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Transmission of Divine Revelation Why do we use Social Media? - Social media becomes a powerful tool to disseminate information - Misuse of social media can hurt the sensibility of a person During the time of Jesus and His Apostles, it was hard to pass around the stories of salvation, they had...

Transmission of Divine Revelation Why do we use Social Media? - Social media becomes a powerful tool to disseminate information - Misuse of social media can hurt the sensibility of a person During the time of Jesus and His Apostles, it was hard to pass around the stories of salvation, they had to go from one place to another while traveling on foot Tradition - Comes from the Latin term “tradere” which means to pass on or to hand over - Initially passed on by word of mouth (Oral Tradition) - Not all traditions had been written down, hence the Bible does not contain the entirety of revelation - Twice in the Gospel account of John the Evangelist, admitting that the books cannot contain everything tradition Tradition - Cultural traditions - Doctrinal traditions - Arisen from particular - The living and lived faith needs of the Church at a of the Church that can particular time and place never be changed, - Can be changed, modified because it would harm the or done away without integrity of our Christian destroying the integrity of faith our Christian faith - Sacred Tradition Scriptural Tradition Apostolic Tradition Teachings of Magisterium  - traditions that - the teachings - Comes from the take their root in which the Latin term the Holy Bible, Apostles left us, “Magister” practices and not through (teacher), the beliefs can be written scripture, teaching justified by but through the authority of the quoting Sacred unbroken chain of Church, exercised Scriptures succession of by the Pope in Popes, bishops, making solemn priests and definitions or by deacons the Bishop in an Exumenical Council like Vatican 2 “THE UNSHAKABLE TRIPOD OF OUR FAITH” Record of Divine Revelation - A deposit of the truth - Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scriptures Sacred Scriptures - The Bible is a faith-book - Was written by and for believers - An encounter with and experience of God - The Bible is an account of life, preserved in memory, turned into a text - Records events seen as designed and influenced by God - The Bible is an event of community How to Distinguish Catholic Books - Nihil Obstat - Given by a Censor Librorum, an attestation a book contains nothing damaging to faith or morals (nothing hinders) - Imprimi Potest - Given by the major religious superior if the author is a member of a religious congregation (it may be printed) - Imprimatur - Given by the author’s diocesan bishop or the bishop of the place in which the book is published (let it be printed) Bible - Greek word: Byblos - papyrus, Biblion - scroll, book (plural: biblia) - Later on, people discovered that sheets of papyrus can be put on top of each other, folded in the middles and bound, resulting in an easy to use book called a codex - Latin-speaking Christians borrowed the term biblia but treated it as a singular noun - St. Jerome used the term bibliotheca divina Contributions to the Bible - Emperor Constantine - ordered its production and translations from non-Hebrew and non-Greek speaking communities - Pope St. Damasus I - authorized one definitive translation of the scriptures (Latin) - St. Jerome - translated the Bible into Latin-Vulgate - Archbishop Stephen Langton of Canterbury - divided the books into chapters - Robert Estienne - divided the chapters into verses - Latin-Vulgate - easier to understand by the majority of people  - Top is the Old Testament, Bottom is the New Testament - First 5 Books of Old Testament are called the Pentateuch - The Word of God written by men through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit - Is both 100% Word of God and 100% Word of Man Inspiration - Comes from the latin terms “in” and “spirate” which means “to breath into” - To give life, is the evidence of life - Not ecstatic - Not verbal or mechanical dictation - Not simply negative assistance - Not ideological inspiration Biblical Inspiration - Is the special influence of the Holy Spirit upon the human authors so that they may write what God wanted them to write Principle of Causality - The Holy Spirit is the principal cause of the Bible and the human person is the instrumental cause Dei Verbum (Pope Paul the 6h) - The Bible must be acknowledged as teaching solidly, faithfully and without error the truth, which God wanted to put into writing CCC 104 - The Church affirms the truth of Biblical inspiration as its origin is not human, but Divine Providentissimus Deus (Pope Leo the 13th) - God so moved and impelled them to write Biblical Inerrancy - The Bible contains errors, but teaches no error  - It teaches only the saving truth - The Bible is not a scientific, grammatical or historical book - The standards of moral and legal law in the historical books of the Bible should not be compared to the world today due to its contexts and generation Formulation of the Sacred Scriptures 1. Events and Experiences - Started with God’s revelation in the chosen people’s lives 2. Oral Tradition - Wisdom and History of the believers of God were passed through oral stories, told, and retold in gatherings 3. Written Tradition - Became more common as it continued side by side with oral tradition 4. Edited Tradition - Biblical authors refined and combined original stories to reflect new events or religious questions 5. Canon of Scriptures - By Apostolic Tradition, the Church discerned which writings should be included in the list of sacred books Canon - “Measuring Stick” - Sacred writing was considered divinely inspired and accepted or rejected as a book of the Scriptures Canonization - Church’s official recognition that a book is inspired Canonicity - The state of a book has passed the standards for determining divine inspiration, hence being declared canonical Criteria: Old Testament New Testament  - Prophetic origin - Apostolic origin - Coherence with the Torah - Coherence with the Gospel - Constant use in the Liturgy - Constant use in the Liturgy - Language Apocryphal Writings - Comes from Greek term “Apocrypha” which means veiled or secret - Books that did not pass the criteria for canonicity Roman Catholic Bible - 46 books in the Old Testament, 45 if Jeremiah and Lamentations are counted as one - 39 books in the Old Testament (non-catholic bibles) - 27 books in the New Testament Deuteronomical - “Second Canon” - Have equal inspiration as Protocanonicals - Church finalized the Bible canon during the Council of Trent Testament - Proof of fact, event or reality - “Testis” meaning witness Old Testament New Testament - Faithfulness - About Jesus - Laws, stories, prophecies, and - How through His passion, wisdom literature death, and resurrection he established the definite covenant between God and Humanity Senses of the Scriptures - The Catholic Church teaches that there are different ways to interpret the Word of God Literal Sense - The meaning the author of the text directly intended to convey to their audience Allegorical Sense - The Scriptures consist of patterns and parallelism - Where we can gain a deeper understanding of events about Christ Moral Sense - The events in the Scriptures ought to lead us to act justly Anagogical Sense - Interprets the relationship between the Sacred Scriptures and the eternal glory awaiting us - Highlights the goal of our journey in life towards God’s kingdom