The Good News
"I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; They will strike at your head while you strike at their heel."
What is the protoevangelium?
The process by which God makes himself known to human reason through the created world.
What is natural revelation?
What are the Four Practices?
Teachings of the Apostles, fellowship, sacraments, and prayer.
Where two alternative states are presented as the only possibilities, when in fact more possibilities exist.
What is a 'false dilemma'?
Efficient Cause, Final Cause, Material Cause, Formal Cause
Sin leads to death. Sin is universal.
What is the Chasm?
God's manifestation of himself in visible form.
What is a theophany?
A form of meditative prayer focused on a Scripture passage. It involves repetitive readings and periods of reflection.
What is lectio divina?
An approach to the study of God that uses philosophical methods to better understand revealed truth.
What is Scholastic Theology?
The goodness or evil of human acts; determined by the nature of the action, the intention, and the circumstances.
Morality
What are the Four Harmonies we had before the Fall?
With God, with ourselves, with each other, with all creation
God’s self communication through which he makes known the mystery of his divine plan, accomplished through the words and deeds of salvation history
What is Divine Revelation?
reflecting on a Scripture passage to understand what God intends to communicate
What is meditation (meditatio)?
the act of the mind by which it unites by affirming or separates by denying, producing a proposition
What is Judgement?
The believers on earth, the souls in purgatory, and the elect in glory.
Communion of Saints
What is "Image and Likeness"?
The pattern of specific events in human history in which God clearly reveals his presence and saving actions.
What is Salvation History?
What are the four stages of Lectio Divina?
Lectio, Meditatio, Oratio, and Contemplatio
The act by which the mind acquires new knowledge by means of what it already knows, producing an argument.
Reasoning
The union of the faithful with Christ and among themselves.
Koinonia
Only someone who is both God and man can make possible the healing we need as a result of sin.
What is the Bridge?
The process of passing on the Gospel message, beginning with oral communication, written down in Sacred Scripture, and interpreted by the Magisterium under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
What is Sacred Tradition?
Silently rest in the presence of God
Contemplation (contemplatio)
Using double meanings or ambiguities of language to mislead or misrepresent the truth.
What is "equivocation"?
These are the four objects of love according to St. Augustine.
God, our neighbors, ourselves, our bodies