Quiz Flashcards
What is the structure of the Catechism?
- Creed.
- Liturgy.
- Morality.
- Prayer.
What are Aristotle’s four causes?
- Material.
- Formal.
- Efficient.
- Final.
What is the relationship between God and mankind in the Catechism?
God created use freely out of love (exitus) and draws us back to Himself (reditus) - Redemption.
What is Aquinas’s argument for God loving all existing things?
- God’s will is the cause of existing things.
- Because God is the supreme good, He can only will what is good. Thus everything that exists, insofar as it exists, is good.
- To love is to will the good for another.
- Therefore, God loves everything that exists.
What is Aquinas’s argument for all human beings desiring God?
- All men desire the good.
- Happiness is the satisfaction of desire (the attainment of the good).
- No temporal good can fully satisfy our desires.
- Therefore, we can never be fully happy with temporal goods.
- If there were a perfect, highest good that was attainable, then we could be perfectly happy.
- This highest good Christians call God.
- All do desire God.
What are the 3 stages to Devine Revelation?
- Natural Law.
- Old Law.
- New Law.
What are the 3 modes of transmission of Revelation?
- Scripture.
- Tradition.
- Magisterium (Church’s teaching).
What is Faith and what does St. Thomas Aquinas say about it?
Faith is belief in God and in what He reveals because He is God.
Aquinas: “Truth Himself speaks truly, or nothing is true.”
What is the difference between a difficulty and a doubt?
- Difficulty: Lack of understanding.
- Doubt: Lack of trust.
10,000 difficulties can’t make 1 doubt.
What are the Divine Attributes in order?
- Simplicity - No parts.
- Perfection - No potency.
- Goodness in general.
- God’s Goodness - Being with respect to desire.
- Infinitude - No limits.
- Omnipresence - Agent.
- Immutability - No change.
- Eternity - No before or after.
- Unity - God is one.
List testimonies from the Gospel that claims Jesus is God.
- Proclaims the truth.
- Heals people.
- Casts out demons.
- Forgives sins.
- Loves all.
List testimonies from the Gospel that claims Jesus is man.
- Moves from one place to another.
- Moved by pity and wept.
- “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?”
- Does not know “the hour” at which He’ll return.
- Prays to God.
What is Arius’s position on the Trinity?
He believed that the Son was like a demigod, “Perfect creature of God”. He is not quite God, yet He is above man. Thus, the Son is not eternal and not in one being with the Father.
What is Nicaea’s position on the Trinity?
God the Father and God the Son are one substance, yet are distinct from one another. The Son is begotten of the Father, yet is not made.
What were St. Augustine’s 2 analogies for the Trinity?
- “I-Me-Self-Knowledge”
- I know me/myself (thinking in 3rd person). - This distinction is not radical enough for the Trinity.
- “I” = Father (Unbegotten).
- “Me” = Son (Begotten).
- “Know” = Holy Spirit (proceeds from the Father and Son). - “Lover-Beloved-Love Itself”
- There is a mutual Love (the Holy Spirit) between the Lover (the Father) and the Beloved (the Son).
