Catechism of the Catholic Church (355-384) Flashcards
God created man in His own what?
His own image
Of all creatures only man is able to?
Only man is “able to know and love his creator”
God created everything for man and man in return shall do what?
Man shall serve, love, and offer all creation back to God
The human race takes its origin from to men namely:
Adam and Christ
The first Adam became a?
Living soul
The second Adam became a?
Life-giving spirit
Because of its common origin the human race forms a unity for…
We all came from one ancestor [God], He made all nations inhabit the whole earth.
This term refers to human life or person, it refers to the innermost aspect of man, that which is of greatest value in him, that by which he is most especially in God’s image, it signifies the spiritual principle in man
Soul
This shares the dignity of the “image of God”, it is animated by a spiritual soul, it is intended to become a temple of the Spirit
The human body/person
These two things that makes up a man are not two nature united, but rather their union forms a single nature.
Spirit and matter or body and soul
The Church teaches that “…” is created immediately by God and is not produced by the parents. It is also immortal and does not perish when it is separated from the body through death.
Spiritual soul
The soul should be reunited with the body at the “…”
Final Resurrection
This signifies that from creation man is ordered to a supernatural end and that his soul can gratuitously be raised beyond all it deserves to communion with God.
The spirit
In no way is God in man’s image. He is …
Neither man nor woman. He is a pure spirit in which there is no place for the difference of the two sexes.
God created man and woman to…
God created man and woman together and willed each for the other. He created them to be a communion of persons, in which each can be “helpmate” to the other as they are equal and complementary.
Through this God unites man and woman in order to multiply.
Through marriage God unites them in a way that by forming “one flesh”, they can transmit human life.
In God’s plan man and woman have the vocation of “…” the earth.
Man and woman have the vocation of “SUBDUING” the earth. They shall love everything that exists
The first man was not only created to be good, but was also established in…
Friendship with his Creator and in harmony with himself and the creation around him.
Our first parents, Adam and Eve, were constituted in an original “…”
“State of holiness and justice” or “Original holiness”
This state comprises of the inner harmony of the human person, harmony between man and woman, and harmony between the first couple and all creation
“Original justice”
The “mastery” over the world that God offered man from the beginning was realised above all within man himself:…
Mastery of self
Man is predestined to “…” the image of God’s son made man,
Reproduce
Man, though made of body and soul, is a …
Unity
This makes known to us the state of original holiness and justice of man and woman before sin
Revelation
We are in the image of God because of…
Our ability to possess ourselves and then give ourselves to another person, forming a communion of persons in love.
Man experiences “…” in two ways
“Original Solitude”
First way of experiencing original solitude
He is aware of himself, in his self-knowledge he knows that he is not God and not an animal, he has self-determination and is able to choose between good and evil
Second way of experiencing original solitude
Knowing that man was not created to live by himself but in communion with others. He feels alone without a woman
The concept of the original solitude includes both…
Self-consciousness and self-determination
This signifies man’s subjectivity, which is constituted through self-knowledge.
Solitude
Through this, one aspect of man’s solitude is overcome, and the other is confirmed. This is also seen in Genesis where man exclaims “…bone if my bones… flesh of my flesh”
Original unity
This means existing in a mutual ’for,’ in a relationship of mutual gift
Communion of persons
This signifies the original good of God’s vision.
Nakedness
God created man and woman and is calling them to…
Love and to give themselves to one another
What are the triple concupiscence?
Pleasure of the senses
Covetousness for earthly goods
Self-assertion
This constitutes the first form of communion between persons
Partnership of man and woman
Through this man and woman form a communion of persons
Through spiritual and bodily unions
This is a result of being viewed as an object to be used by another person.
Shame
Name of the four branches of the river that flowed in the land of Eden
1st- Pishon (Havilah)
2nd- Gigon (Cush)
3rd- Tigris (Asshur)
4th- Euphrates
The body itself is the means for the expression of interpersonal love and life-giving communion through total self-giving, both in marriage and in celibacy
Nuptial meaning of the body
The utterly gratuitous love if God in calling us into existence from nothingness in order to give us a share in the mystery of his divine life
Freedom of gift
The “aloneness’ of Adam, whose personhood transcends the animals, without a suitable partner
Original solitude
The state prior to sin when man still has the original state of justice
Original man
The depths of one’s being, where the person decides for or against God
Heart
The state of humans before the Fall; a state of body or soul harmony
Original innocence
The first realisation of the communion of persons between ish and ishah as mutual shares in the dignity of personhood
Original unity
The experience of nakedness untainted by shame in the integrity of the person prior to the Fall
Original nakedness
The body itself is the means for the expression of interpersonal love and life-giving communion through total self-giving, both in marriage and in celibacy
Nuptial meaning of the body
The utterly gratuitous love if God in calling us into existence from nothingness in order to give us a share in the mystery of his divine life
Freedom of gift
The “aloneness’ of Adam, whose personhood transcends the animals, without a suitable partner
Original solitude
The state prior to sin when man still has the original state of justice
Original man
The depths of one’s being, where the person decides for or against God
Heart
The state of humans before the Fall; a state of body or soul harmony
Original innocence
The first realisation of the communion of persons between ish and ishah as mutual shares in the dignity of personhood
Original unity
The experience of nakedness untainted by shame in the integrity of the person prior to the Fall
Original nakedness
