3/30/17 Test Flashcards
What is meant by perfection?
Fullness of existence, completion, or the absence of any potential need
God possesses each attribute to a _____ and _____ degree.
Perfect, infinite
God is _____, is _____, is _____
Love, goodness, mercy
God is unique in spiritual _____. (simple and unchangeable)
Substance
The trinity is 3 divine persons in _____.
One
The essence of something – what it truly is
Substance
The Church teaches that all 3 Persons of the Trinity have the same _____.
Substance
The distinctions among the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit
Person
Distinctions between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit because of their relationships
Relation
A profession of faith in the Triune God that we make with both gestures and words
Sign of the Cross
Thought the Trinity is a mystery that we cannot ever fully understand, _____ and _____ have revealed truths about it
Jesus, the Holy Spirit
Refers to how God exists and who God is, always was – and always will be – without consideration of God’s creation and creatures
Immanent Trinity
How God interacts with and reveals himself through his creation, especially through his saving works
Salvific Trinity
The _____ is the greatest gift to humanity from God the Father and God the Son.
Holy Spirit
A person making the sign of the cross does motions that mean _____.
We make this profession in our minds, hearts, and entire being
Why are we able to believe in the Trinity?
Jesus reveals to us this truth about God’s nature
The _____ tells us that the baptismal ritual “signifies and actually brings about death to sin and entry into the life of the Most Holy Trinity through configuration to the Paschal mystery of Christ”
Catechism of the Catholic Church
Christiansare baptised in the _____ of the father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit — together.
Name (singular)
There is only one God, but there are 3 _____ in this one God.
Divine Persons
Mystery
A truth of the faith that our minds can never fully understand
The study of the existence or the attributes of God, it explores the inner life of God
Theology
The Immanent and Salvific Trinity are ways to understand the mystery of the _____ Trinity.
Blessed
_____ described the different ways the Persons of the Trinity relate to one another
St. Athanasius
The _____ is not made, not created, and not begotten by anyone.
Father
The _____ is from the Father alone, neither created nor made, but begotten
Son
The _____ is from the Father and the Son; not created, not made, not begotten, but proceeding.
Holy Spirit
The quality “of one being” in the relationship between all the divine Persons of the Trinity — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. So, the Son and Holy Spirit have the exact same nature as the Father, the first Person of the Trinity.
Consubstantial
From all eternity the Father “_____” the Son.
Begets
Was there ever a time where the son did not proceed from the father?
No
We can think of the Father’s be getting of the Son as God _____.
Knowing himself perfectly