Divine Revelation & Inspiration
God making Himself and His will known to humanity through words and actions.
What is Divine Revelation?
The first major section of the Catholic Bible.
What is the Old Testament?
The teachings passed down through the Church from the time of the Apostles.
What is Sacred Tradition?
The council held in the 1960s that significantly reformed Catholic practice and teaching.
What is Vatican II?
he part of Mass in which Scripture is proclaimed and explained before the Liturgy of the Eucharist.
What is the Liturgy of the Word?
he guidance of the Holy Spirit that helped the human authors of Scripture write God’s message.
What is biblical inspiration?
The number of books in the Catholic Old Testament.
What are 46 books?
The teaching authority of the Catholic Church led by the Pope and bishops.
What is the Magisterium?
This criterion asks readers to consider the type of writing used in a biblical passage.
What are literary forms?
A traditional method of prayerful reading and meditation on Scripture.
What is Lectio Divina?
The teaching that Scripture communicates without error the truth God intended for our salvation.
What is biblical inerrancy?
The four major groups of books in the Old Testament are Law, History, Wisdom, and these writings.
What are the Prophets?
The complete body of revealed truth entrusted by Christ to the Apostles and handed on to the Church.
What is the Deposit of Faith?
This criterion asks readers to consider the circumstances and setting in which a passage was written.
What is historical context?
he four traditional steps of Lectio Divina are reading, meditation, prayer, and this final step.
What is contemplation?
This means that Scripture can include different types of writing, such as poetry, history, wisdom literature, and prophecy.
What are literary forms or genres?
n the citation John 3:16, this number identifies the chapter.
What is the number 3?
A gathering of bishops and Church leaders that makes important decisions about doctrine and discipline.
What is a Church Council?
This criterion asks readers to consider what the human biblical authors intended to communicate.
What is the intention of the authors?
The process in which Jesus’ teaching was proclaimed by the Apostles, handed on in early Christian communities, and written by the evangelists.
What is the formation of the Gospels?
This process describes how God worked through both the Holy Spirit and human authors in the writing of Scripture.
What is divine inspiration through human authors?
This is the Catholic understanding of Scripture’s primary purpose.
What is transmitting God’s revelation and teaching about salvation through Jesus Christ?
The gift by which the Church is protected from teaching error about faith and morals under specific conditions.
What is infallibility?
This principle teaches that individual passages should be understood in relationship to the message of the entire Bible.
What is the unity of the whole Scripture?
This explains why the Gospels can share the same central message while presenting Jesus’ life and teaching to different audiences.
What is the work of the evangelists, guided by the Holy Spirit, in shaping the Gospel accounts for particular communities?