Evidence for Jesus' Divinity - Theology Chapter 7 Vocabulary

babylonian talmud

compilation of Jewish oral law and other rabbinical material completed around AD 400

Kerygmas

Brief Christian texts that express simple credal teachings. These were the first proclamations of the Early Church, written within a decade of Jesus' Death and Resurrection, and preserved in the New Testament within the Act of the Apostles and the Letters of St. Paul

Gnostic Gospels

Ancient books about the life of Christ that are infused with false theology that reflects the Gnostic heresy and rampant at the time. Two are falsely attributed to St. Thomas the Apostle and St. Mary Magdalene.

Soma Pneumatikon

Phrase coined by St. Paul to describe Christ'as glorified body, meaning literally "spiritual body"

Apostasy

The abandonment or renunciation of one's religious faith

Messianic Movements

Groups which formed around leaders who claimed to be God's promised Messiah, and which inevitably died out after the leader's death

Theophany

A profound manifestation, or revelation, of God.