catholicism final
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 eucharist | symbolic re-enactment of death and resurrection of Jesus |
| holy spirit | love between the father and the son |
| father | creator |
| son | redeemer |
| holy spirit | sanctifier |
| spirit | ruah- breath, air, wind |
| title of the holy spirit | -advocate -paraclete -ad vocates -spirit of truth -spirit of promise -spirit of adoption -spirit of christ -spirit of the lord -spirit of god -spirit of glory |
| symbols of the holy spirit | -fire -dove -water -oil -cloud and light -seal -hand -finger -wind |
| the cross | symbol of atonement |
| two aspects of the cross | 1. the suffering 2. joy of salvation |
| hangel's 8 ways atonement of theology developed | 1.crucifixion put apostles into fear 2.disciples felt guilty for fleeing 3.encounter w/ risen lord and offer of peace brought atonement 4.resurrection faith increase 5.saw jesus as culmination of atonement 6.jesus' death was seen as supreme act of love 7.cross was views as ultimate symbol of sacrifice 8.jesus was model for life of giving and strength |
| St. Clement | salvation was brought about by human nature and being united to God in Christ |
| theology of recapitulation (irenaus) | 1.creation 2.fall 3.restoration of world by Jesus |
| proleptic event | event that happened once in history but will happen again-resurrection |
| resurrection is the heart of... | christian tradition |
| resurrection (paul) | an act by God that vindicated and glorified Jesus |
| significance of resurrection | -validates Jesus -Jesus attains fullness of personhood -Jesus' transition to new mode of existence through the HS -death and resurrection is a paradigm |
| church | assembly of people usually for religious reasons |
| three aspects of church | -liturgical assembly -local assembly-parish -universal community-catholic |
| symbols of the church | -mystery -people of god -body of christ -sacrament of christ -pilgrim church -mother church -bride of christ |
| mystery | visible sign of invisible grace |
| people of God | -richest symbol coming out of vatican II -emphasized dignity of each individual person |
| body of christ | roots in ministry of Jesus |
| sacrament | outward visible sign of God's loving gift for mankind |
| sacrament of christ | jesus is the father's sacrament |
| kingdom of god | god's saving activity on human activity |
| three signs of the church | 1. kerygma 2. koionia 3. diakonia |
| kerygma | proclamation of the gospel |
| koionia | community of believers |
| diakonia | service |
| three things jesus is that the church is | 1. priest 2. prophet 3. king |
| priest | sanctifying |
| prophet | teaching |
| king | governing |
| infallibility | belief that a certain doctrine/teaching is w/o error |
| two types of infallibility | 1. supreme (extraordinary) 2. ordinary |
| four marks of the church | 1. one 2. holy 3. catholic 4. apostolic |
| three levels of unity | 1. creed 2. code 3. cult |
| creed | faith beliefs |
| code | moral teaching |
| cult | christian worship- public or private |
| catholic | universal/general |
| three reasons the church is catholic | 1. teach all nations 2. continues to teach what christ taught 3. access to a full relationship w/ jesus |
| three reasons the church is apostolic | 1. apostolic succession 2. possess the same doctrine as apostles 3. still taught by the apostles |
| escatology | name given to the branch of christian theology which explores the question of ultimate human destiny |
| 4 main last things | 1. death 2. judgement 3. heaven 4. hell |
| particular judgement | judges each person immediately after death |
| hell | eternal consequence of freely choosing a life of sin |
| essence of hell | the separation from God |
| pain of hell | the pain of having being created for union with god and being separated from him |
| purgatory | place of purification before going to heaven |
| limbo | st thomas aquinas- place where unbaptized babies go |
| 6 guidelines from the council of chalcedon | 1. christ is perfect 2. he has a rational soul and body 3. one substance w/ father and us 4. christ is two natures 5. two natures come together in one person 6. mary is mother of god |
| council of chalcedon | delt with the problem of the relation between the divine and human in christ-incarnation |
| nestorius | preferred the words prosopon and conjunction to describe the divine and human in christ |
| communicatio idiomatum | exchange of distinguishing characteristics; b/c jesus is something god is something |
| examples of CI | -theotokos -god died on the cross |
| 4 aspects of the debt satisfaction theory of atonement | 1. mankind was in a state of sin 2. mankind couldn't pay its debt 3. mankind is in need of someone who can pay the debt 4. son became incarnate and suffered and died to make recompense for our failures |
| 2nd council of nicea | condemned the heresy of iconoclasm |
| 2nd council of constantinople | reaffirmed the unity of Christ |
| 3rd council of constantinople | reaffirmed that christ has two natures |
| 4 reasons word became flesh | 1. save us 2. know God's love 3. model of holiness 4. partakers of the divine |
| theandric deeds | personally and authoritative works that are proper to God |
| iconoclasm | opposed the use of images in worship on the grounds that the transcendent God cannot be pictured |
| theotokos | mary is the mother god- ex of CI |
| adoptionism | dynamic monarchianism , belief that Christ was the adopted and not natural son of God |
| coptics | members of the orthodox church of alexandria |
| gnostics | believed they had secret knowledge of god |
| incarnation | god became man |
| monothelitism | heresy claiming that Christ has two natures but only one will |
| apollinarianism | false belief that said although Jesus had a human body he had no human soul |
| ebionites | Jewish-Christian sect. believed that Jesus was the messiah but that he was not divine. |
| jacobites | use the old right of antioch in the syrian language |
| nestorianism | belief that christ was a union of two men, one human and the other divine christ never fully human or fully divine |
| docetism | the heretical doctrine (associated with the Gnostics) that Jesus had no human body and hissufferings and death on the cross were apparent rather than real |
| epiphany | a divine manifestation |
| monophysitism | Heresy claiming that there is only one nature in Christ and that His human nature is "incorporated" into the Divine Nature. |
| psilanthropism | which overlaps with earlier concepts of adoptionism, in the view that Jesus was merely human, son of Joseph |
| transfiguration | (New Testament) the sudden emanation of radiance from the person of Jesus |
| concupiscence | the "inclination to sin" |
| atonement | the state of being at-one-with God |
| merit | the goodness of some deed that entitles one to a reward |
| satisfaction | christ's free acceptance of death thereby making amends |
| justification | the saving gift of righteousness which makes human beings acceptable to God |
| paschal mystery | Christ's work of redemption through His Passion, death, Resurrection, and Ascension |
| wrong ways to understand redemption | -ransom -penal substitution |
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