Chapter 1 Vocab Flashcards

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Identity

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what you have become at any point in time as a result of choosing what to do with what you have been given.

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St. Augustine’s Quote

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“you have made us for yourself and our heart is restless until it rests in you.”

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Culture

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The pattern of though, speech, behavior, & social values passed from one generation to the next in a given society through art, music, literature, customs, and tradition.

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Consumerism

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the attitude that acquiring unlimited material possessions is the key to fulfillment

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Individualism

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the “look out for yourself” answer to life’s longings.

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Immediate Gratification

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wanting our needs to be met right now. - not tomorrow - and not in a few years.

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Sexual permissiveness

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the impulse to engage in sexual activity in a way that is recreational rather than meaningful

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Technological fixes

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ways in which our culture encourages us to believe that technology alone can solve all problems

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Effective criticism

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The ability to question what our culture presents as true

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worldview

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the way we see the world around us ; it influences now we experience life

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reflection

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careful thought or meditation

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metaphor

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means of expression which describes, by comparison with something else, a trait or characteristic of a person or thing

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faith

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a combination of trust and belief, the conviction to accept as true that which cannot be proven

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belief

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a matter of the head, specific facts attributed to a person or thing

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15
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trust

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a matter of the heart, the emotional & unquestioning acceptance of someone or something

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16
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Atheist

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someone who does not believe in God

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Agnostic

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someone who is not sure about God’s existence

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Revelation

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God’s self-disclosure to human beings ; God is revealed in individual experience, events in history, in sacred writings, in traditions. (church teaching)

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Doctrine

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Church teaching that can change and develop overtime (priests can’t get married)

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Dogma

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Church teaching which never changes (Jesus is Human & Divine)

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Signs of God’s Existence

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in Human Reason (from experience of the world and our experience of our humanity), in the world’s belief in Sacred Mystery, in the experience of being loved and in the faith of our loved ones

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Religion

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the attempt by a community to express a shared faith in God through ritual, sacred writings, a moral code, ad belief statements.

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Qualities of Religion

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cult, creed, (moral) code, scripture

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Baptism by Desire

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Church teaching that non-Christmas will be saved because they can know God by virtue of their humanity

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Qualification
because Jesus is the fullest measure of God's revelation the baptized know God best here on earth