Ch. 1
The central mystery of the Christian faith; that there are three Divine Persons in one God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
The Holy Trinity
St. Jerome said that ignorance of scriptures is ignorance of this person.
Jesus Christ
A Greek term for the first five books of the Bible
Pentateuch
The Hilltoppers.
The sin of disobedience committed by Adam and Eve that resulted in their loss of Original Holiness and Justice. It also describes the fallen state of human nature into which all generations of people are born.
Original Sin
A binding and solemn agreement between human beings or between God and people, holding each other to a particular course of action.
This form of biblical criticism tries to identify the literary genre of a biblical text.
Form Criticism
A collection of five books of poetry that were composed over a period of five hundred years, and used for worship in the Temple.
Psalms
The girls school in Joliet was originally named this.
St. Francis Academy
The name of the fallen angel who refused to accept God or his kingdom.
The Devil
From the Greek words monos meaning one, and theos meaning God; the belief in one all-powerful God.
Monotheism.
This spiritual sense of scripture, reads biblical stories as metaphors or sustained comparisons, for example reading the story of Noah's Ark as a metaphor for Baptism.
Allegorical Sense
A large region in the north of the modern nation of Israel, north of Samaria at the time of Jesus
Galilee
St. Francis Academy was founded by this Franciscan Sister of Mary Immaculate.
Mother Alfred Mary Moes
God's sacred name, revealed to Moses; it means "I am who I am, or "I AM" and is never pronounced by Jews.
YHWH
The assumption of a human nature by Jesus Christ, God's eternal Son, who became man in order to save humankind from sin. The term literally means "being made flesh."
Incarnation
The process used by scholars to discover the literal meaning of the biblical text.
Exegesis
This group of four books are the heart of all the scriptures because they are the principal source for the life and teaching of Jesus Christ
The Gospels
Our Lady of Mount Carmel appeared to this Carmelite Saint, and promised special protection for those who wear a brown scapular.
St. Simon Stock.
"The power rooted in reason and will to perform deliberate actions on one's own responsibility."
Free will
The Knowledge of the existence of God and his basic attributes that can be derived by human reason while reflecting on the created order.
Natural Revelation
A second-century BC Greek translation of the Hebrew bible made in Alexandria, Egypt. The term is from a Latin term meaning seventy, for the legendary seventy scholars who worked on the translation.
Septuagint
Epistles
This head football coach led Joliet Catholic High to four consecutive state football championships in the 1970's
Gordie Gillespie
A Latin term meaning "first gospel" and is the initial sign of the good news that God did not abandon humanity's first parents for their descendants after they committed sin.
Protoevangelium