Quiz Flashcards
(43 cards)
What is the structure of the Catechism?
- Creed.
- Liturgy.
- Morality.
- Prayer.
What are Aristotle’s four causes?
- Material.
- Formal.
- Efficient.
- Final.
What is the relationship between God and mankind in the Catechism?
God created use freely out of love (exitus) and draws us back to Himself (reditus) - Redemption.
What is Aquinas’ argument for God loving all existing things?
- God’s will is the cause of existing things.
- Because God is the supreme good, He can only will what is good. Thus everything that exists, insofar as it exists, is good.
- To love is to will the good for another.
- Therefore, God loves everything that exists.
What is Aquinas’ argument for all human beings desiring God?
- All men desire the good.
- Happiness is the satisfaction of desire (the attainment of the good).
- No temporal good can fully satisfy our desires.
- Therefore, we can never be fully happy with temporal goods.
- If there were a perfect, highest good that was attainable, then we could be perfectly happy.
- This highest good Christians call God.
- All do desire God.
What are the 3 stages to Devine Revelation?
- Natural Law.
- Old Law.
- New Law.
What are the 3 modes of transmission of Revelation?
- Scripture.
- Tradition.
- Magisterium (Church’s teaching).
What is Faith and what does St. Thomas Aquinas say about it?
Faith is belief in God and in what He reveals because He is God.
Aquinas: “Truth Himself speaks truly, or nothing is true.”
What are the Divine Attributes in order?
- Simplicity - No parts.
- Perfection - No potency.
- Goodness in general.
- God’s Goodness - Being with respect to desire.
- Infinitude - No limits.
- Omnipresence - Agent.
- Immutability - No change.
- Eternity - No before or after.
- Unity - God is one.
What are the 3 types of Predication? Which one do we use to speak about God?
- Univocal: Same word, same meaning.
- Equivocal: Same word, different meaning.
- Analogical: Same word, related meaning (we use this when talking about God).
Who was St. Athanasius?
299-373.
Became bishop of Alexandria three years after the council of Nicaea in 328. Arians disliked the council, which Athanasius greatly supported, so they exiled him 5 times, totaling at 17 years altogether.
What is St. Athanasius’ first Divine Dilemma?
- God created us freely out of nothing to bring us back to Himself, but sin entered the world and pulls us back to nothingness.
- God cannot not save us, else He’d be weak for letting His own creation, which He breathed His life into, fall to death.
- Yet God also can’t absolve us from sin with no consequences because He said that we would die, and therefore would be a liar.
- In both scenarios, God would not be God, thus He takes on human flesh in Jesus Christ, dies, and then we may die in Him through baptism.
What is St. Athanasius’ second Divine Dilemma?
- God created us with the rationality of the image of the image of God for us to find Him in ourselves. But since sin is irrational, it distorts the image and leaves us unable to reason back to God through ourselves.
- Thus was the same with Natural Law, trying to find God in creation.
- Then again in the Old Law, where God sent prophets to lead us back to Himself.
- When even that was not enough, as the image was so distorted that we couldn’t reason back to God, He sent His only Son, Jesus Christ, the original image of God and who brought the New Law, to restore the image of the image of God and to help us find our way back to God.
What are the human states of being able to sin/not sin?
- Pre-Fall: Posse Peccare (to be able to sin)/Posse Non Peccare (to be able not to sin).
- Post-Fall: Non Posse Non Peccare (Not able to not sin).
- State of Grace: Posse Peccare (to be able to sin)/Posse Non Peccare (to be able not to sin).
- Heaven/Beatitude: Non Posse Pecarre (not able to sin) (Ultimate Freedom).
What were Pelagius’ three flaws?
- We’re born neutral.
- Original Sin is by imitation.
- Volition and Actuality belong to man alone.
What was Chalcedon’s refute to Pelagius?
- We’re born in Original Sin.
- Original Sin is by generation.
- Volition and Actuality can’t only belong to man, but God as well.
What is Grace? What are the two ways of speaking of Grace?
Grace: God’s life in our souls (free gift):
1. Habitual Grace: The state of Grace.
2. Actual Grace: Grace in Act.
What was Tertullian’s famous quote in “Prescription Against the Heretics”?
“What indeed does Athens have to do with Jerusalem?”
How would our knowledge of God be if we didn’t have Christ according to Aquinas?
- Only few could reason to God.
- It would take a long time.
- It would be riddled with errors.
What are the three “Trinitarian Heresies”?
- Partialism
- Modalism
- Arianism
What’s the Catechism’s definition of a virtue and how does one acquire a natural virtue?
“The habitual and firm disposition to do the good.”
Acquire with constant practice.
What are the four nature virtues and their corresponding faculties of the soul?
- Prudence: Intellect
- Justice: Will
- Fortitude: Irascible (away) Passion
- Temperance: Concupiscible (forward) Passion
Define the four natural virtues.
- Prudence: Right reason in action.
- Justice: Giving what is due to God and to others.
- Fortitude: The moral virtue that insures firmness in difficulties and constancy in pursuit of the good.
- Temperance: The moral virtue that moderates the attraction to pleasures and the use of created goods.
Define the Church, defining both terms in the definition.
“The Sacrament of Salvation.”
- Sacrament: Visible/Invisible. Human/Divine. Matter/Form. Sign/Reality.
- Salvation: “Extra ecclasiam nulla solus.” - “Outside the Church no Salvation.”
