Question | Answer |
Creeds are also called ________ of faith | professions |
Which 2 terms express summarily the riches of the divine name | Love and Faithfulness |
What was the beginning of sin and man's fall due to | Lie of the tempter |
God's truth in his _______, which commands the whole created order and governs the world | Wisdom |
Israel discovered in her the course of her history that God had only one reason to reveal himself to them, a single motive for choosing them | Sheer gratuitous love |
God's love for his people is compared to which three types of peoples | Father - Son
Mother - Children
Bridgegroom - Beloved |
Which mystery is the central mystery of the Christian Faith? | Mystery of the Holy Trinity |
____ refers to the mystery of God's inmost life within the Blessed Trinity | God in Himself |
_____ refers to all the works by which God reveals himself and communicates his life | Revelation |
The affirmation of the _____ does not appear in the Creed confessed in 381 at Constatinople. | filioque |
By confessing the Spirit as he "_________", the Easter tradition affirms that he comes from the Father through the Son. | Who proceeds through the father |
The Western tradition expresses first the ______ between Father and Son, by saying that the Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son (filioque) | consubstantial communion |
In order to articulate the dogma of the Trinity, the Church had to develop her own terminology with the help of certain notions of philosophical origins: | Substance, Person, Hypostasis, Relation |
Of all the divine attributes, which is the only one to be mentioned in the Creed? | Omnipotence |
What are the three ways by which God's fatherly power is revealed? **** | 1. Takes care of our needs
2. filial adoption
3. His infinite mercy |
Father in God's Almighty power can be put to the test by the experience of what? | Evil and suffering |
In what most mysterious way does God the Father reveal his almighty power? | Voluntary humiliation and Resurrection of His son |
Only what can embrace this mysterious way of God's almighty power | faith |
Nothing more than this is more apt to confirm our faith and hope. | Nothing is impossible with God |
What two things do we believe when we believe God creates "out of nothing"? **** | 1) God needs no pre-existent thing or help in order to create, 2) creation is not necessary emanation from the divine substance |
What do we call the dispositions by which God guides his creation toward perfection | God's providence |
Why do the Sacred Scriptures often attribute actions to God without mentioning any secondary causes? | to recall God's primacy and absolute Lordship over history and the world |
Why did God not create a world so perfect that no evil could exist in it? | Because of God's infinite wisdom and goodness |
What is the greatest moral evil? | The rejection and murder of Gods only son, caused by the sins of all men |
What is the greates of goods? | The glorification of Christ and our redemption |
What does "earth" mean in the Nicene Creed? | World of Men |
What does "simul" mean? | at once |
What does "deinde" mean? | then |
Is th existence of "angels" a truth of faith? | yes |
what is the nature of an Angel? *** | Spirit |
What is their office called? ** | Angel |
As purely "spiritual" creatures, angels have (2 things): | intelligence and will |
Since no creature is self-sufficient, creatures exist only: (3) | 1) in dependence of each other
2) to complete other
3)in the service of each other |
What is at the heart of Israel's law? | Sabbath |
The work of creation culminates in the great work of what? | Redemption |
What is the fundamental reason for man's dignity? *** | Image of God |
Being in the image of God, man is capable of: (4) | 1. Self knowledge
2. Self possession
3. freely gving himself
4. entering into communion with persons |
God created everything for ____ | man |
Man is such a mystery, indeed a mystery unto himself. In reality, it is only in what does the mystery of man truly become clear? | The Word made Flesh |
Besides the soul, what else in man shares the dignity of "the image of God"? | Human Body |
Through _______ he sums up in himself the elements of the material world. | his bodily human creation |
What does the spiritual tradition of the Church emphasize when it uses the term "heart"? | Depths of one's being that decides for or against God |
God created man and woman together and willed each for the other, therefore man discovers woman as? | Another "I", sharing the same humanity |
He created them to be a ______, in which each can be "____" | communion of persons, "helpmate" |
As long as man remained in the divine intimacy, he would not _____ | have to suffer or die |
List the three "harmonies" comprising the state called "original justice" | 1. inner harmony of human person
2. harmony between man and women
3. harmony between first couple and all of creation |