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What are the different types of Theology |
Fundamental: Revelation Systematic: Dogmatic Moral: Ethics Pastoral: Presentation of faith Spiritual: Contemplation of truths of faith |
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What is the Definition of Philosophy and Theology |
Love of Wisdom The study of the most generalprinciples of things and our knowledge of them. A methodological effort tounderstand and interpret the truths of revelation. |
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What is the Eternal Law |
God's wise and loving plan for creating us, redeeming us, and fulfilling us in Christ |
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What are the 2 ways we know God's law?
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Natural Law Divine Revelation |
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What is Divine Revelation |
God reveals himself to man and man to himself |
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Magisterium |
All the Catholic Bishops of the world in union with then Pope |
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Sacrament |
Sacrament: Visible sign of invisible grace instituted byChrist and entrusted to the Church for the purpose of communicating divine lifeto man. |
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Faith |
Hebrews 11: Assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen Cat: Man's response to God Both a Divine gift and a human act |
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Two types of faith? |
Fides qua: My act of faith Fides quae: The content of belief |
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How do we know God exists? |
"Man, through the natural light of human reason can know with certainty that God exists from the reality of created things. (Vat. I) |
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Describe St. Anselm's Proof of God |
It's A priori. Start with the idea of God in our minds and move from the idea to God existing. Our idea of Godis a belief of a being that there is nothing greater that we can think of. One of the pervections including being. God must exist not only mentally but also actually |
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Explain St. Thomas' Proofs of God |
A posteriori (Senses to miind) 1. Unmoved Mover: Nothing moves unless moved by something else 2. Efficient Causality: Things don't just happen, there is always a cause. If everything has a cause then there must be an uncaused cause that starts the first effect. 3. Contingency: Everything we see is contingent, but contingent beings can't be the ultimate source of being, there must be a necessary being 4. Grades of Perfection: We see that there are different degrees of perfection so there must be a complete perfection, the ultimate is God. 5. Design: Things seem to have a purpose and end. There seems to e a design, this intelligent design points to God |
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How is it that God decided to reveal himself? What is St. Ireneus's image |
Sacrament: Visible sign of invisible grace instituted byChrist and entrusted to the Church for the purpose of communicating divine lifeto man. Baby feeding on only milk at first and working toward food |
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What is the difference between public and private revelations |
Public: Deposit of faith that Christ has given to the CHurch throughout the apostles. Private: Revelation that God may have given to certain individual throughout the Church that we are fee to accept or reject if approved. The CHurch says that they are worthy of belief. |
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Conscience |
The practical moral judgement of the intellect |
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Relationship of God's law and freedom |
God's law is to make us Free. The violation of God's law will enslave us. |
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What are the two covenants |
Old Covenant: God's relationship with his special people: Jews New Covenant: God reveals himself completely in his Son, his eternal word |
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Two main documents in VII that teach dogmas |
Dei Verbum (Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation) Lumen Gentium (Dogmatic Constitution on the Church) |
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Fullness of revelation of Christ is... |
The Gospel |
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Gospel |
The font of all saving truth and moral discipline. |
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The Gospel includes |
Words of Jesus and the Deeds of Jesus and contains everything the apostles learned from the words and deeds of Jesus, From t he Risen Lord until he ascended into heaven and everything the apostles learned from the Holy Spirit from Pentecost until the end of the apostolic age, (the death of the Last Apostle). |
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How do we receive the Gospel |
Through Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition
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The Gospel is also called |
Depositum Fidei or Deposit of Faith |
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What bible verse supports that Christians learn the Gospel from tradition as well as sacred scripture? |
2 Thessalonians 2:15: Hold fast to the tradition you have received either by word of mouth or in writing |
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What councils rejected that revelation is partly scripture and partly from tradition, but that revelation comes forth from the Gospels which springs forth both Scripture and Tradition? |
Trent & Vatican II |
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Sacred Tradition |
The ongoing transmission of the Word of God in the Holy Spirit in the life of the Church |
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How is the Gospel handed on? |
Dei Verbum says that Christ commissions the apostles to promulgate the Gospel by - Spoken word of their preaching - Institutions they established - Some of the message is committed to writing |
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How does the Church Transmit all that she is and believes? |
1. Doctrine 2. Life 3. Worship |
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Explain the way that CHrist founded the CHurch and gave her a hierarchical constitution |
1. Christ formed the College of Apostles 2. Peter is made the head of the apostles (Matt 16: 18) 2. The apostolic line is transmitted to the college of bishops with the Pope as the head. |
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Bishops receive a sacred Charism for what? |
1. Teaching 2. Sanctifying 3. Governing |
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Name 3 Sub-apostolic Fathers and describe what they are |
1. Ignatius of Antioch "Whoever worships part from the bishop worships the devil" 2. Pope Saint Clement 3. Saint Polycarp |
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What is the Magisterium's role in the Church? |
It alone is the authentic interpreter of the word of God, whether in its written form or in apostolic tradition. (DV10) |
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Explain how the development of faith works. |
The Deposit of Faith doesn't change, but our understanding about what it reveals does. The ongoing action of the HS allows the CHurch to grow in its understanding guided by the Magisterium. The magisterium isn't superior to the Word of God, it is its servant |
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What did the apostles do before they died? |
They chose other men to take their place and gave them their teaching authority. |
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Doctrine |
Teaching of the CHurch in the matter of faith and morals |
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Dogma |
A solemnly defined doctrine of the Church. It as been divinely revealed and so is in the Depositum Fidei. We must accept them with divine and catholic faith because it is true on God's authority. |
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What are the 3 teaching modes of the Church? Explain them |
1. Definitive mode: When the Church teaches infallibly (Ex Cathedra or Solemn definitions of Ecumenical Councils) 2. Ordinary and Universal Mode (1. Must be a matter of faith and morals, 2. Taught by all bishops in union with Pope, 3. Consensus in judgement, 4. Judgment is that the teaching is definitive) 3. Non-Definitive Mode (1. Related to Depositum Fidei but not as closely connected, 2. Catholics must accept these with the assent of mind and heart.) |
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What is the difference between schism, heresy, and Apostasy |
Schism: Breaking of communion Heresy: False teaching Apostasy: Rejection of the entirety of faith |
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Sacred Scripture |
The word of God in the word of God in the words of men |
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What does it mean that the scriptures are incarnational? |
They are both human and divine |
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What is the relation between Scripture, Tradition, and Magisterium? |
They are all so closely connected that one cannot stand without the other two (DV13) |
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What are the 2 ways we talk about God and describe them. |
Immanent Trinity: God in his internal life, as we know him in himself Economic Trinity: How we know God from creation |
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What was the Heresy of Arius |
Said that the son of God was of like substance and had a beginning in time |
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Dualism |
2 eternal principals in the world, good and evil locked in conflict |
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Gnisticism |
The matter is evil, only the spirit is good. There is a hidden truth and wisdom that only a few now |
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Deists |
God made the world but is distant |
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Materialism |
World is an interplay of matter that always existed. No transcendent element to universe |
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Pantheism |
Everything is God |
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Describe Angels |
Pure Spirit and Intellect Angel refers to what they do not who they are Different natures Matt 18 10 |
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Man is created in what state |
Original Holiness and Original Justice |
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Original Holiness |
Man is in right relationship with God |
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Original Justice |
Man is in harmony with himself, others, and creation. Passions and emotions are in harmony with will and reason |
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How is original Sin transmitted? |
Propagation (not by imitation) |
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Sanctifying Grace |
A created share in God's own life |
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Beatific Vision |
Seeing of God that causes bliss |
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Theological Virtues |
Faith, Hope, and Love |
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How do we gain and lose theological virtues? |
In an instant |
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Preternatural gifts |
Perfections of the natural gifts 2 main points 1 Passions 2 Imagination Also immunity from suffering and death |
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Why does the fall effect us all? |
Man is created as a unity, as communion Adam is the representative man Romans: Adam is made as the first head of humanity, and we are all members of the body of Adam. The fall not only effects the head but also the body |
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What is the remedy of Original Sin? |
Salvation won for us by Christ in the events of the incarnation and the Pascal mystery |
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Salvation is made available to all in what? |
Baptism |
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How does Saint Anselm explain why Christ had to be both man and God? |
Like C.S. Lewis |
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What are the 2 things working in our heart |
Concupiscence Grace |
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Concupiscence |
Tendency to sin and disintegration |
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Incarnation |
When the eternal son of God assumed to himself a human nature in order to accomplish our salvation in it. |
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Why can't God cut us off from him forever? |
Because of the Hypostatic Union |
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What are the reasons for the Incarnation? |
1. Save us by reconciling us with God 2. That we may know God's love 3. To be our model in holiness 4. Make us participate in t he Divine Nature |
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Name and Explain first 3 Ecumenical Councils |
1. Nicea (325) Arianism 2. Constantinople (381) Arianism & HS is God 3. Ephesus (431) Nestorianism - Denied union of persons (Mary isn't Teotokos) 4. Chalcedon (451) Monophysitism (denies huyman nature of Christ) 5. COnstantinople II (553) Clarifies Hypostatic Union of Christ 2 natures 1 person 6. Constantinople III (681) defines that Christ posesses 2 wills 7. Nicaea II (787) Condemns iconoclasm |
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Kenosis |
The lowering of God to human level in Christ |
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Why does God reveal himself to man? |
So that we can share in his life. |
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Dei Verbum's criteria for understanding scripture... |
1) Be attentive to the content and unity of the whole of scripture• 2) Read scripture in light of the living Tradition of the whole Church.• 3) Pay attention to the analogy of faith (the coherence of the truths of faith among themselves and within the whole plan of salvation) |
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How do we distinguish the trinity |
By their relationships with each other |
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How does God create the universe |
Ex nihilo |
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Divine Providence |
God's loving care for creation |
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Marriage |
a “two in one flesh” covenant relationship that exists for the union of man and woman and for the procreation of children |
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"Jesus" |
God saves |
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Lord in Greek |
Kyrios |
