Unit 3 Vocabulary:SS

God's free gift of self-communication, by which he makes known his divine plan to humanity, is called ________.

• Divine Revelation

• Original Sin

• Sacred Tradition

• Incarnation

The collection of sacred writings of the Old and New Testaments, composed by human authors under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, is called the ________.

• Bible

• Quran

• Vedas

• Tripitaka

God's self-disclosure through creation, which allows human reason to perceive his existence and his basic attributes, is called ________.

• Natural Revelation

• Divine Inspiration

• Scriptural Revelation

• Mystical Vision

Individuals chosen by God to speak on his behalf, delivering his message to his people, are called ________.

• Prophets

• Disciples

• Apostles

• Patriarchs

The story of God's redemptive work in human history, unfolding through a series of divine acts and covenants, is called ________.

• Salvation History

• Biblical Prophecy

• Moral Theology

• Eschatology

The divine assistance the Holy Spirit gave the human authors of the Bible so they could write the salvation message God wanted to communicate is called ________.

• Divine Inspiration

• Biblical Translation

• Sacred Tradition

• Apostolic Succession

The doctrine that the books of Scripture, when correctly interpreted according to their literary genre and historical context, are free from error regarding the truth God wished to reveal for the sake of our salvation, is called ________.

• Biblical Inerrancy

• Biblical Inspiration

• Biblical Literalism

• Biblical Canonization

Fill in the blank: The process of handing on the Gospel message by word of mouth before it was written down is called _________.

• Oral Tradition

• Written Tradition

• Apostolic Succession

• Canonization

Fill in the blank: The 46 books of the Bible that record salvation history before the coming of Jesus Christ are known as the _________?

• Old Testament

• New Testament

• Book of Psalms

• Acts of the Apostles

Fill in the blank: The critical analysis and interpretation of a biblical text to discover its intended meaning is called _________.

• Exegesis

• Hermeneutics

• Eisegesis

• Homiletics