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Spirituality Of Truth Flashcards

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What are the theories of truth?

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  • correspondence
  • coherence
  • pramztic
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What Theory of truth is this?
- Is something factual automatically truthful?
- truth is what ________ to facts

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Correspondence

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What Theory of truth is this?
- Is the truth determined by what we know and believe?
- Truth is what _______ with the rest of our knowledge

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Coherence

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What theory of truth is this?
- Is the truth determined by usefulness?
Truth is what works, or served our purposes

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Pragmatic

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True spirituality is anchored on the truth of

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Who God is

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It is our search for that “real thing”

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Spirituality

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This is an excerpt from?

“The light of God’s face shines in all its beauty on the countenance of Jesus Christ.”

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Veritatis Splendor, 2

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Who said this?

“Man is the measure of all things”

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Protagoras (5th Century)

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True or False

In a relativist society, there are standards and permanent moral values.

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False (no standards and no permanent moral values)

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T or F
Truth is as fluid as the changing of an individual’s mind or preferences.

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T

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It is the belief that there are no such things as permanent or universal truths.

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Relativism

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T or F
In relativism, all truths, whether in matters of doctrine or morality, are dependent on the individual, on popular opinion, on society, on culture, etc. but never on an objective basis such as the Word of God.

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T

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One who is not a relativist is labelled as (3 labels F.A.I.)

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FUNDAMENTALIST, or ARROGANT, or INTOLERANT

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T or F
In Relativism in Faith, there is absolute truth in faith or religion.

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F (no absolute truth)

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Relativism in Faith

One religion is just as good as another. Christ is just among many.

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Religious Indifferentism

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Relativism in Faith

We are free to choose which Church teachings are we going to accept as true and follow while abandoning those that does not suit our taste or preference

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Cafeteria Catholicism

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According to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, today, having a clear faith based on the Creed of the Church is often labeled as _________

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fundamentalism

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T or F
According to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, relativism, that is letting oneself be tossed here and there, carried about by every wind of doctrine seems the only attitude that can cope with modern times.

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T

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According to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, we are building a _________ that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one’s own ego and desires.

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dictatorship of relativism

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What are the 3 different types of relativism?

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  • R. in faith
  • R. in Morals
  • practical relativism
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T or F
In Relativism in Morals, there is no absolute right and wrong, the logical consequence of relativism in faith.

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T

22
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Relativism in Morals

Indifference towards faith and the question of
God.

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Practical Atheism

23
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According to ___________, “The practical atheism of those who say they are Christian but live as if God does not exist is a greater threat than actual atheism.”

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Pope Benedict XVI

24
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Relativism in Morals

What is useful is good. What is pleasurable is good.

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Utilitarianism & Hedonism

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Relativism in Morals
An excerpt for ____________
“While the Church insists on the existence of objective moral norms which are valid for everyone… there are those in our culture who portray this teaching as unjust, that is, as opposed to basic human rights.”

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Evangelii Gaudium, 64

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A form of moral relativism that is self-centered, self-indulgent, & grounded on convenience & material security

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Practical Relativism

27
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This is an example of what type or relativism?

a lifestyle where one accumulates and hoards wealth and power at all costs

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Practical Relativism

28
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According to Pope Francis, it is the reason behind the lack of sense of mission among Christians.

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Practical Relativism

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Practical Relativism
This is an excerpt from?
“…acting as if God did not exist, making decisions as if the poor did not exist, setting goals as if others did not exist, working as if people who have not received the Gospel did not exist.”

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Evangelii Gaudium, 80; Laudato Si, 122

30
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Spirituality of Truth is ________, ________, and _________

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Universal
Objective
Transcultural

31
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Spirituality of truth is _________, the same at all places and at all times

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Universal

32
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Spirituality of truth is _________, discovered and not made, not what I think or believe

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Objective

33
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Spirituality of truth is _________, it is the same for all people

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Transcultural

34
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Who said this?

“If we don’t look for truth, we are guided by other interests, or fears, or the pressure of the crowd, of the media, of power, of self-comfort, and we are not free, we are slaves”

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Archbishop Gabriele Giordano Caccia,

35
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Excerpt from?
According to St. Thomas Aquinas, truth is the equation of the mind and thing.

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Summa Theologiae, I:21:2

36
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A person is _________ if his mind conforms to reality

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logically truthful

37
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A person is ___________ if his words/actions conform to what is in his mind

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morally truthful

38
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This means, insofar persons correspond to how the Creator imagined them even before they were made

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Ontological truth

39
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Logical, moral, or ontological?
It is verifying the truth

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Logical

40
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Logical, moral, or ontological?
It is living out the truth

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Moral

41
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Logical, moral, or ontological?
Actualizing the truth of who I am, whose I am, for whom I am

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Ontological

42
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Verity’s (Latin) means?

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Truth

43
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T or F
In ontological truth, truth became incarnate in the person of Jesus Christ

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T

44
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Verse from?
“He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.”

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Colossians 1:-17

45
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The ultimate purpose behind the transmission of truth is __________ (Mt. 28:29)

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Salvation

46
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Excerpt from?
For truth to be conveyed effectively, requires a genuine love for the audience, learn their language, be immersed in their realities.

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Evangelii Gaudium, 35

47
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According to Pope Francis, Hence, communicating the truth today should not be by way of imposition but by ___________

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Attraction

48
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According to ___________, “In the words, it is through the via pulchritudinis – the way of beauty the others are brought more effectively to the truth of Christ.”

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Pope Benedict XVI

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