WorksheetsArticle 23: The Senses of Scripture
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
What are the goals of biblical study?
Help us better understand Sacred Scripture
Understand the people around us
Discover meaning and truth in Sacred Scripture
Making friends
Which of the following are NOT ways Aquinas taught us to study Sacred Scripture?
Psychological
Literal
Emotional
Physical
Spiritual
How do we determine the literal sense of Scripture?
We take every word written literally
We find the obvious meaning of the text
We disregard any hidden meanings
Who laid the foundation for modern biblical interpretation?
St. Augustine
God
St. Thomas Aquinas
Greek goddess Athena
The Pope
The literal sense is considered the what in regards to other senses of Scripture?
Opposite
Epitome
Exception
Most reliable
Foundation
What are the 3 subcategories of the spiritual sense?
Literal
Moral
Interpretational
Allegorical
Anagorgical
What sense looks at how the people, events and things in the literal sense point to the mystery of Christ.
Moral
Allegorical
Anagogical
What sense helps us understand how a particular passage instructs us to live in right relationship with God, neighbor, self, and the earth?
Moral
Allegorical
Anagogical
What sense considers realities and events in terms of their eternal significance?
Moral
Allegorical
Anagogical
What sense is this: Through Moses, God helped save the Israelites by parting the Red Sea.
Literal Sense
Allegorical Sense
Moral Sense
Anagogical Sense
Spiritual Sense
What sense is this: Just as the Israelites were freed from slavery by God through Moses, we are freed from sin, evil, and death by God through Jesus Christ, the New Moses.
Anagogical Sense
Literal Sense
Moral Sense
Allegorical Sense
Spiritual Sense
What sense is this: Jesus Christ destroyed original sin in the waters of Baptism just like God destroyed the Pharoh’s power (his troops) by the waters of the Red Sea.
Spiritual Sense
Moral Sense
Alagogical Sense
Allegorical Sense
Literal Sense
What sense is this: We can enter our promised land of Heaven through the waters of Baptism just like the Israelites entered the promised land by passing through the waters of the Red Sea.
Spiritual Sense
Literal Sense
Anagogical Sense
Allegorical Sense
Moral Sense
What sense is this: Just as God helped save the Israelites and delivered them to the promised land, Jesus Christ saved and delivered us from the evil of the world through Baptism.
Literal Sense
Anagogical Sense
Moral Sense
Allegorical Sense
Spiritual Sense
Allegory speaks
of faith
how to act
of deeds
our destiny
Moral speaks
our destiny
of faith
how to act
of deeds
Anagogical speaks
our destiny
how to act
of faith
of deeds
Literal sense speaks
of faith
our destiny
how to act
of deeds
