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What is theology

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Theology: Discourse about God, the study of God was improper because no one can know God in that capacity, they guy can not be measured or seen and does not fit in empirical science.

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Catholic: big C Catholic and small c catholic.

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-Catholic is Christian, its defining those Christians that are in communion with, they are followers of Christ.
-Little c Cathoic: informal ways of living your life according to the catholic Faith.
living like jesus did and being without sin:
treat others how u wish to be treated, social justice helping people in need, having a good relationship with god by praying and accepting him into our lives.

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Can we say anything about God?
-Where do we get our data from
-Could you still do theology and say something bout God without the Bible

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-(the Bible)
-(You can look at traditions, thinking about life and why you are here on earth (self-reflection)

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Natural theology:

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what one could think of about God, that is solely on the bases of reason (no bible no nothing). EX: Some isolated tribe has no contact with the world, they still have a concept of the divine, contemplation of the world. They could look at a violent storm and they are watching and they conclude that there is a higher being, divine being, making it happen.

Natural human reason is not enough to come to a understanding of God?

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Rational theology

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It has to do with thought, self-reflection.

-If we only relied on Natural and rational theology we would not get very far.

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Imporatance to passover

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Moses story
-He wants to deliver the Hebrews. There is the plagues and then the first born to the pharaoh dies Passover), God warns people to but lambs blood on the doorways so the angel of death can Passover their houses. The son dies and the pharaoh lets the people go. Then he says JK and he send his army after them. Moses parts the sea Hebrews make it across and then the army drowns in the sea (the Passover of the sea).
-Passover is significant for Jews and Christians (It represents the Passover of the angels of death and the sea) (Typology: type or figure of Christ)
-Passover of the sea connected to baptism, Hebrews saving themselves through the angels of death trough the blood of a lamb, connected to Jesus is God’s lamb, AKA Jesus saves us.

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Theological anthropology (study on the human being):

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The understanding who a human is through a theological point of view.
-What make humans different for other animals? According to the catechism: the dignity of man rests above all on the fact that he is called to communion with God. No other creature are called to that, dogs, tress etc. Not everyone accepts this call.

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Apophatic theology:

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Negative theology. Not saying anything. This is like an extreme point of view that language is limited. When we say God is good, its not correct because good is a human concept. Negative theology turns it into God is not good because he is beyond good.

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Kataphatic theology:

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Positive theology. (We can say things about God like God is good.) We can say these things because of the Bible. Some intense Bishops if your going to say something positive about God it has to come directly from the Bible.

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Concept that allows us to go beyond with what we can come up with, divine revelation

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-The bible is believed to have divine authority, inspiration. It is the record of revelation (little r: general sense). Divine Revelation (big R). Why can we say more about God then what we already had in our heads, because he choose to reveal himself to us. His revelation is written down, Divine Revelation. God is more than the Bible.
-Divine revelation: God making himself known to human beings. It is recorded and it is from that that we our able to know about God, ourselves, the world and the relationship between these things.

-God reveals himself gradually. The climax of this divine pedagogy: Jesus. He is Gods final word to man. Revelation is complete in Christ but it has not been made fully explicit.

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Inspiration, divine inspiration:

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mystery of how the holy spirit breathed upon the human authors of the bible, the bible is the divine and human matter it was a team effort. The truth that has been transmitted comes from the holy spirit.

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-Inerrancy of scripture

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(the bible has no mistakes), but inerrancy can be in the teaching. The reading of the bible is always subject to interpretation. Exegesis= stiving to understand what the author intended when the words were written (what bible scholars do). The is never one single way to understand a passage, some are favored though.

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-Canon

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list of books (the bible is a list of books), canonical writing, they contain God’s message for human beings. It provided a standard to compare to other writings.
-New and old testament.

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What is the difference between the catholic and protestant bible name one of the books,

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The deuterocanonical books are not in the protestant bible. Some Protestants use Bibles which also include 14 additional books in a section known as the Apocrypha (though these are not considered canonical) bringing the total to 80 books. This is often contrasted with the 73 books of the Catholic Bible, which includes seven deuterocanonical books as a part of the Old Testament.

Daniel

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Theophany:

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manifestation of God (God showing himself)

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2 main Christian teachings:

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  1. one god in three person (Trinity), this is a manifestation of God in three persons. A dove can represent the spirit
    1. Epiphany
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What are the 3 categories of the bible and an example of each

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  1. Historical books (example Genesis)
    -They have to do with history, its a theological interpretation of the main events of the history of the people of Israel.
    -Torah, AKA Pentateuch, AKA book of Moses, AKA law of Moses: They are the first 5 books of the bible (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy)
    1. Wisdom books - wisdom literature - sapiential literature (example Psalms)
      -They interpret how the people of God are to live
      -Psalms, Proverbs
    2. Prophetic books (Example Jeremiah)
      -They are communicating Gods will to the people.
      -Major (bigger length) Prophets (Isiah, Ezekiel, Daniel)
      -Minor (smaller length) Prophets
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-The first 3 chapters of the old testament

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Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy

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Name 3 important figures from the old testament ex

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Abraham
Jacob
Joseph

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What are the 2 main part of the bible: old and new testament

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-The old testament prophesizes Jesus (it is also about Jesus, we would see Christ, trinity. Even if he was not IN it he was still alluded to)
-The new testament has to do directly with Jesus

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what does Testament mean

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covenant (contract-formal agreement between 2 parties)

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What is the covenant in the old testaments and how does that meaning change in the new testament

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There are various covenant in the old testament. The mosaic covenant is the tablets that Moses has and showed the relationship to God and his people. Jesus does not cancel but instead fulfill God’s promise. God renews the old agreement which is an enhancement of the old way. The covenant is sealed and signed with blood. The new testament, all about Jesus directly and how he renews and fulfill the new covenant and proposes a new way to relate to God through Jesus.

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What about the new testament makes it new:

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-New way of understanding our faith, there is a new way of thinking of what it means to be Christian.

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What are the 4 main books from the new testament and what is an example of each

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Gospels (Luke, Matthew, Luke, John)
History (Acts of the apostles)
Epistles-Letters (Corinthians)
Revelation

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What is included in Gospels

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the synoptic gospels: Luke, Matthew, John
-John is very different from the rest, it has different stories, different teachings, different emphasis (the theological gospel)-John writes about the Holy spirit, the Eucharist

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What is included in History (Acts of the apostles)

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Church history: (not textbook history), it is an account of the first couple of decades after Christ’s ascension.

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What is included in Epistles-Letters

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-Letters of Paul AKA Pauline literature
-Local churches (the apostle Paul giving guidance on how to be a good pastor)
-Individuals
-General or Catholic (they are not addressed to specific communities)

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What is included in Revelation

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-The prophetic literature
-Apocalypse, about more than the end of the world

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What is the gospel

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The gospel:
-the news, good news, the arrival of Jesus on earth (the incarnation = in the flesh).
-Main answer: The proclamation of Christs victory over death.

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WHat does the word Evangelion (Greek word for the gospel) mean

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-An announcement about certain good news, when a king would concur and enemy (yay we won), a victory proclamation.
-In a Christian sense: the resurrection of Jesus (this is the announcement of good news). Jesus rising from the dead. Jesus dies on the cross, he is buried and then on the third day he is resurrected.
-Easter celebrates this, always a Sunday usually in the spring. This is related to the gospel because we say Jesus’s resurrection destroyed sin, the powers of evil, and destroyed death. This is why the gospel is an announcement of good news. This is the main reason why the cross is Christian symbol, Christ dying on that cross represents this.

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Why were the gospels written

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The gospels were written to bring people to believe in Christ
-They are the most direct testimony to the life of Jesus
-Gospels are the heart of all the scriptures because they are the principal source for our life teachings from our saviour)

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What are some examples of liturgy

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Liturgy - liturgical:
-baptism, funeral, Eucharist
-The gospel is expressed liturgically
-incense reminds us of the presence of God
-Gospel reading is most important and is chanted by the clergy.

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What event represents that victory:

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-The resurrection

-The resurrection of Christ from the dead is the event that motivates the writing of the new testament texts.

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What is monotheism

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There is 1 God: monotheism
-some areas in the bible presume that there are other Gods (polytheism)

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What do atheists believe

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Atheist: there is no God

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What do agnostics believe

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Agnostic: does not know, can’t say for sure

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What are the 3 great monotheist religions and what makes Christianity unique?

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-Christian, Jewish, Muslim
-The main difference is how Christianity believe in the trinity: 1 God in 3 Persons

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What is Triadology:

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theological study of the trinity. Contemplating the relationship between the 3 persons. (1 God 3 persons)
-father (unoriginated, not coming from someone)
-son (begotten, what a father does in a relationship to a child, a father begets (was the father of) a child)
-holy spirit (proceeds or goes forth from the father)
central mystery of Christian faith and life

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What can we say about the mystery of the holy trinity

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Is essential to the mystery of Christian faith and life: it is the mystery of the holy trinity, 1 God in 3 Persons.
-God is one, but he is not solitary, the one God is a community of persons, and because of that it calls on us who lives as a community. They mean it in a lets be nice to everyone and accept everyone, we all believe in the same God. We don’t really at least not believe about the same things about the same God.
We can’t really says much more about how the trinity relates to one another, because this is all that was revealed to us.

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What are the Fundamental teachings coming out of the first 3 chapters of Genesis:

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-God is creator, the eternal God gave a beginning of all that exists outside of himself, creation of the heavens and the earth-the totality of everything that exists. God created the world in his eyes, out of nothing.

Divine providence: The universe is moving towards something towards a goal. The dispositions where God guides towards ultimate completions. Seeing before, God can not see in the future or in the past he just sees all.

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What is Christology:

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The theological understanding of the person of Christ, how we understand the 2 natures of Christ, how they coexist, and how they help us understand who Christ is.
Jesus:
-Divine and human, 2 natures of Christ
-Christians believe that the human Jesus is also God fully human but fully divine (paradox). –CHRISTOLOGY

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Meaning of Jesus Christ

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Christ means: the anointment one, the Messiah

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What does anointment mean

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anointment (olive oi), the oil was used as a sign of blessing or receive as a sign of duty, become the king, priest, prophet. Jesus fulfilled all of these duties.

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-The tetragrammaton

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the 4 letter word (you are not supposed to say). In Hebrew manuscripts of the old testament they have these 4 letters (YHWH = Yaweh), the name of God. Adonai = my lord, Kyrios (greek) = lord.

-In the new testament when the use Lord, they means Jesus is Lord or Jesus is YAWEH.

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Who says “I am the one who is”

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Jesus in his halo and god when he reveals himself to moses

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CHRISTOLOGY controversies:

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-In the early 3 hundreds: Arius taught something different about Jesus, “there was when he was not” - this word came into being later on, so he can’t be God because God is beyond time.
-Arianism: denial about Christ divinity.

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What is Heresy

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would be when someone taught something about Christ and go to far, break the unity of the natures (more or less divine or human).

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What did they do during the second council

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-confirming the divinity of the holy spirit.
-they wanted to spell out he is fully divine, he is not the father but his is the son.

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What happened during the First ecumenical council

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-Created the Nicea creed
when we created easter to celebrate the resurrection (rule followed still today, would be celebrated on the first Sunday after the first full moon in the spring). It is the fulfillment of Passover, because easter is after Passover.

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Why is Istambul an important city to know about -

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used to be called new Rome because the emperor Constantine to Constantinople.

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What happened during the third council:

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Ephesus - theotokos (this title is a Christological statement): title for the virgin Mary: birth giver of God or God bearer. Even if this is a title for Mary it tells us about God.
-A bishop in the church did not like this definition and rather liked: christokos. Most people think he was wrong

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Who says fiat let it be and what event does it represent

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Fiat: ‘let it be’ Mary says this when Gabriel (the angels) says she was going to carry Jesus. She accepts it. This is not the immaculate conception, it is when he was conceived in his mother womb.
-This event says Jesus is divine from the beginning: this is the incarnation ‘enfleshment’. He takes flesh from Mary but he is also God. This emphasises the humanity of Jesus.
-Why would a perfect God want to take on the human body - docetism: He seemed to have a body, he appeared in human form.

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What did the Chalcedon ecumenical council help establish:

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it was hard for the official Church to combat the many understandings of Christology. Definition: Maintain the full divinity and the full humanity of Christ.

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Definition of
-Monophysitism
-Monothelitism
-Monoenergism

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Monophysitism: single nature, this diminished the divinity of Christ.
Monothelitism: idea of a single divine will in Christ
Monoenergism: idea of a single divine working operation

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Definition of Soteriology:

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-the theological understanding of salvation. How are we saved, how the salvation work, what does it mean to be saved. Christology is soteriology.
Whatever Christ does not take upon himself is not saved: unless Christ humanity in any way defective he does not save the whole human being. Think of salvation in terms of healing

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Who are the fathers of the Church and what are the core beliefs

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all the participants of the ecumenical councils are bishops. They very much believed that if our understanding of the Christ is faulty we are not going to be saved.
Only God can heal, restore his creation (us), in order for us to be saved, that savior needs to be fully human. The church says Jesus is not fully God and fully man, there is not really that salvation. We need healing in a profound sense.

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What are the reasons bishops got together for ecumenical councilcs

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Christology: what is it, why is it important:
-because of these controversies (they had these meetings not because they were bored) but because it was related to salvation. Explain the connection between the correct understanding of the person of Christ and the salvation of the human race.

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What is ecclesiology

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-Theological understanding of the church (different ones)

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Definition of Ecclesia, ecclesiastical:

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calling out, assembly for worship of the faithful. (community of believers -General (pope) and local (bishop) sense)

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-Liturgical assembly:

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Christians gathered for the Eucharist on a Sunday around their bishop: that is the Church.
-small c church=building

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Four marks of the Church:

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  1. One: how does the church demonstrate that oneness= unity. Assembling together in one area to worship God. Unity of faith and practice even if there is diversity on the approach and the practice of the faith. Pope: ministry of unification.
  2. Holy: separate, he calls his people to holiness. The people of God the Jews separating themselves, they have like a badge of identity (circumcised penis, eating kosher). The root idea to the church being Holy. The people of God is no longer an ethnic distinction, but whoever belongs to the Church try to live in a way that distinguishes us from the rest of the world.
    Saints= holly person, someone who is recognized by the church as someone who has lived a life of holiness
  3. catholic: difference between big C and little c. Big C Catholic: the pope. Little c: universal (churches are everywhere), fullness or completeness of understanding of the faith. Local church=particular church, community of Christian faithful in a communion of faith with their bishops.
  4. Apostolic (apostles): those that follow Jesus from the beginning where his disciples. Jesus picks 12 of them, they are the one closest to him and they are eventually sent out (missionary). 12 apostles parallel the 12 tribes. The apostles were sent out to preach the gospel, before moving on they would appoint someone to be the leader of that church (bishop).
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Definiton of Magisterium, Dogma and doctrine

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-Magisterium: abstract idea, it is the teaching authority of the Church. The pope can announce and explain a teaching, but he has his experts and fellow bishops and scholars that he advises with them and determines what should be practiced or taught in the church.
-Dogma and doctrine: both mean a teaching of sort. Dogma means formally announced and publicized teaching, they were given a new level of authority. Ex cathedra.

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Definition of Infallibility

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Not able to make a mistake. Referred to papal infallibility. It has to do with faith and morals. It has to do with the holy spirit guiding the pope and that what he says is the truth because he has the charism of infallibility.
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Mariology:

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A theological understanding of Mary
-Mariology is also Christology 487, everything is based on Jesus

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Marian:

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something to do with Mary. <a> something that has to do with Mary</a>

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4 dogmas specific to Mary (the last 2 were dogmas, they were proclaimed later)

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  1. Mary’s title: Theotokos: Mother of God
    1. Perpetual virginity (protestants did not believe she was a virgin after birth)
      -Virgin, before during and after birth
      -Joseph has previous kids, he was so old with Mary he would not have even been able to has sex with her
      -She often has 3 stars on her representing her virtues, faith, hope and charity
    2. Immaculate conception (dogma 1854)
      -It has to do with Mary’s conception, (mom Anne), her parents were old and childless, they prayed for a child and promised they would dedicate it to God and then they had Mary
      -This has to do with the original sin: from the moment of her conception Mary is preserved and conceived without original sin. This makes Mary completely purity.
      -Mary is totally pure since her conception which is why she can carry Jesus.
    3. Assumption (dogma 1950)
      -This has to do with the end of Mary’s life
      -She was taken up both body and soul into heaven unlike other people that other their soul is taken up.
      -The beginning and the end of her life is exceptional.
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Enunciation:

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gospel of Luke, discussion between 2 people, conversation between Mary and angel Gabriel. Gabriel greets her with ‘highly favored one or full of grace’. This is included in the hail Mary prayer. Other words: Hail person who has so much grace you can’t possibly have more grace.

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What does the dignity of man consist:

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he is called to communion with god

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other word for natural theology:

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other word rational theology, it is coming to the concept of the divine by contemplating the world around us

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What is the significance: of Abraham, Moses, David

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For Abraham God asked him to sacrifice his son to test him and he is the father of all, part of the patriarch. Moses freed the Hebrew people from the pharaoh historians related to why we celebrate Passover because the angel of death passed over the houses that painted land blood on their door. David helps to bring the promise of Abraham to the world through his throne.

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What does the first three chapters of the old testament talk about

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The creation story, the fall, re creation

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the distinction between Tradition and traditions bit T little t, define how they are different and give examples.

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Big T Tradition: What is essential to the faith such that if it were missing is would be a distortion of the gospel message. (ex: going to church on Sundays, the sacraments)
-Little t traditions: Various practices, beliefs, liturgical nature or spiritual nature that aim to bolster Tradition but they are not essential in themselves and therefore are subject to change or even elimination. (ex: easter egg, fasting from meat on Fridays)

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From Catholicism series: the 4 things the messiah was supposed to accomplish.

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The 4 things the messiah was meant to accomplish: gather tribes, cleanse the temple, dealt with the enemies of Israel, reigning as lord of the nations.

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other name for the old testament:

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the Hebrew bible

75
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Who are the three patriarchs from the old testament

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Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob

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What distinguishes Jesus from other religious leaders

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Jesus “Either you’re with me or against me”, he compels a choice, unlike other religious leaders.

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