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Faith and Reason
Question | Answer |
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theology | the study of God and of created things insofar as created things come from God and are directed to God |
ecclesiology | the study of the nature and purpose of the Church |
reason | the power to know reality, to deliberate, and to think. |
reality | the way things, in fact, are. |
illusion | the opposite of reality; not in reality what it appears to be. |
scientific approach | Method: Observation |
philosophic approach | Method: Reflection |
religious approach | Method: Reception |
natural revelation | What we can know about God by using our reason to reflect on the world around us. |
supernatural revelation | God reveals things about Himself that human reason alone and unaided cannot discover. What we can know about God by faith. |
entropy | Measure of disorder in universe. |
supernatural faith | the ability to believe all that God has revealed |
general revelation | God’s communication to humanity about himself outside the covenant relationship with Israel |
special revelation | God’s communication to humanity about Himself through salvation history, culminating in Jesus Christ |
divine pedagogy | Describes how God communicates himself to man gradually. |
public revelation | The central events, teachings, and rituals through which God communicates Himself to humanity. |
private revelation | Events that support and encourage faith in the public revelation. |
personal revelation | God’s communication to an individual. |
human soul | The spiritual principle of human beings |
death | the separation of soul and body |