Chapter 1 Flashcards
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AGNOSTICISM
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.”
Atheism
Denial Of the existence of God
ATHEISTIC HUMANISM
A type of atheism that falsely considers man as the end of himself, the sole maker and creator of his own history.”
Faith
The theological virtue by which one believes in all that God has said and revealed to man and that the Church proposes for belief.
FIDEISM
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.
DEISM
A form of rationalism that admits a natural, rational religion, and therefore a belief in God, based on philosophical theology.
DOGMA
A revealed truth solemnly defined by the Magisterium of the Church.
Polytheism
A belief in the existence of more than one God.
Science
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.
Grace
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.
Scholasticism
The system of philosophical and theological inquiry developed in the medieval schools of Christian Europe, which intended to reconcile classic philosophy with Cristian theology.
Scientism
The belief that the only things that exist are the things science can prove through it’s very particular, restricted methods. Scientism limits the application of human reason to go to the observed and measured.
Reason
The intellectual power of 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.
Rationalism
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.
Science
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 phenomenon.
Faith
The theological virtue by which one believes in all that God has said and revealed to man and that the Church proposes for belief.
Fideism
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.
“Five Ways”
St. Thomas Aquinas’ five proposals for how the existence of God can be known through reasons. These include the argument from notion, the argument from causes, the argument from possibility and necessity, the argument from digress of perfection, and the argument from governance
Mysteries
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. This definition was gotten for the book.
What would happen if god didn’t exist?
The world would go into turmoil because God would not be ther to help out the world.
Grace
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
Intelligent Design
The belief that the work and plan of God is observable in nature, thus confirming his existence and continued role in creation
Mysteries
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
How would you use Thomas Aquinas’s way in life
Look around and see the creations
Natural Law
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
Natural Religion
As opposed to religion informed by Divine Revelation
What would happen if God ceased to exist?
We would become very depressed and unmotivated because we wold feel that we had no purpose in life and that a piece of us was missing. The human race would then die out because of lack of will.
What would happen if natural law ceased to exist?
People wouldn’t follow their conscience and the “truth written on the human heart”.
Natural Revelation
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
What if we did not have a desire for god ?
we would not have a meaning in life and would have no faith
Natural Theology
The knowledge we can have about God and his attributes simply through using reason, apart from revelation.
What if we knew why God created humans?
Well, in a matter of opinion this question can be answered. I would like to say our knowledge would be fulfilled since if we knew why we were created we would know God. And if we knew God our natural desire would be fulfilled.
Philosophy
Derived from Greek meaning literally “love of knowledge”, philosophy is the pursuit of truth and understanding through the application of human reason
Practical materialism
A type of atheism that seeks fulfillment in material goods alone
Principle of causality
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 all things must have a sufficient cause
How could you clarify the idea of scientism?
Scientism is when people completely believe in everything that science can prove, and if science can not prove the idea they do not believe in it.
How would you use your Sunday or Saturday evening if you didn’t go to mass.
Many people who have a faith would become very bored.
