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| 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 |