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30 Cards in this Set
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Define: Theology
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Rational Discourse about God
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Who introduced the word 'Theology'?
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Plato
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Define: Natural Theology
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What can be known by reason alone?
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Define: Biblical Theology
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How are theological ideas developed or expounded in scripture?
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Define: Historical Theology
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How do these ideas evolve in the fathers and church councils, among scholastics and reformers?
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Define: Fundamental Theology
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How can the claims of revealed theology be vindicated where revelation is doubted?
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Define: Theological Method
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What are the proper tasks, resources, authorities, methods, and procedures of theology?
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Define: Philosophical Theology
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How can philosophical analysis illuminate theological claims?
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Define: Dogmatic Theology
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What ought to be said about the triune God (theology proper) and his works (divine economy)
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Dates: St. Justin Martyr
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100-165
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homoiousios |
of like being |
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homoousios |
of one and the same being |
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anomoios |
of unlike being |
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homoios |
is like |
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"faith precedes, understanding follows" |
St. Augustine |
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‘We must needs hold the rule of faith without deviation'
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St. Irenaeus |
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“Beware lest you speak the unspeakable, wittingly or in ignorance, confounding Eru with the Enemy who would fain have you do so.”
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Finrod (Tolkein) |
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Nature is a created starting-point for grace
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Thomas Aquinas |
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Grace does not destroy our creaturely nature but perfects it”
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Thomas Aquinas |
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Gregory of Nazianzus dates
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329-390 |
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“Let mortals hold on to justice; power will be given to them when they are immortal… Let a person seek to be powerful in himself and, in an odd way, against himself for himself" |
St. Augustine |
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“Lights break upon us gradually; and in the order of theology, which it is better for us to keep, we neither proclaim things too suddenly, nor yet keep them hidden to the end.”
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Gregory of Nazianzus
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Batter my heart, three person’d God
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John Donne |
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All God’s commandments are rightly carried out only when the motive principle of action is the love of God, and the love of our neighbor in God
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St. Augustine |
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The rational ordering of the human act to the good in its truth and the voluntary pursuit of that good, known by reason, constitute morality
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Veritatis Splendor, John Paul II |
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Justification includes the remissions of sins, sanctification, and the renewal of the inner man
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Catechism of the Catholic Church |
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Eschatology is the most practical thing that can be thought |
Karl Barth |
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The resurrection of Jesus is the central fact of Christian devotion and the ground for all Christian thinking
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Robert Wilken |
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What else, then, have we to do but first to love with full affection Him whom we desire to know? Hence arises that principle on which we have all along insisted: there is nothing more wholesome in the Catholic Church than using authority before argument |
St. Augustine |
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God exercises a providence over all things, and therefore he also gives counsel. And when giving counsel, he is present with those who attend to moral discipline
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St. Irenaeus |
