Final: Himes

Question 1

Agape:

Answer 1

• Love that is purely unconditional.
• Love that is given and expects nothing in return.
• Himes uses this term to describe God, as Agape or a pure and unconditional love that expects nothing in return.

Question 2

Happiness (Satisfaction)

Answer 2

• A good feeling that is based on externalities that could be fun and make me feel good personally but will not satisfy or fulfill yourself.
• (Ex. working a job that you hate just as a means to an end)

Question 3

Theology:

Answer 3

• A critical component in the journey of faith is the ability to be able to reflect on your experiences. These experiences are when we identify God through this Agapeic love in the service of others.

Question 4

Sacramental Beholder:

Answer 4

A sacramental beholder is one that acts in the will of God. To act and love everyone as you love an accept yourself. .

Question 5

Philia:

Answer 5

• A love of friendship that involves the whole person in body, mind, emotion, soul, is also conditional because it requires a sense of mutuality.

Question 6

Evil (indiv. and social):

Answer 6

General: The denial of the very core of our limited but good being that is active and contradicts the will of God. The source is despair or a feeling of hopelessness for change.

Individual: Personal Evil is a denial of Agapic love and relationships of love. This can also be in the form of rejecting one’s self as a finite being.

Social: Social Evil is our misuse of the world around us.

Question 7

Sacraments:

Answer 7

• Sacraments make something abstract, real or concrete through written or verbal words.
• These are very important in the catholic church as they transform the reality of God’s presence in the world.

Question 8

Asceticism:

Answer 8

• The ability to get outside of yourself to see the actual truth that was contrary to what you previously had known or understood.
• (Ex. Darwin) This self-denial is essential to knowing the truth and actually seeing what there is to be seen

Question 9

Joy:

Answer 9

• The positive feeling that comes from something other than yourself and is not dependent on a positive outcome. (Ex. ER doctor or Grade school teacher that works in the inner city → I am doing what I am supposed to be doing)
• Not effected by external events.
• One of the fruits of the holy spirit

Question 10

Vocation:

Answer 10

What you most really and deeply want when you are most really and truly yourself. What you desire and gives you joy when you are at your best. Where we can discover the will of God.

Question 11

Imagination:

Answer 11

• A creative faculty that takes something abstract and makes it concrete within the Earthly world, making an image of what previously was only a concept. (Ex. Girl in the dining hall that realized something could actually be done about this and did it)
  (Freeman)
• To act justly we must create a mental image of how we should act and manifest it

Question 12

Integral ecology:

Answer 12

The ability to rethink our human relationship with the earth, the environment, and the future beings of this planet to make decisions that benefit everything as an interconnected unit. These decisions should be in light of the kingdom and in acceptance that everything should be treated as our brothers and sisters.