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Lesson 8

Authentic Interpretation of Scripture

Jesus entrusted to the Church the authority to interpret Scripture, not personal interpretation.

Lesson Vocabulary

  • Exegesis
    :
    (n.): An interpretation or analysis of scriptural text.
  • Historical-Critical Method
    :
    (n.): The name given to the method of Scripture analysis that considers the historical context of Scripture.
  • Catena
    :
    (n.): From the Latin for “chain,” the practice of Medieval biblical scholars of including comments from the early Church Fathers and other important teachers in the margins and between the lines of their Bibles, forming a chain of commentary.
  • Analogy of Faith
    :
    (n.): The coherence of the truths of the Faith among themselves and within the whole plan of revelation.
  • Senses of Scripture
    :
    (n.): The various meanings of the Scripture text.
  • Literal Sense
    :
    (n.): The meaning that comes directly from the Scripture text and is intended by the sacred author.
  • Spiritual Sense
    :
    (n.): The meaning of the Scripture text that reveals the inner unity of God’s plan through the realities and events of Scripture, which are signs God uses to point to deeper meaning. The spiritual sense is further broken down into three parts: the allegorical sense, the moral sense, and the anagogical sense.
  • Types
    :
    (n.): People or things in the Old Testament that foreshadow people or things in the New Testament.
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