Unit 1 Test Review
What is the term that means when someone asks God for something from their heart?
What does the word Supplication mean?
Who is the most prominent scholastic theologian, a thirteenth-century Dominican priest who was greatly influenced by Greek philosophy?
Who is Saint Thomas Aquinas?
Which of the 5 proofs is the idea that everything in the universe is constantly in motion? Since there is movement in the universe, we can reasonably conclude that at some point there must have been an unmoved mover, which brought everything into motion. This unmoved mover is God.
What is the First Mover?
What is Aquinas' First Proof?
What does seeing the greatness of the world and knowing that God created it, as well as praying for ourselves, others, and the world, do to our relationship with God?
What is a deepening of faith and strengthening of a relationship with God?
What are the terms that describe communication with God through creation/natural world versus direct communication with God? In other words, what is knowing about God versus knowing God himself?
What is Natural Revelation versus Divine Revelation?
What is an agreement between God and people? It is a synonym of Testament. It is called a Brit in Hebrew.
What is a Covenant?
What should not be understood as scientific evidence but rather as "converging and convincing arguments" (CCC, number 31) that lead us toward the truth of God's existence?
What are Saint Thomas Aquinas' five proofs?
Which proof is based on the idea of cause and effect? **If there is an effect, we can safely say that there must have been a cause. Things do not create themselves, but come into being because of a cause. Therefore, it stands to reason that there must have been a "first cause" (God) that initiated all things into existence.
What is Casuality?
What is Aquinas' Second Proof?
Who said, “Creation is not some possession that we can lord over for our own pleasure; nor, even less, is the property of only some people, the few: creation is a gift, it is a marvelous gift that God has give us, so that we will take care of it and harness it for the benefit of all, always with great respect and gratitude.” ?
Who is Pope Francis?
What is a testimony to the ways God revealed himself to us through his deeds and words throughout history?
What is the Bible/Scripture?
What is it called when Adam and Eve disobeyed God and fell from Grace (Free Gift)? They chose secret knowledge and rejected God.
What is Original Sin?
What is the "inner voice," guided by human reason and Divine Law, that enables us to judge the moral quality of a specific action that has been made, is being made, or will be made?
What is conscience?
Which proof describes how the existence of something is dependent on the existence of something else? **If everything depends on the existence of something else, then there must be a prior necessary being who is not dependent on anything else. This necessary being, which is the source of existence of all creation, is God.
What is Contingency?
What is Aquinas' Third Proof?
What is defined as all the ways of coming to know God through what we can observe?
What is Natural Revelation?
What is the term that describes God's self-communication, through which he makes known the mystery of his divine plan, further revealing his desire to have an intimate relationship with humanity?
What is Divine Revelation?
What is an ancient Christian practice of slow, contemplative prayer with Scripture that aims to facilitate closeness with God?
What is Lectio Divina?
What is the employed use of logic to back arguments supporting the existence of God and to come to a deeper understanding of the human experience?
What is scholastic theology?
Which proof is based on our ability to observe the world and distinguish varying degrees of qualities? **We can know the difference between bad, good, and better. We can make these distinctions because there is a standard of perfection, or ideal, by which we can measure what is perfectly good, true, and beautiful. This ideal or perfect being is God.
What is Perfection?
What is Aquinas' Fourth Proof?
What do the various solar systems, planets, plants, animals, and other forms of life, as well as the observation of how creatures thrive and are cared for, demonstrate about God?
What is God's care/love for creation?
What is a person God chooses to speak his message of salvation? They repeatedly call on others to be faithful to their covenant with God (some even described their hope for a Messiah).
What are prophets?
When is the first time the Gospel of Jesus Christ is mentioned in the Bible?
What is Protoevangelium?
What is Genesis 3:15?
What is the title officially bestowed by the Church on saints who are highly esteemed for their theological writings, as well as their personal holiness?
What is a Doctor of the Church?
Which proof describes how the universe is not a chaotic and haphazard existence; things behave regularly and in an orderly fashion? **These behaviors were established by an intelligence outside ourselves. There must have been a greater being that gave order and purpose to everything in the universe (God).
What is an Intelligent Being?
What is Aquinas' Fifth Proof?
What is our spiritual principle, created by God at the moment of conception? It is immortal, and it is what makes us most like the Lord. It is the seat of human consciousness and freedom.
What is a Soul?
Who are the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, with whom God entered into a special covenant at Mount Sinai? God chose them to prepare for the coming of his Son, Jesus Christ, the Messiah and Savior of the World.
What are Chosen people?