Week 6: 41-50 Flashcards
Historical Criticism
the study of a biblical text claiming to convey factual information in order to determine what actually occurred, and to assess what can and cannot be said about a past event on the basis of the literary witness under study
Historicity
the degree to which the info of a particular biblical text can be affirmed as accurately reflecting what actually happened
Inerrancy
the affirmation that biblical materials are without error; more precisely, as taught by DV 11: “Since everything asserted by the inspired authors or sacred writers must be held to be asserted by the Holy Spirit, it follows that the books of scripture must be acknowledged as teaching firmly, faithfully, and without error that truth which God wanted put into the sacred writings for the sake of our salvation.” That truth is expressed in a variety of ways and must be understood in light of continuity of the whole of scripture and the living tradition of the Church (DV 10)
Ipsissima Verba
LT “The very words”; those saying of Jesus preserved in the New Testament which are considered to be an accurate GK translation of the utterances of Jesus of Nazareth himself.
Kerygma
GK “proclamation”; either the content or the act of preaching, with particular reference to the primitive Christian forms of public proclamation announcing the saving events of the passion, death, and resurrection of Jesus supported by sacred scripture and followed by a call to repentance and conversion.
Kingdom of God
the community of all those united by their common faith in God’s understanding of existence as it has been revealed in the Old Testament, was revealed definitively in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, and which continues to be revealed by the Father in and through the Son and Spirit. Life in this kingdom is lived under the basic rule of God the King and is the ultimate realization of God’s salvific plan.
Legend
a religious narrative of no definitive form with recurring emphasis on some particular characteristic of the narrative’s hero, usually a virtue of high value; the legend’s principal interest lies in the religious works and fate of the holy person and is told to edify the audience; a story about Jesus, per V. Taylor.
Literal Sense
the meaning directly intended by both the human author and the Holy Spirit which is to be ascertained by studying: a) what the words themselves convey b) the background of the author c) his culture and use of local idioms, etc; the primary sense in which scripture is understood as affirmed in Divino Afflante Spiritu
Literary Criticism
the discipline which studies such questions as the relationship of content to form, the significance of structure or form for meaning, and the capacity of language to direct thought and to mold existence itself.
Masoretic Text
the most common version of the Hebrew Bible produced by Jewish grammarians called Masoretes of the 7th-10th century AD; the Masoretes added vowel pointing to the received consonantal text which dates to the 2nd century AD
