Quiz 3

Question 1

Sheed explained that the Word God utters is a Word in the mind of God, an _____ God has of himself.

Answer 1

idea

Question 2

“God’s idea of himself is not something only: _____”

Answer 2

it is Someone, for it can know and love.

Question 3

According to Sheed, “[I]n the Son, the Father utters his self-knowledge; in the Holy Spirit, _____”

Answer 3

Father and Son utter their mutual love.

Question 4

Sheed points out that in the Trinity the Second Person proceeds from the First Person but the Third, the Holy Spirit, proceeds from the _____.

Answer 4

Father and Son

Question 5

According to Sheed, “spirated” simply means _____

Answer 5

breathed

Question 6

Why does Sheed say that it is appropriate that the Holy Spirit is called “the Lord and giver of life”?

Answer 6

love is total self-giving, so a giving of life.

Question 7

According to Sheed, “there is no element whatever of contingency in the existence of the second person; there is _____ but no _____

Answer 7

origin, dependence

Question 8

what concept or theological term is Sheed referring to when he states, “the attribution of operations to one other person must not blind us to the reality that in all these operation all three persons are at work?”

Answer 8

appropriation

Question 9

What does Sheed say is the supreme mystery of our religion?

Answer 9

the Trinity

Question 10

According to Sheed, the notion of mystery “does not mean a truth that we cannot know anything about, but _____”

Answer 10

a truth we cannot know everything about.

Question 11

What answer does Sheed give to the question “of what God’s life consists of”?

Answer 11

the infinite interflow of knowing and loving among three, who are one God.

Question 12

Sheed contends that the sufficient reason or principle reason for giving our whole mind to the doctrine of the Trinity is that it is the _____ about God.

Answer 12

truth

Question 13

According to Sheed, why is God not doomed to love without ever finding an adequate object of His love?

Answer 13

In the Son and Holy Spirit love is infinitely accepted and infinitely returned.

Question 14

What does Sheed say is the secret of the divine community?

Answer 14

infinite giving

Question 15

What answer does Sheed offer for reconciling eternal suffering with a loving God or human freedom in God’s omniscience?

Answer 15

We cannot see the whole, but we can trust that God is all-wise and all-good.