'Isms Unit 25

Rationalism

knowledge comes from within

Empiricism

knowledge comes through senses

Deism

God exists but is not involved

Syllabus of Errors

Pius IX: condemnation of modernity

Darwinism

Theory of evolution, Origin of the Species

Creationism

Genesis is science

Theistic Evolution

God is the guiding force behind the process of evolution

Secularism

religion plays no part in everyday affairs of life

Social Contract

Rousseau

John Henry Newman

The Idea of a University - regain the church's heritage of learning and respect for reason and faith

Capitalism

private property, supply & demand, profit

Marxism

eliminate private ownership, classless society

Leo XIII

Author of Rerum Novarum, On the Condition of Workers

Foundation of Catholic Social Teaching

Dignity of Human Person and Common Good

Individualism

Each person capable of directing own destiny

Rene Descartes

"I think therefore I am." Rationalist who believed God's existence can be proven.

Benjamin Franklin

American Deist

Papal Infallibility

Pope cannot err when speaking ex cathedra on matter of faith and morals

Immaculate Conception & Assumption of Mary

Only times papal infallibility officially invoked in the church

Vatican I

convened by Pius IX - reacted against the world of its time

Socialism

A system in which society, usually in the form of the government, owns and controls the means of production.