| Term | Definition |
|---|
| gospels | information about the life, works, message, death and resurrection of Jesus |
| gospels | organized chronologically which suggests they are something like biographies of Jesus |
| acts of the apostles | luke's account of the early days of the Christian community under the leadership of St. Peter |
| acts of the apostles | the main focus is the spread of the good news throughout the Roman empire |
| acts of the apostles | gives attention to the missionary work of one of the churches most famous personalities: St. Paul |
| pauline epistles | either written by or attributed to St. Paul |
| pauline epistles | the primary purpose is to support and further educate either small communites or individual christians that come to believe in Jesus through the missionary work of Paul and others |
| small communities | romans, 1 and 2 corinthians, galatians, ephesians, phillipians, colosians, 1 and 2 thessalonians are the ____________________ |
| individuals | 1 and 2 timothy, titus, and philemon are _____________ |
| hebrews | has an unknown author |
| hebrews | a kind of extended sermon to a group of christians who are in danger of falling away from their belief in jesus |
| catholic | this means universal |
| catholic epistles | also called "general epistles" because they are addressed to believing christians as a general audience rather than to specific communities or individuals |
| catholic epistles | james, 1 and 2 peter, 1&2&3 john, 1 and 2 peter, and jude |
| revelation | also called the apocalypse |
| revelation | a complex work with highly symbolic and mysterious language |
| revelation | written for late first century christians who were being persecuted by the romans |
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