Vocabs
The study of God through reason and observation of the natural world.
What is Natural Theology?
Which Saint is known as the "Angelic Doctor"?
St. Thomas Aquinas
Aquinas’ First Way is also known as the Argument from what?
What is Motion?
The Catechism says faith and reason are like two ______ of the human spirit.
What are wings?
The denial of God’s existence
What is atheism?
The belief that truth can be known by reason and logic alone.
What is Rationalism?
He made the famous “leap of faith” idea.
Who is Søren Kierkegaard?
The Cosmological Argument concludes there must be a First _____.
What is Cause?
The virtue by which we believe in God and what He has revealed.
What is Faith?
The argument against God’s existence that points to suffering in the world.
What is the Problem of Evil?
The revealed truths about God given through Scripture and Tradition.
What is Revealed Theology?
Known for defending Christian faith in public debate, this 20th-century British philosopher wrote Mere Christianity.
Who is C.S. Lewis?
Aquinas’ “Argument from Degrees” observes varying levels of goodness, truth, and perfection in the world to point toward this source.
What is God (Absolute Perfection)?
The ability of humans to choose between good and evil freely is called
What is free will?
The defense that God allows suffering because He can bring good out of it.
What is Redemptive suffering?
The belief that religious faith is the only source of truth, rejecting reason.
What is Fideism?
Which philosopher proposed the Ontological Argument?
Who is St. Anselm?
Blaise Pascal’s rational bet that belief in God is the safer choice.
What is Pascal’s Wager?
According to Catholic teaching, free will allows humans to respond to God’s call, and misusing it can lead to ______.
What is sin?
The belief that we cannot know for sure whether God exists.
What is agnosticism?
The term for knowledge that all people are capable of knowing without direct revelation, such as basic moral truths.
What is Natural Law?
This student of Plato wrote Metaphysics and Nicomachean Ethics, which later influenced Thomas Aquinas.
Who is Aristotle?
The Moral Argument claims that the existence of universal moral laws points to the existence of whom?
What is God?
The deliberate choice to forgive and reconcile with those who have harmed you reflects the Christian virtue of ______.
What is mercy?
He wrote The God Delusion to argue against belief in God.
Who is Richard Dawkins?