Only what can be strictly proven from reason can be accepted as true (often called 'scientism')
What is Rationalism?
100
St. Thomas Aquinas' proposals for how the existence of God can be known through reason.
What are St. Thomas Aquinas' Five Ways?
100
The theological virtue by which we believe in God and believe all that he has said and revealed to us.
What is faith?
100
Ethical or moral knowledge of all humans 'written on the human heart'; the knowledge of what we ought to do even without having learned it from Scripture or the Church.
What is Natural Law?
100
The common name for the Higgs-Boson particle scientists are looking for with the Large Hadron Collider.
What is The God Particle?
200
The existence of God cannot be known or proven
What is Agnosticism
200
The process of knowing God's existence because all creation must originate from a First Cause (a Church dogma is based on this)
What is the principle of causality?
200
The practice is systematically observing the behavior of nature to better understand the laws and structures that govern it.
What is science?
200
Caused our human reason to be flawed and sometimes lead us to the wrong conclusions (error).
What is Original Sin?
200
Means this knowledge is accessible to all people.
What is Universal?
300
Denial of the existence of God.
What is atheism?
300
A revealed truth solemnly defined by the Magisterium of the Church.
What is a dogma?
300
The knowledge of God and His attributes by human reason apart from Revelation.
What is natural theology?
300
This is what faith perfects.
What is Reason?
300
Philosophical argument that from reason alone that there must be a god.
What is Aristotle's First Cause?
400
A type of atheism that falsely considers man as the highest form of being; the sole maker and creator of his own history.
What is atheistic humanism?
400
The belief that the only things in existence are those which can be observed or proven by science.
What is scientism?
400
God's self-communication by which He makes known the mystery of His divine plan.
What is Revelation?
400
Three sources of Divine Revelation.
What are history, Scriptures and the Church?
400
The overarching subject of the textbook.
What is faith and reason?
500
Religious beliefs must be embraced by faith alone. Faith has no discernable intellectual content and cannot be established by reason.
What is Fideism?
500
Supernatural truths about God learned by faith but beyond the grasp of reason.
What are Mysteries?
500
God's divine help to strive to overcome sin and error and achieve perfect knowledge of God.
What is Grace?
500
St. Augustine's quote about the human desire for God finishes "You have made us for Yourself, O Lord, and..."
What is ..."our hearts are restless until they rest in You."
500
The inborn capacity that human beings possess that no other creature in material creation has.
What is the capacity to know God and be in relationship with Him?