Chapter 1: The Expected Messiah

Question 1

God’s Transcendence

Answer 1

Man not equal to God and must receive everything from him; man is indebted through obedience

Question 2

God’s Immanence

Answer 2

Man Man is given primacy over other created things; he is created with a natural structure to receive God’s call to friendship.

Question 3

Difference from creatures

Answer 3

Man is given primacy over other created things; he is created with a natural structure to receive God’s call to friendship.

Question 4

Body & Soul

Answer 4

Not dualism; soul and body constitute one single essence (soul informs/animates the body); death breaks this unity and the man is no longer a person (St. Thomas Aquinas).

Question 5

Man as person

Answer 5

Man acts freely and is, therefore, responsible; man is and is becoming (he must continue to progress forward in perfection); all is ordered toward searching for and knowing God.

Question 6

Sanctifying Grace

Answer 6

God aids man by supernatural grace which allows us to share in his divine life, transforms our souls, and brings us into an adopted relationship with him.

Question 7

Mutual Indwelling

Answer 7

God is present is man insofar as man is a creature; man is present in God as a member of God’s household.

Question 8

Christ as Exemplar

Answer 8

Christ is truly the image of the Father who participates in the divine life to the fullest; man joins his earthly pilgrimage to Christ who restores the
image of man and all of creation.