Theology 1 Semester 1 Final
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Freshman Theology, Theology SAA Midterm 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Atheist | a person who denies the existence of God |
| Agnostic | claims that belief in God cannot be known |
| Conscience | a practical judgment of reason that helps a person decide the goodness or sinfulness of an action or altitude. It is the subjective norm of morality we must form properly and then follow. |
| Covenant | a binding and solemn agreement between humans or between God and people, holding each to a particular course of action; testament |
| Divine Revelation | the way God communicates knowledge of himself to humankind, a self-communication realized by his actions and words over time, most fully by his sending us his divine Son, Jesus Christ. |
| Dogma | a central truth of Revelation that Catholics have to believe |
| Secularism | an indifference to religion and a belief that religion should be excluded from civil affairs and public education |
| Magisterium | the official teaching authority of the Church; popes and bishops |
| Monotheistic | religions that believe there is only one God; Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are three great monotheistic world religions. |
| Original Sin | the sin of disobedience committed by Adam and Eve that resulted in their loss of original holiness and justice and their becoming subject to sin and death |
| Polytheism | religions that believe in the existence of many gods and goddesses |
| Deposit of Faith | entirety of Jesus Christ's revelation: sacred scripture and sacred tradition |
| Salvation History | the story of God's saving action in human history |
| Sacred Scripture | the written form of what the apostles and early Christians handed down |
| Faith | belief in a religion/god |
| Tradition | handing down |
| Religion | binding to God, reconnecting to the Divine |
| Theological Virtues | faith, hope, love |
| St Thomas Aquinas | came up with five proofs for God's existence |
| Inspiration | God inspired the authors to write; used the humans to write with the gifts and talents they have |
| Bible | word of God |
| Analogy of faith | truth revealed in the Sacred Scripture cannot contradict each other |
| Literal sense | what the author intended by the words he wrote (what the words say in historical context) |
| Literary genre | a style of expressing yourself in writing |
| Exegesis | the process used by scholars to discover the meaning of the biblical text |
| Biblical Inerrancy | the Bible may not be literally correct in all parts, but the point is to get the feel of what God is saying, not what is true or not |
| Historical criticism | discovers the literal sense; what the evangelist really wanted to say; what is reported about Jesus- can it be traced back to him |
| Form criticism | knowing the kind of writing that we are dealing with |
| Source criticism | we must know the source(s) used to compose the work; synoptic gospels: same way of seeing Jesus |
| Redaction criticism | tries to discover the particular theological slant or insight of the given writer and how this influenced his arrangement of the material |
| Koine | common |
| Vulgate | St. Jerome's translations of the entire Bible into Latin; "common"; request of pope in 383-384 AD for Bible to be in the common language of the day |
| Dead Sea Scrolls | oldest Biblical manuscripts; found by kids playing near the Dead Sea; major parts of Bible |
| Church Father | main founders of the Church, were influential theologians |
| St. Jerome | translated the Bible to Latin at request of pope; vulgate |
| Gentile | non Jew |
| Evangelist | writer of the Gospel; Matthew, Mark, Luke, John |
| Torah | first five books of the Bible, also known as the Pentateuch |
| Nebiim | prophets |
| Ketubiim | writings |
| Pentateuch | first five books, also known as Torah |
| Septuagint | seventy; 70 scholars translated the OT into Greek |
| Apocrypha | hidden |
| Deuterocanonical | second canon; 7 books |
| Canon | the official list of inspired books of the Bible |
| Kerygma | preaching to nonbelievers |
| Evangelist | author of the Gospel; Matthew. Mark, Luke, and John |
| Didache | teaching |
| Epistle | letter |
| Liturgy | worship |
| Apocalypse | Greek for "revelation"; Final Judgement |
| Exodus | departure/exit (book in Pentateuch in which Israelites escape Egypt) |
| Canaanites | already lived in the Promised Land |
| Hanukkah | Jewish celebration feast |
| Myths | symbolic story that expresses a spiritual truth or a basic belief about God |
| Ancestor | relative from a long time ago |
| Primeval history | first three chapters of Genesis |
| Polytheism | belief in many gods |
| Monotheism | belief in one God |
| Covenant | a sacred promise or agreement |
| Original justice | state everything was created in before evil |
| Original sin | an abuse of man's freedom, Adam and Eve |
| Patriarch | male head of a tribe |
| Matriarch | female head of a tribe |
| Enuma Elisha | Babylonian myth about creation |
| Gilgamesh Epic | a legend similar to Noah's Ark |
| Circumcision | religious ceremony of Jewish people and sign of abraham's covenant |
| Theophany | the appearance of God in a visible form to a human |
| YHWH | "Yahweh" |
| Israel | where the Israelites lived |
| Deuteronomic history | the six historical books including oral and written stories edited into books |
| Judge | local tribal leaders |
| Monarchy | the kings and their sons that ruled over Israel |
| Ark of the covenant | where the ten commandments were stored |
| Kingdom of Judah | the Southern kingdom of Israel |
| Kingdom of Israel | the Northern kingdom of Israel |
| Nabi | one who speaks for another, a mouthpiece |
| Prophet | messenger sent by God |
| Synagogues | meeting places for study and prayer introduced by the Pharisees |
| Babylonian Exile (Captivity) | 586 when the Babylonians conquered Israel and exiled them from the promise land |
| Suffering Servant Songs | four distinct poems that deal with "the servant," whom God would use to usher in a glorious future |
| Hellenism | the diffusion of Greek culture throughout the Mediterranean world after the conquest of Alexander the great |
| Gospel | "good news" |
| Source Criticism | helps discover where the authors got their material |
| Synoptic | "seen together" |
| Q / quelle | "source" in German |
| Christ | Messiah |
| Messiah | anointed one |
| Emmanuel | "God is with us" |
| Mystery, mysterion | "the mystery of salvation" |
| Nativity | the story of Jesus' birth in Bethlehem |
| Epiphany | feast that celebrates the mystery of Christ's manifestation as the Savior |
| Yehoshua | "God saves" |
| Disciple | "learner" follower of Jesus |
| Temptation | a test |
| Kingdom of God | "reign of God" process of the Father's reconciling and renewing all things through his son |
| Transfiguration | the mystery from Christ's life in which God's glory shone through and transformed Jesus' physical appearance while he was in the company of the Old Testament prophets Moses and Elijah who appeared at Jesus' transfixion |
| Paschal Mystery | Christ's work of redemption, accomplished principally by his Passion , Death, Resurrection and Ascension. |
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