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Lesson 4

The Transmission of Divine Revelation

We come to know divine revelation from both Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition.

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Lesson Topics
Church History Interpretation
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Lesson Vocabulary

  • Sacred Tradition
    :
    (n.): The living transmission of the Gospel message in the Church.
  • Deposit of Faith
    :
    (n.): The full content of divine revelation communicated by Christ, contained in Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition, handed on in the Church from the time of the Apostles, and from which the Magisterium draws all that it proposes for belief as being divinely revealed.
  • Apostolic Succession
    :
    (n.): The handing on of apostolic preaching and authority from the Apostles to their successors, the bishops, through the laying on of hands, as a permanent office in the Church
  • Bishop
    :
    (n.): A successor to the Apostles, who has received the fullness of the Sacrament of Holy Orders. He is the leader of a particular church, or diocese, entrusted to him.
  • Pope
    :
    (n.): The successor of St. Peter as bishop of Rome and Supreme Pontiff of the universal Catholic Church. The pope exercises a primacy of authority as the vicar of Christ on earth and the shepherd of the whole Church.
  • Magisterium
    :
    (n.): The living teaching authority of the Catholic Church whose task it is to give authentic interpretation of the Word of God found in Scripture and Tradition, and to ensure the faithfulness of the Church to the teachings of the Apostles in matters of faith and morals. This authority is exercised by all of the world’s bishops in union with the pope, and by the pope alone when he defines infallibly a doctrine of faith or morals.
  • Infallible
    :
    (n.): Incapable of error.
  • Sensus Fidei
    :
    (n.): The supernatural appreciation of faith on the part of the whole people of God, when, from the bishops to the last of the faithful, they manifest a universal consent in matters of faith and morals and cannot in such a case err in belief. Latin for “sense of the faithful."

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