Unit 1: Terms

3. the books which contain the truth of God’s revelation and were composed by human authors inspired by the Holy Spirit
4. John’s account of the end of time (told with lots of symbolism)
5. the living transmission of the message of the Gospel in the Church
7. The gift given to the pope which frees him form error when teaching on matters of faith and morals
8. earliest list of inspired texts
9. doctor of the Church who put forth 5 logical arguments in favor of the existence of God
10. term referring to books that were rejected from the Bible because they lacked genuineness and canonicity
12. Revelations made in the course of history which do not add to or form part of the Deposit of Faith, but rather may help people live out their faith more fully.
13. dependent, are reliant on another for their existence
14. the precise sense the author intended to convey as he wrote
16. Independent, are not reliant on another for their existence
19. Any extraordinary experience associated with a reported apparition
20. meeting where the Old Testament was officially declared as canonical
22. Revelation of God through Christ which ends with the death of John the Apostle
23. the complete or full sense of what the Holy Spirit wants to convey

1. The teaching authority of the Church
2. those books and passages of Scripture about which there was controversy in early Christian history
6. uses a “figure of speech” to convey the meaning
11. those books of the Bible whose inspired character was never questioned
15. Things and people in the text have their own proper meanings but stand for others things and people at the same time
17. the Church’s complete list of sacred books of the Bible
18. the power of the mind to think, understand, and form judgments by a process of logic
21. the obstinate denial after Baptism of a truth which must be believed with divine and Catholic faith