Chapter 1

Question 1

Do you know how to add cards to this deck?

Answer 1

click on the button on the bottom right of the screen.

Question 2

AGNOSTICISM

Answer 2

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 3

Atheism

Answer 3

Denial Of the existence of God

Question 4

ATHEISTIC HUMANISM

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Faith

Answer 5

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

Question 6

FIDEISM

Answer 6

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 7

DEISM

Answer 7

A form of rationalism that admits a natural, rational religion, and therefore a belief in God, based on philosophical theology.

Question 8

DOGMA

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Polytheism

Answer 9

A belief in the existence of more than one God.

Question 10

Science

Answer 10

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 11

Grace

Answer 11

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 12

Scholasticism

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Scientism

Answer 13

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.

Question 14

Reason

Answer 14

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.

Question 15

Rationalism

Answer 15

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.

Question 16

Science

Answer 16

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.

Question 17

Faith

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Fideism

Answer 18

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 19

“Five Ways”

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Mysteries

Answer 20

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.

Question 21

What would happen if god didn’t exist?

Answer 21

The world would go into turmoil because God would not be ther to help out the world.

Question 22

Grace

Answer 22

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 23

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 24

Mysteries

Answer 24

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 25

How would you use Thomas Aquinas’s way in life

Answer 25

Look around and see the creations

Question 26

Natural Law

Answer 26

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 27

Natural Religion

Answer 27

As opposed to religion informed by Divine Revelation

Question 28

What would happen if God ceased to exist?

Answer 28

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.

Question 29

What would happen if natural law ceased to exist?

Answer 29

People wouldn’t follow their conscience and the “truth written on the human heart”.

Question 30

Natural Revelation

Answer 30

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 31

What if we did not have a desire for god ?

Answer 31

we would not have a meaning in life and would have no faith

Question 32

Natural Theology

Answer 32

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

Question 33

What if we knew why God created humans?

Answer 33

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.

Question 34

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 35

Practical materialism

Answer 35

A type of atheism that seeks fulfillment in material goods alone

Question 36

Principle of causality

Answer 36

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

Question 37

How could you clarify the idea of scientism?

Answer 37

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.

Question 38

How would you use your Sunday or Saturday evening if you didn’t go to mass.

Answer 38

Many people who have a faith would become very bored.