Vocabulary I
The God-given ability to think and discover truth.
"What is Reason?"
Believes God's existence cannot be known.
Knowing something about God through nature, beauty, or human reason.
What is Natural Revelation?
What is Baptism?
The fullness of Revelation is found in...
Latin: "Image of God"
What is "Imago Dei"?
The inspired Word of God.
What is Sacred Scripture?
Analogy used by Saint Paul in the Corinthians to speak about the Church.
The separation of the Churches in the East and the West in 1054.
What is the Great Schism?
German Priest who wrote 95 Theses in 1517.
Who is Martin Luther?
Different Christian Groups.
What are Denominations?
Human Relationship with God.
What is Religion.
Things in motion are caused by something else, there must be a first thing in motion, this unmoved mover is God.
What is the Argument from Motion?
Christian denominations that emerge from the Reformation.
What are Protestant?
Who was Gregor Mendel?
Reality as it actually is.
What is Truth?
Trust in God and acceptance of what God reveals.
What is Faith?
The argument from contingency.
Everything is dependent on something else for its being, there must be one thing not contingent on anything else, this thing is God.
Period of time beginning in 64 AD with emperor Nero when Christianity was illegal and at times punishable by death.
What is the Great Persecutions?
Catholic Priest who first proposed the Big Bang Theory.
Who was Georges Lemaître?
The story of God's loving effort to save humanity from sin.
What is Salvation History?
What is Human Dignity?
Catholic Response to the Reformation.
What is the Counter- Reformation?
The Roman Emperor who made Christianity legal following the battle of the Milvian Bridge in 313 AD.
Who is Constantine?
A false teaching that rejects a truth that has been revealed by God and taught by the Church.
What is a Heresy?