Vocab Quiz 1 Flashcards
(20 cards)
Enuma Elish
The Babylonian epic or myth of creation
Etiology
An explanation of the cause of something. In the Bible, it appears as narrative, typically reaching back to the distant past to describe the core meaning of something that we experience universally.
Guardian angel
Angels who personally watches out for you by protecting you and helps in leading you to god.
Magisterium
The bishops, in communion with the pope (the successor of St. Peter), who are the living and teaching office of the Church.
Original holiness and original Justice
The state of a man and woman in paradise before sin
Parousia
The second coming of Christ, when the lord will judge the living and the dead.
Philosophy
The human attempt to provide rational explanations for why things are the way they are and for how people should conduct their lives
Primeval History
The accounts humans have told and recorded about the origins of the earth, humans, other creatures, languages, and cultures.
Original Justice
Human beings in harmony with: God, themselves, and creation
Original Holiness
Sharing intimately in god’s divine life
Natural revelation
Coming to know the one personal god as creator of all things by looking at the world around you, and at human beings and thinking about them
Divine revelation
The way God communicated who he is to humankind: a self-communication realized by his actions and words overtime
Heaven
Properly, God’s spiritual Domain. It is also the “place” where the angels and saints live, and it is where the redeemed experience eternal life in its fullness
Angel
Purely spiritual creature possessing: intelligence, will, and personality. The word means, “Messenger from God” in Greek
Corporeal
Having a physical, material body
Literal sense of scripture
What the words in the scripture mean at the surface level and, as it was understood at the time, how things actually happened.
Spiritual sense of scripture
Refers to not just the words of scripture, but rather to what is signified by the words.
Sacred Scripture
The inspired word of god
Typological
A manner of reading and interpreting scripture by recognizing its unity by where what happens in the Old Testament prefigured what God will do in the New Testament
Myth
A narrative that seems to relate actual events but is primarily symbolic, often associated with religious beliefs.
