Religion Ch. 6
Terms
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- deposit of faith
- the heritage of faith contained in scripture
- typological sense
- reading of the old testament which discerns in God's works of the old covenant prefigurations of what he accomplished in the fullness of time in the person of Jesus Christ
- Testament
- the name given the 2 major parts of the Bible
- oral tradition
- the oral preaching of the apostles handed from generation to generation
- Bible
- the word of God
- doctrine
- revealed teachings of Christ
- private revelation
- revelations in history that don't form part of the deposit of faith
- pharisee
- a student or teacher of Jewish law
- Apocryphal
- books that were rejected from the bible
- protocanonical
- the books in the Bible that have never been questioned
- canon
- the church's list of sacred books
- prophecy
- from the hebrew word meaning "vision" or "revelation interpreted"
- literal sense proper
- the author means what he was inspired to say
- literal sense improper
- scriptural interpretation when the author is inspired to use figures of speech
- deuterocanonical
- The books of the old and new Testament of which there was great controversy
- septuagint
- a Greek translation of the Hebrew scripture
- revelation
- God's communication of himself, by which he makes known the mystery of his divine plan