Midtern Review: Chapter 2 Flashcards
How do we get a worldview?
How we are raised, experiences, inherited personality, but in the end we freely choose it
Our thoughts, beliefs, feelings, and attitudes about the world (matters of both the heart and the head)
Worldview
Means of expression that try to describe by means of comparison with something else, a characteristic of a person or thing
Metaphors
What is faith?
Trust and belief
How do Catholics respond to tragedy?
“I don’t know but I will stand by you”
List and explain the signs of God’s existence:
The convictions of people who care for us
Human reason- thinking and looking at the world around us
Experience with the natural world- the world is too intricate to exist by chance
Experience of ourselves as human persons- we all have the longing for God
Universal belief throughout history
The experience of being loved
The belief that God created people in order to enter into a personal relationship with them, a relationship in which both God and humans fully reveal themselves to each other
Revelation
How is God revealed?
Individual experience
Sacred writings
Religious teachings
What is the relationship between faith and religious practices?
They are different but they go hand in hand and NEED each other
The church rejects nothing of what is true and holy in [non-Christian] religions
Religious freedom
