Unit 3: Part 3 - Interpreting Sacred Scripture

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This kind of biblical criticism is concerned with the type of literary genre in which a passage is written.

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Form Criticism

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This kind of biblical criticism is concerned with where the author gets his material.

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Source Criticism

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This kind of biblical criticism focuses on how the editors collect and arrange sources in a biblical text.

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Redaction Criticism

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A type of writing that has a particular form, style, or content

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literary genre

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It is the scholarly process of examining biblical texts.

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Exegesis

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The _____________ sense reminds us where we are going, building up the virtue of hope while leading us to Heaven.

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anagogical

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The _________ sense helps us understand what the biblical authors intended to communicate to their audiences.

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literal

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The _________ sense teaches what individual passages mean in the larger context of Salvation History and how they relate to Jesus.

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allegorical

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What sense helps us understand how a particular passage instructs us to live in right relationship with God, neighbor, self, and the earth?

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Moral

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Which of the following definitions best defines "literalist understanding"?

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taking words in their usual or most basic sense without metaphor or allegory.