Vocabulary
The term for the relationship between God and humans that results in a body of beliefs and practices.
What is Religion?
Name the 3 Abrahamic Faiths.
What are Judaism, Islam, and Christianity.
What is the written transmission of the Church's Gospel?
What is Sacred Scripture.
Letter from the Holy Father that is a "teaching document" for the rest of the world.
What is an encyclical.
Name 2 methods of Natural Revelation.
What are:
Nature and Creation
Science
Reason and Logic
Characteristics of the human condition
Meaning of "Biblios."
What is Greek for "books."
What is an atheist?
This council occured in 382 and established the Canon of Scripture.
What is the Council of Rome.
The handing on of Tradition from one bishop to the next from the Apostles.
What is Apostolic Succession.
Name 2 methods of Divine Revelation.
What are:
Oral Tradition
Sacred Texts
Key Figures of the Religion
Prayer/Meditation
Divine Encounters/Appearances
One who has received the fullness of the Sacrament of Holy Orders and likely oversees a Diocese.
What is a Bishop.
A person who believes in a personal or provident God, but could be one or many gods.
What is a Theist?
Name 2 of the Truths about Scripture.
What are 1) God is the author of the Bible 2) The Holy Spirit inspired the writers of Sacred Scripture, and 3) The Sacred Scriptures teach the Truth?
The living transmission of the Church's Gospel.
Ethical practices that Christians live by.
What are the 10 commandments, beatitudes, Golden Rule, Greatest Commandments, etc.
The official teaching authority of the Church.
What is the Magisterium?
Name 3 things all religions generally have in common.
What are Revelation, Higher Power, Rituals and Practices, Community and Structure, Ethical Principals, Humanity's role, and/or Humanity's Destiny?
The inherited sin of every human being from our first parents.
What is original sin.
This occured in 1545 and was a response to the Protestant Reformation.
What is the Council of Trent?
Name 2 Christian Rituals or practices.
This is the term for teachings that have been infallibly defined by the Church as divinely revealed
What is Dogma?
A person who practices a form of atheism that often expresses an indifference to the search for God.
What is agnostic?
Both _____ and ______ must be accepted and honored with equal sentiments of devotion and reverence in the Catholic Church.
What are Scripture and Tradition?
Name 3 Themes of Catholic Social Teaching.
What are:
Life and Dignity of the Human Person.
Call to Family, Community, and Participation.
Rights and Responsibilities.
Option for the Poor and Vulnerable.
The Dignity of Work and the Rights of Workers.
Solidarity.
Care for God's Creation.
Attributed with the quote "Our hearts are restless until the rest in you."
Who is St. Augustine?