QUIZ 1, 1ST QUARTER Flashcards
Two types of intellect
natural and supernatural intellect/knowledge
two types of revelation
special and general revelation
What is the cause? Motion - whatever is in motion is put in motion by another but this cannot go on to infinity.
prime mover or unmoved mover
What is the cause? Causation -there is an order of efficient causes. There is no case known in which a thing is found to be the effect cause of itself, this cannot go on infinity
The uncaused cause or first efficient cause
Possibility and Necessity - there are things possible to be and not to be. That which does not exist only begins to exist by something already existing. But not all beings are merely possible (started off with just ideas. This is what we call a possibility; it can exist, and it cannot. St Thomas Aquinas says here that once upon a time, all of us did not exist. Meaning that because we exist now, there was a being that thought of us, and that is God.)
The necessary being
What is the cause? Gradation in Things - among beings there are some more and some less good, true, noble, and the like. The maximum in any genus is the cause of all in that genus
Perfect being
Governance of the World - things that lack intelligence act for an end. Whatever lacks intelligence cannot move towards an end unless directed by something endowed with knowledge and intelligence.
Grand Architect or Intelligent Designer
Who revealed the Holy Trinity
Jesus Christ
answers the question “what are you”
nature
_____ are truths revealed by God himself, expressed in clear propositions by hate teaching authority of the church, and are true and necessary for salvation.
Dogmas
That through which the person is (essence) and acts (substance)
Nature
Signifies nature, an individual substance of a rational nature (bioethics) that which possesses being and existence
person
The reference of one thing to the other
relation
answers the question “who are you?”
person
eternally begotten of the father; the origin of the origin
Son
The Trinity is One by ______
nature
unbegotten; the origin without an origin
Father
the relation of the father to the son
paternity
proceeds from the father and the son.
holy spirit
the relation of the son to the father (generation of self-image)
filiation
the relation of the Holy Spirit to the father and the son
passive spiration
The Father is the first one to reveal himself that is why we call him
the Principle
Father (giver)
lover
The breath coming from the father and the son is the
Holy Spirit.
Jesus (redeemer)
beloved
Holy Spirit (always giving)
Charity between the lover and beloved
_____ is the essence/substance of what we hope for (salvation, eternal happiness, eternal life)
Faith
Faith is a free, personal, and ecclesial act of submitting entirely to God in confidence
fides qua
This is something personal because each of us have our own expression of faith. It is subjective
Fides Qua
● We did not come to believe in our own
● The church from generation to generation
hands on the apostles’ confessions of
faith
● The things you continuously know until
today
Fides Quae
Condensed formulas of faith that developed over a course of time
Creeds
● Oldest authoritative doctrinal formulation of the church’s belief in the holy trinity
● An ancient roman baptismal symbol
● Basis of catechumenal instruction and a
baptismal confession faith since 2nd century.
Apostles Creed
Complete name of Nicene Creed
Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed
● Arose out of a defensive struggle against the heresy of Arianism
○ The most prevalent heresy before
● Arose out of a defensive struggle against
the heresy of Macedonianism
○ Heresy against the Holy Spirit and was also defended by the Church
Nicene Creed
