53-86 Flashcards
Who was the procurator at the time of Jesus’s death?
Pontius Pilate
What scriptural example shows Herod the Great’s cruelty?
Herod killed all the baby boys 2 and under in the area because he heard the “king of the Jews” was born.
What did the Romans do to “discourage” people from challenging Roman power?
They were violent and cruel to rebellions. They threatened torture and violence (including crucifixion)
What word applies to this definition: characterized by the presence of different ethnic, religious, or cultural groups?
Pluralistic
Why was it shocking that Jesus called tax collectors to share his ministry?
They were sinnners, and people that other people did not like. Why would Jesus want to be involved with sinners?
Toward whom did Jesus focus his ministry?
Sinners, tax collectors, women, sick, the poor, and people that were “unwanted” in society.
What was the primary purpose of the synagogue?
- A place of worship and prayer
What was the primary purpose of the temple?
Place of sacrifice
Three main Jewish feasts and what they celebrate
- Passover
- Pentecost
- Tabernacles
Why did the incarnation unite humanity with God?
The incarnation allowed us to share God’s divinity
How does the Catechism unite humanity with God?
The son of God assumed a human nature in order to accomplish our salvation in it.
How does the Catechism define the incarnation?
The Son of God assumed a human nature in order to accomplish our salvation in it
What does the name Jesus mean?
Emmanuel, Son of God.
The beginning of Jesus’s earthly existence was when?
In Mary’s womb before he was born.
Throughout the Old Testament, God prepared humanity for the incarnation. What did God do “in the fullness of time” and why did he do it?
God sent his son, born of a woman, born under the law, to ransom those under the law so that we might receive adoption.
According to John chapter 1: who is the Word? What was (and is) the Word? What did the word become?
The Son is the Word
Explain one of the three cases against Christianity and Chesterton’s response.
- Men are much like beasts (and therefore not that special in creation)
A: We are similar to animals but so unlike. Apes have hands and the ability to do so much, but why don’t they do anything with them? We are so different that it requires an explanation.
Chesterton believes three things need to be explained, (which leads us to the Christian answer)
- The towering eccentricity of man among animals
- A vast tradition of an ancient happiness
- Partial perpetuation of joy in Catholic Countries
What is Chesterton’s part 2 explanation that answers all three questions?
- Heaven came upon earth with the power/seal of God called the image of God.
- Heaven came to same mankind in the awful shape of man.
Why was it important for God to take human nature?
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How does the son becoming flesh bring us closer to the Father?1
So that we can now share in his divinity
How can Joseph be Jesus’s father?
Through adoption
Why did the angels go to those shepherds?
Message was for everyone including for the poor
Why did Jews not believe Jesus was truly the Son of God?
They were looking for an earthly king not a divine person
Why did God chose a virgin?
Shows that Jesus is of God, his birth was a miracle.
What was Jesus’s teaching?
Repent and believe in the Gospel. The knigdom of God is at hand.
Why do Luke and Matthew tell this story of Jesus’s conception and birth?
To answer the question “when was Jesus divine?” - always
What did Mary do that “made our salvation possible”?
She agreed to have Jesus
Said yes
Explain why Mary is the mother of God
Jesus was God and she is Jesus’s mother
What is a holy day of obligation?
The day where Catholics are required to receive the Eucharist. Every Sunday’s + 6 other days of the week
All saints day, Christmas
What is the Immaculate Conception and to whom does it refer?
When Mary was conceived without sin
What is the purpose of the immaculate conception?
Mary was conceived and born without sin, so the mother of Jesus was without sin
Of what was Mary’s perpetual virginity a sign?
Jesus is divine and the miracle of his birth
What is the assumption?
When Mary died her entire being, body and soul, were taken to heaven
What is solemnity?
Solemnity is a principal feast in the liturgical calendar of the Roman Catholic Church
What is a beatific vision?
The eternal, direct perception of God, enjoyed by those who are in heaven.
Why is the death of martyrs not seen as a defeat or time of mourning?
Their deaths were victory because they as a victory of Christ.
What OT example do we have of praying for the dead?
2 Maccabees 12:44: “for if we were not expecting the fallen to rise again, it would be useless to pray for them in death.”
By Judah
Passover
- freedom from slavery
