Religion vocabulary
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EmilyGutman on September 25, 2011
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21 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Biblical inerrancy | God's truth written without error |
| Oral tradition | Story telling/stories told and passed down from generation to generation |
| Fundamentalist | Overly literal view of the bible/taken word for word from the bible |
| Contextualism | Seeing the scriptures in its context or situation |
| Biblical archeology | Helps us understand the scripture, it helps us understand the history, the people, and the times |
| Redact | To edit a peice of writing |
| Good critics | Remember what we ve learned in english class about story, character, and style |
| Literary genre | Type of work such as poems, fiction, nonfiction, essay, drama,etc. |
| Literal sense of scripture | Is it's obvious, literal meaning/ example it rained for 40days and nights |
| Spiritual sense of scripture | Asks us to consider what religious truth is being taught-because maybe the writer uses a smile, a metaphor, etc. |
| Magisterium | The teaching body of the church today-bishops, popes & biblical scholars they have training, education,guidance,and teaching of the church, for example they studied Greek and Hebrew they provide thoughtful criticism |
| Criticism | Review,analyze,origin,history,literary form |
| Sacred scripture | Gods word revealed to us in the bible, the old testament &new testament |
| Books of the old testament | Psalms, proverbs, wisdom |
| Three languages of the bible | Ancient Hebrew, Greek, and aramaic |
| Historical facts | Data about events &people which can be verified by objective sources |
| Scientific explanation | Descriptions of our world, nature, and universe based on scientific methods, experiments and theory |
| Religious truth | All of the truth necessary for our salvation |
| Canon | The term canon Comes from the Greek word meaning "rule" or "standard"/the biblical canon is the collection of the books in the bible |
| Written tradition | The synthesis of the oral tradition into written books, capturing divine revelation under the inspiration of the holy spirit |
| What is vulgate | The first common language translation of the bible /who wrote it St jerome |
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