Christianity

Question 1

There is no other way to find who we are than by finding in ourselves the divine image. We have to struggle to regain spontaneous and vital awareness of our own spirituality.

Answer 1

Thomas Merton (1948)

Question 2

Thomas Merton (January 31, 1915-December 10, 1968)

Answer 2

An American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic, poet, social activist, and scholar of comparative religion. On May 26, 1949, he was ordained to the priesthood and given the name “Father Louis”.

Question 3

Imago Dei means;

Answer 3

1. Humanity shares characteristics with God.
   a. Free Will
   b. Can make own decisions
2. Human beings form relationships
   a. Moral decision making
   b. Conscious in all relationships
3. Stewards of the environment

Question 4

It reminds humanity that creation does not belong to them, but God’s.

Answer 4

Stewardships

Question 5

Is responsible for the environment, care and well-being for all related things.

Answer 5

Humanity

Question 6

Possess moral conscience and has a moral conscience to choose between good or evil.

Answer 6

Human Beings

Question 7

___ do not see the need to prove God’s existence. They also look at the reasonableness of believe in God’s existence.

Answer 7

Christians

Question 8

Later, Christian missionaries felt the need to argue philosophically for the existence of God;

Answer 8

When they were confronted by various naturalistic philosophies (like Science).

Question 9

For Augustine (354-430 CE),

Answer 9

Philosophy is amor sapiental (the love of wisdom) whose aim is to produce happiness.

Question 10

Wisdom is substantially existent as the;

Answer 10

Divine Logos, hence, philosophy is the love of God.

Question 11

For Augustine, Christianity, as presenting the full revelation of the true God,

Answer 11

Is the only full and true philosophy.

Question 12

Knowledge of God beings with faith and is made perfect by ___.

Answer 12

Understanding

Question 13

It is the ___ which directs the mind’s eye to truth, first invading to the mind itself, then upward to the eternal Truth.

Answer 13

Will

Question 14

For Augustine, “man is ___

Answer 14

“Man is a rational substance constituted of soul and body.”

Question 15

The progress in knowledge and wisdom is not only speculative,

Answer 15

it is more fundamentally practical and moral.

Question 16

For St. Thomas Aquinas,

Answer 16

Human beings have the unique power to change themselves and things for the better.

Question 17

Aquinas considers the human being as;

Answer 17

Moral agent who is both spiritual and body elements.

Question 18

The unity between both elements indeed helps man to ___.

Answer 18

Understand his complexity as human beings.