Week 5 - Fundamental Theology

Question 1

Catholic Apologetics: Demonstrates the reasonability of holding that _________________________

Answer 1

the Catholic Church is the sole Church stablished by Christ as the ordinary means of salvation

Question 2

Christian Apologetics: Demonstrates the reasonability of holding that ____________________________

Answer 2

Christ is who he said he is and that he established a Church

Question 3

Classical Apologetics: a ______ of the reasonability of ________; it is distinguished from “__________,” which may be scientific or un-scientific, and which may cut across different aspects of apologetics classically conceived

Answer 3

scientific examination, the Catholic faith, Popular Apologetics

Question 4

Fundamental Theology: A scientific examination of the__________, and of the __________

Answer 4

rational foundations of the Christian faith; principles for understanding divine revelation and magisterial teaching

Question 5

Natural Apologetics: Demonstrates the reasonability of holding ___________

Answer 5

that God exists and has revealed himself to humanity

Question 6

A Latin phrase meaning “preambles to the faith”

Answer 6

Praeambula fidei

Question 7

what does Praeambula fidei include?

Answer 7

-all those truths revealed by God which can also be known by natural reason, such as the existence of God
-the existence and immortality of the soul
-the natural law

Question 8

Terms describing what it means to fail to adhere to magisterial teachings, depending on the degree of authority of a given teaching, its degree of certitude, and the consequences to oneself and others of that failure

Answer 8

Theological Censures

Question 9

Terms describing the different degrees of authority, and different degrees of certitude that pertain to magisterial documents

Answer 9

Theological notes