Chapter 4 Flashcards
The sociologist who created the project known as the National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR), published a book entitled Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of
American Teenagers, and discovered Moralistic Therapeutic Deism (MTD)
Christian Smith
Research in 1999 in order to survey and interview young people in America
National Study of Youth and Religion
A common religious perspective that characterized young people’s understanding of God
Moralistic Therapeutic Deism
Key notions of Moralistic Therapeutic Deism
- A God exists who created and orders the world and watches over human life on Earth.
- God wants people to be good, nice and fair to each other, as taught in the Bible and by most
world religions. - The central goal of life is to be happy and to feel good about oneself.
- God does not need to be particularly involved in one’s life except when God is needed to resolve a problem.
- Good people go to heaven when they die.
The Filipino sociologist who realized that these youth view God as a personal God.
Jayeel Cornelio
Means that God is present to humankind and we respond to God’s grace through the ordinary and everyday of life in the world.
Sacramental principle
Who expressed this: “History therefore becomes the arena where we see what God does for humanity. God comes to us in the things we know best and can verify most easily, the things of our everyday life, apart from which we cannot understand ourselves.”?
Pope Saint John Paul II
One of the four great Latin Doctors, who strove to provide solid foundations for the Church to direct its theological discourse on grace.
Saint Augustine
Doctor of Grace or Doctor gratiae
Saint Augustine
Sacred signs/symbols which signify some spiritual effect which is realized through the action of the Church.
Sacraments
The Seven Sacraments
Baptism
Confirmation (or Chrismation)
Eucharist
Penance
Anointing of the Sick
Holy Orders
Matrimony
“defined as ‘actions of Christ and of the Church’ which unite us to Christ by the power of
the Holy Spirit, and incorporate us into his Body, the Church.”
The seven sacraments
Professor of systematic theology at the University of Notre Dame, explains that the mystery of grace can be encountered fully through the liturgy and the sacraments
Mary Catherine Hilkert
Professor of systematic theology at the University of Notre Dame, explains that the mystery of grace can be encountered fully through the liturgy and the sacraments
Mary Catherine Hilkert
Recognizing God in our lives is the challenge given to us as the Church. This challenge can be referred to as:
Naming grace
Three kinds of naming grace
Recognizing The Sacred In The Arts
Daily Mystagogy
Embracing Christ Through Narrative
The problem with the inability to recognize grace is our lives draws roots from the supposed __________ experience by modern peoples.
disenchantment of the world
is characteristic of a world that has since moved toward a more and more modernized, bureaucratic and secularized Western society.
Disenchantment
an Anglican priest and British theologian who wrote a book entitled God and the Enchantment of Place: Reclaiming Human Experience, where he argues that “God can come sacramentally close to his world and vouch safe experiences of himself through the material.”
David Brown
means learning about the mysteries of the faith, pondering such mysteries such as the liturgy,
the sacraments, and most importantly, the mystery of grace
Mystagogy
Four things that form the sacramental awareness.
Biblical stories
historical accounts
contemporary examples
fictional tales
contribute substantially to communicating and expressing what one’s faith means.
narratives
the theologian who reflected on the human being’s search and movement toward meaning, and God’s reaching out to humans in that search, in the form of grace, and it acts as a good synthesis for this lesson on grace
Karl Rahner
An expert in religious education, explained the sacramental principle
Thomas Groome
Theologian who gave the following observation about wider cultural and philosophical movements
Michael D. Langford
