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| The faith-illuminated endeavor to identify the contents of the faith (deposit of faith) as discoverable in the sources of revelation (sacred scriptures and sacred traditions). IDENTIFICATION of Revelation. |
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| A division of theology according to method. The faith-illuminated endeavor to understand the deposit of faith and its implications. UNDERSTANDING of Already-Identified Revelation. |
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| A division of theology according to content. It is that branch of theology which studies the mysteries of faith/God and His works. |
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| The practice of theology which is speculative in method and dogmatic in content. |
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| The branch of systematic theology which treats (i) the nature of theology and (ii) apologetics |
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| A truth claim, the structure of which involves a subject and a predicate, joined by a copula. |
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| The structure of a proposition |
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| "Subject [is/is not] predicate" |
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| A proposition whose predicate is included in the essence of the subject. |
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| A principle of an existing thing. It is the nature of the thing; What accounts for a thing being the kind of thing it is. |
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| A principle of an existing thing. It is the very existence of the thing or what accounts for the thing existing at all, being real. |
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| Actuality of the potential insofar as it is potential. |
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| Explain this key premise of Aquinas' first way: Whatever is moved is moved by another. |
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