Philosophy
The ancient Greeks understood love of wisdom to be the foundation of all the sciences.
What is Philosophy?
The field of knowledge that studies God.
What is Theology?
The response characterized by an intense personal commitment
What is Human Faith?
This is the Selem engraved in each human being, which refers to the characteristics that represent God.
What is Image?
An offense against reason, truth, and right conscience.
What is Sin?
Every field of knowledge, especially that of history, seeks to understand the discipline in the process of formation.
What is In fieri?
The agreement or conformity of reality and the mind's judgment on reality.
What is Truth?
The object of faith for Religious Faith.
What is God?
Refers to the first man and is the Hebrew translation for human being.
What is Adam?
In the Book of Genesis, we reflect on humanity and the disobedience of our first parents which allowed for sin to enter human nature. This narrates the Original Sin of Adam and Eve.
What is the Fall?
Born in 470 B.C. Athens, this ancient philosopher became known as "the Father of Western Philosophy".
What is Socrates?
In the process of explaining the why of something, this cause provides the design or shape of the effect being studied.
What is Formal Cause?
The radical ability of all human beings to choose among many courses or actions.
What is Essential Freedom?
The capability of being in relation to God.
What is Likeness?
The sin that destroys charity in the heart and turns man away from God. It requires grave matter, full knowledge, and deliberate consent.
What is Mortal Sin?
This fallacy claims something to be true or false because authority says so.
What is Fallacy of Authority (Argument from Authority)?
This 13th century Dominican Friar was both a philosopher and theologian. He was known as the Angelic Doctor due to his ability to clearly explain the different Dogmas revealed by Christ through Aristotelian logic.
What is St. Thomas Aquinas?
The moral decision that describes the radical yes or no to God; this reflects the free will in each person.
What is the Fundamental Option?
This literary style is used in the first three chapters of the Book of Genesis.
What is Creation?
These faculties are unique to humans and reveal Mankind is made Imago Dei.
What is The Intellectual Powers?
This fundamental principle of logic states a proposition and its negation cannot both be true at the same time and in the same sense.
What is the Law of Non-Contradiction?
Because nothing can cause itself, everything must have a cause or something that creates an effect on another thing. Without a first cause, there would be no others. Therefore, the First Cause is God.
What is the Argument of Efficient Cause?
This mode, along with Sacred Scripture, are the two modes of Revelation; both Public Revelation and Private Revelation contain elements of both.
What is Sacred Tradition?
Around 500 B.C., these writers lists the different days of creation to reveal the message that humans are the highest of all that is created.
What is the Priestly Source?
The moment in which the Second Person of the Trinity became a man, elevating the dignity of humans and healing human nature.
What is the Incarnation?