Course I: Final Exam Study Guide

The following study guide consists of broad suggestions of what to study for as well as a potential vocabulary list. This is not an exhaustive list! There may be items on the exam that are not specified in this study Guide. You are still responsible for being familiar with the entire course. This is only meant to be an aid to studying. Good luck!

Vocabulary

• Synoptic Problem • Miracles • Encyclical • Synod • Scholasticism • Grace • Relativism • Paschal Mystery • Covenantal Sign • Gentile • Apostolic • Analogy of Faith • Acts of the Succession • Parables Apostles • Dynamically • Exegesis • Textual Criticism Equivalent • Spiritual Sense • Catholic Epistles Translation • Gospels • Infallible • Messiah • Types • Mediator • Covenant • Arianism • Sacred Scripture • Ambo • Septuagint • New Covenant • The Fall • High Christology • Pope • Creed • Lectionary • Magisterium • Sola Scriptura • Homily • Theology • Patriarchs • Original Sin • Latin • Anthropology • Deposit of Faith • Divine Logos • Sacred Tradition • Literal Sense • Pagan • Liturgy • Pentateuch • Vulgate • Fundamentalist • Inerrant • Ecumenical • Enlightenment • Wisdom Literature Council • Sensus Fidei • Incarnation • Gnosticism • Institution Narrative

To Know

• What does it mean to have faith? • How did God intimately reveal • What do all human beings long for? Himself to humanity? • What are the three basic stages of • What is Natural Revelation, and who our lives and why are they each benefits from it? important? • What is relativism? • What is the difference between true • What is the Christian understanding happiness and worldly happiness? of the human person? • What does it mean to be made in the • What is the message of Divine image and likeness of God? Mercy? • How has God revealed Himself to us • Why do we need God to reveal throughout history? Himself to us? • Who initiated the Second Vatican • What is the Deposit of Faith? Council an why? • What did Jesus commission His • How long did it take for the Church disciples to do? to establish the Biblical canon? • What is apostolic succession? • What is the difference between • What is the relationship between natural revelation and divine Sacred Tradition and Scripture? revelation? • What is the Magisterium and what is • What are the two phases of divine its role? revelation? • When is the teaching of the • What is Sacred Scripture? Magisterium infallible? • How many books are in the Bible? • What is the Sensus Fidei? • What is Sacred Tradition? • How has technology changed the • What is the role of the Church? way we think about and remember • What is the Pentateuch? things? • What is the purpose for which we • What is sola scriptura? were made? • What is divine inspiration and how • Who were the prophets? does it work? • What is anthropology? • What are the different contexts in • How is man unique among all of which we can read Scripture? Creation? • How does the Church guide us in • What does it mean to have a nature? understanding Scripture? • What does it mean to fulfill our • Why is Scripture never outdated? nature? • What is the relationship between the • What were the consequences of the written tradition and the oral Fall? tradition? • What can the natural world reveal to • To what are all Christians called? us about God? • What role should faith play when we • How are the Church and the Old read Scripture? Testament related? • What is the purpose of a synod? • What is typology? • What is a martyr? • What are the five major covenants of • Why do we believe Scripture is the Old Testament? inerrant? • What are the Sacraments signs of? • What is the universal language of the • What do we receive through the Catholic Church and why? Eucharist? • What is a literal translation of the • What is the difference between a Bible? contract and a covenant? • What is a dynamically equivalent • How are we meant to share and translation of the Bible? express God’s love? • What is Theology? • What are the synoptic Gospels? • What is the purpose of studying • Which Gospels present an infancy Scripture? narrative? • How is the Bible integrated into the • In what language were the Gospels Church’s liturgy? written? • What is Gnosticism? • What are the Beatitudes? • What is Exegesis? • What are the Parables? • How should we interpret Scripture? • What are the events of the Paschal • What are the various senses of Mystery? Scripture? • Why is the Gospel of John unique? • What are the various writing styles • What is the significance of the of the Bible? number seven in the Bible? • How should the writing style of a • What is Christology? passage of Scripture affect the way • What are the seven “signs” worked we read it? by Jesus in John’s Gospel? • What is the relationship between • How is the Gospel conveyed to the faith and reason? faithful? • What is the difference between textual criticism and source criticism?