The Nature of Divine Revelation PDF

1STQ FCL REVIEWER ELLA GANDA THE NATURE OF DIVINE “GOD’S MYSTERY” REVELATION We cannot expect to fully understand all of Revelation came from the Latin word God’s ways. Our human intellect allows us ‘re...

1STQ FCL REVIEWER ELLA GANDA THE NATURE OF DIVINE “GOD’S MYSTERY” REVELATION We cannot expect to fully understand all of Revelation came from the Latin word God’s ways. Our human intellect allows us ‘revelare’ which means to ‘lay bare’. “God’s to know God, but God remains a mystery personal loving communication to us” that is always able to surprise us with truth “friendship” we could never have known otherwise. Revelation is defined as: “the act or process THE SACRED SCRIPTURE of revealing, or the state of being revealed”. ✓ Sacred is interpreted as something THE REVELATION OF GOD “connected with God” We understand that God is still working in ✓ In a secular point of view, Sacred means our time “Too valuable to interfere with.” Natural reason By revealing the mystery, his plan of The term Scripture is interpreted as “sacred loving good writings of Christianity contained in the Immediate Bible. a revelation received directly from God THE SACRED SCRIPTURE Mediate ✓ Are collections of writings in the Bible Bible it is passing of the revelation ✓ Comes from the Greek word ‘Biblia’, Natural Revelation meaning ‘books.’ manifestation of God in nature and creation. It is the revelation of God in His ✓Passed on by oral tradition over a long work Supernatural Revelation a revelation period of time. above the natural. God’s self and His will is ✓The Old Testament was composed in revealed Hebrew and translated into Greek around the Public Revelation 2nd and 3rd centuries before Christ. a revelation to a group of people, or to the ✓The New Testament was composed in church, the people of God. Private Greek during the 2nd half of the 1st century Revelation it is given to individuals or A.D." group of individual for special reasons. ✓Thus, the term Sacred Scriptures created in So how do we know God? How does he a form of a Bible. reveal himself to us? God reveals himself to us through creation, of course. When we ✓This is known as "inspired record of how spend time outside in nature, we are God dealt His people, and how they reminded of all that God created. responded to, remembered, and interpreted that experience." 1STQ FCL REVIEWER ELLA GANDA ✓The Old Testament spans many hundreds THE OLD TESTAMENT of years. ✓The Old Testament is the story of God’s ✓The New Testament covers a much shorter relationship with the ancient Israelites. period of time. ✓It is a collection of sacred, inspired ✓The books of the New Testament focus on writings. the saving life and work of Jesus ✓It recounts the gradual process of God’s self-disclosure to humanity The Life and Teachings of Jesus The New Testament is rooted in the historical life and teachings of Jesus. THE FOUR SECTIONS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT It is not a complete, biographical account of the life of Christ. ✓Law/Pentateuch “Penta” = Greek for “five” It does faithfully transmit the life and teachings of Jesus Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Numbers ✓Historical Ex. Joshua, Judges, 1 & 2 Bible (Greek “biblia” meaning books) Samuel, 1 & 2 Kings ✓Wisdom Literature Old Testament Psalms (Written by King David) Proverbs (Written by King Solomon) Job, Stories about an agreement between God Ecclesiastes, Wisdom, Sirach and the Hebrews, as revealed to Moses. Tells how the agreement works out ✓Prophetic Books Ex. Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, Jonah, Zechariah Development of rules, behaviors, laws and how to maintain the covenant The story of our family history New AN ANCIENT SIGN OF GOD’S LOVE Testament ✓Christians read the Old Testament in full New Testaments awareness of Jesus as the Crucified and Risen Christ. ✓God’s relationship with the Stories about an agreement between God Israelites, ancestors of today’s Jews, endures and the people based on the life and forever. teachings of Jesus Stories of the early life of the church ✓The Old Testament will always be a way GOD is the author of the Sacred Scripture for Jews and Christians to encounter God “He still needs Human as the channel of his THE NEW TESTAMENT message. 1STQ FCL REVIEWER ELLA GANDA HOW TO USE THE BIBLE speaks of “the transmission of customs or beliefs from generation to generation 1. THEN HUMAN AUTHOR ✓ Common sense tells us to find out what the inspired human author had APOSTOLIC TRADITION ✓ The in mind when interpreting a text tradition handed by the Apostles of Christ to 2. THE TEXT ITSELF ✓ We have to its successors ✓ The tradition as handed by look at its literary form the Apostles of Christ can be tracked back in 3. THE READERS OR HEARERS ✓ two ways: The Oral tradition and Written We are constantly asking Scripture Tradition new questions and problems 4. THE COMMON HORIZON ✓First ORAL TRADITION ✓ Handed by the unites all the books of the Bible into Apostles Orally. ✓ Spoken Word ✓ Example basic unity, and second, links they gave ✓ By the Institutions ✓ What they together the context of the Scriptural have received ✓ What they have learned text and its tradition with our present reading context today. WRITTEN TRADITION ✓through HOW TO READ THE BIBLE written documents ✓by those apostles and other men associated with them ✓Inspiration ✓ With most books, you can simply start at the beginning and read to the end and get the complete story… ✓ Therefore, in order to find answers to the right questions about the Bible, we have to know how to read it prop EXEGESIS Interpreting FROM Scripture from what is there EISEGESIS Accidentally (or intentionally) reading INTO Scripture something that is not THE APOSTOLIC FATHERS OF THE CHURCH This is a group of early Christians writers ✓ Clement of Rome ✓ THE APOSTOLIC TRADITION Ignatius ✓ Polycarp ✓ St. Augustine ✓ St. also known as Divine Revelation Writing Thomas Aquinas of the Fathers of the Church is technical term applied to certain Ecclesiastical writers of Christians antiquity ST. CLEMENT of ROME 1st Apostolic father of the Church He is also one of the Apostolic ✓ descended from or pertaining earliest popes and the patron saint of to the apostles and their times Tradition ✓ mariners. Most known for the letter he 1STQ FCL REVIEWER ELLA GANDA wrote to the church in Corinth, simply called Conciliar magisterium Pontifical 1 Clement. magisterium ST. IGNATIUS of ANTIOCH the 3rd Bishop of Antioch a student of St. john the ORDINARY MAGISTERIUM This is Evangelist some of his writings are: when the Bishops of the Church teach what Ecclesiology, the Sacraments, The Authority the Church has always taught. They teach of the Bishop, and the Sabbath. died as a the basics of the Catholic faith. martyr, he was devoured by lions in the colosseum. Extraordinary Magisterium ✓Canonical teachings of Ecumenical Councils which are ST. POLYCARP OF SMYRNA Bishop of accepted and promulgated by the pope. Smyrna A disciple of St. John the ✓Rare act of a pope defining some point “ex Evangelist known more about his cathedral martyrdom than anything he wrote. S ST. AUGUSTINE there are two dimensions of Divine Revelation: ✓ The Human Word Conciliar Magisterium This involves all the Bishops of the Church being called ✓ By Grace the Trinity is the subject of together to form a council to discuss Church Divine Revelation Combated Manichean teachings and issues. The most recent heresy (conflict of Good and Evil) council was held in the 1960s when the ST. THOMAS AQUINAS Revelation is a Second Vatican Council took place saving action of God. Prophetic Revelation Pontifical Magisterium This is when a is an intellectual gift. Summa Theologica papal infallible statement is made. ✓ God, Ethics, and Christ “The end of the Although only the Pope himself can make a human person is to enter someday into the papal infallible statement, he will have contemplation of God consulted with the Bishops of the Church by holding discussions beforehand. THE MAGISTERIUM The word Magisterium came from the Latin The Role of Magisterium word “Magister” which means “the office of 1. Devotedly Listens to the Word of God 2. the master” or “Teacher”. Conscientiously guards the Word of God 3. THE MAGISTERIUM OF THE Faithfully explains the Word of God. CHURCH Refers to the teaching authority of the Church, formed of the Bishops. It is one of the three sources of authority alongside scripture and tradition. There are HOW DOES THE MAGISTERIUM different types and levels of magisterium. APPLY TO ME? THE THREE SOURCES OF The Church is charged with teaching the AUTHORITY Ordinary magisterium Truth even when people don’t want to hear it 1STQ FCL REVIEWER ELLA GANDA and distort it- think contraception, abortion, pornography, homosexuality, same sex marriage, female priests, human dignity (selling aborted babies’ organs), etc. HOW DOES THE MAGISTERIUM APPLY TO ME? St. Paul warns against people who teach something different than the Church (1Tim6: 3-5) You cannot believe what you want and call it the Truth. Truth is from God, the Magisterium teaches that Truth infallibly. HUMAN LEARNING EXPERIENCE THE BONES IN THE PARISH (By. Fr. Bel San Luis) 1. Wishbone – folks always wishing for better things, but never willing to work. 2. Jawbones – the gossiping kind 3. Funnybones – they may be funny but sensitive and are always talking about leaving the Church. 4. Drybones – stickler of Church rules but dead as fossil 5. Backbones – the spiritual support of the Church.