theology unit 1 test

  • Omniscient - “All-knowing”

  • Immutable - “Never-changing”

  • Omnibenevolent - “All good”

  • Omnipotent - “All-powerful”

  • Omnipresent - “Always present”

  • Original holiness - the original state of human beings and their relationship with God, sharing divine life in full communion with him

  • Original justice - the original state of Adam and Eve before the fall, a state of complete harmony with themselves, with each other, and with all of creation

  • Prophets - people who were sent by God to over-see the covenant and call the kings and Israelites to be faithful to God

  • Soul - our spiritual principle by which  makes us most like god and is the seat of human consciousness and freedom

  • Theophany - God's manifestation of himself in a visible form to enrich human understanding of him

  • Trinity - from the latin word Trinus meaning “Threefold”, referring to the central mystery of the christian faith that God exists as a communion of the distinct persons: Father, Son, and holy Spirit

  • Original Sin - from the latin word origin meaning “beginning” or “birth”, refers to the fallen state of human nature that affects every person born into the world, except Jesus and Mary

  • Paschal Mystery - the work or salvation accomplishments by Jesus Christ mainly through the Passion, Death, Resurrection, and Ascension

  • Mortal Sin - a sin committed by a person where the person was fully aware that the act is evil, the sin must be a serious offense, and the sinner must have fully and freely consented to the act

  • Venial Sin - a sin that is less serious or grave that does not result in complete separation from God

  • Protovangelium - the “first gospel” which is God's first promise to send a savior to free us from the effects of the fall

  • Covenant - a solemn agreement between two parties

  • Cycle of Sin - Shame, Temptation, Sin

  • The fall - The biblical revelations about the origins of sin and evil in the world

  • Concupiscence - inclined to sin

    Anti-myth is the creation stories inspired by God, they convey theological truth, meant to contrast the other ancient mythological stories. The Christian anti-myth creation story is built out of love while other creation stories are made out of hate.

  • The Trinity refers to  the central mystery of the christian faith that God exists as a communion of the distinct persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. All three persons were present in the creation story.

  • Human beings are the only creatures God created with a body and soul. Our soul was created by God at the moment of our conception

  • Three goods of marriage: “Bonum Fides”- faithful/fidelity, “Bonum Sacramentum” - indisputable/unbreakable, “Bonum Prolis” - procreative

  • Gender is how we perceive/express our sex while sex is a person's objective biological reality

  • Because of the Fall we now have original sin meaning we are concupiscence, we struggle to find God, and we experience death

  • The fallen angels are angels who were originally a part of God's heavenly host but rebelled against God.

  • God established a Covenant with Noah, Abraham, Moses, and David.

  • The prophets offered hope that humanity’s relationship with God would be fully restored.

  • God still loves humanity after the fall

  • The Israelites did not follow God's covenant and continued to break it.

  • The sign of the abrahamic covenant was Circumcision

  • The promise of the mosaic covenant was the condition on their obedience to the law