HRE 4M Unit 2 - Mission Definitions
apocalyptic literature:beatitudes:
eschatological:
exegesis:
gospel:
hermeneutics:
inspiration:
parousia:
Torah:
apostle:
Church:
communion:
conversion:
Gentile:
magisterium:
mission:
sacrament:
HRE 4M Unit 2 - Mission Definitions - Answers
apocalyptic literature: A style of writing that evolved during Israel's troubled history around the time of Jesus. It focused on the end of history and the time of God's purifying judgment. It frequently employed frightening imagery of end-time wars between good and evil and of convulsions in nature.beatitudes: A formof pronouncement that presupposes that a good or happiness has already been given or is about to be received. The Sermon on the Mount contains a list of beatitudes: "blessed are the poor in spirit..."
eschatological: Pertaining to the end of time, in the sense of its fullness. The coming of the kingdom of God at the end of time, according to Jesus, has already begun in his life, death and resurrection. Eschatological ethics is an ethics that insists that we can already live what God will realize or reveal at the end.
exegesis: The analysis of texts in their original context. Uncovering the historical, cultural, linguistic, etc., particularities that the original author was dealing with in order to better understand the original meaning and intent of a text.
gospel: The unique literary genre that proclaims the life, death and resurrection of Jesus from the perspective of the living faith of particular early Church communities.
hermeneutics: A wayof interpreting texts and events to help us understand what they mean for us in the twenty-first century.
inspiration: Sacred Scripture is inspired by God. "What Christ entrusted to the apostles, they in turn handed on by their preaching and writing, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, to all generations, until Christ returns in glory." (CCC #96)
parousia: Term used to refer to the second coming of Christ at the end of time.
Torah: The five books of Moses that contain the core teachings: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.
apostle: A title given in the gospels to the twelve chief disciples of Jesus, and later also to St. Paul.
Church: The assembly or communion of the baptized followers of Jesus.
communion: The Body of Christ, both in its sacramental Eucharistic form of bread and wine, and also in the assembly of the baptized followers of Jesus.
conversion: A radical transformation of values, a turning around, that takes place at the intellectual level as an awareness and openness to truth and true knowing, at the moral level when I recognize myself as free and responsible, and at the religious level where my preoccupation with myself is taken over with the love of God and love for others.
Gentile: A person who is not part of the Jewish faith, or not of Jewish ancestry.
magisterium: The official teaching office of the Church: the bishops in union with the bishop of Rome, the pope.
mission: The task Jesus left his followers: to proclaim the Good News, that is, to proclaim Jesus, to the world.
sacrament: "The sacraments are perceptible signs (words and actions) accessible to our human nature. By the action of Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit they make present efficaciously the grace that they signify." (CCC #1084)