Aquinas’s Five Ways
This argument states that whatever is in motion must be put into motion by another, pointing to God as the First Mover.
What is the Argument for Motion
The Argument from Design compares the intricate order of nature to finding one of these on a beach.
What is a watch?
St. Francis of Assisi is famous for his love of these created beings.
What are animals?
This 18th-century philosophical movement denied faith and advocated for reason alone as the way to find truth.
What is the Enlightenment?
The Hebrew word "Messiah" translates to this title in English.
What is "Anointed One"?
St. Thomas Aquinas called his method of using reason to explain revealed truth by this name.
What is Scholasticism?
According to the Argument from Design, nature exists either by an intelligent designer or by this unreasonable alternative
What is chance?
Unlike modern pet lovers, St. Francis loved animals because seeing them helped him see this quality of God.
What is God’s creative power and goodness?
This philosophy asserts that there is no such thing as absolute truth.
What is Relativism?
CCC 32 states that we come to know God as origin and end by observing movement, contingency, and the world's order and what?
What is beauty?
The Argument from Causation states that because the world began to exist, it must have been brought into existence by this uncaused being.
Who is God (the First/Uncaused Cause)?
St. Paul appealed to natural revelation when preaching to non-Jewish people, who were called this.
Who are the Gentiles?
St. Francis lived during these two centuries.
What are the 12th and 13th centuries?
This Ecumenical Council (1868–1870) restated that God's existence can be known with certainty by reasoning about creation.
What is Vatican I?
CCC 33 refers to this inner non-material reality as the "seed of eternity we bear in ourselves".
What is the human spiritual soul?
The Argument from Contingency points out that because human beings die and creation is dependent, there must exist this type of being.
What is an Absolutely Necessary Being?
Natural revelation is accessible to everyone, not just people of this faith.
What is Christianity?
Sunsets and daisies are examples of created things that give us glimpses of God’s what?
What is God's beauty?
An Ecumenical Council is a gathering of all the world's bishops together with whom?
Who is the Pope?
Ancient non-Christians mistakenly worshipped creation itself (like the sun or wind) instead of seeing creation as this.
What is evidence of God / God's handiwork?
The Argument from Degrees of Perfection states that to compare goodness, truth, and dignity, there must exist this.
What is a Perfect Being (God)?
St. Paul famously appealed to knowledge of God through creation when preaching in this Greek city.
What is Athens?
The early bishops and teachers of the Church who used natural revelation to defend the faith against pagan critics are called this.
Who are the Fathers of the Church (Patristic Testimony)?
Arguments against relativism focus on the observable world and this inner human voice.
What is human conscience?
The main takeaway of Natural Revelation is that God can be known with certainty through this human capacity.
What is the light of human reason?