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21 Cards in this Set
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Unity around the bishop and obedience to the church. Life after death is real, the Eucharist is really the body and blood of Christ.
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Ignatius of Antioch
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appeal to martyrdom as a form of “following the lamb”
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Martyrs of Lyons
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To align Christianity with reason and philosophy, but also to say it surpasses philosophy because no one could reason their way to the idea that reason is loving, or a person.
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Justin Martyr
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Knowledge has a liberating function that allows the individual to break free from the world. Redeemed FROM creation, not OF creation. The knowledge of transcendence is arrived at by way of intuitive means.
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Gnostic Scriptures
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The reality of Christ’s suffering lies at the heart of what characterizes the love of God.
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Irenaeus
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You’ll never have to go beyond faith to be saved. Salvation means an intellectual, bodily, and spiritual struggle. We have the choice to fight against the devil.
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Origen
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The metaphors are use because love itself is freighted with meaning that overflows and is not reducible to just a letter.
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Song of Songs
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There is no need to extract spiritual meaning (that reduces significance). The spiritual meaning is one with the physical meaning.
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Origen
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The same Word that came before the Creation is manifested in the “logos” human being of Christ. The logos is not just a creature, but homousios with God the Father.
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Athanasius
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The logos improves the flesh, he is not improved by it. The taking on of flesh is so loving that it creates a new head for us – recapitulation.
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Athanasius
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Pride is replacing truth and love with something made by you. By loving yourself more than God, you’re hating yourself.
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Confessions
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The essence of the rule is simplicity and brevity. The road we take (Monks) seems narrow at the outset, but keep going and you’ll follow God’s commandments.
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St. Benedict
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The battle of holy obedience is to relinquish your own will, and embrace a resocialization that leaves behind the ties of kinship, social status, and wealth so that you prefer nothing above the love of Christ.
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St. Benedict
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The thoughts and contemplation in this argument is fuel that will rocket us upwards to the extent of God’s goodness.
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Anselm
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Paying attention to this concept makes us rise above idolatry by directing or thinking upwards.
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Anselm
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. It’s an issue of identity – your habits sum total is who you are beyond just your nature. God is pure act. He doesn’t need to be disposed to act, so he doesn’t need habits.
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St. Thomas Aquinas
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Assess everything from the total-self-giving love of God and Christ. This means taking up our cross and associating with the lepers, not sitting on a chair and simply contemplating.
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St. Francis
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The ascent is becoming aware of both perceiving and judging while doing it.
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Bonaventura
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the creation of a concept is not enough to leverage us to the ascent because that ascent requires a revision in the way we love things, not just a sight adjustment. We must change the way we love and value things. We must rejoice when among people considered to be of no worth.
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Bonaventura
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The root of sin is pride and the root of virtue is humility because you can leave hell at the moment you decide to repent
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Dante
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No one is in Hell against her own will.
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Dante
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