Unit 1 Flashcards
(52 cards)
Doctor of the Church
Writings and preachings of the person are useful to the Church in any age; not infallible, but contribute significantly to church teaching in at least one area
How can a person come to discover God?
- prayer
- scriptures
- nature
- faith of others
What categorizes the Doctors of the Church?
- theologians and saints
- guide us in understanding and interpreting the divine plan of salvation history
- help us through the witness of their lives and the wisdom of their teaching
- contributed significantly to the formulation of Christian teaching
How can we discover God through our human intellect?
When our reasoning leads us to acknowledge God as Creator and having a sense of awe at his work in creation
Who is an example of a saint who discovered God in creation?
St. Francis of Assisi
What are two ways people can be moved?
- by seeing the devotion and love with which people receive Holy Communion
- by seeing the social action taken by others who are on fire for their faith
Two parts of the bible
Old and New Testament
Revelation
God gradually making himself known to us
Public revelation
Found in scripture and tradition; was completed when the last apostle died; no more until Christ returns at the end of time
How is revelation fully completed or fulfilled?
In Jesus Christ; there is nothing we need to know for our salvation that wasn’t revealed through Jesus’ life, teachings, and paschal mystery
Private revelation
All other than public; progress in deepened understanding of the deposit of faith; growing light of the Holy Spirit
Immaculate Conception: public or private?
Private; not mentioned in first centuries, denied in Middle Ages, defined in 1854
What can the Church do on a private revelation?
-say it doesn’t clash with public revelation
-say it seems to deserve human acceptance
(We do not have to believe any decision on private revelation)
Examples of depending on private and public revelation?
Rosary -apparition to at Dominic is private -basic theology provides the prayers Requests of Fatima (moral reform, reparation, rosary) -valid in general theology
Meaning of supernatural?
“Above” “nature”
Beyond the power of creation
Sources that can assure us of God’s reality
Scripture- witness to Jesus’ early followers
Witness of martyrs
Witness of lives of faith-filled believers
Reason and intellect
What does the catechism refer to the catholic family as?
“The Domestic Church”
What is our first school of Christian life?
Our families, it is from them that we first learn about our faith
Communion of Saints
Union of the members of the church on earth to one another, the blessed souls in heaven, and the suffering souls in purgatory
What are all the parts of the communion of saints parts of?
One mystical body in which Christ is the head
The five communions
- communion in the faith: faith of the church received from the apostles
- communion of the sacraments: sacraments link the faithful to each other and christ
- communion of charisms: manifestations given by the Holy Spirit for the common good
- communion of common goods: whatever a Christian has really possessed in common with everyone else
- communion in charity: if one member suffers, we all suffer
Three states of the church
Saints of the living
Saints in Purgatory
Saints in Heaven
Saints of the Living
Baptized members of the body of Christ, members of the Church unified in faith and belief, their sainthood is real but not completed
Saints in purgatory
Saints of the living are disconnected from these people physically but are united in spirit through Christ; these people long for their day of reuniting with God
