THEOLOGY Flashcards
what is related to the latin term meaning “reconnecting to the divine” or “binding to God”?
Religion
what is God’s free gift of self communication, which helps us understand God’s plan for us?
Divine revelation
what is a central truth of revelation that catholics must believe?
dogma
he said “our heart is restless until it rests in God”
St. Augustine
what is the holy spirits gift that enables us to believe in God and all that he revealed to us?
Faith
he showed how human intelligence can discover God
St. Thomas Aquinas
what is one of the elements of the single deposit of faith
sacred tradition
what is the sin of adam and eve into which we are all born?
original sin
what is the binding promise between God and humankind in which God pledge enduring love and asked for our love in return?
Covenant
Someone who does not believe in God
Atheist
First among the apostles upon which Christ found the church
St. Peter
A judgment of reason whereby the human person recognizes the moral quality of a concrete act
Conscience
The story of God saving presents and activity on our behalf
Salvation history
Belief in one God
Monotheistic
The teaching authority of the church
Magisterium
Another way of saying without error
Inerrant
Most of the Old Testament was written in the language
Hebrew
Copies of the Old Testament books that were discovered in 1947 in Israel
The dead sea scrolls
This interpretation of the Bible ignores various literary forms and the cultural and historical factors of the period in which the biblical authors wrote
Literalist
A type of writing that has a particular form style or content
Literary genre
The process used by scholars to discover the meaning of the biblical text
Exegesis
Scriptures don’t contradict themselves
Analogy of faith
Biblical criticism that helps to discover where biblical authors got their material
Source criticism
A title given to theologians of the first eight centuries whose teachings made a lasting mark on the church
Church fathers
The language that Jesus spoke
Aramaic
Doug use the human authors as his_________to convey divine revelation to us
Instrument
The entire New Testament was written in this language
Greek
Biblical criticism that helps discover how the various editors put together the sources and arrange them the way they did
Redaction criticism
The church’s official Latin translation of the Bible
Vulgate
Who is the author of the Bible
God
True or false
The new Jerusalem Bible is a protestant translation of the Bible
False
True or false
Reading the Bible in a literal way is the same as reading it in a literalist way
False
True or false
the moral sense of scripture helps us to live a good life and to act justly On behalf of God and other people
True
True or false
St. Augustine translated the Bible into Latin
False
True or false
St. Jerome said ignorance of the scripture is ignorance of Christ
True
True or false
God force the sacred writers of the Bible to write down the truth needed for salvation
False
True or false
The new American Bible is a Catholic translation of the Bible
True
True or false
Fundamentalists read the Bible in the literal sense
False
True or false
The primary purpose of the Bible is to present the religious truth that God wishes to reveal through sacred salvation
True
True or false
One Of the ways for interpreting scripture is reading it within the living tradition of the church
True
This highly symbolic works purpose was to encourage Christians who were undergoing persecution for their faith in Jesus Christ
Book of Revelation
Jesus was probably born and six BC and then crucified in what year
30 or 33
The second part of the gospel of Luke
Acts of the apostles
One of the letters written by Paul or buy one of his disciple
Epistle
Written as a sermon emphasizes Christ superiority over all creation
letter to the Hebrews
Which gospel was written first
Mark
What gospel highlights Jesus as the suffering servant
Mark
What gospel portrays Jesus as the word of God
John
What gospel contains the sermon on the mount
Matthew
What gospel is One of the apostles
John
What gospel presents Jesus as Savior with special concern for the poor and the outcasts
Luke
Jesus lived the typical life of a Jewish boy
True
Jesus was crucified by Pontius pilot c.30ad
True
First written books of the New Testament were the Gospels
False
The Gospel writers were trying to write biography of Jesus
False
The acts of the apostles tells the early history of the church
True
Biblical scholars shows that this section of the Old Testament reach its final form after centuries of retelling adapting and reinterpreting oral tradition
Pentateuch
A period of time that refers to events or objects that date before the written record existed
Prehistory
A consequence of Original Sin, an inclination to commit sin that arises from our human desires
Concupiscence
The first gospel where God promises of a Savior who will destroy sin and its consequences
Protoevangelium
The sign of the covenant with Abraham and his descendants
Circumcision
The story demonstrates that pride fullness in trying to get to heaven apart from God results and alienation and discord
Tower of Babel
This patriarch is a model of faith
Abraham
The book of Genesis ends with this patriarchs that
Joseph
Central figure in the Old Testament his name means I drew him out of the water
Moses
One of the religious truth that God reveals through the first creation story
There is only one God
The 12 tribes of Israel were direct descendants of this patriarch
Jacob
Central to both the Jewish and Christian Faiths. It’s celebration makes the exitus eventspresent to the memory of believers and commemorates gods freeing the Israelites from slavery in Egypt
Passover
The symbol of the covenant with Noah sign of God lasting immersible presence
Rainbow
God created her out of Adams ribs
Eve
The creation stories are concerned with presenting scientific truth
False
The first creation story portrays God as a potter who molds Adams body
False
The second creation story is older than the first
True
Original Sin is the fallen state of human nature into which all human beings are born
True
The tree of knowledge of good and evil represents the knowledge only God can possess
True
The worst consequence of the original sin was separation from God
True
The covenant with Abraham relied on gods fidelity alone
True
Jacob received the new name Esau from the angel
False
There is a similarity between Abrahams charge to sacrifice his only son and Jesus’s sacrifice as God’s only son
True
Jacob’s favorite son was Judah
False
Who is the author of the pentateuch
moses
what biblical source has an anthropomorphic view of God
yahwist
Biblical sources that refers to God as Elohim and was the last of the four traditions put into writing it includes list genealogies numbers and dates
Priestly
Biblical sources that place is great emphasis on the morality in law and highlights the speeches of Moses
Deuteronomist
The story explains why human beings arent always happy and do not live forever
The story of fall
The book of the Pentatech that stress is the theme of God’s holiness and Our would need to worship him with love
Leviticus
Foundational event in the history of the chosen people when they left Egypt into the promised land
Exit is in the giving of the 10 Commandments
This book of the Pentatech records the murmuring other people against Moses in the desert
Numbers
He for gave his brothers for selling him into slavery
Joseph
His name means when you contends with God
Israel
God instructed him to lead the chosen people the freedom
Moses
The first five books of the Bible are
Pentateuch and torah
The Greek term for second canon
Deuterocanical
The Bible translation from Hebrew to Greek
Septuagint
The Hebrew word that signifies A standard,measurement, Norm
Canon
This word means beginning
Genesis
This word means second law
Deuteronomy
