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Freshman Theology

Subject : humanities

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1. The vine and branches
Island of patmos
Theme: faith - Jesus is the vine and we are the branches; if we remain in Jesus we will bear fruit
Theme: physical healing - miracle: rescued the official's son from death - shows god power over death
Accused of blasphemy & false prophet; Peter's denial three times

2. author of revelations
St. john the evangelist
Lost for 3 days; Showing Jesus as master of scripture; was teaching the teachers; 'In my father's house' = revelation of who he is
God over evil
Theme: foundation of god and faith - Foundation of rock: believing in god leads to eternal happiness - foundation of sand: leads to ruins - supreme witnesses to Jesus

3. Christology
Study of Jesus and who he is
Alpha & omega
Righteous & obedient & faithful man
An earthly story with a heavenly meaning

4. How are the books in the NT organized?
Theme: nature - miracle: Jesus walks on water...
Separating the light from the dark
Mary's prayer to god at the annunciation
Like the OT: Law & History & Wisdom & Prophecy

5. The Last supper
The new Passover; celebrating the first mass - Jesus is the bread and blood
From greek to latin
Study of Jesus and who he is
Righteous & obedient & faithful man

6. Epiphany
Perfection and imperfection
Theme: physical healing - miracle: rescued the official's son from death - shows god power over death
The visit from the three wise men at the nativity
Matthew & Mark & Luke & and John

7. Lazarus

8. Who is the first Christian martyr?
Mary and other women
Accepted but fell away because of persecution
Stephen
Agony in the garden; sweating blood

9. Walking on water
Palms: to welcome great conquerors - foreshadowed by Solomon
Baptism and Eucharist: pierced in the side and water and blood flowed out
Acts of power that reveal the kingdom of heaven and who Jesus is
Theme: nature - miracle: Jesus walks on water...

10. Myrrh
Foreshadowing his death
The new Passover; celebrating the first mass - Jesus is the bread and blood
Knowledge
Jesus rubbing off on the apostles - Peter cures a crippled man - Peter and John arrested by the Sanhedrin

11. Greek word for revelations
27
Good news
Apocalypse;
Matthew and Luke

12. The Paschal Lamb
Acts of power that reveal the kingdom of heaven and who Jesus is
The sacrificial lamb; unblemished -> Jesus
Foreshadowing his death
Chose to follow Jesus

13. Sacraments of the cross
Baptism and Eucharist: pierced in the side and water and blood flowed out
Theme: everyone is worthy of our love - enemy of the man nurses him back to health; break through prejudices and imitate god's love even with our enemies
The woman clothed in the sun
Parables

14. New Jerusalem
Acts of the Apostles
New garden of Eden
Theme: God's love and forgiveness - betrays father & comes home to become a servant but is forgiven and accepted back into the family
Accused of blasphemy & false prophet; Peter's denial three times

15. Presentation at the temple
To conceal - because of the bitterness of peoples hearts - to separate - the truth seekers from the truth deniers - to reveal
Theme: God's love and forgiveness - betrays father & comes home to become a servant but is forgiven and accepted back into the family
Agony in the garden; sweating blood
The presentation of Jesus by Mary and Joseph in the Temple which took 40 days after his birth in which He was recognized as the long awaited Messiah by Simeon and Anna

16. History of the early church
The visit from the three wise men at the nativity
Matthew & mark & and luke
Study of Jesus and who he is
Jesus rubbing off on the apostles - Peter cures a crippled man - Peter and John arrested by the Sanhedrin

17. Prodigal son

18. to believe in miracles is to have
Winged Lion
Signs/works
The replacement of Judas
Faith in Jesus to gain eternal life

19. Trial of Jesus

20. Which books of the NT are the Prophecy books?
Revelations
The sacrificial lamb; unblemished -> Jesus
21
The evangelists

21. Epiphany
Epistles
The visit from the three wise men at the nativity
Winged Lion
Acts of the Apostles

22. Symbol of John
For a priest
Different types of seeds. seeds represent people. theme: how Jesus' message is received
Rising Eagle
The sacrificial lamb; unblemished -> Jesus

23. Palm Sunday
Rising Eagle
David is to the Ark of the Covenant as Mary is to Jesus; 'David was leaping and dancing before the lord' -> 'The babe in my womb leaped for joy'
Palms: to welcome great conquerors - foreshadowed by Solomon
Theme: kingdom of heaven - those who respond to the call of god will be rewarded in heaven

24. Yeast

25. The mass in revelation
Angel Gabriel; vocation of divine motherhood
Theme: foundation of god and faith - Foundation of rock: believing in god leads to eternal happiness - foundation of sand: leads to ruins - supreme witnesses to Jesus
Theme: raising from the dead - god's power over death - Jesus weeped
The senses of heaven; liturgy

26. Transfiguration
Those who never accepted Jesus
Jesus when into the desert with no water or food for 30 days When Jesus was temped by Satan to (1) Use his powers for himself when tempted to turn stone into bread & (2) Challenged by Satan to jump off the temple to test God's power & and (3) Offe
The glorious transformation of Jesus that manifested his divine identity for Peter & James & and John on a high mountain & probably Mount Tabor. The event & reported in all three Synoptic Gospels & also involved the appearance of both Moses and Elija
Paul and other apostles

27. Who is the first Christian martyr?
Jesus rubbing off on the apostles - Peter cures a crippled man - Peter and John arrested by the Sanhedrin
Stephen
The Beatitudes; marriage and divorce; kingdom of heaven; watchfulness; bread of life; words of eternal life; light of the world
Matthew and Luke

28. How many total epistles were written?
Famine
Faith in Jesus to gain eternal life
21
Mary and other women

29. Presentation at the temple
Rising Eagle
Theme: nature - miracle: Jesus walks on water...
The presentation of Jesus by Mary and Joseph in the Temple which took 40 days after his birth in which He was recognized as the long awaited Messiah by Simeon and Anna
Death

30. Official's son

31. black horse
Paul and other apostles
Gods plan to save us from sin
Famine
21

32. author of revelations
St. john the evangelist
Gods plan to save us from sin
Winged Lion
God over evil

33. Where did Jesus talk about the water of eternal life
With the woman at the well
Theme: nature - miracle: Jesus walks on water...
The new Passover; celebrating the first mass - Jesus is the bread and blood
Good news

34. Jesus Lost in the Temple

35. Public Ministry of Jesus
The Suffering Servant
Jesus taught to crowds all over israel; sermon on the mount; The three year period during which Jesus gathered a community of disciples around him and preached the word of God. began with His baptism
Spread the word of god & be a witness of god
Theme: everyone is worthy of our love - enemy of the man nurses him back to health; break through prejudices and imitate god's love even with our enemies

36. When Jesus appeared after his death to the apostles & what did he tell them to be?
Divine man or angel
Fishers of men
Matthew and Luke
21

37. Jesus' ressurection
Those who never accepted Jesus
Gods plan to save us from sin
Mary's prayer to god at the annunciation
To reveal god's power & Jesus' true identity & his purpose & heavenly glory & and his relationship with god

38. the ultimate victory of ____ over ____
For a king
God over evil
All powerful/all knowing
The woman clothed in the sun

39. Frankensense
The sacrificial lamb; unblemished -> Jesus
Acts of the Apostles
Divine truths
For a priest

40. Which books in the NT are the History books?
Theme: raising from the dead - god's power over death - Jesus weeped
Perfection and imperfection
Acts of the Apostles
John the Baptist; Established the sacrament of baptism; dove descended on him

41. Which Gospels have the Nativity story?
21
Matthew and Luke
Accept and respond to the word; produce fruit
Epistles

42. The lamb having 7 eyes and ears as
All powerful/all knowing
Power
Theme: kingdom of heaven - sower = Jesus; field = world; good seeds = children of god; weeds = children of Satan; harvest = end of the world - points to Jesus' second coming
Good news

43. How many Epistles?
To reveal god's power & Jesus' true identity & his purpose & heavenly glory & and his relationship with god
Parables
21
Matthew & Mark & Luke & and John

44. Messianic secret

45. Return to nazareth
Theme: nature - miracle: Jesus walks on water...
Jesus grew up in a normal environment to grow strong intellectually and physically
Theme: nature - miracle: fed 5000+ people with two loaves of bread and one fish - bread of life; foreshadows eucharist
David is to the Ark of the Covenant as Mary is to Jesus; 'David was leaping and dancing before the lord' -> 'The babe in my womb leaped for joy'

46. Isaiah 53
Jesus when into the desert with no water or food for 30 days When Jesus was temped by Satan to (1) Use his powers for himself when tempted to turn stone into bread & (2) Challenged by Satan to jump off the temple to test God's power & and (3) Offe
The Suffering Servant
Sold Jesus to the officials; betrayed Jesus with a kiss
Righteous & obedient & faithful man

47. why miracles?

48. meaning of Christology in synoptic gospels
13
Rising Eagle
Christology from below: stories of his life from birth to ascension; show HUMANITY/ power over nature
With the woman at the well

49. Purposes of Parables
Theme: love of neighbor - during Lazarus' life He was a beggar and the rich man neglected him; after their death Lazarus was happy in heaven and the rich man was in hell & begging for Lazarus' mercy - love for the poor
An earthly story with a heavenly meaning
To conceal - because of the bitterness of peoples hearts - to separate - the truth seekers from the truth deniers - to reveal
Choked because of material goods and world anxiety

50. Christology
To reveal god's power & Jesus' true identity & his purpose & heavenly glory & and his relationship with god
Study of Jesus and who he is
Jesus' suffering: his immense love for humanity - took on our guilt and sins
Foundation of the church