Chapter 1 Vocab

Question 1

Identity

Answer 1

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

Question 2

St. Augustine’s Quote

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Culture

Answer 3

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.

Question 4

Consumerism

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Individualism

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Immediate Gratification

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Sexual permissiveness

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Technological fixes

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Effective criticism

Answer 9

The ability to question what our culture presents as true

Question 10

worldview

Answer 10

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

Question 11

reflection

Answer 11

careful thought or meditation

Question 12

metaphor

Answer 12

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

Question 13

faith

Answer 13

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

Question 14

belief

Answer 14

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

Question 15

trust

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Atheist

Answer 16

someone who does not believe in God

Question 17

Agnostic

Answer 17

someone who is not sure about God’s existence

Question 18

Revelation

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Doctrine

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Dogma

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Signs of God’s Existence

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Religion

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Qualities of Religion

Answer 23

cult, creed, (moral) code, scripture

Question 24

Baptism by Desire

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Qualification

Answer 25

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