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.