Introduction
The first human beings were in harmony with God themselves and creation?
What is original justice?
Helps to provide context and background to a particular biblical text
What is form criticism?
The accounts humans have told and recorded about the origins of the earth, humans, other creatures, languages, and cultures
What is primeval history?
An explanation of the cause of something
What is etiology?
The words mean at surface level and, as it was understood at the time, how things actually happened
What is literal sense?
The first human beings shared intimately in God's divine life?
What is original holiness?
The theory that purposes that the two creation accounts in Genesis may have had different origins
What is source criticism?
The Babylonian epic or myth of creation
What is Enuma Elish?
An expression of Christ's love for his Church
What is marriage?
Recognizes the significance of Christ in scriptural events
What is allegorical sense?
The way God communicates who He is to mankind
What is Divine Revelation?
Suggests that the people who edited Genesis may have thought that it was important to keep both accounts
What is redaction criticism?
The seventh day which God blessed
What is communion?
Seeks instruction for living and behaving- what a person is to do
What is moral sense?
The way you can learn about God by looking at the world around you and at human beings
What is Natural Revelation?
Recognizes the unity of the Old and New Testaments
What is typological manner?
Dignity that cannot be changed or taken away
What is inalienable dignity?
It is written in what might be described as a more "down-to-earth" style and portrays God with human qualities
What is the Second Creation Account?
Dervives heavenly matters- that is, the eternal life we are awaiting- from earthly matters described in the narrative
What is anagogical sense?
The human attempt to provide rational explanations for why things are the way they are and for how people should conduct their lives
What is philosophy?
The reader is attentive to what the human authors truly wanted to affirm and to what God wanted to reveal to us by their words
What is interpreting Scripture correctly?
It is celebrated on Sunday as the memorial of the Paschal Mystery
What is the Eucharist?
To be helpmates to each other, and to share in God's work of creating new life
What is companionship?
Refers not just to the words themselves but rather to what is signified by the words
What is spiritual/mystical sense?