Across
- 4. a binding agreement between two parties that spells out the conditions and obligations of each party
- 7. is the philosophical view which holds that nothing can be accepted as true unless it can be proven by reason alone
- 8. title given in the gospels to the twelve chief disciples of Jesus, and later also to St. Paul
- 13. pertaining to the end of time, in the sense of its fullness; the coming of the kingdom of God at the end of time, according to Jesus, has already begun in his life, death and resurrection
- 14. term used to refer to the second coming of Christ at the end of time
- 16. is the refusal of submission to the Roman Pontiff or of communion with the members of the Church subject to him
- 18. the unique literary genre that proclaims the life, death and resurrection of Jesus
- 19. the official teaching office of the Church: the bishops in union with the bishop of Rome, the pope
- 20. the five books of Moses that contain the core teachings: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy
- 21. the way of interpreting texts and events to help us understand what they mean for us in the twenty-first century
Down
- 1. a call from God; Jesus calls all people into the family of God
- 2. a person who is not part of the Jewish faith, or not of Jewish ancestry
- 3. this kind of literature evolved during Israel’s troubled history around the time of Jesus; it focused on the end of history and the time of God's purifying judgment
- 5. the blessings found in both Matthew 5 and Luke 6 that summarize much of Jesus’ teaching about the Kingdom of God
- 6. favour, the free and undeserved help that God gives us to respond to his call to become children of God, adoptive sons, partakers of the divine nature and of eternal life
- 9. perceptible signs (words and actions) accessible to our human nature; they make present grace from God
- 10. the participation of the People of God in the ‘work of God’; it is the highest exchange between the work of God and our work
- 11. these kind of stories are of God calling people and imparting to them a mission; they follow a specific pattern
- 12. people have the ability to come to know God through God’s works, but there is a higher order of knowledge which comes not from human reason, but from the divine
- 15. the analysis of texts in their original context: looking at particularities that the original author was dealing with in order to better understand the original meaning and intent
- 17. the assembly or communion of the baptized followers of Jesus