Key Vocabulary & Definitions
The supernatural act by which the transcendent God communicates Himself and the mystery of His divine will to humanity.
What is Divine Revelation?
Name the three traits that characterize all created, immanent things "on the board".
1) Dependent, 2) Caused, and 3) Possess potency (changeable)
Define what each word in M-T-D literally stands for according to the breakdown in the slides.
What is Moralistic (Being nice), Therapeutic (Feeling good), and Deism (God is out there but doesn't affect me)?
Name the two authors of Sacred Scripture according to Dei Verbum 11.
Who are the Human author and the Divine author (Holy Spirit)?
Name the two faculties that make up human nature in Genesis 2, and identify what represents each.
What are Corporeal/Body (represented by dust) and Spiritual/Soul (represented by the breath of life)?
An unearned, supernatural aid from God that directly interacts with the human soul to help submit the intellect and will.
What is Grace?
Name the three traits that characterize the Transcendent God "off the board".
1) Absolute existence (eternal/independent), 2) Uncaused/Creator, and 3) Immutable (does not change)
Name the sociologist who identified MTD and the exact study he conducted on teens aged 13–17.
Who is Christian Smith and what is the National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR)?
Name the two primary modes through which Divine Revelation is transmitted.
Name the two human faculties that must both be submitted to make an act of faith.
What are the Intellect and the Will?
The inclination toward sin remaining in human nature after the Fall due to the loss of Original Justice.
What is Concupiscence?
Name the three "Modes of Credibility" listed in the slides that lead a person up to the choice of faith.
1) Miracles and Prophecy, 2) Longevity and Spread of the Church, and 3) Saints and Martyrs
List any three of the five core principles of MTD.
What are three of: 1) A God created/orders the world and watches over earth, 2) God wants people to be good, nice, and fair, 3) The central goal of life is to be happy/feel good about oneself, 4) God is only involved when needed to solve a problem, 5) Good people go to heaven when they die?
Name the two methods of exegesis used to analyze the human author's historical intention versus the divine author's universal truths.
What are the Historical-Critical Method and Theological Exegesis?
Name the three human realities that result from being made in the "Image and Likeness" of God (Gen 1:27).
What are: 1) Intellect and Free Will, 2) Capacity for Relationship, and 3) Adoption as God's Sons/Daughters (Human Dignity)?
Sociologist Christian Smith's term for teenagers being unable to clearly express their religious beliefs, substituting moral and emotional concepts instead.
What is Theological Inarticulacy?
Name the three rules from Dei Verbum 12 required to interpret Scripture well.
1) Original author's intention/context, 2) Literary genre, and 3) Unity of the whole canon (no proof-texting)
Name the three critical Christian elements missing from the five principles of MTD.
1) Personal relationship with God, 2) Radical call to love God and neighbor (requiring sacrifice), and 3) Objective moral truth?
Name the three counter-claims Genesis 1 made against the Babylonian Enuma Elish in its historical context.
What are: 1) Monotheism (one God), 2) Humans created out of freedom and love, and 3) Creation/humans are innately good?
Name all five universal truths pulled from Genesis 1 using Theological Exegesis.
What are 1) God brings order out of chaos, 2) Humans made in image/likeness, 3) Humans given dominion over earth, 4) Humans called to be fruitful and multiply, 5) Humans oriented toward worship?
Evaluating a religion primarily by how much practical or emotional benefit it offers the believer rather than whether its claims are objectively true.
Psychological Usefulness
Name the three ordered harmonies that defined Original Justice before the Fall
1) God --> Mind (Intellect/Will submitted to God), 2) Mind --> Passions (Passions ruled by reason), and 3) Soul --> Body (Harmony/no death or decay)
MTD is a what of Christianity?
What is a distortion?
Name the three core elements of Typology listed in the slides.
What are: 1) Prefigure, 2) Escalation, and 3) Divine Intention?
Name the Latin phrase meaning "Happy Fault" and identify the two person types associated with Adam and Eve in salvation history.
What is Felix Culpa, with Jesus as the New Adam and Mary as the New Eve?