Confidential Funds 3 Flashcards
It is one of the most pressing problems and the harmful effects of environmental deterioration of our planet, which humanity has caused.
A. Climate change
B. Massive bushfires
C. Rise of sea levels
D. Corruption
A. Climate change
A Swedish environmental activist on climate change whose campaigning has gained international recognition.
A. Kate Winslet
B. Greta Thunberg
C. Nancy MacDonald
D. Grecia Hamberg
B. Greta Thunberg
Contemporary ecological crisis points to our forgetfulness of a more profound truth:
A. Poor people suffer too much.
B. The world is above all God’s Creation.
C. God will punish us because of our sins.
D. Natural resources are limited.
B. The world is above all God’s Creation.
What do we mean: “Creation is a profound act of love on the part of God”?
A. Creation is one way to realize our dependence on God.
B. God was forced to create.
C. There was a need in God to create.
D. Creation is God’s initiation.
D. Creation is God’s initiation.
It was God’s first and primordial revelation.
A. Creation
B. Humanity
C. Church
D. Jesus Christ
A. Creation
The saint who is known to praise God in Creation. He called the sun his brother, the moon his sister, and the earth as mother.
A. St. Dominic
B. St. Francis Xavier
C. St. Thomas Aquinas
D. St. Francis of Assisi
D. St. Francis of Assisi
What do we mean: “Creation is very good in God’s own eyes.”
A. Every creation has an intrinsic value.
B. All creation exists without the need of God.
C. We have all the dominion as stewards.
D. Creation is dependent on God.
A. Every creation has an intrinsic value.
This is the first source of our knowledge about God’s existence.
A. Social Justice
B. Faith
C. Ecological Crisis
D. Creation
D. Creation
What is our relationship with the environment, and how should we treat it?
A. God provided us the nature for our means of survival.
B. God created it, and we are the owners.
C. God instructed us to have dominion over them.
D. God gave it as a gift for us to care.
D. God gave it as a gift for us to care.
What do we mean, “A humanism which excludes God is an inhuman humanism”?
A. Inculturation is the key to success.
B. God has control over our current situation.
C. Humanism must be open to all religions.
D. Humanism must lead us to the Absolute Truth, God
D. Humanism must lead us to the Absolute Truth, God
A trend that ruthlessly consumes, exploits, and discards human life and our natural resources as one of the root causes.
A. Throw-away Culture
B. Individualism
C. Relativism
D. Consumerism
A. Throw-away Culture
True or False: Our preferential option for the poor obliges us to prioritize the most affected, “poorest of the poor,” who cry out to God for justice. However, it is not our moral obligation to respond to their suffering.
False
Which of the following Encyclical addresses the ecological crisis and how we should respond to it effectively?
A. Ad Gentes
B. Populorum Progressio
C. Laudato Si
D. Caritas in Veritate
C. Laudato Si
True or False: Laudato Si totally rejects the idea of “anthropocentric view.
False
True or False: According to Lynn White, Christianity is to be blamed for the environmental destruction because of the command “to Rule” “to Subdue” as found in Genesis 1:26-27 & 28.
True
A document that tackled the relationship between poverty and sin, stating that: The suffering has been aggravated by the insinuations of some that these calamities are punishments from God for personal and social sin.
A. The Dignity of the Rural Poor: A Gospel Concern (2007)
B. On the Plight of the Poor (1991)
C. To Bring Glad Tidings to the Poor (2014)
D. I Was Homeless, and You Took Me In (1997)
B. On the Plight of the Poor (1991)