Chapter 1 Test Flashcards
a Church teaching issues with the highest authority and solemnity
Dogma
Denial of the existence of God
Atheism
Supernatural truths about God learned by faith, but beyond reason
Mysteries
The intellectual power ordinarily employed to adapt though or action to some end
Reason
A person who claims that we cannot be certain that there is a God or not
Agnostic
The work and plan of God, observable in nature confirming God’s existence and his continued role in creation
Intelligent Design
A belief in many Gods
Polytheism
God’s free self-communication to us through creation, historical events, prophets and most fully in his son, Jesus
Revelation
St. Thomas Aquinas’ proposals of how the existence of God can be known through reason
The Five Ways
God’s Self-communication about himself simply through the existence of creation
Natural Revelation
A being created by God in order to live in communion with God
Religious Being
God’s gift of his divine life present in our souls
Grace
The theological virtue by which one believes in all God has said and revealed to man and the Church proposes our belief
Faith
Having unlimited power, able to do anything
Omnipotent
Fides et Ratio is Latin for ____ and ____ .
Faith and Reason
Mysteries are ____ truths about God learned by faith but beyond the grasp of reason
Supernatural
Why did God reveal himself to mankind?
So we may enter into a relationship with him
God works through …
a. History
b. The lives of the saints
c. our lives
d. all of the above
D. all of the above
How was Aristotle enabled to discover the truth of God’s existence?
Reason
What are the characteristics unique to human beings in creation?
Human being have a desire for God, Human beings are made in the image and likeness of God, Human beings have a capacity to know God
What are human beings created in ?
The image and likeness of God
Creation reveals ___ and ___ about the attributes of God
Goodness and Wisdom
Who gave us the five ways to know God’s existence through reason?
St. Thomas
Cause and Effect as well as motion are what?
Part of the Five Ways to know God’s Existence Through Reason
What is God’s plan of Revelation according to Fides et Ratio?
Words and Deeds
What does grace build upon, according to St. Thomas Aquinas?
Nature
What is our response to God?
Prayer
Where is Divine Revelation found?
Scripture and Tradition
What is free will?
The power to control one’s choices and actions
Why did God give us free will?
God wants us to willingly enter into a relationship with him
