Deposit of Faith
The three stools of the deposit of faith.
What are Sacred Scripture, Sacred Tradition, and the Magisterium?
What is the first question God asks Adam and Eve?
Where are you?
What language was the Old Testament written in? NT?
OT: Hebrew
NT: Greek
What does the Latin word tradere mean?
to hand on
to pass on
Who makes up the Magisterium?
The Pope and the bishops
Why does Sola Scriptura not work?
Scriptura itself does not say "Sola Scriptura" and needs Magisterium to decide what books are in the Bible.
Through the mission of His Son, Jesus Christ.
What are the Deuterocanonical books?
Tobias, Judith, Baruch, Ecclesiasticus, Wisdom, First and Second Maccabees, parts of Esther and Daniel
Tradition can refer to what two things?
1. What is being passed on?
2. The process itself.
What is the hierarchy of the Church?
pope, cardinals, archbishops, bishops, auxiliary bishops, priests, laity
What is the Magisterium?
The teaching authority of the Church exercised by the Bishops, the successors of the Apostles.
What does the question, "Where are you?" begin?
God's search for man that continues through all of human history.
Describe type and antitype.
Type-points to something better, greater, or more perfect. Usually in the OT.
Antitype- the thing being pointed to. Usually in the NT.
What came first Tradition or Scripture? Why?
Tradition because Scripture is a product of Tradition.
Who attends an Ecumenical Council?
bishops
What is Sacred Tradition?
The Word of God entrusted to the Apostles and their successors by Christ and the Holy Spirit, transmitted by preaching and teaching to each generation of Christians.
What is the difference between eisegesis and exegesis?
Eisegesis- how does it apply to my life?
Exegesis-what did the author intend?
What is papal infallibility?
The doctrine that the pope cannot err when speaking ex cathedra in defining a doctrine of Christian faith or morals.
What is Sacred Scripture?
The books of the Bible containing the truths of God’s Revelation.
What are the 4 criteria for inclusion in the canon?
1. apostolic
2. Orthodox
3. Inspired
4.Liturgical
What are the only two times a pope has spoken something infallible, ex cathedra?
1. The Immaculate Conception
2. The Assumption