Chapters 11-12 Study Guide TFB Flashcards
(19 cards)
- What does Sheed say is the supreme truth about the Savior, for which the chosen people were wholly unprepared?
Was that God WAS GOD.
- By way of appropriation, what reason does Sheed offer that the Son, the Word, that became man?
He explained it as God became man, NOT THE TRINITY, but God Himself.
- What does Sheed mean by what he calls a double stream of both word and action?
He means that man, after not seeing or knowing nothing of Jesus, would be overwhelmed by all the things God does. He says things that only God could say, does things that only God could do.
- Quote one scripture passage that Sheed offers as Jesus’ statement of equality to God.
Mathew 16:16 – “Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”
- Sheed repeats the distinction he made earlier that “nature” answers the question of what and “person” answers the question of who any rational being is. What further distinction does Sheed offer between nature and person?
“I is the person, is the answer to the question who any rational being is.”
“In God there is _______, totally possessed by three distinct persons. This plurality of persons over nature is reversed in Christ Our Lord, for in him the __.”
one nature
person is one; the natures are two.
- What reason does Sheed offer for every single action of Christ being the action of the second person of the Blessed Trinity
His human nature was complete, but was connected to a divine person
- Sheed offers two great Christian truths to make clearer the truth of about the Christ Jesus being one person and two natures. What are they?
Jesus was conceived and was connected His divine nature.
God died upon the cross. It was God the Son who died, His humanity died on the cross.
Sheed affirms that second person of the Trinity became man, says there is one single element which might make us wonder if he were wholly man – He does not sin. How does Sheed respond to this dilemma?
Sin is not a way of being man; it is a way of misusing manhood. We misuse ours often enough; he never misused His.
What does Sheed say is the real horror of the Monothelite heresy?
“The human heart of Christ lacked the power to love.”
- Briefly summarize Sheed’s explanation as to why Jesus’ self-sacrifice and death, in essence, was redemptive; why “it could be set against the sin of the race.”
.” Because He offered and sacrificed His human nature. Because He was God, this act had infinite value.”
- In Gethsemane, Sheed said, we get some glimpse of what the taking of the sins of men meant to our Lord, Christ Jesus and that He could not make his own the guilt of other men’s sins, for guilt can be only in the sinner. What, then, does Sheed say the Christ Jesus took upon Himself and what did he say our Lord felt in Gethsemane?
Jesus took upon Himself the weight of the sins of the world. Jesus prayed in Gethsemane to God to spare the weight of all humanity’s sinfulness.
- According to Sheed, after the consecration the priest at Mass says that we offer the sacrifice in memory, not of Christ’s passion only, but also?
His Resurrection from the grave as well as His glorious Ascension into Heaven.
- How does Sheet say God shows his approval and acceptance publically, totally, in the supreme sacrifice of our redemption?
In restoring Him to life, God gives the visible sign that the priest who offered His own body and blood in sacrifice was wholly pleasing to Him.
- “In the Ascension God shows visibly that he is actually taking to himself
_that which has been offered to him.”__________
- Sheed says that Christ’s ascension with the marks of his sacrifice still in his glorious body are an everlasting reminder of what?
“Man’s sin being expiated, that the breach has been closed between God and man, once again, they are one.”
- At the Last Supper uttered the words, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No man comes unto the Father but by me.” What does Sheed say the Our Lord meant by calling himself the Way?
It means that Man can only come to Him, go to Heaven, through Him.
- According to Sheed, “Salvation then involves
truth, life, union with the God-man_.”
- In explaining the meaning of the Great Commission by Christ Jesus in Mt 28:19-20, what 3 meanings does he associate with ‘life” and what the Apostles were to do?
Life- To Baptize, to forgive sins, and to change bread and wine into His body and blood.
