The Church
This creed was used in early baptismal liturgies and was a "symbol" of the faith.
What is the Apostle's Creed?
These are the three creeds of the Church.
What is the Apostle's Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed?
These are the three categories of things humans can falsely base their lives on.
What is wealth, power, and pleasure?
This is the only distinction between the persons of the Trinity.
What is their relation to one another?
This field serves as the Queen of the Sciences.
What is theology?
This is the fulness of Divine Revelation.
Who is Jesus Christ?
This heresy claimed Christ was the firstborn of all creation and not of the same substance as the Father.
What is Arianism?
These are the two categories of God's revelation to humanity (hint: consider the two "groups" he revealed himself to).
What is the general and the specific?
This heresy claimed Christ was exclusively God and in no way human.
What is Docetism?
This creed was written between 361 and 500.
What is the Athanasian Creed?
This is the first actor in prayer.
Who is God?
This is the first and most fundamental assertion of the Nicene Creed.
What is "I believe in God?"
This is what Thomas Aquinas claimed was the only objection to God's existence which held true weight and merited an extensive response.
What is the Problem of Evil?
Complete the following regarding why God made you:
To ______ him, to _______ him, and to _______ him in this life and to be _________ with him forever in the next.
What is to know, love, serve, and happy?
This is the basic unit of society.
What is the family?
This is the central mystery of Christian faith and life.
What is the Holy Trinity?
This Latin word in the Nicene Creed expresses that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son, leading to the Great Schism.
What is the filioque?
These are the three types of evil.
What is Physical, Moral, and Metaphysical?
Complete the following movement of faith using the following:
(movement of the will / grace of God / act of the intellect assenting to Divine truth)
__________--> __________-->__________
What is:
the grace of God, the movement of the will, the act of the intellect?
Name two things the Israelite people rejected from surrounding cultures.
What is polytheism, idolatry, degrading mythology, and impure rites?
This is what lex orandi, lex credendi translates to.
What is "the law of prayer is the law of belief"?
cf. the law of what is prayed is the law of what is believed is the law of what is lived
This (English) word said every Sunday in the Nicene Creed reflects that Christ is the same substance as the Father.
What is consubstantial? - cf. homoousios
Name two reasons God would reveal himself through Scripture and Tradition if we can reach knowledge of his existence through reason alone.
What are:
it takes hundreds of years to come to know
there can be the addition of error
it can't reach the deeper mysteries
this revelation is accessible to all
Complete the following definition of belief:
the intellectual ________ to truths accepted on ____________, either human or divine.
What is assent and authority?
Name three attributes of God we can know through his revelation to the Jewish people.
What is:
existence itself (not really an attribute)
love, mercy, and truth itself?