Divine Revelation
1. God's communication of himself to humans so they can know who he is.
2. Revelation that has occured but does not form part of the deposit of Faith is called what?
1. What is Divine Revelation?
2. Private Revelation
1. This person was the first pope
2. What special power did Jesus give him to keep him from making error
1. Who is St. Peter?
2. Infallibility
The list of all the books in the bible is called the what?
Canon
The nickname St. Thomas Aquinas' classmates gave to him
What is "dumb ox?"
The Church's complete list of inspired books of the Bible.
What is "canon"?
1. What does the word "revelation" mean?
To unviel
1. A person who denies the existence of God.
2. A person that doubts the existence of God or simply does not care about God’s existence.
1. What is an atheist?
2. Agnostic
What does the word Testament mean
Covenant
The group of books in the Bible that all Christians have always agreed on
What are the protocanonicals?
The gift of the Holy Spirit that assisted human authors to write the books of the Bible.
What is inspiration?
1. What are the two sources of Divine Revelation?
2. Living transmission of the Gospels is?
3. This is another word for Sacred Scripture?
1. What is Scripture and Tradition?
2. Sacred Tradition
3. Bible
He came up with arguments that proved the existence of God.
Who is St. Thomas Aquinas?
The two levels of meaning of Scripture
What is the literal and spiritual sense?
The name of the books of the Bible that were not always agreed upon by the Church
What are the deuterocanonicals?
Means the Bible has no errors or contradictions.
What is inerrant?
1. Who is the primary author of Scripture?
2. How did this person help write the bible?
1. Who is the Holy Spirit?
2. He inspired the human authors
The official teaching authority of the Church, entrusted to the Pope and bishops.
Who is the Magisterium?
1. The two kinds of literal meaning of Scripture.
2. What is the difference?
1. What are the literal proper and literal improper?
2. Literal proper is the ACTUAL meaning and the improper is the metaphorical meaning
The belief that Christians don't need anything but the Bible
What is Scripture Alone or "Sola Scriptura"
A solemn agreement or promise between God and his people
What is a covenant?
The gradual revelation of God's plan to save people from sin.
What is salvation history?
A person that doubts the existence of God or simply does not care about God’s existence.
What is an agnostic?
Refers to St. Peter and the Apostles handing on their authority that came from Jesus to men who came after them
What is Apostolic Succession?
St. Thomas Aquinas argued that humans can know God exists through this.
What is reason?
Refers to the fact that the Magisterium is immune from error because of the protection of the Holy Spirit
What is infallible?
What does the Deposit of Faith consist?
Scripture and Tradition
1. Which council stated the Old Testament was canonical?
2. Which council stated that the Old Testament had 46 books and the New had 27 books
1. Hippo
2. Trent
1. The part of the bible that tells the history from creation to right before Jesus
2. The part of the bible that tells about Jesus's life and the early Church.
1. Old testament
2. New Testament
What means books that were not inspired?
Apocryphal
What word refers to the 72 Jewish scholars that transtlated the bible from Hebrew into Greek
Septuagint