Signs of the Times
A time of peace and stability throughout the Roman Empire.
What is the Roman Peace?
Another term for the Bible.
What is Sacred Scripture?
The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke.
What are the Synoptic Gospels?
A term for the various layers of meaning in the text of Scripture.
What are the Senses of Scripture?
The successors of the Apostles.
Who are the Bishops?
A Jewish holiday that celebrates the purification of the Temple
What is Hanukkah?
God's communication of Himself.
What is Divine Revelation?
Meaning "Same View"
The sense of scripture that focuses on the plain meaning of the text.
What is the Literal sense?
The handing on of the Apostles' preaching and authority through the laying on of hands.
What is Apostolic Succession?
A foretelling or warning of something that is to come.
The list of inspired books that make up Sacred Scripture.
What is the Canon of Scripture?
This gospel stands apart from the others.
What is the Gospel of John?
The sense of scripture that focuses on what we can learn about how to behave rightly.
What is the Moral Sense?
One who is sent.
What is an Apostle?
A Jewish sect that believed in the immortality of the soul and the resurrection of the body.
Who are the Pharisees?
This part of the Bible records salvation history from Creation through the Old Covenant.
What is the Old Testament?
The books of the Bible that focus on Jesus' life.
What are the Gospels?
The sense of scripture that focuses on how the text points towards Christ.
What is the Allegorical Sense?
The first Bishops.
Who are the Apostles?
A line of Jewish kings who ruled Israel after the Maccabean revolt.
What is the Hasmonean Dynasty?
The number of books in the Bible.
What is 73?
The heart of the Christian message
What is the Gospel?
The sense of scripture that focuses on how the text points towards our ultimate destination ( Heaven or Hell)
What is the Anagogical Sense?
The people who hold the teaching authority of the Church. This also refers to the authority itself.
What is the Magisterium?