CH 1+2 VOCAB

Question 2

Rationalism

Answer 2

It’s judging everything according to philosophical and or scientific reason

Question 3

Revelation

Answer 3

God’s communication of himself by which he makes known the mystery of his divine plan. A gift of God’s self-communication that is realized by deeds and words through time, the fullness of which was the sending of his Only-Begotten Son, Jesus Christ. ”

Question 4

Word Of God

Answer 4

God’s speech to man; used in one sense, a reference to Sacred Scripture; in another sense, a reference to Jesus Christ, the “Word Made Flesh.” “Christ, the Son of God made man, is the Father’s one, perfect, and unsurpassable Word”

Question 5

Covenant

Answer 5

A solemn agreement between people or between God and man involving mutual commitments and guarantees

Question 6

Motive of Faith

Answer 6

The reason why a person comes to believe in God

Question 7

Magisterium

Answer 7

The name given to the universal teaching authority of the Church, which guides the faithful without error in matters of faith and morals through the interpretation of Sacred Scripture and Tradition.

Question 8

Miracle

Answer 8

Something that causes astonishment.

Question 9

Mediately

Answer 9

Through another person

Question 10

Prophet

Answer 10

A person called by God to speak to his people, often to announce future events that could not otherwise be foreseen. It comes from a Hebrew term meaning “he who talks to man in the name of God.”

Question 11

Faith

Answer 11

The theological virtue by which one believes all that God has said and revealed to man and that the Church proposes for belief.

Question 12

Motives of Credibility

Answer 12

the four main signs and evidence that certain affirmations are made by God and that they have been passed along to us completely and without error- namely the miracles of Jesus and his saints; the fulfillment of prophecies; the sublimity or dignity of the message; and stability of the church.

Question 13

Object of Faith

Answer 13

“The content of true Christian faith and belief: God himself; other truths that can be known only through Revelation, such as the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist; and all the natural truths specially revealed by God in order to confirm and strengthen our knowledge of them, such as the existence of our soul”

Question 14

Act of faith

Answer 14

A supernatural assent of the intellect through which a truth revealed by God is believed on the authority of God who reveals it. One who makes an act of faith is certain of the truth and makes a free-will choice to believe in it.

Question 15

Divine

Answer 15

Modifier indicating something that refers or pertains to God.

Question 16

Supernatural Revelation

Answer 16

A revelation through a supernatural even.

Question 17

Divine Revalation

Answer 17

Modifier indicating something that prefers to God

Question 18

Divine Revalation

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Modifier indicating something that prefers to God

Question 19

Original Sin

Answer 19

“Man, tempted by the devil. . .disobeyed God’s command” (CCC 397) Adam and Eve immediately [lost] the grace of original holiness” (CCC 399). “The harmony in which they had found themselves, thanks to original justice, is now destroyed: the control of the soul’s spiritual faculties over the body is shattered; the union of man and woman becomes subject to tensions, their relations henceforth marked by lust and domination.16 Harmony with creation is broken: visible creation has become alien and hostile to man.17 Because of man, creation is now subject “to its bondage to decay” (CCC 400).”

Question 20

Divine Revelation

Answer 20

“God’s communication of himself by which he makes known the mystery of his divine plan. A gift of God’s self-communication that is realized by deeds and words through time, the fullness of which was the sending of his Only-Begotten Son, Jesus Christ. Revelation also refers to the New Testament book containing the revelation given to St. John on Patmos, also called the Apocalypse.”

Question 21

Prophecy

Answer 21

“Something that is said in the name of God.”

Question 22

Supernatural Revelation

Answer 22

“God’s communication of himself by which he makes known the mystery of his divine plan. A gift of God’s self-communication that is realized by deeds and words through time, the fullness of which was the sending of his Only-Begotten Son, Jesus Christ. Revelation also refers to the New Testament book containing the revelation given to St. John on Patmos, also called the Apocalypse.”

Question 23

Agnosticism

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“A belief that the existence of God cannot be known or proven. Agnostics view religious faith as irrational because they believe human reason must confine itself to those truths that are observable to the human senses.”

Question 24

Atheism

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“The denial of the existence of God”

Question 25

Atheistic Humanism

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“A type of atheism that falsely considers man as the end of himself, the sole maker and creator of his own history”

Question 26

Deism

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“A form of rationalism that admits a natural, rational religion, and therefore a belief in God”

Question 27

Dogma

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“A revealed truth solemnly defined by the Magisterium of the Church.”

Question 28

Fideism

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“A philosophy that accepts religious beliefs without grasping their intellectual content, without seeing the reasons that make them believable, without seeing their connection with other realities, and without acknowledging the right to intellectual life to which faith is entitled, but without the need for faith”

Question 29

“Five Ways”

Answer 29

“St. Thomas Aquinas’ five proposals for how the existence of God can be known through reason. These include the argument from motion, the argument from causes, the argument from possibility and necessity, the argument from degrees of perfection, and the argument from governance.”

Question 30

Grace

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“God’s divine life present in our souls. Grace allows us to overcome sin and error and strive towards perfect knowledge of God. There are two kinds of grace: actual and sanctifying”

Question 31

Intelligent Design

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“The belief that the work and plan of God is observable in nature, thus confirming his existence and continued role in creation.”

Question 32

Mysteries

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“Supernatural truths about God that we learn by faith but are beyond our grasp of reason. We accept them as truth even though we cannot fully understand them.”

Question 33

Natural Law

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“The ethical knowledge we can acquire through the application of human reason to probe the truth that is “written on the human heart,” as distinct from the moral teaching derived from Scripture and Tradition. Natural law is the rational participation of man in the plan of God as well as the objective order established by God that determines the requirements for people to thrive and reach fulfillment.”

Question 34

Natural Religion

Answer 34

“As opposed to religion informed by Divine Revelation, natural religion is based upon reason and ordinary experience rather than upon Divine Revelation. It is the product of the ethical and divine understanding available to human reason. Natural religion shows us that to be human is to be religious. Every ancient society was religious.”

Question 35

Natural Revelation

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“What God communicates to us about himself simply through the existence of creation. When God creates, he imprints a mark, and through that mark we can learn something about God.”

Question 36

Natural Theology

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“The knowledge we can have about God and his attributes simply through using reason, apart from revelation.”

Question 37

Philosophy

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“Derived from Greek meaning literally “love of knowledge,” philosophy is the pursuit of truth and understanding through the application of human reason.”

Question 38

Polytheism

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“A belief in the existence of more than one God.”

Question 39

Practical Materialism

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“A type of atheism that seeks fulfillment in material goods alone.”

Question 40

Principle of Causality

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“The process of knowing God’s existence through the realization that all creation must originate from a First Cause. Also, in a more general way, the philosophical truth that all things must have a sufficient cause.”

Question 41

Rationalism

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“Strict rationalism consists in judging everything solely and exclusively according to philosophical or scientific reason. Thus, there is no room for faith; any faith is deemed superstition. See Deism.”

Question 42

Reason

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“The intellectual power or faculty that is ordinarily employed by man in adapting thought or action to some end; the guiding principle of the human mind in the process of thinking”

Question 43

Religious Being

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“A being created by God in order to live in communion with God. Every human person, by nature and vocation, is a religious being and will not live a true human life if he or she does not choose freely to live in this bond with God. Because every human person has been created to live in communion with God, his or her ultimate happiness can only be found in God.”

Question 44

Scholasticism

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“The system of philosophical and theological inquiry developed in the medieval schools of Christian Europe, which intended to reconcile classical philosophy with Christian theology.”

Question 45

Science

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“The practice of systematically observing the behavior of nature so that we may come to better understand the laws and structures that govern it. In this sense, science is a restriction of reason, not reason itself, because it seeks to limit the conclusions drawn through reason to those truths that are able to be demonstrated through the control and manipulation of natural phenomena”

Question 46

Scientist

Answer 46

“The belief that the only things that exist are the things science can prove through its very particular, restricted methods. Scientism limits the application of human reason to that which can be observed and measured”