Intro/Ch 1-2

Question 1

What is Divine Revelation

Answer 1

The most advanced form of morality

Combo of scripture and tradition

Question 2

What is the magisterium

Answer 2

Teaching arm of the church

Question 3

What is morality

Answer 3

What to do and what not to do. Make good choices

Question 4

What is a virtue

Answer 4

Healthy habits that make us do good. They act as moral skills which will hopefully make us more Christian like

Question 5

What are the cardinal virtues and the most important one

Answer 5

Justice-giving to God
**Prudence-Right reason in action or responsible decision making (most important of these virtues)
Fortitude- strength/courage
Temperance- moderation / balance

Question 6

What are the theological virtues and what is the most important one

Answer 6

Faith- Belief in God
Hope- desire for eternal life
**Love- God neighbor and self

Question 7

What do the nihilists believe

Answer 7

Nihilists believe that there is no meaning to existence, reject all positive values, believe
in nothing, and the nothingness that comes when someone dies (a form of atheism)

Question 8

What do Christians believe

Answer 8

Christians believe in God and believe that we are to share in his divine life and
friendship. We are to try and be the best person we can be.

Question 9

How are we made in Gods image and likeness

Answer 9

• free will
• soul
• reason/intellect

Question 10

Explain Adam and Eves creation and what it meant

Answer 10

Men and women were made for each other

1st women came from man, rest of man came from women

Question 11

What does the rib mean

Answer 11

Rib is chosen because it is a partnership symbol

No bone in the lower body because they are equal

Question 12

Define inherent

Answer 12

Inalienable, born with

Question 13

What is CST

Answer 13

CST is theology applied to everyday life

Question 14

What are the catholic social teachings

Answer 14

-God has to do with everything
- Jesus is both human and divine
- Catholics are Republicans, Democrats, and Independants
- We as humans are part of a larger cosmological universe
- CST does not like the hyper concentration of power in the hands of the few
- Church favors distributism, but not in a state sponsored way
- Individuals should have the right to own Private Property: God’s right to declare eminent domain. We need to get compensated for things taken from us.

Question 15

What is subsidiarity

Answer 15

bias or prejudice in favor of a local solution to a problem or question

Question 16

What is solidarity

Answer 16

Social love in a concrete way

Question 17

What can subsidiarity without solidarity do

Answer 17

Subsidiarity without solidarity can give rise to an excessive self-interest

Question 18

What can solidarity do without subsidiarity

Answer 18

Solidarity without subsidiarity can give rise to manipulation and excessive state or government control (Totalitarianism)

Question 19

What is the steward of creation

Answer 19

Someone who is to take care of the kingdom in the king’s absence

Question 20

What are the 4 parts of the Pascal mystery

Answer 20

Passion, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ

Question 21

What was the first sin and who committed it

Answer 21

Pride vs disobedience

Adam eve and Lucifur too

Question 22

What is the original sin and who created the concept

Answer 22

Sin we are born with due to no fault of our own. St. Augustine created this concept

Question 23

In what gospels does the Rich Young Man represent a certain characteristic

Answer 23

great demonstration in Matthew, Luke, and Mark’s Gospel of what it means to be “good.”

Question 24

What are Three sources of knowledge about what we should/should not do

Answer 24

Reason
Experience
Divine Revelation

Question 25

What are 5 ways we are able to respond to God

Answer 25

1. Our intelligence and freedom
2. Help of the Holy Spirit
3. Support of the Church
4. Help of the Magisterium
5. Help of Jesus Christ

Question 26

How Jesus can be of help in a way the Holy Spirit cannot?

Answer 26

Jesus can help physically because he was a physical form of God. The Holy Spirit can only help spiritually. Jesus can do both.

Question 27

What is character

Answer 27

Who we really are and who we are to become through our choices and our actions. Our free choices either strengthen or weaken our character.

Question 28

Who is Reinhold Neihbur

Answer 28

• A Protestant American Theologian
• Founder of the Christian Realism movement
• Wanted a call to reality (he is a realist)
• We have been saved for Heaven and so that we can imitate Christ as best as we can
  and to do our part to help hasten the coming of the kingdom of God
• We are not perfect and do not need to give up everything to get to God
• American Liberalism = Christianity

Question 29

Who is St. Maximilian Kolbe

Answer 29

• Killed in Auschwitz death camp
• Pope John Paul II canonized him and said that he was “a martyr or charity.”
• Birth name was Raymond and took the name Maximillian when he joined the
  Conventional Franciscan Order
• Studied in Rome
• Devoted to the Blessed Mother and established the “Immaculate Movement.”
• Life motto: “Through Mary Immaculate to Jesus.”
• Spread his movement through the magazine “The Knights of the Immaculata.”
• Suffered from TB
• Gave his life for another prison and was to die of starvation but eventually injected with
  carbolic acid

Question 30

What is discernment

Answer 30

A decision- making process that attends to the implications and consequences of
an action or choice

Question 31

What is prayer

Answer 31

A request for help or expression of thanks addressed to God. Jesus uses prayer at key
moments during his ministration.

Question 32

What is intention

Answer 32

The aim or objective of a course of action

Question 33

What is Means

Answer 33

A method, course of action, or instrument by which something can be accomplished.

Question 34

What are circumstances

Answer 34

The conditions or facts attending an event and having some bearing on it. Can increase or decrease the moral goodness or evil of an action.

Question 35

What did st. Ignatius of Loyola teach

Answer 35

Taught an effective way to discern God’s will through his “spiritual exercises.”