Chapter 1

 1. Salvation History: The story of God’s saving actions on our behalf.  2. Sacred Scripture: The inspired Word of God; the written record of God’s Revelation.  3. Pentateuch: A Greek word meaning “five scrolls.” The first five books of the Bible.  4. Sacred Tradition: The living transmission of the Church’s Gospel message found in the Church’s teaching, life, and worship.  5. Primeval History: Stories or myths about the origins of the earth, humans, other creatures, languages, and cultures.

 6. God showed his great compassion for us through the Paschal Mystery  7. Torah: The name of the first five books of the Old Testament that comes from the word meaning “law.”  8. The second creation account teaches that Adam and Eve were born in a state of Holiness  9. A meaning that they shared in the Divine Life; Original Justice AND Original Holiness  10. Philosophy: The investigation of truth and principles of human reason.

 11. Pantheism: belief that God and nature were one and the same.  12. Monotheism: Belief in one supreme God.  13. Exegesis: Careful investigation of the original meaning of texts in their historical and literary meaning  14. Polytheism: Belief in many gods.  15. Contextualism: Interpreting scripture with the help of metaphors and symbols

 16. In reading Scripture, it’s important to understand Literary forms used by the author.  17. Revelation: God’s free gift of self- communication  18. Priestly: source of the Pentateuch stresses the importance of Temple ceremonies.  19. Magisterium: The official teaching authority to interpret God’s Word.  20. Eternal: God created humans to adopt us into the divine family and share this life with us.

 21. Holy Trinity: The words “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness” (Gn 1:26) suggest the activity of this in creation.  22. Creation: Second Isaiah linked the theme of this and Salvation to encourage the Hebrew people who were in exile in Babylon.  23. Wisdom: The Book of Proverbs personifies this, declaring it God’s helper in the act of creation.  24. Deuteronomy: Greek for “second Law”.  25. Proverbs: This Book personifies wisdom, declaring it God’s helper in the act of creation.

 1. Abraham: The “father of faith.”  2. Jeremiah: Prophesied that the new covenant would be written on the people’s hearts.  3. Idolatry: The Israelites often fell into this by worshipping false gods.  4. Original Sin: The loss of Original Holiness and Original Justice, alienation from God and others, weakened human nature, concupiscence, ignorance, pain in childbearing, suffering, and death.  5. Concupiscence: The inclination to do what we know is not right. (SIN)

 6. Myth: A story whose main purpose is to express a great truth or insight into reality.  7. Covenant: A binding promise between God and humankind in which God pledges enduring love and asks for such love in return.  8. Natural law: the principles of morality, right living, that extend to the human race in all places and all times.  9. Holiness: Humans were created to share in God’s own life.  10. Rainbow: The sign of the Noah’s covenant.

 11. Gentiles: a term that means “non-Jews”  12. Decalogue: “Ten Words”.  13. Knowledge: Adam and Eve ate from this Tree to be like God.  14. Protoevangelium: THE “first gospel.”  15. Pentecost: The Apostles spoke in many languages