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05/08/2012

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St. Thomas Aquinas Joined what religious order
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Dominicans
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Whose philosophy had the greatest influence on St. Thomas theology
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Aristotle
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For St. Augustine, Gods grace if primarily needed for what reason
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To forgive future sin
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The most significant controversy which influenced the development of St. Augustine’s theology:
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Pelagianism
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Docetism was an ancient heresy that believed what?
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that Jesus was not fully human, but human only in appearance
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n the Creed, the statement that Jesus Christ is ‘consubstantial (homoousios) with the Father’ is a refutation of which ancient crisis?
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Arianism
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The Creed professed today is a product of two Church councils
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Nicaea and Constantinople
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The overarching theme in the writings of St. Ignatius of Antioch:
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Christian martyrdom
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In early Church History, the era of the second generation Christians (aka the era immediately following the New Testament period) is known as the era of the...
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Apostolic Fathers
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Who ultimately guides the ‘handing on’ of Christian Tradition to each generation?
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the Holy Spirit
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Which one of the following is not part of the meaning of ‘Christian Tradition’
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no development over time
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Characteristics of ‘Christian Tradition’
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everything that contributes toward the holiness of life and increased faith. Holy spirit
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Tradition
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is the historical context from which Scripture emerged.
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Scripture
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Specific form of written tradition. Both inspired by the holy spirit.
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which two councils produced the Creed
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Constantinople/ Nicea
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primary functions of the creed
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summary of core beliefs for teaching and baptism/ rejection of unorthodox beliefs/ determining the scripture cannon.
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Council of Nicaea – specifically the major reason why the council was summoned
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To solve the Arian controversy
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Arian controversy
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Jesus was not like god because he was human
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Anomeanism
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held christ was unlike the father in every aspect
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Arianism
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an adopted son, not exactly like the Father, but great
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Pneumatomachians
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enemies of the spirit denied divinity of the holy spirit
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Sabellians
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believed there was only one person in God, no distinction in God
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Apollinarians
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christ had a human body and human soul but not human reason
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the 13th century developments which influenced Aquinas
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Universities theological thinking from monasteries to universities;
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‘Catholic Social Teaching
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A body of teachings, mostly papal encyclicals, expressing the Catholic Church’s teachings on social justice. -
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main principles of CST
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Dignity of the human person, the common good, universal destination of goods. preferential option for the poor, subsidiatiry, Solidarity.
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know which principle is the ground of all other principles;
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The Principal of the Dignity of the Human Person.
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the theological grounds (principle) for the CST principle known as the ‘universal destination of goods
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God created this world with the intention that the goods of the earth are ultimately for the good of all people. -
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classicism
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Aesthetic attitudes and principles manifested in the art, architecture, and literature of ancient Greece and Rome and characterized by emphasis on form, simplicity, proportion, and restraint.
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basic definition of (a) spirit and (b) the human person
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to live the creative tension between finite embodiment and the infinite self-transcendence of the human spiri
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ontological polarities and the nature of the problem
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embodiment/finitude spirit/infinitude.
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3 basic cognitional operations in the theory of ‘Critical Realism
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knowledge, insight, desire to know.
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the 5 Transcendentals
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Being, Unity, truth, goodness, beauty.
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the basic characteristics of the ‘human desire to know’
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detached, disinterested, unrestricted desire to know. will not rest until we see God face to face.
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the basic flaw (according to Raschko) of the ‘New Atheism
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that it does not account for the implications of a disbelief in any ultimate reality. No heaven or reason to be then what? how does that leave you.
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Evil suffered
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privation of good resulting from sin;
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idolatry
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raising any finite reality to ultimacy.
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atheism
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a denial of any ultimate reality (God).
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the fault of atheism
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a failure to affirm our spiritual nature, the dimension of human nature which is always seeking something more.
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uncreated grace
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God’s own self-communication to us; aka the ‘gift of the Holy Spirit’
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Created Grace
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a change in the person, which follows upon communication of uncreated grace
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Grace as Healing
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Augustine can choose God
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Grace as Elevating
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Aquinus can do more than human nature because of it
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Grace as forgiving
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Luther good works in ones salvation legal judgement
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Grace as Love
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Karl Rahner Gift of the holy spirit.
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Theological Anthropology
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Theological reflection on what it means to be a human person
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‘Christian Anthropology
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- A specific category within the broader category of theological anthropology - A reflection on what it means to be a human person from the perspective of Christian faith - Think of Christian Anthropology as a way of analyzing the human person from a particular lens, where that lens is Christian faith and Christian theology
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