Infinite Good & Love
This New Testament verse promises that the Good lies beyond sight, hearing, and human imagining, prepared for those who love God.
What is 1 Corinthians 2:9?
The Bible
Which collection—its title taken from the Greek for ‘books’—comprises seventy-three sacred writings?
The Greek term that Aristotle names the human telos—flourishing through living and acting well.
What is Eudaimonia?
The divine name, revealed from the non-consuming bush, is rendered ‘I Am Who I Am’
What is YHWH?
Two faculties ordered to the good.
What are reason and will?
He wrote The Confessions.
Who is St. Augustine?
Oral, Written, Edited traditions
What are the three historical stages that explain how Israel’s memories became Scripture and were safeguarded over time?
The Aristotelian principle aims at balance between excess and deficiency.
What is the Doctrine of the Mean?
The covenant ‘Ten Words’ and the mountain where Israel received them amid fire and cloud.”
What are the 10 Commandments, and where is Mount Sinai?
Capacity, process, and judgment.
What are O'Connell's three senses of conscience?
The Gospel event where a young woman assents to an ‘impossible’ vocation, modeling faith that reaches toward the infinite Good.
What is the Annunciation?
46 (Old), 27 (New)
State the numerical split of books by testament: how many in the Old, how many in the New?
Immanuel Kant
Which philosopher grounds morality in duty and ‘good will,’ insisting persons be treated as ends in themselves?
Crossing of the Red Sea
“Which act of deliverance foreshadows Christian Baptism by marking passage from slavery to freedom?”
Paul Ricoeur
“Which thinker analyzes moral evaluation through the triad of object, intention, and circumstances?”
Ethics is not cold rules but a passionate pursuit whose centre is __________.
Love
The Gregorian calendar
Which calendar, promulgated by a pope in 1582, corrected the Julian system and underlies contemporary CE/BCE dating?
Emmanuel Levinas
Who claims the face-to-face encounter with the vulnerable Other ‘takes us hostage’ into responsibility?
The Mosaic covenant
What is an example of a conditional covenant?
Rationalization & Trivialization
What are two examples of distortions of conscience?
From the infinite to daily life; the big vision informing small choices.
What phrase summarizes how the grand vision of the infinite Good filters down into everyday acts like kindness and justice?
Between about 12–4 BC
Given Herod’s death and the absence of a ‘year zero,’ between which years is Jesus’ birth most plausibly placed?
Aristotle; Kant; Levinas
How could we map the motives to the thinkers—happiness/virtue; duty/maxim; responsibility/face—in this exact order?
List the five classic treaty elements that frame biblical covenants in the Hebrew tradition.
Preamble; Historical Prologue; Submission; Witnesses; Blessings and Curses
Naturalism vs. a freedom-affirming view of moral agency
Which view reduces behaviour to biology/environment, and which affirms deliberation and responsibility at the core of ethics?