Natural Revelation/Philosophy
What tool do we use for Natural Revelation
Reason
The gift of the Holy Spirit that assisted the human authors to write the books of the Bible
Inspiration
The Theological Virtue in which one believes in all that God has said and revealed to man?
Faith
What spiritual sense in scripture teaches us how to act?
The Moral Sense
Which proof of St. Thomas Aquinas argues that because their is motion in the world, and nothing can move itself, there must be something that can cause motion without itself being moved, and this being is God?
The argument from Motion.
Philosophy means what?
Love of Wisdom
How many books are in a Catholic Bible?
73
What three things make up Divine Revelation?
Sacred Scripture, Sacred Tradition and the Magisterium
What sense of scripture is the meaning that comes directly from the text and is intended by the sacred author?
The Literal Sense
Who is the medievel philosopher who used philosophy to defent Theology?
St. Thomas Aquinas
Who are the three great founders of Philosophy
Socrates, Plato & Aristotle
What is the Old Testment?
The Jewish Sacred Scripture
What is the name given to the universal teaching authority of the Pope and Bishops?
The Magisterium
What sense of scripture views events in terms of their eternal significance, leading us to Heaven.
The Anagogical Sense
What makes up the Deposit of Faith?
Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture
Which type of Philsophy asks the question what should I do?
Ethics
What happens to Sacred Scripture without the magisterium?
Improper interpretation of Scripture which can lead to division and misunderstaning of scripture.
The word of God entrusted by Christ, handed down to the Apostles and their successors through oral tradition.
Sacred Tradition
What category of the sense of scripture is the meaning of the Scripture text that reveals the inner unity of God’s plan.
The Spiritual Sense of Scripture
The study of Natural Revelation falls under what philsophical division?
Metaphysics
Which type of Philosphy ponders "what is real" and is the basis for Theology?
Metaphysics
What is the word that is used to mean that the Holy Spirit assists the human authors of the Bible to write the Sacred Scripture, ensuring that, that which God intends to communicate to his people is faithfully and fully written down without error.
Inspiration
Define what is divine tradition and human tradition and give an example of each.
Divine Traditons-Traditions within the Church that were established by Christ or the Apostles: The Mass, Sacraments, Our Father
Human Traditions-Traditions established by the Church that aid in worship but may be changed: Art, Architecture and Music
What is the allegorical sense
What sense of scripture connects or parallels the Old and New Testaments by showing how Old Testament figures and events prefigure Christ.
Explain the argument from Design
Because there are patterns and order within the world, and patterns are created by an intelligent being, there must be an intelligent being that created the patterns and order within the universe. This intelligent being is God.