Midterm Flashcards
This scientist mistakenly viewed God as a force within the universe rather than as the Creator of the universe (and thereby of the very forces and laws by which it functions). He thought that God directly caused gravitational motion.
Isaac Newton
This Pope was born in Bavaria and wrote the encyclical “God is Love (Deus Caritas Est).” He is the first pope to have retired in 600 years.
Pope Benedict XVI
This term is used to describe the way erroneous God is understood by certain people where God is thought of as part of creation and as guaranteeing certain parts or gaps within science.
God of the Gaps
In the Babylonian Enuma Elish, how is the world made?
From the slaughtered corpse of an evil dragon god.
How many creation accounts does the book of Genesis have?
Two
In Christian art we said that when a saint is depicted holding this item that it means they were martyred (killed for their faith in Christ).
A palm branch
Ratzinger points out that Genesis’s affirmation that humanity created by God “from the dirt” serves to emphasize the equality of all people. This serves to affirm the goodness of humanity (formed from God’s good earth) and the equality of all people (all are from dust and to dust they shall return). In contrast to the equality that Genesis presents, whose slogan about “blood and soil” does Ratzinger compare to Genesis as having “gotten it wrong.”
The Nazis
Which of these best describes how Ratzinger presents the relationship between evolution and creation?
The belief in creation and theory of evolution are not contradictory, but the belief in creation adds that life (and indeed your individual life) is not a mere accident but is part of a purposeful and free creative action by God.
This is the heretical Christian group in the 1100’s and 1200’s that taught that the body was not good (or at best was meaningless). It was opposed by St. Dominic and the order he founded.
Albigensians
When Jesus heals the paralytic, what is that amazes/upset people in the crowd? (What does Jesus do that only God can do?)
He forgives the man’s sins.
The Apostle’s Creed is called this because the Apostles wrote it.
False
This person painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel with “The Creation of Adam.” We pointed out that he intentionally depicted structures of the brain in the background behind God to emphasize that God is really the omnipotent, intelligent One behind all of creation.
Michelangelo
This is the doctrine that second person of the Trinity (i.e., the Son) took on a full human nature without that nature being obliterated by or absorbed into the divine nature.
The Hypostatic Union
According to Dei Verbum, Scripture is not the fullness of the revelation of God.
True
The Catholic Church teaches in Dei Verbum that everything the human writers of Scripture wrote is without error in every way
False
