The divine assistance the Holy Spirit gave the authors of the bible.
What is divine inspiration?
100
The Holy Spirit.
What guides the Magisterium in the task of safeguarding and explaining the truths revealed in the bible?
100
Literary forms.
What are different kinds of writing determined by the literary technique, content, tone, and purpose?
100
The reason Christians venerate the Old Testament.
What is the foundation of our identity as a people?
100
The focus of the New Testament.
What are the words and actions of Jesus Christ and all that he accomplished for the sake of our salvation and how the early Christian communities received and applied his teachings.
200
The three types of communication in the development of the Sacred Scripture.
What are nonverbal action, spoken word, and written word?
200
The sense where we look at the actual meaning of the text; what th words actually say.
What is the literal sense?
200
The five categories of the New Testament books.
What are the Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline letters, the non-Pauline letters, and the Revelation?
300
The official collection of inspired books and an integral part of the church's tradition.
What is the canon?
300
The critical interpretation and explanation of Sacred Scripture.
What is biblical exegesis?
300
The three types of literary forms found in the bible.
What are Psalms, Gospels, and Parables?
300
The four categories of the Old Testament.
What are the books of law, prophetic books, historical books, and wisdom books.
300
The book that offers support to those enduring persecution because of their Christian beliefs.
What is the Revelation?
400
The four standards that each book of the bible had to pass to be considered canonical.
What are apostolic origin, use in early Christian worship, community acceptance, and consistency?
400
The two senses Saint Thomas Aquinas taught us to study Sacred Scripture.
What are literal and spiritual.
400
The approach on the Sacred Scripture that teaches us to look at the whole picture and is symbolic/literal.
What is the fundamentalist approach?
500
The three original languages of the bible.
What are Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic?
500
The three categories of the spiritual sense of scripture.
What are allegorical, moral, and analogical senses?
500
Jesus Christ and the beginning of his church guided by the Holy Spirit.
What is the central object of the Gospels as well as the New Testament?