Unit 1 Flashcards
Doctor of the Church
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
How can a person come to discover God?
- prayer
- scriptures
- nature
- faith of others
What categorizes the Doctors of the Church?
- 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
How can we discover God through our human intellect?
When our reasoning leads us to acknowledge God as Creator and having a sense of awe at his work in creation
Who is an example of a saint who discovered God in creation?
St. Francis of Assisi
What are two ways people can be moved?
- 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
Two parts of the bible
Old and New Testament
Revelation
God gradually making himself known to us
Public revelation
Found in scripture and tradition; was completed when the last apostle died; no more until Christ returns at the end of time
How is revelation fully completed or fulfilled?
In Jesus Christ; there is nothing we need to know for our salvation that wasn’t revealed through Jesus’ life, teachings, and paschal mystery
Private revelation
All other than public; progress in deepened understanding of the deposit of faith; growing light of the Holy Spirit
Immaculate Conception: public or private?
Private; not mentioned in first centuries, denied in Middle Ages, defined in 1854
What can the Church do on a private revelation?
-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)
Examples of depending on private and public revelation?
Rosary -apparition to at Dominic is private -basic theology provides the prayers Requests of Fatima (moral reform, reparation, rosary) -valid in general theology
Meaning of supernatural?
“Above” “nature”
Beyond the power of creation
Sources that can assure us of God’s reality
Scripture- witness to Jesus’ early followers
Witness of martyrs
Witness of lives of faith-filled believers
Reason and intellect
What does the catechism refer to the catholic family as?
“The Domestic Church”
What is our first school of Christian life?
Our families, it is from them that we first learn about our faith
Communion of Saints
Union of the members of the church on earth to one another, the blessed souls in heaven, and the suffering souls in purgatory
What are all the parts of the communion of saints parts of?
One mystical body in which Christ is the head
The five communions
- 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
Three states of the church
Saints of the living
Saints in Purgatory
Saints in Heaven
Saints of the Living
Baptized members of the body of Christ, members of the Church unified in faith and belief, their sainthood is real but not completed
Saints in purgatory
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
Saints of Heaven
Establish the whole church in holiness, our union with these saints join us in Christ
How do the saints of the living pray to the other members of the communion of saints?
Prayers for purgatory to speed their loved ones onto fullness of joy, prayers to heaven for the saints to intercede for us
What does the Greek word “martus” mean?
Signifies a witness who testifies to a fact of which he has knowledge from personal observation
How does the term martus first appear in Christian literature?
The apostles are witnesses because they observed the public life of Christ and all they had learned from his teaching
St Peter speaks of himself and his companions as what?
Witnesses, he also said that in them giving the facts, which were certain to be true, men must obey God at all costs
What was the dangers to the witnesses of Christ?
Possibility of incurring severe punishment and even death itself, came face to face from the beginning of the apostulate
The careers of the apostles were set with the gravest character until when?
They all suffered the last penalty for their convictions
How did the term martyr come to be used?
Witness who at any time may be called upon to deny what they believe under the penalty of death
What is the meaning of martyr today that we recognize in Christian Literature?
People who suffer death because of their beliefs
How did God prepare the way of the incarnation through him so that all would be saved?
Law, covenants, and prophets of old
TRUE OR FALSE: the coming of Jesus makes the Old Testament false or outdated
False
The Old Testament is…
An indispensable part of Scripture
What is saint Paul’s analogy for Christianity!
A tree: Judaism is the roots, and Christianity represents the branches grafted onto the tree
How do Jesus’ disciples continue to follow him after his death
By creating communities of faith
How did the disciples share their stories of Jesus for at least twenty years after his death?
Oral tradition
What do the evangelists feel ill be most useful for nurturing the faith of their communities?
Parables, teachings, and miracles (varies by evangelist)
What are the gospels?
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
What are the gospels the main source of information for?
Jesus’ life and teachings
What is Jesus in a revelation sense?
Gods most definitive and perfect revelation
What are the synoptic gospels?
Matthew Mark and Luke; similar in style and share much of the same content
Meaning of synoptic
Seeing the whole together
Joke scholar propose that Matthew and Luke may have used what?
The Quelle, or the Q source
Matthew’s image of Jesus
- Jesus is a continuation of their tradition
- fulfillment of many Old Testament hopes and prophecies
- clear ties to Jewish ancestry
Mark’s image of Jesus
- aura of secrecy known as messianic spirit
- emphasizes humanity of Jesus
- true disciples must imitate Jesus in both his ministry and suffering
Luke’s image of Jesus
- 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
John’s image of Jesus
- emphasizes Jesus’ divinity (Synoptics focus of humanity)
- proclaims from the very beginning that Jesus is the eternal word of the father
What is John’s twofold purpose?
- evangelize Jews and Gentiles
- strengthen faith of both the local community and Christians everywhere
How is John’s gospel divided?
- FIRST HALF: Jesus reveals his identity
- SECOND HALF: passion, death, resurrection, ascension
