words A to L (final)

Question 1

Act and Potency

Answer 1

Aristotle’s pair. Beings are a mixture of potential of change and what they actually are right now. The only exception is God. He is perfect therefore He does not change. He is pure act.

Question 2

Active and Passive intellect

Answer 2

• 2 aspects of the mind.
• passive intellect = takes things out of the world and you receive it in your mind
• active intellect = understanding the thing and what it can become

Question 3

Anchorite/Anchoresse

Answer 3

Person that removes herself from society and lives a religious life devoted to God. Dead to the world. (hermit)

Question 4

Anthropocentrism

Answer 4

idea that humans are at the center of all things. Everything in the world is organized around humans and all creations are for humans.

Question 5

Antinomianism

Answer 5

Heretical view. “anti-law”. once you are justified by faith and God has offered you salvation, the law does jot apply to you anymore. you can do things without consequences.

Question 6

Arianism

Answer 6

heretical view of the Trinity. suggests that there is only one God (the Father) and he is the creator of all things. His first creations were the Son and Holy Spirit.

Question 7

Asceticism

Answer 7

self-denial done to separate yourself from your bodily desires and to purify the soul. ex: starving yourself

Question 8

Atonement

Answer 8

reconciliation with the divine being (God) that is achieved through Christ. unification.

Question 9

Blasphemy

Answer 9

any speech or action that shows a lack of respect for the divine. ex: swearing

Question 10

Christendom

Answer 10

kingdom/territory ruled by Christianity.

Question 11

Christology

Answer 11

branch of theology that deals with the study of Christ’s dual nature (fully human and fully divine.

Question 12

Consubstantial

Answer 12

things that share the same substance. ex: 3 person of the Trinity since they are all made of God (substance)

Question 13

cosmopolitanism

Answer 13

cosmos = univers. poli = politics. idea that the world is one big political community. (seeing the world as one)

Question 14

Demonstration

Answer 14

from Aristotle’s philosophy. syllogism that gives scientific knowledge. you start from the necessary and self-evident principles to identify the causes of other things

Question 15

Ems necessarium

Answer 15

“necessary being” God is the necessary being. everything else in the world is contingent (could be either true or false), but God must be true and exist.

Question 16

Essence VS Existence

Answer 16

• essence = nature of something. what is means to be a dog for example.
• existence = wether this thing exists or not.
• according to Aquinas, for God, they are inseparable

Question 17

Filioque

Answer 17

“from the Son”. controversy: does the spirit comes from the son and father, or only the father??
- Western = both
- Eastern = only Father

Question 18

Final cause

Answer 18

the function, the purpose that explains the nature of something. ex: for a chair, sitting

Question 19

Godhead

Answer 19

divine essence. the name for the 3 manifestations of the divine. the father, son, spirit are unified in the godhead.

Question 20

Haecceity

Answer 20

“thisness”. determining factor that makes an individual what it is.

Question 21

Hair Shirt

Answer 21

ascetic instrument used to self-deny, to purposely hurt yourself. used to separate yourself from pleasure.

Question 22

Holymorphism

Answer 22

Aristotle’s view that substance is composed of 2 parts: matter and activity.

Question 23

Imitatio dei

Answer 23

“imitation of God”. requirement to imitation the divine and Christ in our way of living

Question 24

Intellectual substance

Answer 24

beings that are not composed of matter and form. ex: angels

Question 25

Intercession

Answer 25

prayers that ask for assistance or intervention on somebody. Asking for God’s help.

Question 26

Limbo

Answer 26

outer edge of hell. place where people like Socrates go where they are not saved not tortured