Scripture Councils and Encylicals
The Council that closed the canon of Scripture.
What is the Council of Trent (1546)?
The meaning conveyed by the words of Scripture and uncovered by exegesis.
What is the literal sense?
The caller and the called.
Who is "Jesus" and
What are "ordinary workers"?
Parties involved in the exorcism meet.
What are the exorcist and the demon?
The beginning of the healing event.
This 1893 encyclical that supported scripture study?
What is Providentissimus Deus (1893/Pope Leo XIII)
Discovered the unity of God’s plan not only from the text, but also the realities and events about which it speaks as a sign.
What the clear summons is.
What is “Follow me.”
The response of the demon.
Papal encyclical that affirmed divine inspiration of scripture.
What is Spiritus Paraclitus (1920/Benedict XV)
A more profound understanding of events in Scripture by recognizing their significance in Christ.
What is the allegorical sense?
What the call offers.
What is “to share in the mission or activity of the one calling.”
The response and command of the exorcist.
What is “a powerful response”? and “What is “to leave?”
What is “for healing, whether implicit or explicit?”
The council document that defined inerrancy.
How events reported in Scripture ought to lead us to act rightly and justly.
What is the moral sense?
The nature of the response to the call.
What is “immediate and unreflective”?
The action of the demon.
What is “the demon departs?”
The result.
What is “the effecting of the might deed”?
The Pope who issued Divino Afflante Spiritu (1943)
Who is Pope Pius XII?
Viewing realities and events in Scripture in terms of their eternal significance.
What is the anagogical sense?
The nature of the choice to respond.
What is “responding is not a private choice, but joining others who respond as well.”
Public response to the exorcism.
What is “reactions of amazement or wonder?”
The public response.
What is “acclamation by the crowd or some external demonstration of the healing?”