Theology of the Church Final

In the Old and New you will understand things when there is a ____

series of events/ pattern

Models of the Church

Institution, sacrament, mystical communion, Herold, servant, and community (which was added later and can dwell down only to this)

The 3 transcendentals all reduce to ____

being, they are all of being.

What are the 3 transcendentals?

True, good, and beautiful

What do the transcendentals and being point us to?

a central truth

The sacraments points you to ____

community

The promised restoration that we are waiting has ____________. It is carried forward in the ______ and through ____ continues in the Church in which we learn the meaning of our terrestrial life through _______.

already begun in Christ, Holy Spirit, Him, our faith.

The Church is ___, ____, ___

real, imperfect, and incomplete.

Imperfect can mean 2 different things, what are they?

incomplete and defective

We are _____ due to continuing to grow holy, experiencing more, and suffer more even if you never experienced mortal sin.

imperfect which is more specifically incomplete

The sacraments are of the ________ because there are _______ in Heaven.

pilgrim Church, no sacraments

In Dallas’ 6 models, why are sacraments not the unitive whole of every part of the Church?

Because there are no sacraments in Heaven, they lead to Heaven.

The Church is communion between _________.

Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

The Churches 3 founding acts

The Our Father, Last Supper, 12 apostles and 70 disciples

The Church is seen in the _________.

person of Christ

Christ’s passion, death, and resurrection are ordered to _____

His person

The end times started with ______ and ends with _____. The ________ is now.

Christ, 2nd coming, eschatological.

The Church is _____ and _____. Why is this?

spiritual, external. Because we are soul and body.

What are the 3 visible bonds of being in the Church?

Ecclesial government, profession of faith, and sacraments

What are the 3 points from Pius XII, Mystici Corpus, when describing the Chruch?

The Church is a body, the Body of Christ, a Mystical Body - not hypothetical

What does do these 3 points mean from Pius XII: The Church is a body, the Body of Christ, a Mystical Body - not hypothetical

The Church is a body: The body is composed of dependent parts that need each other. Ex. Arm, head, as to, parents, religious. The body is like an organism, it is self sustaining, of autonomy. The body is also visible.

→ Body is organism

Body of Christ: Christ is the founder, head, support, and savior of the Body. Head by preeminence and by government.

→ Christ’s body is the head, support, founder, and savior

Mystical Body: Hypostatical union is a person. God has a human body (brain, heart). Not merely a moral union (being on a sports team is a moral union). The Church is more mysterious than a moral union.

→ Christ’s mystical Body is not hypostatic union and is not a moral union. It is multiple personal unions.

Why can we lose our fusion with Christ’s mystical Body?

Because God does not want us to fuse with Him in a hypostatical union due to that would cause Him to take and overthrow our identity. Due to not taking us over, replacing us, or covering us, we can choose to refuse Him.

Baptism is of character and sanctifying grace, together giving the ability to be a son. Sin is what separates our character and grace.

Some people think there is no physical Church, ex. veneration of the cross, sacraments, bishops, that is represented in the mystical communion. Why is this wrong?

If the spiritual is of faith, hope, and charity, and we have bodies to express that in a tangible exterior way, body and soul, then spiritual things are to be expressed physically. ex. God, soul and body. Baptism, spiritual and physical.

as the Son is of the body, the Spirit is of the ____________.

visible structure of the Church

LG says there is a hypostatic union by strong metaphor/analogy yet not actual hypostatic union. Why is this?

This is because the Spirit and visible structure is inseparable. Just not the exact thing as Christ.

Our communion to Christ is through the visible part of the Church, due to it reflecting the spiritual. ex. there is no Church without the Eucharist.

The Church of Christ _____ in the Catholic Church.

subsists

Is schismatic baptism valid?

If you have valid priests, you have valid sacraments.

Is schismatic baptism fruitful? What does fruitful and valid mean?

Depends on if they know it is heresy to schism.

Fruitful means conferring grace. Valid means you have it. You can receive the character without the grace, ex. being in baptism but also mortal sin.

The more sacraments you have the ____________.

more you are in the Church.

In ecclesial stuff, you can participate ___ or ___ in it and can exist _____ of the bounds of the Church. Ecclesial stuff is ______ of _____ and ______.

more, less, outside, elements, truth, sanctification

Ecclesial indifferentism

idea that there is no one true church. The one true church is from the end times, it is after we die, it is in heaven.

Whats at stake when you say there is no one true church?

They believe that it is impossible for God to give us information that we can keep without messing it up. They take for granted our existence and nature is an obstacle to Gods revelation.

That human life cannot bear the weight of divine revelation

They believe the escetological church is the one true church

There are _____ of _____ behind the New Testament. Every ____ has ___________.

layers, tradition, layer, Peter’s Primacy

What is the nature of the Petrine Primacy for catholics and orthodox?

catholics believe primacy of jurisdiction (authority)

orthodox believe primacy of honor

Opposition says that the Bible doesnt explain Peter passing on his authority, what does Ratzinger say in response?

If Peter died in 65 and Acts ended in 45, there is no reason to bring up something that is not a present issue. They also do this to make the gospel compelling and only what you need to lead you to faith.

This is why everything in the Bible is not explained alongside much more of what Jesus said.

strand are ____.

strata

Peters primacy exceeded him due to ____________. and what would you say if Matthew made this up?

to not writing about it after he dies yet it continues to live.

Matthew did not make it up because other there are other strands supporting this claim.

Other christians get _______ from the Catholic Church.

ecclesial gifts

We are ordered to unity (which is identity and purpose) by _____.

Baptism

It doesnt matter if you know it, God made it that way.

Other Christians that have ecclesial gifts from the Catholic Church are ______________ and _____________.

from Catholic unity, impels Catholic unity

There are ______ of ____and _____ in other churches.

elements, truth, sanctification

The Church is the ______ of God. Explain

nation

We have mobility in class in the nation but we still have freedom and dignity as a son or daughter of Christ. Difference is class is not of Clarical, religious, and lay.

Order in the Church: Based on ___________.

the differences in states of life.

ex. clerical, lay, religious

Basic definition of a priest

Someone who offers sacrifice and mediates for Jesus, for he is a priest. He offers Himself as a sacrifice to mediate salvation to us.

There is a relationship between our offering and Christs: we participate in it and join our offering to His.

Ministerial priesthood: ________

person of Christ

Baptismal priesthood: _______

the laity

Quinticentral priestly act

Eucharist or martyrdom

When we receive the Eucharist, it is self-donation to God which accompanies death. It is symbolic of death

Prophet

someone who speaks for God.

We are not prophets or priests on our own accord.

everyone has a message: our message is God.

Prophetic activity and priestly are _____________.

one and the same seen at different vantage points

Indefectability

Church (Jesus) cannot fail. Implication of Christ’s proclamation of His identity.

1) Infalibility of the teaching church

2) Sensus Fidelium: Lord’s providence to the believing church

If the Church is indefectable then _____________.

God has to give infallibility to the believing Church so that the Gospel and its teachings may continue to live.

We share in the kingly office of Christ which ________.

conquers vice, it is of conquering sin and death through acts of Charity and advancing in holiness.

The priestly, prophetic, and kingly character of the Church reduce to ______.

filial love

Quintisential prophetic act, also what are the other acts

prophetic - preaching the gospel

priestly - sacrifice

kingly - conquering

Filial love

the love of the Son to Father and to man.

this is different than Christian love

Christian love

its Christic, we love like the Son.

not filial love, this is more generic

Due to filial love, why do we need to be priestly, prophetic, and kingly in a fallen world?

We sinned so we need a sacrifice - priestly

Wrong happened and is open to happening so we need to preach the gospel - prophetic

Something went wrong in which we participated in so we need to be conquered - kingly

Universal

all men are called and Jesus came to save everyone.

This means that all are called to submit to Him and be a part of the Church, all are called to the Church.

Never separate Christ from ______

the Church

The elements of truth and sanctification outside the Church _____________.

orders one to the Church = Christ

Catholicity: according to the whole, has 2 meanings…

1) wholeness: fullness

2) universality

Catholicity can in one respect:

grow or diminish geographically

is perfect: fullness from the beginning

In what ways is the Church’s Catholicity is perfect?

Sacramental Catholicity: fullness of sacramental order, all 7 sacraments from the beginning from Christ

Taxinomical Catholicity: 3 states - ordained, lay, religious

What are the 3 evangelical councils?

poverty, chastity, obedience

Why are all men called to belong to the new people of God?

The offer of salvation is for everyone

If this wasn’t the case God would be stingy in not loving all His children, like only giving some of them treats instead all of them.

The Church is a sacrament of ____________.

union of God with man, and union of man with man.

Universal Salvific Will of all

God offers salvation to all men, they can accept or reject it.

The most obvious way is baptism.

What does St. Augustine say about unbaptised catechumans?

they will not be saved

What does Aquinas say on salvation outside the Church?

as soon as you come to faith you are saved, baptism then adds graces.

When God offers the first step of salvation it is ________________.

ordered by its goal to bring you to the whole and fullness of salvation.

When God is offering baptism, _____________.

He is offering you Heaven.

God ordering us to salvation in Him is …

predestination

Is the Eucharist necessary for salvation?

Yes, if you don’t receive it then you do so in desire. The Church desires for you.

You are salved by order of the Eucharist.

Grace is ________.

irresistible

What you don’t get to do on Earth, receive Eucharist, He _____________.

gives you in Heaven

What is the 3 fold bond of visible communion?

Profession of faith, ecclesial government, and sacraments

Ineffiable

idea that God is unspeakable, we can’t make up the words to describe Him, only experiance.

Why in Romans 10:10 do we need to believe in our heart and express with our lips? Why not just believe?

because we are bodies

Why did St. Paul not add baptism to believing in our heart and expressing with our lips?

Because the other 2 things lead to baptism. You first need those 2.

Can we make God into words?

Yes, we can receive gifts from God revealing Himself to us.

Communion with the pope and bishops lead to __________. List whole chain.

the profession of faith and right interpretation of scripture,

into baptism,

into confirmation,

into Eucharist communion filial love of Father; love of Son for man.

St. Augustine’s belief for salvation outside the Church

No salvation if you were not baptized, due to needing to remove original sin.

Exception if you were martyred (baptism of blood).

No baptism by desire.

You needed to be in visible and invisible communion with the Church.

St. Thomas Aquinas’ belief for salvation outside the Church

If you were not baptized, you can be saved through baptism of desire.

Someone can be saved without being in visible communion with the Church.

The Dominicans of the new world belief for salvation outside the Church

Francisco de Vitoria, creates idea of invincible ignorance.

Domingo de Soto, idea that God’s grace is not limited by lack of external exposure to the Gospel. (salvation is possible for those outside visible Church).

Melchor Cano, balanced the 2 others, keeps the necessity of the Church

Overall: Those that never heard the gospel can be saved due to invincible ignorance and not needing to be visibly in the Church. These guys’ view is more in groups like civilzations whereas Aquinas was individually.