We should interpret the Bible this way.
What is contextually?
The transmission of customs or beliefs from generation to generation.
What is tradition?
Bringing up to date.
What is aggiornamento?
The awareness of one's worth
What is self esteem?
The study of the origin, development, and customs of human beings. How humans work, think, feel, communicate, celebrate, and deal with mystery.
What is Anthropology?
Constitutes for most of human communication.
What is body language?
You shall not make idols, Remember the Sabbath day, You shall not covet
What are the Ten commandments?
Cardinal Virtues
What are Wise Judgement, Justice, Courage, Wholeness
Genesis, Exodus, Leveticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy
What is the Pentateuch?
The differnce between ritual and routine.
What is ritual has symbolic action and a deeper, multilevel meaning while routine is practical action and is performed for a specific, practical purpose
The official process for declarimg someone a saint.
What is canonization?
Human Dignity, Stewardship, Option for the Poor, Common Good, Rights and Responsibilities, Dignity of Work and the Rights of Workers, Call to Family, Community, and Participation
What are the Principles of Catholic Social Teachings
Blessed with a concious, have passions or feelings, able to sin, etc.
What are The Seven Characteristics Of Human Beings?
The two different types of symbols.
What are Cultural Symbols and Universal Symbols?
These are the two most important prayers recited by Catholics.
What are the Nicene Creed and the Apostles Creed?
This is directed at the effects of injustice.
What is Charity?
5 Principles Of Humanity
All humans are sacred, we are all evolving, Growth comes from maturity, we need to make choices that lead to resonsibility, good choices depend on self-reflection
7 traits of culture.
Humans create culture, culture consists of ways of doing things, culture is public, culture arises from tradition, culture is made of rule-governed actions, culture becomes established in institutions, culture gives us identity
Five characteristics of prayer
What are: parable is a story, parable is a comparison, parable contains a crisis, parable has an ending, parable is about God's kingdom or way of acting among us
The Seven Tendencies Of Individualism
What is I am Free, I have rights, I am Equal, Only reason binds me, I am isolated from everything, I am master of the earth, I am Godless