Key Terms Flashcards
Administrative seat of the Roman empire in the West at the time of St. Augustine; Augustine moved there after Carthage to pursue career as teach of rhetoric and was baptized there by St. Ambrose, Bishop there.
Milan
2nd stage of lectio divina during which a person thinks about meaning of text just read; is stage at which theology takes place
Meditation
Prayerful reading of Scripture practiced by medieval monasteries, which takes place in 4 stages: reading, meditation, prayer, contemplation
Lectio Divina
Basic message at the heart of the Gospel - that Jesus Christ has come to save sinners
Kerygma
Apostalic Constitute of Pope St. John Paul II, issued 1990, which governs relationship between Church and Catholic Universities. Is Latin phrase meaning “from the heart of the Church”
Ex corde ecclesiae
3 duties of bishops which they are empowered to perform by the Holy Spirit, and whereby they share in Christ’s Priestly, Royal, and Prophetic Offices: sanctifying, governing, and teaching.
Episcopal Munera
Duty / Office
Munus (plural = Munera)
Latin phrase = from the heart of the Church
Ex corde ecclesiae
Use of dialectical reasoning to publicly resolve questions raised in reading of text, especially Scripture
Disputation
4th stage of lectio divina, during which a person rests in the loving presence of God
Contemplation
Biggest city in Northern Africa at the time of St. Augustine, he moved there at 17 to pursue education
Carthage
Inerrant public witness to Jesus without inspired words, but with “inspired ideas”
Tradition
Infallible adherence to Scripture and Tradition as taught by the Magisterium
Sensus Fidelium
Latin phrase meaning “sense of the faithful”
Sensus Fidelium
Inerrant public witness to Jesus with inspired words
Scripture
Revelation which God has given to all of humanity, made up of Scripture and Tradition, which is necessary to all people for salvation. Revelation ended with death of last apostle (St. John).
Public Revelation
Specific appearances of God and the saints which help us to live out more deeply what Public Revelation is calling us to at the present. Not required for salvation.
Private Revelation
Naive assumption of objectivity which fails to consider the infinite depth of the human person
Positivism
Movement of the early 20th century which called into question our access to objective truth and proposed that each person is isolated in a world of subjective meaning. It questioned the inerrancy of Scripture and Tradition, as well as the infallibity of the Magisterium of the Church
Modernism
Teaching office of the Church which she receives from Christ, as a participation in His Prophetic Office, by which He reveals and teaches savings truths to the world
Magisterium
Source of Private Revelation; infallible teach about Scripture and Tradition
Magisterium
Comes from Latin “magister” = teacher
Magisterium
Charism given to the human authors of sacred Scripture whereby the words they wrote were also the words that God wished to write as well
Inspiration
Charism which prevents Magisterium from falling into error, though without giving it particular words.
Infallibility
Negative Charism
Infallibility
Charism which ensures that the words and ideas of Scripture and Tradition are the words and ideas of God
Inerrancy
Postive charism
Inerrancy
Heretics in early Church who believed that salvation was given through private enlightenment only to certain people
Gnostics
Latin phrase meaning “Teaching Church”
Ecclesia Docens
Latin phrase meaning “Learning Church”
Ecclesia Discens
Supernatural gift given by God for building up the Church
Charism
From Greek “telos” (purpose, end, goal)
Teleology
Study of a thing’s purpose, end or goal
Teleology
Body of theologians called together by the Pope and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to advise them on theological matters
Internation Theological Commission
Compendium of Creeds, Definitions, and Declarations of the Catholic Church, edited by Heinrich Denzinger. Over 40 latin editions, most recent English translation published 2012 by Ignatius Press
Denzinger
Objective Faith which we believe, summarized in the Creed
Fides quae
Subjective habit of faith by which we believe God
Fides qua
Experience of spiritual dryness in the saints brought about by close union with God
Dark night of the soul
scientific reflection on the divine revelation which the Church accepts by faith as a universal savings truth
ICC definition - Theology
Faith seeking understanding
Fides Quaerens Intellectum
scientific response of the magisterium and sensus fidelium to scripture and tradition, at the service of the church’s proclamation of the gospel which leads the theologian in the Holy Spirit to Christ the wisdom of God and through Him to the Father
ITC - truly Catholic theology
