Quiz 1 Flashcards
Define: “word of God”
Used to describe the scriptures
Define: “Word of God”
Used as a title for Jesus
“Word” means logos, idea, thought, rationale, reason
The Bible is about the Word’s word
What are the three sources of the Bible’s authority?
Canonicity, inspiration, and inerrancy
Define: Canonicity
kanon-rule or standard
Define: Inspiration
“God-breathed”
God the holy spirit inspired the human authors of the scripture to write what they did- dual authorship
Define: dual authorship
God as the primary and human author (instrumental author) as the secondary
Define- Inerrancy
any information in the bible that is connected to God’s plan for salvation or salvation history is correct
What is another word for the Old Testament?
Old Covenant
How do Christians view the New Testament?
They view it as the final/new Covenant
Define: Historical books VS Prophetic Books
Historical books are the early prophets, and the prophetic books are the later prophets; transitions from the old to new testament.
Who wrote the Acts of the Apostles and what was it?
written by Luke and the only historical book of the new testament
What was the only historical book of the new testament?
Acts of the Apostles
What are the Epistles?
the new testament analog to the old testament wisdom literature
What was the notion of Language?
Elevation/Condensation
What are the four senses of scripture (only names)?
1 Literal sense
3 Spiritual Senses:
allegorical sense
moral/tropological
anagogical
What is the allegorical sense?
persons/events/institutions can point beyond themselves (things that will happen in the future or happened in the past) Ex: Abraham and Issac’s sacrifice in comparison to Jesus
What is the Moral/Tropological sense?
how the actions of God’s people in the Old Testament and the life of Jesus in the New Testament prompt us to form virtuous habits in our own lives
What is the Anagogical Sense?
shows us how countless events in the Bible prefigure our final union with God in eternity, and how things that are “seen” on earth are figures of things “unseen” in heaven. The anagogical sense leads us to contemplate our destiny
What is the correlating theological virtue for the allegorical sense?
Faith
What is the correlating theological virtue for the moral/tropological sense?
Charity (love)
What is the correlating theological virtue for the anagogical sense?
Hope
What are the Church’s three criteria for biblical interpretation? (just names)
literary context
community context
theological context
What does literary context mean?
Be attentive to content and unity of Scripture
What does community context mean?
read within the living tradition of the Church
What does theological context mean?
be attentive to the “anagogical of faith”
What is the analogy faith?
It means that if we understand the doctrines of faith properly, then they must fit together. They have to make sense
What are the four criteria for inclusion of texts in the New Testament Canon?
- Authored by “apostolic men” or very close people to the apostles
- Contained teachings for the entire church (universally inclusive)
- Long tradition of liturgical usage
- They are faithful reflections of the life of the Church
What are the Characteristics of the Graeco-Roman “life” as a literary genre and its application to the Gospels?
- Focus on one person: Jesus
- Broadly chronological but can get shifted around
- Largely dedicated to one period in the subject’s life
- Typically about a renowned or influential subject
- Pay special attention to the virtues and wisdom leading up to
What is the concept of historicity?
Not in perfect chronological order
What is the Evidence supporting ICSB editors’ preference of a 3–2 B.C. date for Jesus’ birth (rather than 6–4 B.C.)
- Herod the Great died in 1BC not 4 BC
- What people presumed to be a tax census, may not have been a tax census.
- Quarineas becomes the leader of Egypt (governor)
What is the sequence of key events in the life of Saint Paul?
- Sometime in the 30’s Paul has his conversion
- Meets Pricilla, Expelled from Rome, about 49 Paul is in Corinth (18 months)
- Paul is brought before Galeo in 51
- Arrested in Temple at Jerusalem (prison for 2 years in Judea)
- Paul appeals his case to Ceasar and is transferred to Rome
- Under house arrest for another 2 years
- Martyred in Rome
- We start with certain dates that are comfortable in reference and then based on the scriptures it can be built upon
