Senses of Scripture
The sense of Scripture that deals with what the text meant to the human author who wrote it.
What is the Literal Sense
The idea that the Old Testament can (and frequently does) foreshadow the New Testament.
What is Typology?
This style of writing is found in the Bible and features dense imagery, metaphor, and allusion.
What is poetry?
The belief that the Bible is without error.
What is the inerrancy of Scripture?
The belief that the Old Testament foreshadows the New Testament.
What is typology?
The sense of Scripture that deals with how you should act.
What is the moral sense?
The New Testament author who uses typology in his letters.
Who is St. Paul?
The style of writing that makes up almost half of the Bible.
What is narrative?
The belief that God guided the authorship of the Bible.
What is divine inspiration?
The two wings on which the mind ascends to truth.
What are faith and reason?
The sense of Scripture that points forward to the life of Jesus Christ or the life of the Church.
The habit of seeing connections between the Old and New testaments that don't actually exist.
What is parallelmania
This is a type of Bible resource, such as a textbook, that provides background information to the Bible.
What is a secondary source?
It stretches across the whole Bible, from Genesis to Revelation.
What is an overarching story?
An attitude towards the Bible that reads with a simplistic sort of literalism.
What is fundamentalism?
The sense of Scripture that deals with heaven, hell, and the final judgement.
What is the anagogical sense?
This is what the word "type" means in Greek.
What is stamp?
A tool for understanding the Bible that features lots of footnotes in a single book.
What is a single volume commentary?
The belief that the Bible has the ability to teach us faith and morality decisively.
What is the Bible's authoritativeness?
The belief that only scientific knowledge is valid.
What is scientism?
The Latin word for the four senses of Scripture.
What is Quadriga?
He coined the phrase "The New is hidden in the Old and the Old is revealed in the new"
Who is St. Augustine?
This is the publisher of your school Bibles.
What is St. Mary's press?
The belief that the Bible is easy to understand (not taught by the Catholic Church).
A Catholic attitude towards the Bible that pays attention to language, culture, history, etc.
What is contextualism?