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45 Cards in this Set
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incarnation |
jesus assumed a human nature to give us eternal life God became one of us in order to save us from sin and death |
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essential christian godma |
truth divinely revealed that all christians accept |
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ways to find jesus today |
~reading scriptures ~receiving sacraments ~prayer:conversation ~other people
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Christ meaning |
"anointed" from the Hebrew word "Messiah" |
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Who was Josephus? |
~Wrote a history of Holy Land under Roman rule ~Discusses John the Baptist and Jesus ~Talks of Jesus' execution by Piolate
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How many books are in the New Testament? |
27 |
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~who is the true author of the Old Test. and the New Test. ?
~who inspired the human authors? |
~God ~Holy Spirit |
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Inspiration |
Holy Spirit teaches truth through the Bible without destroying the free activity of the human writer |
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What order did the Gospel writer write |
1) Mark 2)Matthew 3)Luke 4) John
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who did each Gospel writer write to? |
mark- Gentile Christians matthew - jewish christian luke- gentile christians john- all christians |
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how did each gospel writer view jesus? |
mark - suffering servant matthew- teacher luke-compassionate and universal savior john- Divine word of God
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Canon of the Bible |
Official list of books the church considers its inspired writings ~46 old Test books and 27 New Test books |
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What are the requirements of writings church includes as a canon |
~Apostolic origin ~widespread acceptance ~conformity to the rule of Faith
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Gospel of Thomas |
a non-canonical writing
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What are the three stages of the formation of a gospel |
1) public life and teaching of Jesus 2)period of oral tradition and preaching of jesus 3) written gospels |
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why was oral preaching written down?
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~end of the world not coming as quickly as early christian thought it would ~distortion setting in ~more instruction was needed |
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how do catholics believe the bible should be read? |
Prayerfully carefully and critically |
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what are the two literal senses of scripture and what do they each mean? |
literal- what the words actually mean spiritual- how texts and events can be signs |
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what does source criticism looks at |
sources |
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synoptic gospels |
matthew,mark,luke "seen together" |
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Q |
theory is they has another source, called "Q" source a collection of jesus' sayings
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What does Historical criticism look at? |
that gospel info can be traced to jesus |
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what does Form criticism look at? |
literary differences |
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gospel literary forms |
~historical Narrative ~ parables |
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What does Redaction criticism look at? |
editing- how and why the evangelist arranged their material |
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what does Textual Criticism look at? |
Examines changes and mistakes copyist made from handwritten |
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What type of Bible do we use in class |
New American Bible |
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What does AD stand for |
Anno Domini, "In the year of the lord" |
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Galilee |
~North this was the center of Jesus' earthly ministry ~Bethsaida-near where he walked on the water |
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What region was Samaria located? |
Central region |
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Judea |
southern region: where the temple was rebuilt Bethany- resurrection go Lazarus |
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What was the language Jesus spoke? It was close to Hebrew. |
Aramaic |
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What was the role of a Synagogue? |
1-houses of prayer where scripture read and Yahweh worshipped 2-Discussion fro legal settlements 3- Local school |
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what was the Temples purpose? |
Where the jews offered sacrifice to God |
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What does Passover celebrate? |
it is celebrated 50 days after Pentecost and it celebrated Yahweh's giving law to moses the Sinai Covenant and when the holy spirit came to them after jesus' resurrection |
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Sadducees |
made up the sanhedrin law making body and supreme court (accused Jesus of Blasphemy) made up mostly of priest and aristocrats and centered their activities in jerusalem |
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Parisees |
Belived in strict observance of the law, jesus beliefs closely paralleled them |
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who were Tax Collectors? |
jesus associated with them and called one of them to be an apostle (Matthew)
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Who were the common people? |
mostly ignorant to the law |
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What did Jesus think of Women? |
They were treated as equals ~"Jesus' attitude toward woman was, in many ways, revolutionary" |
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Magisterium |
the official teaching authority of the church that resides in the pope(successor of Peter) and the bishop in communion with him |
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Evangelist |
a person who proclaims the Good News of Jesus Christ |
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Gospels |
Good News 1-good news preached by Jesus 2-good news proclaimed by the church 3-the four records of the good news of Mark Matthew Luke and John |
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Gentiles |
Term for Non-Jews |
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Be able to write the gospel writers in order and who they wrote it to and what their Image of jesus was. |
1- Mark- gentile christians - suffering servant 2- Matthew - jewish christians - teacher 3- Luke- gentile christians |
