Religion Exam Review #1
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Trinity | 3 persons in 1 God |
| Person | Some one who has a mind and a will. Who someone is |
| Nature | What something or someone is |
| Angels | Persons created by God with out bodies;pure spirits. Means "messanger" |
| 3 functions of angels | Messengers from God to us, gardian angels,and praising God in heaven |
| Work | Any act done by a person that involves a manual or intelliectual effort to accomplish a purpose |
| Terms of work | Perminant, faithful,and life giving |
| Materialism | An uncontrolled desire to possess things |
| Original Sin | The pride of Adam and Eve; god allows this because it can always bring about a greater good; adam and eve and their descendants could not regain their friendship with god |
| Consequences of Original Sin | Lost grace,physical pain,death,emmotions out of control,darkened intellect,weakened will,inclination to sin |
| Concupisence | The inclination to sin |
| Emotions | All neutral |
| Incarnation | When Jesus became flesh |
| Hypostatic Union | The union of human nature and the divine nature in the one divine Person of Jesus Christ |
| Magesterium | The teaching authority of the Catholic Church |
| Abortion | The killing of an unborn baby |
| Fiat | Let it be done according to your word |
| Epistle | Letter |
| Gospel | Good news |
| Theophany | Means appearance of God |
| Immaculate Conception | When Mary was conceived without Original Sin |
| 12 | the age of Jesus in the finding of jesus in the temple |
| Euthanasia | The killing of a person thought to be useless |
| The 4 Evangelists | Matthew,Mark,Luke,John |
| Omnipotence | All powerful |
| Eternal | No beggining and no end |
| Love | Self giving |
| Omnipresence | Everywhere at once |
| Omniscience | All knowing |
| Gods attributes | God power Jesus wisdom Holy Spirit love |
| Why did God create | To show His power,wisdom,and love |
| Joyful Mysteries | Different people learn about and welcome Jesus |
| attributes of god | omnipotence, eternal, love omiscient, and omnipresence |
| heirarchy of being | top to bottom: god, angels, people, animals, plants, inanimate objects |
| types of angels | seraphim, cherubim, guardian, and arc |
| temptation | something bad that makes you feel good onc you've done it |
| inspiration | something good that makes you feel bad once you've done it |
| sacramentality of the body | the body is a sacrament of your soul |
| personal god | god has an intellect and a will he also has a personality |
| animals vs. humans | humans have rational souls with an intellect and a will and animals have sensate souls but no intellect or will |
| death | a result of original sin that isn't natural because since the body is a sacrament of the soul then the body and soul aren't supposed to seperate but that is what death does |
| who we are | does god love us for what we do or who we are? |
| personalistic norm | we can never merely use people- we use things and love people; god is personal |
| self- destructive sin | sin hurts ourself and gives only our ourselves the effects of original sin |
| liturgy | work of god and man; when you pray you are working by giving worship to god |
| protoevangelium | FIRST good news |
| 3 examples of bringing about a greater good | david and bathsheba, joseph, and abraham and isaac |
| Jesus | the greatest good that can come about from evil |
| jesus's natures | divine and human natures because he was divine and then took on flesh so became human |
| joyful mysteries | the annunciation, the visitation, the nativity, the presentation in the temple, the finding of the child jesus in the temple |
| jesus became man | happened because man sinned and had to be saved from original sin |
| divine dilemma | god is all just and all merciful and can forgive us and give us the chance to return his love |
| st. maximilian kolbe | he was the man who was in concentration camps during world war 2 and he took his life for another man who had a family to go home to |
| pier giorgio frassati | man of the beattitudes |
| st. john bosco | he created an order for boys to come and learn about god and get educated |
| christ | where does the grace to return god's love come from? |
| jesus's teachings | jesus tells stories through word of mouth |
| oral tradition | jesus's teachings are passed down through other people telling the stories that jesus told them |
| the gospel writings | the gospel writers write down Jesus's teachings |
| Paulin corpus | earliest written letters |
| external evidence | non-christians who wrote about Jesus as an actual historical person |
| Tacitus | roman historian who states that jesus was condemned by Pilate, talks about Judaea, and tells how Jesus was called Christ |
| Josephus | Jewish historian who talks about miracles, the crucifiction, Pilate, and the church and disciples |
| internal evidence | same stories, oral tradition would have been corrected by someone who actually witnessed the story |
| synoptic gospels | mathew, mark, and luke have almost the exact same stories about Jesus |
| infancy narratives | mathew, luke: Jesus' stories |
| essene community | group of men who lived together trying to be holy. |
| dead sea scrolls | essenes were told to have found these in a cave in qumran |
| john the baptist's death | he died when king herod's daughter ordered his head on a platter |
| John the Baptist's birth | john the baptist wasn't born with original sin because he saw jesus in mary's tummy he was filled with the holy spirit |
| Simeon | the prophet who called jesus master |
| anna | the girl in the nativity who shows inspiration |
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