Chapter 1 Vocab Quiz 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
