WARNING:
When writing a paper dealing with evangelical movements in the U.S., do not mix up the following terms.
APOCRYPHAL: adj. Of doubtful authenticity; spurious, fictitious, false; fabulous, mythical.
APOCALYPTIC: adj. Of or pertaining to the ‘Revelation’ of St. John; Of the nature of a revelation or disclosure; revelatory, prophetic.
And I always wondered what was wrong with calling those books of the Bible only Catholics use the Apocrypha (the preferred term is Deuterocanonical... and it's fun to say!).
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