Fresh Vocab Unit 1

What is the Deposit of Faith?

• God’s self-communication through which he makes known the mystery of his divine plan

• The heritage of faith contained in Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition

• The Church’s living teaching office

• The process by which God makes himself known to human reason through the created world

What does Divine Revelation refer to?

• The process of passing on the Gospel message

• God’s self-communication through which he makes known the mystery of his divine plan

• The Church’s living teaching office

• The heritage of faith contained in Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition

Who are the Fathers of the Church?

• The early Christians who spread the Gospel

• Teachers whose writings extended the Tradition of the Apostles

• The bishops in communion with the Pope

• The Apostles who wrote the Sacred Scripture

What is Sacred Tradition?

• God’s self-communication through which he makes known the mystery of his divine plan

• The process of passing on the Gospel message

• The heritage of faith contained in Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition

• The Church’s living teaching office

What is the Magisterium?

• The process of passing on the Gospel message

• The process by which God makes himself known to human reason through the created world

• The Church’s living teaching office

• The heritage of faith contained in Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition

What is Natural Revelation?

• The process by which God makes himself known to animals through the created world. 

• The process by which God makes himself known to human reason through the created world. 

• It offers a generic insight to the created world.

• This offers a generic insight to the process of being known.