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Religion Quiz 2
"I believe in one God", belief, faith, monotheism
Term | Definition |
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Why did God make me? | To know him, to love him, and to serve him in this life and to be happy with him in the next |
Primary unit of society | Family |
Two parts of family | Individualism and communism |
Individualism | Modern America |
Communism | Group/collective Large government Atheism Materialism |
Faith | The act of the intellect assenting to a Divine Truth moved by the grace of God |
Belief | The intellect assent to truths accepted on authority, either human or divine |
Faith diagram | Grace of God, will, intellect, divine truth |
Adonai | My Lord |
Assent | to accept |
"I believe in one God" | God's inner life - the trinity God's relation to man/creation |
God's revealing to man | General: revelation within human nature Specific: Israelites through Moses |
Mosaic Monotheism Near Cultures | Egyptians, Greeks, Babylonians |
Ancient man is perceived as | Ignorant |
Aspects of Monotheism rejected | polytheism, idolatry, impure rights (child sacrifice), and degrading mythology |
Mosaic Monotheism | Moses and the burning bush "I am who I am" - God is existence itself |
Divine Pedagogy | The gradual teaching of humanity over time by God |
Gradual revelation of God as | Love, mercy, truth |
Implications of faith in God | 1. Coming to know his greatness and majesty 2. Living in thanksgiving 3. Knowing the purity and dignity of mankind 4. Making good use of created things 5. Trusting God in all circumstances |
Transcendence | Far beyond/ above |
Immanence | Jesus intimately close |
Evil | Deprivation of a good |
Basis of life | Wealth, pleasures, power |
Wealth | infinite greed/ never satisfied |
Pleasure | Reduced self to near animals |
Power | Remain unsatisfied |
Theology | God inmost life in the blessed Trinity |
Economy | All the works by which God reveals himself |
Mystery | A divine truth which cannot be grasped by reason alone |
Through the Divine Economy | the "theology" of God is revealed |
The theology of the trinity | reveals the Divine Economy |