Vocabulary
Books of the Bible
Old Testament
New Testament
Views of Scripture
100
The official collection of inspired books in the Bible
What is the canon?
100
Also known as the Torah or the Pentateuch
What are the Books of Law or the Law of Moses?
100
The Old Testament describes the covenant God made with these people
Who are the Jewish people?
100
The New Testament tells about the life, death, resurrection, and Ascension of him
Who is Jesus Christ?
100
This sense of the Bible can be broken up into three different views: moral, allegorical, and anagogical
What is the spiritual sense?
200
How the Holy Spirit inspired the human authors of the Bible
What is Divine Inspiration?
200
Contains poetry and advice on what it means to be wise
What are the Wisdom Books?
200
This is how many categories of books are in the Old Testament
What is 4?
200
The number of books in the New Testament
What is 27?
200
People who use this approach take everything in the Bible literally
What is the fundamentalist approach?
300
That the books of the Bible teach us the truths of our faith accurately and without mistake
What is biblical inerrancy?
300
The main focus of the New Testament that is mainly about the life of Jesus.
What are the Gospels?
300
These people called the people to repent while proclaiming a message of hope and salvation
Who are the prophets?
300
God's fullest Revelation came in the person of Jesus Christ at this
What is the Incarnation?
300
To determine this sense, we look at the obvious meaning of the words in the Bible
What is the literal sense?
400
The process of interpreting and explaining a passage from Sacred Scripture
What is biblical exegesis?
400
A series of letters that were written to different people by St. Paul
What are the Pauline Letters?
400
The number of books found in the Old Testament
What is 46?
400
The Acts of the Apostles tells about life after Jesus Christ and the beginning of this
What is the Christian Church?
400
The study of these can give us insight into what sacred writers meant to say
What are literary forms?
500
The handing on of words and deeds from generation to generation
What is oral tradition?
500
A book that teaches about the end of the world and Jesus's second coming
What is Revelation?
500
The seven books in the Old Testament of the Catholic Bible, but not the Protestant Bible
What is the Septuagint?
500
This is how many sections the New Testament can be broken up into
What is 5?
500
This saint taught us about the two different senses of the Bible
Who is Saint Thomas Aquinas?
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