Theology Unit 3 Part 1 and 2 people
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 St. John of the Cross | The Dark Night |
| St. Teresa of Avila | The Interior Castle |
| iii. St. Augustine | Our life's journey is a search for the living God |
| desire | to long for |
| 4. Divine Revelation | : God's "self-communication" by unveiling the mystery of his divine plan in Sacred Scripture |
| 5. Freewill | individual's choice to choose God |
| 6. Salvation history | stories of God's love , forgiveness, promise of eternal life |
| a. Incarnation | - God becomes flesh, as Jesus |
| b. Paschal Mystery | , Jesus' passion, death, resurrection, ascension |
| 9. Divine Inspiration | Holy Spirit inspired the authors of the OT to write the message God wanted communicated |
| a. Apostolic Tradition | - new testament based on what the Apostle's witnessed and teachings of Jesus |
| 10. Vocation | call to holiness |
| c. Dorothy Day | i. Lived the beatitudes ii. Journalist, writer, social activist iii. "I have not been embarrassed to talk about God." |
| Natural Revelation | 1. Through creation and reason, we can know God. |
| 6. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin | a. French Jesuit Theologian and Scientist |
| 6. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin | Believed there is no controversy between science and religion |
| 6. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin | c. "We are not human beings having spiritual experiences...We are spiritual beings having human experiences." |
| 6. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin | d. Truth of faith and science can't contradict one another because God is the source of all truth. |
| 7. Church Fathers | Teachers of the Early church whose writings extended those of the Apostles |
| a. St. Ambrose | ii. first doctor of the Church |
| a. St. Ambrose | iv. Baptized St. Augustine |
| b. St. John Chrysostom | ii. Name means "golden-mouthed"...great preacher/teacher of Scripture |
| c. St. Jerome | iii. Translated the Bible into Latin, called the Vulgate |
| d. St. Augustine | i. Bishop of Hippo, Algeria (Africa) |
| d. St. Augustine | ii. Raised as a Christian but left the Church; birthed a child out of wedlock iii. converted to Catholicism at 31 |
| e. St. Thomas Aquinas | ii. Called "dumb ox" because of his size and silent ways but he was brilliant |
| e. St. Thomas Aquinas | iii. Great writing: Summa Theologica |
| a. Vatican I | i. God can be known through human reasoning |
| b. Vatican II | met to modernize the world |
| 10. Karl Rahner | a. Believed: we come to know God through the universe, marked by mystery and complexity b. God is Absolute Mystery/ horizon of our being |
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