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| when a person is not religious but they do things like service etc. which one would do if they were religious |
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| the word comes from the greek and means "universal," "according to the whole,: or---as I might translate it more loosely---"the big picture." |
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| Catholic Intellectual Tradition |
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| catholic approach to the ultimate question still developing in the present. Reflects the wisdom and beauty of ancient Greece and Rome (philosophy and art---with the christian faith, catholic culture, and theological inquiry). |
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- Catholicism's universalism
- sacramental vision
- elevation of tradition and reason
- emphasis on the unity of knowledge
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| Being a christian does not mean turning ones back on ones humanness, or human nature. Rather, Christianity illuminates what it means to be human. |
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persons baptized into the life of christ in the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit
Three Main Forms of Christianity
- Catholicism/catholic church
- Protestantism/protestant denominations/churches
- Eastern Orthodoxy/orthodoxy church
*(Evangelical christians exist both within and outside of particular Protestant denominations) |
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| values and truths do not have objective existence; they are created by societies, not discoverd by them |
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means that dimension of things in which one has an unavoidably personal stake, not a mere passing interest or intllectual curiosity; something which, of necessity, involves you as a person and defines you as a person. |
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complementary modes of knowledge/knowing reality working in harmony. |
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| a key document from VATICAN II that helped place the church in constructive dialogue with modern trends and modern thought instead of being distant from these things |
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| Jesus ressurected. Jesus has both a divine nature and a human nature; he is both fully god and fully human. Thus, Jesus discloses who God is for us and discloses what it means to be a human being. |
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| serves/educates the whole person. "education is a process that you engage in, and through it you become a different person" |
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| Marianist education-characteristics |
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- provide an integral equality education
- education for formation in faith
- education in family spirit
- educate for service, justice, and peace
- education for adaptation and change
emphasizes personal and social transformation. |
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| this is both a time-period with history and a set of ideas, assumptions, and technological capacities that characterize European-based culture during that time-period. |
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| belief in the transcendent, loving, creator, and sustainer God. The belief in one God. |
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| God's presence is found in adn through our concrete experiences of the world not by thinking about heaven outside the world. The world is fundamentally good, even as it is still feels the attraction of evil. God's not out there condemming us he is; he is with us transforming human life by his gift of grace |
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| the idea that God is absent from the world and therefore has no role in community/public life |
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- to "move beyond" our immediate experience of phenomena or "going beyond" seeing beyond the desires and interests of oneself
- GOD: is infinitely beyond anddifferent from the universe and teh things and peple populating the universe, and infinitely beyond human ideas of God
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his being deeply present to people and the world |
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| Christian teaching that the one God is a loving, vibrant community of three persons: Father, Son, and Spirit. |
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the “final,” inescapable questions of human purpose, meaning, and destiny
“final” means that we never finish off or get beyond them because they are primordial and enduring ones that define our existence. |
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| the worldwide gathering of Catholic bishops from 1962-1965 in Vatican City convened by Pope John XXIII to renew and reform the practices, pastoral style, and teachings of Catholicism in a modern context. |
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| one does not know or cannot know whether God exists, so one neither affirms nor denies the existence of God. |
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| the non-Christian whose exemplary kind of life and good deeds stem from her affirmative response to the hidden saving and sanctifying grace of Jesus Christ working within her soul. Such a person has not “earned” salvation. Rather, her actions witness to the saving love of Christ at work in making her holy, an event both “anonymous” to others (she is not a baptized, public Christian) and “anonymous” (unknown) to herself. |
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| an example of the New atheism and written by the philosopher Sam Harris |
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The context or writings were originally written in hebrew could not be properly translated therefore what we have written in english may not match up to what is in the original script
The Word of God in the Words of Men
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the historical/cultural belief that what is written in the bible is what God said directly to men and they simply recorded it.
THE WORD OF GOD DIRECTLY FROM GOD |
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| 21st century movement that holds that religious belief is not only wrongheaded but should be vigorously opposed as immoral and a threat to rationality itself. |
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| They know what they are getting themselves into. They know the concequences of being a true evil. Believed in evil such as war |
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| God is more than just an it he is a "who" we count on and trust in he is more to us than just an idea or divine being |
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| Knowledge of how the world works via repeatable experiments that test theories/hypothese, not by unimpeachable assumptions of a philosophical, theological, or scientific nature. |
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| believing that humankind is better than everyone and thing like god and animals |
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| Intelligent Design Theory |
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the theory that God is the I.D. whose fingerprints are left in that which he created. Cosmic engineer who mechanistically put all this stuff together but bible knows interpersonal reationship where its love and kindness; on the contrary of a god who has blue prints for everything. |
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| our human nature is the basis for moral insight |
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