religion.
Matriarch
A founding mother of a religion.
Monotheism
A belief in one god
Polytheism
A belief in many gods
Cutting a covenant
A custom that when the Israelites mad a covenant they would cut an animal in half and walk through it.
Abrahams test
God told Abraham to kill his son Isaac to see if he would truly do anything for god. An angel stopped him proclaiming him worthy.
Birthright
A blessing given to the first born
Jacobs deception
Esau steals the birthright from Jacob by disguising himself as a hairy man
Exodus
The second book of the Old Testament.
Yahweh
A Hebrew word for god or I am who I am
Nine plagues
He plages that inflicted Egypt
Plagues
- Nile turns to blood.
- Frogs inhabit the earth.
- Gnats appear
- Flies appear
- Boils infect people and animals.
- Animals get sick. And die
- Hail splinters trees.
- Locusts swarm
- Darkness overcomes the earth.
- God instructs Moses to tell the Hebrew people to kill a lamb, place blood on lintel of door, prepare for flight from Egypt. Using unleavened bread. Moses sends angel of death
Passover
The feast of the angel of death coming over the Israelites.Lamb
Unleavened bread
Hurry
Mana
A type of bread made during the Seder meal
Quail
A type of bird eaten at some traditional meals.
Decalogue(Ten Commandments)
- I, the Lord, am your God: you shall not have other gods besides me.
- You shall not take the name of the Lord, your God, in vain.
- Keep holy the Sabbath day.
- Honor your father and mother.
- You shall not kill.
- You shall not commit adultery.
- You shall not steal.
- You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
- You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife.
- You shall not covet your neighbor’s goods.
Superstition
A belief of a supernatural force.
Divination
: the practice of using signs (such as an arrangement of tea leaves or cards) or special powers to predict the future
Spiritism cursing
Using the name if a spirit to curse someone
Swearing
Calling god to witness the truth
Cursing
calling upon God to inflict evil or harm on
another.
Purjury
Swearing under oath
Adultery
Sex between a marries person and someone who isn’t their spouse
Slander
Ruining someone’s good name with lies
Detraction
A lessening of reputation or esteem
List
A strong feeling of sexual desire
Envy
Wanting what someone else has
Avarice
A strong desire to have or get money
Ethical monotheism
3 people make up one god
Arc of the covenant
A gold arc whee the Ten Commandments were placed
Liturgical year
Christmas, ordinary time, lent, holy tridium, Easter, Pentecost, ordinary time
Holy tridium
Holy thursday (last supper), Good Friday (Jesus dies), holy Saturday
Cycle abc
Cycle a -Matthew
Cycle b- mark John
Cycle c - Luke