Last Things
This is the name given to Jesus Christ’s judgment of the living and the dead at the end of time.
What is the Final or Last judgement
The Immaculate Conception refers to this person being conceived without Original Sin.
Who is Mary
The main purpose of this discipline is to explain and defend the faith.
What is apologetics.
Catholics believe salvation requires both faith and _______.
What are works
This creature tempted Adam and Eve.
What is the Serpent
This is the state of purification for those who die in God’s grace but still need cleansing before entering Heaven.
What is Purgatory
This person is the New Adam.
Who is Jesus
This refers to spreading the Good News of the Gospel.
What is Evangelization
The belief that there are no universal moral truths.
What is Moral Relativism.
The love and unity found in this reflects the Holy Trinity.
What is the Family
This place is defined as eternal separation from God due to unrepented mortal sin.
What is Hell
The two natures of Jesus are human and _______.
This form of apologetics uses evidence or shared experience.
What is Evidential or Experiential Apologetics
In the Cycle of Conversion, an encounter with Christ creates this desire.
What is curiosity
This person of the Trinity is your advocate and is usually represented by wind and fire.
Who is the Holy Spirit
This is the individual judgment of a person immediately after death.
What is Particular Judgement
This Greek title for Mary means “God-bearer.”
What is Theotokos
This form of apologetics uses logic and reason to defend the faith.
What is Classical Apologetics
This word means a change of heart from sin to virtue.
What is Metanoia
By praying this, we reflect on the life of Jesus.
What is the Rosary
While Scripture uses many images to describe it (The Pearl of Great Price, The Wedding Feast, etc), the full beauty of this place is beyond human understanding.
What is Heaven
This doctrine describes the union of Jesus’ human and divine natures in one Divine Person.
What is the Hypostatic Union
Name one specific tip for engaging in apologetics covered in class.
What is
Insert prayers, but make sure you are listening, too
Do not take things personally
Listen with empathy
Ask questions to draw out personal experience
Make sure you are arguing about the same thing!!
Know that only God can change hearts
The best thing we can do for someone is to pray for them!! Pray that God will soften their hearts!
Name one of the Dont's of Religious Debates/Apologetics.
Don’ts of Religious Debates:
Data dump- becomes overwhelming and can overload and lose the person. Less is more.
Buckshot apologetics- shifting topics rapidly is jarring and can become frustrating.
Fake an answer- if you don’t really know, then you should not say
Be hyper focused on winning
This parable teaches that God will judge us based on how we treat others.
What is the parable of the Sheep and the Goats.