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Doctor of the Church

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Writings and preachings of the person are useful to the Church in any age; not infallible, but contribute significantly to church teaching in at least one area

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How can a person come to discover God?

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  • prayer
  • scriptures
  • nature
  • faith of others
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What categorizes the Doctors of the Church?

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  • theologians and saints
  • guide us in understanding and interpreting the divine plan of salvation history
  • help us through the witness of their lives and the wisdom of their teaching
  • contributed significantly to the formulation of Christian teaching
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How can we discover God through our human intellect?

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When our reasoning leads us to acknowledge God as Creator and having a sense of awe at his work in creation

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Who is an example of a saint who discovered God in creation?

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St. Francis of Assisi

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What are two ways people can be moved?

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  • by seeing the devotion and love with which people receive Holy Communion
  • by seeing the social action taken by others who are on fire for their faith
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Two parts of the bible

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Old and New Testament

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Revelation

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God gradually making himself known to us

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Public revelation

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Found in scripture and tradition; was completed when the last apostle died; no more until Christ returns at the end of time

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How is revelation fully completed or fulfilled?

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In Jesus Christ; there is nothing we need to know for our salvation that wasn’t revealed through Jesus’ life, teachings, and paschal mystery

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Private revelation

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All other than public; progress in deepened understanding of the deposit of faith; growing light of the Holy Spirit

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Immaculate Conception: public or private?

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Private; not mentioned in first centuries, denied in Middle Ages, defined in 1854

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What can the Church do on a private revelation?

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-say it doesn’t clash with public revelation
-say it seems to deserve human acceptance
(We do not have to believe any decision on private revelation)

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Examples of depending on private and public revelation?

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Rosary
-apparition to at Dominic is private
-basic theology provides the prayers
Requests of Fatima (moral reform, reparation, rosary)
-valid in general theology
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Meaning of supernatural?

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“Above” “nature”

Beyond the power of creation

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Sources that can assure us of God’s reality

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Scripture- witness to Jesus’ early followers
Witness of martyrs
Witness of lives of faith-filled believers
Reason and intellect

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What does the catechism refer to the catholic family as?

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“The Domestic Church”

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What is our first school of Christian life?

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Our families, it is from them that we first learn about our faith

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Communion of Saints

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Union of the members of the church on earth to one another, the blessed souls in heaven, and the suffering souls in purgatory

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What are all the parts of the communion of saints parts of?

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One mystical body in which Christ is the head

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The five communions

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  • communion in the faith: faith of the church received from the apostles
  • communion of the sacraments: sacraments link the faithful to each other and christ
  • communion of charisms: manifestations given by the Holy Spirit for the common good
  • communion of common goods: whatever a Christian has really possessed in common with everyone else
  • communion in charity: if one member suffers, we all suffer
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Three states of the church

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Saints of the living
Saints in Purgatory
Saints in Heaven

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Saints of the Living

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Baptized members of the body of Christ, members of the Church unified in faith and belief, their sainthood is real but not completed

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Saints in purgatory

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Saints of the living are disconnected from these people physically but are united in spirit through Christ; these people long for their day of reuniting with God

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Saints of Heaven

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Establish the whole church in holiness, our union with these saints join us in Christ

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How do the saints of the living pray to the other members of the communion of saints?

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Prayers for purgatory to speed their loved ones onto fullness of joy, prayers to heaven for the saints to intercede for us

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What does the Greek word “martus” mean?

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Signifies a witness who testifies to a fact of which he has knowledge from personal observation

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How does the term martus first appear in Christian literature?

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The apostles are witnesses because they observed the public life of Christ and all they had learned from his teaching

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St Peter speaks of himself and his companions as what?

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Witnesses, he also said that in them giving the facts, which were certain to be true, men must obey God at all costs

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What was the dangers to the witnesses of Christ?

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Possibility of incurring severe punishment and even death itself, came face to face from the beginning of the apostulate

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The careers of the apostles were set with the gravest character until when?

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They all suffered the last penalty for their convictions

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How did the term martyr come to be used?

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Witness who at any time may be called upon to deny what they believe under the penalty of death

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What is the meaning of martyr today that we recognize in Christian Literature?

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People who suffer death because of their beliefs

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How did God prepare the way of the incarnation through him so that all would be saved?

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Law, covenants, and prophets of old

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TRUE OR FALSE: the coming of Jesus makes the Old Testament false or outdated

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False

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The Old Testament is…

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An indispensable part of Scripture

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What is saint Paul’s analogy for Christianity!

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A tree: Judaism is the roots, and Christianity represents the branches grafted onto the tree

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How do Jesus’ disciples continue to follow him after his death

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By creating communities of faith

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How did the disciples share their stories of Jesus for at least twenty years after his death?

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Oral tradition

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What do the evangelists feel ill be most useful for nurturing the faith of their communities?

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Parables, teachings, and miracles (varies by evangelist)

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What are the gospels?

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The heart of scripture, herald that Jesus came to fulfill the promises that God made to our ancestors and that he came to free us from slavery and death

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What are the gospels the main source of information for?

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Jesus’ life and teachings

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What is Jesus in a revelation sense?

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Gods most definitive and perfect revelation

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What are the synoptic gospels?

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Matthew Mark and Luke; similar in style and share much of the same content

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Meaning of synoptic

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Seeing the whole together

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Joke scholar propose that Matthew and Luke may have used what?

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The Quelle, or the Q source

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Matthew’s image of Jesus

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  • Jesus is a continuation of their tradition
  • fulfillment of many Old Testament hopes and prophecies
  • clear ties to Jewish ancestry
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Mark’s image of Jesus

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  • aura of secrecy known as messianic spirit
  • emphasizes humanity of Jesus
  • true disciples must imitate Jesus in both his ministry and suffering
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Luke’s image of Jesus

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  • much of Jesus’ ministry is pointed toward the poor and marginalized
  • emphasizes the presence of women in Jesus’ ministry
  • sick and sinners are given special attention in this gospel
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John’s image of Jesus

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  • emphasizes Jesus’ divinity (Synoptics focus of humanity)

- proclaims from the very beginning that Jesus is the eternal word of the father

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What is John’s twofold purpose?

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  • evangelize Jews and Gentiles

- strengthen faith of both the local community and Christians everywhere

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How is John’s gospel divided?

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  • FIRST HALF: Jesus reveals his identity

- SECOND HALF: passion, death, resurrection, ascension

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