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Religion exam Chpt.
All the terms from Chapters one that was in the books
Term | Definition |
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Theological virtues | Three important virtues bestowed on us at baptism, which relates us to God |
Creed | A statement of faith |
Revelation | God's free self-communication |
Covenant | Open-ended contract of love between God and humans |
Sacred tradition | the living transmission of the Church's gospel message |
Immanence | God's intimate union with his creation |
Agnostics | People who claim that God's existence cannot be known |
Dogma | A central truth of revelation that Catholics are obligated to believe |
Divine providence | God's loving and watchful guidance over his creatures on their way to their final goal and perfection |
Transcendence | A trait of God that refers to God's total otherness and being infinitely beyond and independent creation |
Deism | The belief that God did not create the universe, but he takes no further interest in it |
Christianity Judaism and Islam | Three great monotheistic world religions |
Faith | The human response to divine revelation |
Salvation history | God's loving participation in the lives of humans |
Magisterium | The Christ-appointed teaching authority, which extends to the pope and bishops |
Abba | The Aramaic word for father, which Jesus used to address God |
Original Sin | The fallen state of human nature into which all generations of people are born |
Atheist | No God |
Monotheistic | one God |
Polytheistic | Multiple gods |
Deism | God with no interest in us |
Agnostic | God's existence can't be known |
Proofs of God's existence | |
St. Thomas Aquinas's "proofs" | 1. The unmoved mover 2.First Cause 3.Everything Comes from something 4.supreme Model 5.Grand designer |