Chapter 4 Religion Vocab

Question 1

Mystery

Answer 1

cannot comprehend God

Question 2

Blessed Trinity

Answer 2

father describing to us the The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit

Question 3

Redemption

Answer 3

ransom

Question 4

Genealogy

Answer 4

traces the line of descendant from an ancestor

Question 5

Conception

Answer 5

how someone is impregnated

Question 6

Annunciation

Answer 6

when the Blessed Virgin Mary was told she was going to be the mother of The Savior

Question 7

Magi

Answer 7

first to recognize Jesus as a king when they present him the royal gifts

Question 8

Epiphany

Answer 8

the manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi

Question 9

Massacre of the Innocents

Answer 9

King Herod, he ordered all the boys of the kingdom to be killed that were under the age of 2 in Bethlehem

Question 10

Midrash

Answer 10

Hebrew term describing a literary form that relates past scriptural events to and helps explain present events

Question 11

Visitation

Answer 11

an event in which God or another nonhuman being seems to appear to someone or contact them

Question 12

Magnificat

Answer 12

the Blessed Virgin Mary’s song of praise to the Lord, also known as the Canticle of Mary

Question 13

Benediction of Zechariah

Answer 13

song of thanksgiving on occasion to the circumcision of John the Baptist

Question 14

Jewish Circumcision

Answer 14

after the 8th day you are circumcised to devote your faith

Question 15

Presentation in the Temple

Answer 15

Jewish ceremony marking him as a firstborn son who belongs to God.

Question 16

Creche

Answer 16

a model representing the birth of Jesus during Christmas

Question 17

Criterion of Embarrassment

Answer 17

historical criticism concluding that Jesus must have been baptized since if the church made it up it would imply that Jesus might have had sins that needed cleansing

Question 18

The Temptation of Jesus

Answer 18

the three synoptic Gospels report on Jesus; temptations in the desert after his Baptism

Question 19

Kingdom of God (or of Heaven)

Answer 19

The process of the Father’s reconciling and renewing all things through his Son

Question 20

The Paschal Mystery

Answer 20

Christ’s work of redemption, accomplished principally by his Passion, Death, Resurrection, and glorious Ascension.

Question 21

Transfiguration

Answer 21

The mystery of 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.

Question 22

Apostolic succession

Answer 22

handing on of the teaching, preaching, and office of the Apostles to their successors, the bishops, through the laying on of hands.

Question 23

Exorcism

Answer 23

Public and authoritative act of the Church, also performed by Jesus Christ, to protect a person or object from the power of the devil.

Question 24

Miracle

Answer 24

A powerful sign of God’s Kingdom worked by Jesus

Question 25

Sign of Contradiction

Answer 25

Jesus was a Sign of Contradiction because he threatened many of the religious and civil leaders of his day.