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Religion exam Chpt.
All the terms from Chapters one that was in the books
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Theological virtues | Three important virtues bestowed on us at baptism, which relates us to God |
| Creed | A statement of faith |
| Revelation | God's free self-communication |
| Covenant | Open-ended contract of love between God and humans |
| Sacred tradition | the living transmission of the Church's gospel message |
| Immanence | God's intimate union with his creation |
| Agnostics | People who claim that God's existence cannot be known |
| Dogma | A central truth of revelation that Catholics are obligated to believe |
| Divine providence | God's loving and watchful guidance over his creatures on their way to their final goal and perfection |
| Transcendence | A trait of God that refers to God's total otherness and being infinitely beyond and independent creation |
| Deism | The belief that God did not create the universe, but he takes no further interest in it |
| Christianity Judaism and Islam | Three great monotheistic world religions |
| Faith | The human response to divine revelation |
| Salvation history | God's loving participation in the lives of humans |
| Magisterium | The Christ-appointed teaching authority, which extends to the pope and bishops |
| Abba | The Aramaic word for father, which Jesus used to address God |
| Original Sin | The fallen state of human nature into which all generations of people are born |
| Atheist | No God |
| Monotheistic | one God |
| Polytheistic | Multiple gods |
| Deism | God with no interest in us |
| Agnostic | God's existence can't be known |
| Proofs of God's existence | |
| St. Thomas Aquinas's "proofs" | 1. The unmoved mover 2.First Cause 3.Everything Comes from something 4.supreme Model 5.Grand designer |
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