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- sacred tradition
- the living transmission of the message of the gospel in the church
- divine revelation
- God's self-communication whereby he makes known the mystery of his divine plan. God most fully revealed himself when he sent us his own Son
- magisterium
- official teaching authority of the Church
- incarnation
- a core Catholic teaching that the Son of God took on human flesh in the person of Jesus Crhist
- dogma
- a central truth of revelation that catholics are obliged to believe
- gospel
- "good news"
- greek word "sarks"
- flesh
- revelation
- unveiling
- docetism
- taught that jesus only seemed to be man
- tacitus
- wrote in annals and mentioned pontius pilate
- suetonius
- blamed "chrestus" or Jesus
- pliny the younger
- asked trajan for advice on how to deal with Christian "supersititions"
- trajan
- though that christians should be punished and they were potentially dangerous
- josephus
- jewish historian who referenced jesus christ
- testament
- a word meaning "covenant" the open ended contract of love between God and human beings
- septuagint
- a second century greek translation of the hebrew bible made at alexandria, egypt
- new covenant
- the climax of salvation history, the coming of Jesus Christ
- inspiration
- the guidance given to the the human authors of Sacred Scripture so they wrote what God wanted written
- evangelist
- a person who proclaims the good news (matthew, mark, luke, and john)
- canon
- the official list of the inspired books of the bible 46 in ot and 27 in nt
- criteria for inclusion in canon
- apostolic origin, widespread acceptance, and conformity to the rule of faith
- Jesus
- yehoshua/joshua, "God saves"
- Christ
- anointed one
- what was Jesus
- prophet, high priest, king
- Lord
- greek word kurios
- names for Jesus
- good shepherd, living water, messiah, bread of life, son of man, light of the world, divine physician, and judge
- greek word kanon
- measuring rod or rule
- three stages in formation of gospel
- public life and teaching, oral tradition and preaching, written gospels themselves
- catechesis
- "to sound down" the process of religious instruction and formation in the major elements of the catholic faith
- reasons that Jesus' teachings had to be committed to writing
- the end of the world was not coming as quickly as thought, distortions were setting in, more instructions were needed
- anagogical sense
- greek for "leading" shows us how events lead us to Heaven
- synoptic gospels
- matthew, mark and luke because they are similar
- Q
- abbreviation for "quelle" (german word for source) a common source of sayins of Jesus used by matthew and luke
- matthew wrote for
- jewish/christian crowd
- mark wrote for
- local church experiencing suffering
- luke wrote for
- gentile christians
- john wrote for
- various churches
- vulgate
- common
- abba
- aramaic for daddy
- targums
- aramaic phrases
- ephphatha
- aramaic for be opened
- apocalypse
- "revelation or unveiling" highly symbolic language
- sanhedrin
- the seventy one member supreme legistaltive and judicial body of the jewish people
- sadducces
- priests and aristocrats who cared for temple practices and worship
- pharisees
- "separated one" they believed in strict observance of the law
- essenes
- apocalyptic group
- zealots
- revolutionary sect
- tax collectors
- everyone hated them. Jesus called levi to be an apostle
- mystery
- a term referring to God's infinite incomprehensibility, his plan of salvation and redemption, and the events of Jesus' life that show and accomplish this plan
- jesus the teacher
- jesus was authentic, pursued people, loved life and related to people on their level, used colorful language, spoke with authority, was a brilliant debateer
- parable
- means "to throw" a typical teaching device Jesus used that is a vivid picture story
- kingdom of God
- the proclamation by jesus that inaugurated his life, death, and resurrection
- transfiguration
- the mystery from Christ's life in which God's glory shone through and transformed Jesus' physical appearance while he was in te=he company of the OT prophets
- paschal mystery
- God's love and salvation revealed to us through the life, passion, death, and resurrection of his Son
- didache
- teaching