Catholic Studies Exam 4

Miracle

What term names a supernatural event which can never be explained by a natural cause, no matter how far the scientific understanding of nature develops?

Dei Verbum

What is the short two-word Latin name for the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation issued by the Second Vatican Council?

They are grouped into categories based on the kind of writing which they employ.

Select the best answer to the following question:  Which of the following best explains the order of the various books which are included in the Bible?

False

True or false?  The chapter and verse divisions in biblical books, as well as the numerical designations for those chapters and verses which appear in modern Bibles, were part of the original texts as written by the authors of those biblical books and, therefore, are considered part of the sacred text of scripture.

False

True or false?  Only the New Testament contains instances of “parallel passages” in different books recounting the same event.

Canonical tradition

Which stage of biblical development accounts for the process by which the community determined which books to include within the collection of the sacred scriptural writings?

Tanak

What is the acronym used as a name for the Jewish scriptures and derived from the initials of the Hebrew words naming the three collections included therein, viz., the Law, the Prophets, and the Writings?

the Septuagint

What is the name for the early Greek translation of the Old Testament scriptures?

the Holy Spirit

Under whose inspiration were the Sacred Scriptures composed?  (Note:  Do not answer “God”; be more specific.)

true

True or false?  Contemporary scholarship supports the idea that the inspiration of Sacred Scripture extends not only to its human authors but also to the editors or redactors who assembled the final forms of the various scriptural texts.

limited

Fill in the blank:  The view of scriptural inerrancy which asserts only that the scriptures are without error in respect of the truth which they present for the sake of human salvation is called “__________ inerrancy.”

Pope Leo XIII

Which pope wrote in Providentissimus Deus that the scriptures should not be regarded as sources of scientific knowledge because ancient biblical authors were merely describing phenomena as they appeared to the human senses?  (Be careful entering the Roman numeral!)

myth

Which literary genre is defined as a traditional story elucidating a people’s worldview or ideals, figuratively or symbolically embodying essential truths and recounting matters such as origins, purpose, meaning, and aspirations?

Both A and B

Select the best answer to the following question:  Why can we have the most confidence in the accuracy of the biblical texts transmitted down to us through history?

Canonical criticism

Which critical method for biblical study seeks a biblical text’s fuller meaning due to that text’s being part of the Bible (and, thus, connected to other biblical texts) and probes how the meaning of the biblical text under consideration can presently guide the believing community?

true

True or false:  Understanding the literal sense of Scripture may entail understanding the figurative sense of a scriptural author’s use of language.

true

True or false:  According to the Catholic Church, a proper theological reading of Scripture entails being attentive to the content and unity of the entire canon of Scripture, reading Scripture within the living Tradition of the entire Church, and being attentive to the analogy of faith.

deposit

Fill in the blank:  The collection of essential Christian beliefs and practices, passed down partly in the mode of Sacred Tradition and partly in the mode of Sacred Scripture, is known as the “__________ of faith.”

Magisterium

Fill in the blank:  According to Catholic theology, the definitive authority for ensuring the accurate interpretation of Scripture and for resolving theological disputes in the Church is known as the __________, the official teaching office of the Church comprising all of the bishops of the world in union with the Bishop of Rome (i.e., the Pope).

sola scriptura

What is the two-word Latin-term name of the Protestant teaching (incompatible with Catholic faith) that Sacred Scripture alone, and not Sacred Tradition, is the only basis of Christian belief?

Baptism

For use in preparing catechumens to receive which Sacrament were the confessional statements comprising the Creed initially collected and systematized?

Docetism

Which heresy claimed that Jesus of Nazareth was not really a human being but only a spiritual being who appeared to others to be human?

mystery

What term is defined as an insight about God’s nature which cannot be reached by reason alone but must be revealed by God in order for human beings to know it?

ousia, hypostasis

What are the Greek terms for “substance” and “person” used in the classic formulation of the dogma of the Trinity developed by the “Cappadocian Fathers” (Saint Basil the Great, his brother Saint Gregory of Nyssa, and his close friend Saint Gregory Nazianzen)?

subsist

Fill in the blank:  To __________ means to exist in a stable way.

zero

How many times does the word “Trinity” appear in the Bible?

Kyrios

What Greek word meaning “Lord” was used in the Septuagint as the translation of the divine name YHWH in the original Hebrew?

Immanent Trinity

What term for the Trinity does Catholic theology use to describe the Trinity as transcendentally present in God’s own nature and to God’s own self?  (Note:  Be especially careful of the spelling of this term!)

Appropriation

What term describes the process of attributing in a special way to one divine person in the Trinity a divine quality or attribute, even though in reality that divine quality or attribute (like all divine qualities and attributes) belongs equally to all three divine persons?

Saint Augustine

Who is the originator of the best known version of the psychological analogy for the Trinity?  (Albl names this person in the text.)

Modalism

Which ancient heresy holds that there are no permanent distinctions within God but only different modes by which God appeared to, and is experienced by, human beings?

Arius

Who originated a variation of the subordinationist heresy which claimed that the Son was the first and greatest of God’s creatures, through whom God created everything else?

homoiousios

What Greek term, not found in the Creed, means “of similar substance”?

Pneumatomachian

What is the name of the semi-Arian heresy which denied the divinity of the Holy Spirit?

Filioque

What Latin term meaning “and the Son” was added to the Creed in the Latin-speaking Western Churches to affirm the double procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son?