Chapter 4

Question 1

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)

Answer 1

Christian Smith

Question 2

Research in 1999 in order to survey and interview young people in America

Answer 2

National Study of Youth and Religion

Question 3

A common religious perspective that characterized young people’s understanding of God

Answer 3

Moralistic Therapeutic Deism

Question 4

Key notions of Moralistic Therapeutic Deism

Answer 4

1. A God exists who created and orders the world and watches over human life on Earth.
2. God wants people to be good, nice and fair to each other, as taught in the Bible and by most
   world religions.
3. The central goal of life is to be happy and to feel good about oneself.
4. God does not need to be particularly involved in one’s life except when God is needed to resolve a problem.
5. Good people go to heaven when they die.

Question 5

The Filipino sociologist who realized that these youth view God as a personal God.

Answer 5

Jayeel Cornelio

Question 6

Means that God is present to humankind and we respond to God’s grace through the ordinary and everyday of life in the world.

Answer 6

Sacramental principle

Question 7

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.”?

Answer 7

Pope Saint John Paul II

Question 8

One of the four great Latin Doctors, who strove to provide solid foundations for the Church to direct its theological discourse on grace.

Answer 8

Saint Augustine

Question 9

Doctor of Grace or Doctor gratiae

Answer 9

Saint Augustine

Question 10

Sacred signs/symbols which signify some spiritual effect which is realized through the action of the Church.

Answer 10

Sacraments

Question 11

The Seven Sacraments

Answer 11

Baptism
Confirmation (or Chrismation)
Eucharist
Penance
Anointing of the Sick
Holy Orders
Matrimony

Question 12

“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.”

Answer 12

The seven sacraments

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Mary Catherine Hilkert

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Mary Catherine Hilkert

Question 14

Recognizing God in our lives is the challenge given to us as the Church. This challenge can be referred to as:

Answer 14

Naming grace

Question 15

Three kinds of naming grace

Answer 15

Recognizing The Sacred In The Arts
Daily Mystagogy
Embracing Christ Through Narrative

Question 16

The problem with the inability to recognize grace is our lives draws roots from the supposed __________ experience by modern peoples.

Answer 16

disenchantment of the world

Question 17

is characteristic of a world that has since moved toward a more and more modernized, bureaucratic and secularized Western society.

Answer 17

Disenchantment

Question 18

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.”

Answer 18

David Brown

Question 19

means learning about the mysteries of the faith, pondering such mysteries such as the liturgy,
the sacraments, and most importantly, the mystery of grace

Answer 19

Mystagogy

Question 20

Four things that form the sacramental awareness.

Answer 20

Biblical stories
historical accounts
contemporary examples
fictional tales

Question 21

contribute substantially to communicating and expressing what one’s faith means.

Answer 21

narratives

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Karl Rahner

Question 23

An expert in religious education, explained the sacramental principle

Answer 23

Thomas Groome

Question 24

Theologian who gave the following observation about wider cultural and philosophical movements

Answer 24

Michael D. Langford