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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 gospel | A term meaning good news. |
| incarnation | The dogma that God's eternal Son assumed a human nature and became man in Jesus Christ to save us from our sins. |
| save us from sin, death, and eternal separation from God, we can know God's love, be our model of holiness, make us sharers in his divine nature | Why did the word become flesh? |
| Yehoshua | What is the personal name of Jesus? |
| God saves, God is salvation, or Savior | What does Yehoshua mean? |
| blasphemy | Claiming that you are equal to God. |
| Christ | A title for Jesus meaning "the anointed one." |
| salvation | God's forgiveness of sins. |
| a political or military leader | What did the Jews expect the Messiah to be? |
| high and low | What are the two subcategories of Christology? |
| Jesus' divinity | What does high Christology emphasize? |
| Jesus' humanity | What does low Christology emphasize? |
| his mission and identity | What does Jesus' name signify? |
| Bethlehem under Herod | Where was Jesus born and under whose reign? |
| prophet, priest, king | What did Jesus see as the three roles of the Messiah? |
| life, teachings, and death of Christ | What is the New Testament's entire focus? |
| the New Testament | What is the heart of the Bible? |
| Jesus | Who is the new covenant? |
| it fulfills it | What does the New Testament do for the Old Testament? |
| Matt, Mark, and Luke | What are the three synoptic gospels? |
| synoptic | Seen together |
| The gospels have so many similarities yet so many differences | What is the synoptic problem? |
| Luke | Who wrote the Acts of the Apostles? |
| Paul | Who wrote the New Testament letters? |
| James and Peter | Who wrote the Catholic letters? |
| gospels, acts of the apostles, new testament letters, catholic letters, revelation to John | What does the New Testament consist of? |
| Matthew, Mark, Luke, John | What are the four gospels? |
| principal teachings of Christ and his life | What do the gospels contain? |
| The historical Jesus, oral tradition, the new testament writings | What are the three stages of the formation of the gospels? |
| 4/6 BC- 30/33 AD | When did the historical Jesus stage take place? |
| the actual life of Jesus, his birth, his entrance to the public scene, and his death | What does the Historical Jesus stage contain? |
| 30/33 AD- 50 | When did the stage of oral tradition take place? |
| the stories about who Jesus was, summarizes his life, disciples begin to live in the light of the resurrection and know Jesus is the Messiah with the help of the holy spirit | What does the oral tradition stage consist of? |
| Kerygma, Didache, Liturgy | What are the three types of preaching? |
| preaching to unbelievers | What was Kerygma used for? |
| teaching | What was Didache used for? |
| the disciples repeating Jesus' message and gathering a list of his sayings | What did the Didache consist of? |
| celebrating the Eucharist | What was Liturgy used for? |
| 50-120 AD | When did the New Testament writings stage take place? |
| 68-72 AD | When was Mark's gospel written? (1st gospel) |
| 80-90 AD | When were Matthew and Luke's gospels written? (2nd gospels) |
| 100 AD | When was John's gospel written? (3rd and Last gosepl) |
| Jesus was not returning anytime soon | Why was it necessary to write down the New Testament writings? |
| gentiles, suffering servant | Who did Mark write for and what did he stress? |
| Jews, New Lawgiver | Who did Matthew write for and what did he stress? |
| gentiles, Universal Messiah | Who did Luke write for and what did he stress? |
| low Christology | What is Luke's writing an example of? |
| theologians, Way, truth, and life | Who did John write for and what did he stress? |
| high Christology | What is John's writing an example of? |
| born into poverty, circumcised, his presentation in the Temple | What are three characteristics of Jesus' early life? |
| human living | What is Jesus the model for? |
| his baptism | What event begins Jesus' public life? |
| his submission to the Father's will, foreshadowed the baptism of his death for the remission of our sins, model for our own baptism | What are the three deeper meanings to Jesus' baptism? |
| Jesus' death, resurrection, and ascension | What is the paschal mystery? |
| God's kingdom is here, God is a loving father, God is merciful, Jesus is present in his Church, to accept Jesus is to accept the cross | What are the main points of Jesus' message in the gospels? |
| indicate that Jesus was the Messiah and that the kingdom is present | What did Jesus' miracles do? |
| healing, exorcism, nature, raising from the dead | What are the four types of miracles? |
| redemption | Jesus death defeated evil forever. |
| it was a real event, the disciples did not expect it, the disciples believed when they saw Jesus, death was defeated for all time, Jesus restored life | What are important parts about the resurrection? |
| reanimated corpse, metaphor, reincarnation, psychological explanation | What are a few arguments against the resurrection? |
| it repairs our relationship with God | What effect does the resurrection have on humanity? |
| pentecost | Birthday of the Church. |
| how we treated others | How will Jesus judge us at the Parousia? |
| heresy | A false teaching about the church. |
| Arianism | This heresy denied the true divinity of Jesus. |
| Gnostic Docetism | This heresy said Jesus only appeared to be human. |
| Nestorianism | This heresy said Mary was the mother of the human Jesus but not the divine Jesus. |
| Monophysitism | This heresy said Jesus' divine nature absorbed his human nature, therefore destroying his humanity. |
| 325 AD | When did the council of Nicaea take place? |
| 381 AD | When did the council of Constantinople I take place? |
| 431 AD | When did the council of Ephesus take place? |
| 451 AD | When did the council of Chalcedon take place? |
| he was a great prophet but not divine | What do the Muslims believe about Jesus? |
| they venerate her | What do the Muslims say about Mary? |
| jesus is the only son of god, jesus christ is true god, jesus is begotten/ not made, all things were made through the son, there is only one person in christ, mary is the mother of God, there are two distinct natures in the one person, jesus has a human intellect and a human will, in jesus, god shared our humanity | What dogmatic teachings about Jesus did the councils establish? |
| Parousia | The second coming of Christ when the Lord will judge the living and the dead. |
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