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WorksheetsCh 2 Theology Vocab
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 11mins
What is prayer?
A way of communicating with God
Raising one's mind and heart to God
Requesting good things from God
All of the above
The written transmission of God's word is known as
Scripture
Tradition
Catholic Church
None of the above
A short story told to convey a religious truth or lesson is called....
Fable
Miracle story
Parable
Allegory
A prophesy is a(n)
Short story
Expression of God's will
Statement of belief
Code of conduct
The following is an example of which literary form? "Abraham was the father of Isaac, who was the father of Jacob.....Joseph the husband of Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ."
Miracle story
Allegory
Biography
Genealogy
A story with a moral, usually containing an animal in it
Etiology
History
Fable
Pronouncement story
Comparison where many elements stand for something deeper, a metaphor
Hyperbole
Allegory
Poetry
Riddle
4th century translation of the Bible from Greek to Latin by St. Jerome
Vulgate
Scripture
Spanish
None of the above
The official list of inspired books of the Bible is called
Cannon
Canon
Bible
New Testament
Septuagint refers to
the Latin translation of the Hebrew Bible
the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible
the English translation of the Hebrew Bible
the Hebrew translation of the Greek Bible
Apocrypha is a word that refers to
the hidden books of the Protestant Bible
extra books in the Hebrew Bible
all of the books of the Bible
None of the above
What does literal sense mean?
Understanding what the writer made up
Understanding what the writer meant by the words
Looking for a deeper meaning
Ignoring literary forms
Understanding the Bible in the spiritual sense means
we look for the easy answers
we look for a deeper meaning
we look for a translation
we look for the literal interpretation
Moral sense is understanding
what you should believe
history
how you should live your life
where we are going
Exegesis means
the process used by scholars to understand the spiritual meaning of the Bible
the process used by scholars to understand the literal meaning of the Bible
Oral tradition refers to the process of
talking to people by word of mouth
sharing stories and important information by word of mouth
understanding literature
None of the above
Individuals who wrote the earliest forms of the Bible were known as
authors
scribes
tribes
Holy Spirit
Genesis means
"The Beginning"
"The End"
"The Last Time"
"The Ice Age"
Exodus refers to the event when
When God created the world
When Noah survived the flood
When Abraham was granted numerous descendants
Moses led the Chosen People out of Egypt
Vatican II (Second Vatican Council) is when a conference of _________ were called from around the world to consider the Church in the __________ world.
priests; old
bishops; modern
bishops; advanced
cardinals; modern
What is source criticism?
it helps to discover where the Biblical writers got their materials
determines the historical context of the Biblical text
how editors put together their sources
All of the above
"Lectio divina" means
"sacred reading"
a way to pray Scripture
a way to meet the living God
All of the above
