Heresies
An influential heresy of the early Church that taught that Jesus, the Son of God, was created by God the Father.
What is Arianism?
For the average modern reader who does not have an extensive background in ancient Jewish history or culture, this feature of a Bible will be helpful.
What are footnotes?
The gift of the Holy Spirit that God gave to the human authors of the Bible which enabled them to write that which He wanted committed to writing for the sake of our salvation.
What is Divine Inspiration?
The Old Testament was written down once the Israelites settled here.
What is the Promised Land?
Who is St. Jerome?
The name given to a heresy of the early Church that taught, among other things, that Jesus was not fully human and that the material world was evil.
What is Gnosticism?
An exclusive and overly literal reading of the words of Scripture.
What is fundamentalist?
This Greek word means "God-breathed".
What is Theopneustos?
This is the number of books in the Catholic canon.
What is 73?
The pre-Christian Greek translation of the Old Testament books made by Jewish scholars and later adopted by Greek speaking Christians.
What is the Septuagint?
Ancient books about the life of Christ that are infused with theology that reflects the Gnostic heresy rampant at the time; two of them are named after these saints.
Who are St. Thomas and St. Mary Magdalene?
Every passage of Scripture has this, which is the meaning that comes directly from the text and from the intention of the Sacred author.
What is the literal sense?
These authors brought their own concepts and understanding, literary abilities, and language to composing Sacred Scripture.
Who are human authors?
The books that were included in the New Testament were written by people with either of these backgrounds.
What is an eyewitness or a close companion of an apostle?
A straightforward translation of the Bible that replaces words in the original language with words in the secondary language that have the same simple meaning and without regard for figures of speech of nuances in meaning.
What is a literal translation?
As a response to the Arian heresy, the Church formulated this statement of belief.
What is the Nicene Creed?
When we examine the genre of literature to which a particular Bible passage belongs, we are investigating this context of the passage.
What is literary context?
Because Scripture is inspired by God, who is unable to deceive, it has this quality.
What is inerrant?
The ecumenical council at which the canon of Scripture was dogmatically declared.
A translation of the Bible that uses different words or different figures of speech from those in the original in the attempt to preserve the actual, deep meaning of the original.
What is a dynamically equivalent translation?
The obstinate denial after this sacrament of a truth which must be believed with divine and Catholic faith.
What is Baptism?
In Verbum Domini, Pope Benedict XVI compared the birth of Scripture from the womb of the Church by the power of the Holy Spirit to this.
What is the Incarnation of Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit in the womb of the Virgin Mary?
The letter of St. Paul to this group of Christians included an admonition to stop committing abuses at the Lord's Supper.
Who are the Corinthians?
Those seven books of the Old Testament and parts of the books of Esther and Daniel that are not considered by most Protestants to be inspired writings but are still considered valuable for their historical, spiritual, and theological significance.
What are apocryphal books?
This word means "commonly used" in Latin.
What is vulgata?