A Life in Christ Test 2

Gentile

Someone of non-Jewish ethnicity

Messiah

The Hebrew word for "anointed one" and the title given to the savior God promised to the people of Israel

Father of the Church

The bishops and teachers of the early church

Pagan

A person who practices polytheism, or the worship of many gods

Creed

A brief summary or profession of our Christian Faith, such as the Nicene Creed and the Apostles' Creed.

Scholasticism

An intellectual method originating in Medieval Europe that sought to intergrade classical philosophy and Christion thought in order to understand and explain revealed truths

Five proofs for the existence of God

Arguments developed by St. Thomas Aquinas that use human reason and observation of the created world to conclude that God exists. Also called the "five ways"

Ecumenical Council

A meeting of all the world's bishops together in union with the pope

Enlightenment

A philosophical movement in eighteenth-century Europe that denied the value of faith and maintained that reason a love leads us to truth and hold potential to resolve the problem of evil

Relativism

A dangerous philosophy that says moral principles are a matter of individual preference based on personal experience, socioeconomic status, education, and particular culture, rather than based on absolute objective moral truths

Incarnation

The ultimate example of God coming to us, making himself totally known to us, and asking us to join him in happiness

Protoevangelium (Gen 3:15)

First good news, talks about Eve and Mary

Who was the "son of the promise"?

Seth

What was the first way God revealed himself to us?

The created order

Who can see natural revelation?

Everyone

What did St. Paul and the early church fathers appeal to?

Knowledge of God through creation as means of telling people about God

St. Thomas summarized 5 arguments for the existence of God that are rooted in...

Human reason and what can be observed in the world around us

The Catholic Church teaches that...

God can be known with certainty by the light of human reason by means of created things

What is St. Francis known for?

Loving creation

Creation

God's handiwork, observing it tells us about God

Nature is a form of God's...

Self-expression

God is knowledgeable through a...

Created world

What does creation lead us to?

God

How did Jesus prepare the Gentiles to receive the Gospel?

He promised them the Messiah