Sheed_ch13 & 14_Questions Flashcards
- How is man’s salvation bound up with the Apostles according to Sheed?
Through them Christ’s teaching and Christ’s life would be given to men till the end of time.
Sheed, Frank. Theology for Beginners (Illustrated) (p. 135). Aeterna Press. Kindle Edition.
- What two things principally does Sheed say is meant by Jesus being with the Apostles until the end of time?
He would be with the Apostles, which means two things principally—first, in union with them we are in union with Him; second, He guarantees the teaching they give and the life they dispense to us.
- What does Sheed say the words in which Christ make Peter to be the shepherd of the flock involves?
The first strong hint is in the changing of his name from Simon to Peter, which means Rock; with the meaning of the change made clear in Matthew (16.17–20)—“Thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build my Church….”
Sheed, Frank. Theology for Beginners (Illustrated) (p. 136). Aeterna Press. Kindle Edition.
- According to Sheed, what is the food with which Peter is to feed the flock?
(John 6.55) “He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath everlasting life: and I will raise him up in the last day.”: so His body and blood are food.
Sheed, Frank. Theology for Beginners (Illustrated) (p. 137). Aeterna Press. Kindle Edition.
- What does Sheed say that we join when we join the Church and what does he say that we don’t join?
It is Christ we join when we join the Church, not the men who at any given moment direct it here upon earth. The gifts come to us through them: but always from Him.
Sheed, Frank. Theology for Beginners (Illustrated) (pp. 137-138). Aeterna Press. Kindle Edition.
- What are the four marks of the Church contained in the Nicene Creed?
“one, holy, Catholic and apostolic.”
Sheed, Frank. Theology for Beginners (Illustrated) (p. 139). Aeterna Press. Kindle Edition.
- According to Sheed, the inner reality of the four marks of the Church abides changeless, why?
Christ made His Church thus, it can never be otherwise.
Sheed, Frank. Theology for Beginners (Illustrated) (p. 139). Aeterna Press. Kindle Edition.
- In his discussion of the mark that the Church is “one”, Sheed contends that this mark of unity “meant so much to him (Jesus) that upon it he was prepared to stake the proof to the world of ___________________. And it meant so much in itself that he could compare it to the unity within the ______________________________________________.”
His own divinity.
the Godhead of the First Person and the Second.
Sheed, Frank. Theology for Beginners (Illustrated) (p. 141). Aeterna Press. Kindle Edition.
- According to Sheed, in what three ways are Catholics said to be united?
we say, are united in Faith, Worship and Government.
Sheed, Frank. Theology for Beginners (Illustrated) (p. 142). Aeterna Press. Kindle Edition.
- In his discussion of the mark that the Church is “holy”, Sheed contends that “the holiness of the Church is simply ______________________________________________.”
the holiness of Christ. It is His Church, made by Him as the bearer of holiness to men.
Sheed, Frank. Theology for Beginners (Illustrated) (p. 144). Aeterna Press. Kindle Edition.
- According to Sheed, what are the three characteristics of the mark of holiness?
The Church can be seen to be holy because she teaches a holy doctrine, she offers to all the means of holiness, and the saints are there to show how immeasurably effective these means can be. All three are vast topics.
Sheed, Frank. Theology for Beginners (Illustrated) (p. 144). Aeterna Press. Kindle Edition.
- According to Sheed, “every saint is certain evidence that, if you and I are not saints,
_____________________________________________.”
Every saint is certain evidence that, if you and I are not saints, the choice is wholly our own.
Sheed, Frank. Theology for Beginners (Illustrated) (pp. 148-149). Aeterna Press. Kindle Edition.
- In the “Great Commission” of Matthew 28, the Apostles were to teach all that the Lord had taught them. What two reasons does it seem strange to Sheed that so many Christians think the Apostles fulfilled their commission by writing the New Testament, leaving behind them no successors?
It seems strange for one reason, that it would mean only four of the apostles had obeyed their Master—Matthew writing a gospel, John a gospel and three brief letters, Peter two letters and Jude one. Not a written word from Thomas, for instance, so ready with his tongue—I at least would be willing to give up the great book of his greatest namesake to have one about Christ from him!
It would seem strange for another reason—that the Church Christ founded would have been a teaching Church only for a half century or so, in all the centuries since merely a library.
Sheed, Frank. Theology for Beginners (Illustrated) (p. 150). Aeterna Press. Kindle Edition.
Sheed, Frank. Theology for Beginners (Illustrated) (pp. 149-150). Aeterna Press. Kindle Edition.
- According to Sheed, the Lord’s words at the Last Supper, “It is better for you that I go” is an utterly clear statement of what?
Already, well before His death, He had given men authority to teach with His authority—it was to the disciples, not the apostles only, that He said “He that hears you, hears me.” That, extended to the Church He founded for all ages, is His formula to ensure that we shall receive His truth with no admixture of error. There is no other. The name for it is Infallibility.
Sheed, Frank. Theology for Beginners (Illustrated) (pp. 150-151). Aeterna Press. Kindle Edition.
- Sheed says that Jesus’ words in John 15:5, “I am the Vine, you are the branches” is a decisive phrase. How?
The phrase is decisive. The union of Christians with Christ is no mere union of love and obedience; it is a living, organic unity. Branches are not simply a society that the vine decides to found and take a kindly interest in. The vine lives in the branches, the branches live in the vine, live with the very life of the vine.
Sheed, Frank. Theology for Beginners (Illustrated) (p. 154). Aeterna Press. Kindle Edition.
