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15 Cards in this Set
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The meaning of Scripture based on the meaning of words in the literary and historical context.
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Literal Sense
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The Spiritual interpretation of Scripture that shows us how the heroes of Scripture portray a pattern for our own lives.
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Moral Sense
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The interpretation of Scripture that sees not only the words of the text, but also the people, things, and events they describe as signs.
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Spiritual Sense
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Literally, "blessings." They are sayings of Jesus that began at the Sermon on the Mount.
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Beatitudes
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From a Greek word that means "ruler"or "straight edge." The term is used to designate a recognized collection of texts.
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Canon
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Any teaching about the nature of Christ.
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Christology
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The Greek word for "world."
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Cosmos
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An agreement or treaty between two social or political parties.
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Covenant
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Shortened form of "cultus deorum," a Latin phrase that literally means "care of the gods." The term is generally used for any set of relgious or liturgical practices of worship, such as sacrifice and prayer.
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Cult
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A collection of ancient Jewish writings discovered in several caves near the northwest edge of the Dead Sea.
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Dead Sea Scrolls
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A follower, on who is "taught." In the New Testamet, a common designation of one of Jesus' "twelve" specially chosen followers.
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Disciple
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An apocalyptically oriented Jewish sect, some of whom started their ow monastic-like communities to preserve their purity in anticipation of the coming end of the world.
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Essenes
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A Jewish term for a non-Jew.
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Gentile
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A group of ancient religions, closely related to Chrisitianity, that maintained that sparks of a divine being had become entrapped in the present, evil world and could escape only by acquiring the appropriate secret gnosis (Greek for "knowledge") of who they were and how they could escape.
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Gnosticism
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The lands and culture of the Mediterranean from Alexander the Great through the early Roman Empire.
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Greco-Roman World
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