United States Catholic Catechism for Adults

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senses of: 27-28, 527-28 and Tradition: 18, 30, 32, 39, 132, 332 truth, as teaching divine and saving: 32 as united whole with Jesus as the center: 27 as unity of Old and New Testaments: 24, 32 veneration of: 24, 29, 32-33 the Word of God in: 23-28, 30, 32 see also Gospel; New Testament; Old Testament Baptismal: 138, 194-95, 198 in Confirmation: 103, 203, 205, 207, 210 of the Father placed upon the work of his Son: 95 in Holy Orders: 269 the Holy Spirit as the: 107 sacramental seal of confession: 241 see also Sacramental character Search for God: 3, 6-7, 109, 271-72, 464, 478 Second Vatican Council: 21-23 deepening the understanding of doctrine: 22 discovering ways of teaching the faith more effectively: 21-22 as influenced by its immediate past: 22-23 seeking unity within the Church: 22 using “medicine of mercy”: 22 see also specific topics Secular institutes: see Evangelical counsels Secularism; secular culture: 16, 43, 106, 344 challenges posed to the Church by: 16 faith, response of: 43 modern society, influence in: 43 morality, effects on: 453-54 stewardship, effects on: 453 see also specific topics, e.g., Marriage Scrutinies: 191, 527 Seal

“firmly, faithfully and without error, teach that truth which God, for the sake of our salvation, wished to see confided”: 30 God as author: 26-27, 31-32 God’s words as put into human words: 26-27, 31-32 Gospels as holding a place of honor in: 26 Gospels, formation of: 26 historical reductionism: 30-31 Holy Spirit as inspiring: 26-27, 31 inspiration in: 27-28, 31-32 as insufficient, authoritative teaching as also needed: 30 interpreting: 28-33 authoritative interpretation as entrusted to Magisterium: 28, 32 exegesis of: 27 literal sense: 29-30 the need to be attentive to what God wanted to reveal for our salvation: 27 spiritual senses: allegorical, moral, and analogical: 28 unacceptable assumptions found in some forms of scriptural interpretation: 31 as united whole with Jesus as the center: 27 literalism, Biblical: 29-30 literary forms employed: 27, 30, 55-56, 61 meditation, as aid for: 473-74 prayer, role in: 464, 473-74, 477-78 prayer, sources of: 478 reductionist readings, deficiencies of: 30-31 as revealing relationship between God and his people as a dialogue of prayer: 464, 478 as revealing what God wants to make known for the sake of our salvation: 30, 61 Revelation, as transmitting: 18, 23, 30-32 “scripture scholars”: 27