Chapter 1 Test

Question 1

a Church teaching issues with the highest authority and solemnity

Answer 1

Dogma

Question 2

Denial of the existence of God

Answer 2

Atheism

Question 3

Supernatural truths about God learned by faith, but beyond reason

Answer 3

Mysteries

Question 4

The intellectual power ordinarily employed to adapt though or action to some end

Answer 4

Reason

Question 5

A person who claims that we cannot be certain that there is a God or not

Answer 5

Agnostic

Question 6

The work and plan of God, observable in nature confirming God’s existence and his continued role in creation

Answer 6

Intelligent Design

Question 7

A belief in many Gods

Answer 7

Polytheism

Question 8

God’s free self-communication to us through creation, historical events, prophets and most fully in his son, Jesus

Answer 8

Revelation

Question 9

St. Thomas Aquinas’ proposals of how the existence of God can be known through reason

Answer 9

The Five Ways

Question 10

God’s Self-communication about himself simply through the existence of creation

Answer 10

Natural Revelation

Question 11

A being created by God in order to live in communion with God

Answer 11

Religious Being

Question 12

God’s gift of his divine life present in our souls

Answer 12

Grace

Question 13

The theological virtue by which one believes in all God has said and revealed to man and the Church proposes our belief

Answer 13

Faith

Question 14

Having unlimited power, able to do anything

Answer 14

Omnipotent

Question 15

Fides et Ratio is Latin for ____ and ____ .

Answer 15

Faith and Reason

Question 16

Mysteries are ____ truths about God learned by faith but beyond the grasp of reason

Answer 16

Supernatural

Question 17

Why did God reveal himself to mankind?

Answer 17

So we may enter into a relationship with him

Question 18

God works through …
a. History
b. The lives of the saints
c. our lives
d. all of the above

Answer 18

D. all of the above

Question 19

How was Aristotle enabled to discover the truth of God’s existence?

Answer 19

Reason

Question 20

What are the characteristics unique to human beings in creation?

Answer 20

Human being have a desire for God, Human beings are made in the image and likeness of God, Human beings have a capacity to know God

Question 21

What are human beings created in ?

Answer 21

The image and likeness of God

Question 22

Creation reveals ___ and ___ about the attributes of God

Answer 22

Goodness and Wisdom

Question 23

Who gave us the five ways to know God’s existence through reason?

Answer 23

St. Thomas

Question 24

Cause and Effect as well as motion are what?

Answer 24

Part of the Five Ways to know God’s Existence Through Reason

Question 25

What is God's plan of Revelation according to Fides et Ratio?

Answer 25

Words and Deeds

Question 26

What does grace build upon, according to St. Thomas Aquinas?

Answer 26

Nature

Question 27

What is our response to God?

Answer 27

Prayer

Question 28

Where is Divine Revelation found?

Answer 28

Scripture and Tradition

Question 29

What is free will?

Answer 29

The power to control one's choices and actions

Question 30

Why did God give us free will?

Answer 30

God wants us to willingly enter into a relationship with him