Okay Flashcards
“The spiritual interpretation of Scripture that shows how people and events in history suggest future people and events.”
Allegorical Sense
“The spiritual interpretation of Scripture that shows how events in Scripture point to what will be in Heaven”
Anagogical Sense
“An event or person in Scripture that is foreshadowed by or identified with an earlier symbol or type, for example, a figure in the New Testament who has a counterpart in the Old Testament
Antitype
“From the Greek for “hidden”; hence, used to describe writings of unknown or spurious authorship.”
Apocrypha
Rejection of the existence of God, often founded on a false conception of human autonomy. This is forbidden by the First Commandment. One who espouses this view is an atheist.
Atheism
“Sacred Scripture; the books that contain the truth of God’s Revelation and were composed by human authors, who were inspired by the Holy Spirit.”
Bible
“Greek and Latin for “rule” or “standard.” ”
Canon
“From the Greek koinonia and the Latin communio for “mutual participation” or “oneness together”: in the sense of Holy Communion, ”
Communion
“A solemn agreement between people or between God and man involving mutual commitments and guarantees.”
Covenant
“The heritage of faith contained in Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition, handed on in the Church from the time of the Apostles, from which the Magisterium draws all that the Church proposes for belief as being divinely revealed.
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Deposit of Faith
“Those canonical books and passages of the Old and New Testaments about which there was controversy in early Christian history but were eventually accepted by the Church as authentic and inspired.
Deuterocanonical
primarily God’s communication of his divine life, by which man can know him and thereby respond to his love
Divine Revelation
Revealed teachings of Christ that are preserved and proclaimed by the authority of the Church’s Magisterium.
Doctrine
The theological virtue by which one believes in all that God has said and revealed to man and that the Church proposes for belief.
Faith
Adam and Eve’s abuse of their human freedom in disobeying God’s command
Fall