unit one vocab Flashcards
Biblical Inerrancy
The doctrine that the books of scripture are free from error regarding the truth God wishes to reveal through scripture for the sake of our salvation.
Biblical Exegesis
The critical interpretation and explanation of Sacred Scripture. Made of the Literal Sense and the Spiritual Senses.
Gentile
Non-Jewish person
Gospels
Accounts of real events and teachings from Jesus’ life that give deeper insight into the meaning of his life and mission.
Magisterium
The Church’s living teaching office, which consists of all bishops, in communion with the Pope.
The Allegorical Sense
In biblical exegesis, How the people, events, and things in the literal sense point to the mystery of Christ.
Literal Sense
In Biblical exegesis, the obvious meaning of a text, the actual events being spoken about, seeks deeper understanding of the life, times, and writing styles of God’s Chosen People
Canon
the collection of books of the Bible that the Church recognizes as the inspired Word of God.
Deposit of Faith
The heritage of faith contained in Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition. It has been passed on from the time of the Apostles.
Contextualist approach
The interpretation of the Bible that takes into account the various contexts for understanding, including the sense of Scripture, literary forms, historical situations, cultural backgrounds, the unity of the whole of Sacred Scripture, Sacred Tradition, and the analogy of faith.
Fundamentalist approach
The interpretation of the Bible and Christian doctrine based on the literalist meaning of the Bible’s words. The interpretation os made without regard to the historical setting in which the writings or teachings were first developed.
letters/ Epistles
literary forms written to early christian to pass on wisdom (teachings), corrections, and community information
Apocalyptic / Eschatological Literature
Literary form that uses events and dramatic symbolic language to offer hope to people in crisis. Descriptions of the end of times promises of a new creation
Synoptic Gospels
From the Greek for “Seeing the whole together,” the name given to the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke because they are similar in style and content.
Tradition
from the latin tradere, meaning “to hand on,” referring to the process of passing on the gospel message.
