 | Term | Definition |
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monothesism |
the belief in one god |
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biblical exegesis |
critical inturpretation of the passages in scripture |
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Sadducees |
Religious group which did not believe in life after death |
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Essenes |
Religious group which believed the temple of worship was impure |
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Essenes |
Religious group which believed in livin a monastic lifestyle |
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Pharaisees |
Jewish group shich focused on keeping the Jews faithful to the law |
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Aberham |
the person which had a covenant with God and was promised the land and many descendants |
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Zealots |
Jewish rebel group who wanted political independence from Rome |
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Scribes |
Interpreted and tought the law |
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Dead Sea Scrolls |
Found near Qumram near the Northwest shore of a salty sea |
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covenant |
a solemn prmise or agreement made between 2 people |
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the connection between the N.T. and the O.T. |
What do we have to understand and appreciate the value of in order to find the meaning of the New Testament? |
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salvation history |
saving action of God throught human history |
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King Herod the Great |
Who was King of Israel at the time of Jesus' birth? |
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90 |
____% of the population was poor |
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Alliavating the plight on the poor population |
What did Jesus' teachings focus on? |
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Cult of the Emporer |
Which is not a Mystery Cult? |
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Cynics |
Philosophy groups which believed in all pleasures of life where evil and should be scorned |
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miricles |
Signs of wonder that can only be attributed to God |
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Old Testament |
What are the Books of the Bible that come from Jewish people before the time of Jesus |
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Trinity |
three persons in one God |
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evangalists |
the writers of oral tradition whch talk about the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus |
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parables |
metaphores or similies drawn from common life experiences |
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inspiration |
Holy Spirit guiding human authors to describe the Good News |
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Walk the Talk |
Don't just read the Bible, live it out |
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Moses |
lead the Israelites from slavery in Egypt |
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canon |
the measuring stick of the bible inspired by the Holy Spirit |
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canon |
sign of everlasting faith and covenant with God |
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the Promised Land |
land of the Palestine for the Jewish people |
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27 |
There are __ books in the New Testament |
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Matthew and Luke |
The Gospels that have the narritives about Jesus' birth |
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Bathsheba, Ruth, Mary (mother of God), Rahab, Tomar |
The 5 women mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew's Gospel |
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Pharasees |
Religious group taht the Gospel of Matthw negatively reflected |
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when God became man |
When does the incarnation occur? |
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eucharist |
We experience the incarnation through the ___________ |
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to teach us to be faithful to God |
Why was Jesus tempted in the desert by Satan? |
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no, its an expression of the law |
Does the Beatitude reject the law of the 10 Commandments? |
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through God |
Where is true happiness found, according to Jesus? |
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Corporal works of mercy |
charitable acts by whic we care for the phisical and spiritual needs of others |
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When Jesus comes to judge the living and the dead |
What is the second comming of Christ about? |
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Christ |
Means "Annointed One" or "Messiah" |
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Incarnation |
the second person of the holy trinity; God made flesh |
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Deciples |
Willing to suffer and serve others for Christ, according to Mark's Gospel |
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12 Tribes of Israel |
12 Apostles are symbolic for what in the Old Testament? |
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Jesus' messianic secret |
Jesus healed, preached, adn taught, he was the promiced messiah |
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Jesus' messianic mystery |
Jesus will suffer and die for others |
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yes: 71 Jewish leaders |
Was the Sanhedrin one of the groups that opposed Jesus? |
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conversion experience |
an experience that truns you tword God and away from sin |
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Peter |
Apostle that stated Jesus was the messiah but did not understand what a messiah was |
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Paschal Mystery |
Christ's work of redemption, Passion, death, ressurection, and Asention |
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blasphemy |
the Jewish Chief Priests and the Sanhedrin charged Jesus with this |
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treason |
the Roman government charged Jesus with this |
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Mark |
Gospel that focuses mor on Jesus' words than his deeds |
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Mark 8:27-29 (at his trial) |
when Jesus first states that he is the messiah in Mark's gospel |
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Messianic Mystery |
what does it mean for the Messiah to suffer, die, and be raised in glory |
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Adam |
the genealogy of Luke traces Jesus back to ______ |
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Shema |
the greatest expression of the Jewish faith |
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Parousia |
the 2nd comming of Christ and the end of time |
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Acts of the Apostles |
2nd volume of Luke's writing found in the New Testament |
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Hannah |
Woman who sang a song in the Old Testament that was similar to Mary's Magnificat |
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Elija |
a prophet that appears to Jesus at the Transfiguration |
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Our Father (the Lord's Prayer) |
this prayer was given to the Aposteles when they asked Jesus to teach them to pray |
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Mary (the mother of God) |
The woman linked to salvation history |
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Anawim |
people who are matially or spiritually poor who are seeking God |
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Samaritans |
Group of people with mixed blood because of intermarriage |
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open our hearts, minds, and souls to God's presence |
Luke's Gospel stretches us to do this |
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City of Jerusalem |
the movement is twords here in Luke's Gospel |
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throuought Jesus' life |
When is the Holy Spirit at work in Luke's Gospel? |
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All four (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) |
Which Gospels present the miracle fo the feeding of 5,000? |
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Through Genesis; challenges and confronts darkness |
How does John describe light and darkness in the Gospel? |
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The Grace Presentation of Jesus' divinity |
the Gospel of John behins with |
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the burning bush |
The "I am" statements connect to Moses by |
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to love as Jesus loves |
to love unvonditionally no matter what with out expectation |
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believing what you cannot see |
the epitome (quality) of faith described in John |
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forgave and loved |
How did Jesus react to the aldultrus woman? |
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God the father |
The basis of Jesus' life and teaching |
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I am statements (symbols and images in John) |
helps us express which are inexpressible |
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allegories |
expressions of truth and generalizations of human expressions of sybmolic figures |
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incarnation |
the basis for all Jesus' miricles according to John |
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the Samaritan woman from the well |
Who does Jesus reveal his identity to in the Gospel of John? |
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Christian service |
Love is the heart of _________ _______ at the Last Supper |
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Jesus (God) |
Love for others is rooted in our relationship with ______ |
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Nicodemus |
Underwent a gradual slow process of being reborn in the Spirit, origonally a member of the Sanhedren |
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the church to grow |
The persecutuins of the early Church caused |
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Philip |
the first deciple to conbert the Gentiles |
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Cornelious |
Peter comes to beliebe Gentiles should be baptized after god's vision and meeting with this person |
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Antioch |
The city of Paul's first missionary journey |
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Barnabus and John Mark |
Travled with Paul in his first missionary journey |
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Salias and Timothy |
Travled with Paul on his second missionary journey |
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Agabus |
Warned Paul that he would soon be imprisoned at the end of his 3rd missionary journey |
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house arrest and later died |
What is believed to have happened to Paul in Rome |
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baptism |
the first rite of iniation into the Christian Church |
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Pauline Letters |
Written on Paul's missionary journeys |
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Romans |
The Letter which is the most articulate of Paul's letters |
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Catholic |
Means Universial |
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Epistle |
20 letters that follow the Acts of the Apostles |
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Philemon |
Shortest letter of the Bible |
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2 Peter |
Letter which warns the audience of self-deception |
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Pastoral Letters |
Written to aid the ministry of pastors in caring for their community |
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Colossae |
The religion which renowened in ancient world for its facination with things magical and mysterous |
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Philippi |
1st place Paul established Church in Europe |
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