REED (Midterm)

What are the three primary sources of faith?

Sacred Scripture, Sacred Tradition, and Human Experience

What is Sacred Scripture?

The inspired, inerrant, and canonical record of God’s dealing with humanity

What is Biblical Inspiration?

A charism from the Holy Spirit guiding human authors

What is Biblical Inerrancy?

Scripture is free from error regarding truths leading to salvation

What is the Canon of Scripture?

The definitive list of divinely inspired books

What is Biblical Interpretation?

A holistic approach considering the unity of Scripture, Tradition, and analogy of faith

What is Sacred Tradition?

The living heritage of and process of handing on the faith. 

What is the Magisterium?

The Church teaching authority (bishops in union with the Pope)

What is Infallibility?

The Church inability to err in matters of faith and morals

What is Traditionalism?

An exaggerated focus on Tradition, neglecting Scripture and human experience

What is the definition of Sacred Scripture?

Inspired record of God’s interaction with people, collected in the Bible

What makes Scripture divinely inspired?

A special grace (charism) from the Holy Spirit to human authors.

What does 'inerrant' mean for Scripture?

Free from error in matters of truth leading to salvation

What does 'canonical' mean for Scripture?

Defined by a canon, a definitive list of books

What are theories of inspiration?

What is the Dictation Theory of inspiration?

God directly dictated words, reducing human authors to transcribers

What is Content Inspiration?

Human authors participate in formulating the text, guided by the Holy Spirit

What is Community Inspiration (Karl Rahner)?

Inspiration as a social reality within the early Christian community

What is Vatican II's view on Biblical Inerrancy?

Teaching solidly, faithfully and without error that truth which God wanted put into sacred writings

What is the definition of the Canon of Scripture?

the definitive list of divinely inspired books, serving as a ‘measuring rod’

What are key criterion for Canonization?

• Apolisticity

• Source Community

• Coherence with the Essential Gospel Message

• Liturgical Use

What is a key criterion for Canonization (Apostolicity)?

Connection to an apostle

What is a key criterion for Canonization (Coherence with Gospel)?

Consistency with Christian understanding, countering Gnosticism

What is a key criterion for Canonization (Liturgical Use)?

Used in worship (e.g., Eucharist).

What is the purpose of the Canon (Norma normans)?

The norm that norms all other expressions of faith but is not itself normed.

What is Biblical Fundamentalism?

·         Belief in "literal" truth, ignoring context and scientific exegesis.

·         Overemphasizes divine nature, neglects human product.

Dei Verbum (Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation)

The most authoritative document on Scripture interpretation

What are the catholic biblical interpretation?

Unity Of The Whole Scripture

Relatedness to Tradition

Analogy of Faith

Unity Of The Whole Scripture

Recognizing the unity between Old and New Testaments.

Relatedness to Tradition

Interpreting within the living Tradition of the Church, guided by the Holy Spirit.

Analogy of Faith

Coherence of truths in God's revelation, integrating all sources.

Actualization

Living out the Scriptural message in personal and communal practice, leading to transformation.

RELATION OF SACRED SCRIPTURE AND SACRED TRADITION

• the Church looks to God’s revelation in the Scripture and Tradition as the only authentic and complete source for our knowledge about God and God’s will for the whole human race

• It is the responsibility of the Church, through her teaching (doctrine), her sacraments (worship) and her ministries (morals), to transmit to every new generation all that God has revealed

Sacred Tradition

• The living heritage handed on (individual doctrines, accounts, customs)

• Includes Church teachings, Catholic Christian practices, study, preaching, social action, witness, and life of the Church.

INFALLIBILITY AND THE EXERCISE OF MAGISTERIAL AUTHORITY

Jesus' promise to be with the Church, guidance of the Holy Spirit

What are two ways in which teaching of the office exercises its authority?

Ordinary Magisterium

Extraordinary Magisterium

Ordinary Magisterium

refers to the more common exercises of the pope and bishops’ teaching authority when they teach either individually or in groups

Extraordinary Magisterium

refers to the binding exercise of the Church’s teaching office in the form of a solemn definition by either the pope or an ecumenical council.

What are three Infallibility?

Church’s Infallibility

Episcopal Infallibility

Papal Infallibility

Church’s Infallibility

The whole body of faithful cannot be mistaken in belief when united in true consensus.

Episcopal Infallibility

Bishops in ecumenical council, teaching on faith and morals, protected from error.

Papal Infallibility

Pope enjoys charism of infallibility when speaking ex cathedra (from the chair) – defining a doctrine of faith or morals to be held by the whole Church.

Human Experience

Experience of the world and God through personhood (embodied spirits).

What are sources of human experience for faith dialogue?

Human culture

beauty and the arts

human witness

Human culture

Contextualization and dialogue between faith and culture (e.g., Filipino culture, popular piety like Hesus Nazareno). Elements of secular culture influencing youth; potential for grace, but requires hope and caution.

beauty and the arts

Arts can engage emotions, stimulate religious experience, and open biblical imagination

human witness

Bearing testimony to the world, proclaiming and making known that Jesus Christ is the liberator of all humankind and God’s creation.

dynamic outreach of God to humanity.

What is the best relationship?

1. A God exists who created and orders the world and watches over human life on Earth.

2. God wants people to be good, nice and fair to each other, as taught in the Bible and by most world religions.

3. The central goal of life is to be happy and to feel good about oneself.

4. God does not need to be particularly involved in one’s life except when God is needed to resolve a problem.

5. Good people go to heaven when they die.

What is the principle of Moralistic Therapeutic Deism?

MORALISTIC THERAPEUTIC DEISM

What does MTD mean?

God is PRESENT to humankind

What does sacramental principle means?

St. Augustine

He is often called the doctor of grace (Doctor Gratiae)

LITURGY

treats this as source of life and is also an action of his Church”

SACRAMENT

• efficacious signs of grace instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, by which divine life is dispensed to us

• sacred signs/symbols which signify some spiritual effect which is realized through the action of the Church

1. Baptism

2. Confirmation or Chrismation

3. Eucharist

4. Penance

5. Anointing of the Sick

6. Holy Orders

7. Matrimony

What are the seven sacraments?

seven sacraments

defined as ‘actions of Christ and of the Church’ which unite us to Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit

Sacramental

They are objects, actions, practices, places, and the like, that help us become aware of Christ’s grace-filled presence around us or liberate from the presence of the Evil One (exorcism).

RECOGNIZING THE SACRED IN HEARTS

The first order of business is a reclamation of enchantment with the world, and its ability to become avenue for grace for all peoples.

Mystagogy

learning about the mysteries of the faith, pondering such mysteries such as the liturgy, the sacraments, and most importantly, the mystery of grace.

INTERIORITY

One of the best ways to practice daily mystagogy is through

Christian story

central feature of faith

EXPERIENCING GOD THRU NARRATIVE

Biblical stories, historical accounts, contemporary examples, and fictional tales can all form the sacramental awareness

1. RECOGNIZING THE SACRED IN HEARTS

2. DAILY MYSTAGOGY

3. EXPERIENCING GOD THRU NARRATIVE

What are the three FORMING A SACRAMENTAL AWARENESS AND IMAGINATION