Theology - Unit 1 Test

Truth

The correspondence of the mind with reality.

Objective Truth

Objective truth is true independently of what others say or believe. If everyone disagrees, the reality of truth doesn’t change.

• Ex: 2+2=4 is an objective truth.

Perception

Our perception of reality can be true or false to varying degrees. I can perceive wrongly.

Reality

Kerygma

God’s message

Telos/End

Hylomorphism

Material things in their deepest nature are composed of two ultimate events:

• Prime matter: Remains constant in any change and gives individuality to each being.

• Substantial form: Accounts for the actual existence of different things, their distinctive properties, and the alteration that takes place when one substance changes into another.

Matter

What a things is made of.

Form

The definition or essence of something.

Substance

What a thing is essentially.

Accidents

Secondary characteristics:

• Quantity, quality, relation, habitus, time location, position or situation, action, and passion.

Act

Potency

Each of the Four Causes

1. Material Cause: What it’s made of.

2. Formal Cause: What makes it what it is.

3. Efficient Cause: Where it came from.

4. Final Cause: What it is made for.

Logic

The science of right thinking.

• The mind was made to do this, but it take work and discipline.

Three Acts of the Mind

1. Simple apprehension

2. Judgement

3. Deductive Inference

Simple Apprehension

An act by which the intellect grasps the concept of an object without affirming or denying anything about it.

Abstraction

Term

Words, phrases, or sounds in which concepts are expressed. Terms are not true or false, but clear or unclear.

• Ex: dog, going to the movies, sunny days.

Proposition

Sound Argument/Syllogism

Porphyrian Tree

Comprehension

Extension