Christian Doctrine Flashcards

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Divine

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of or pertaining to God.

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Catechesis

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an education of children, young people, and adults in the faith of the Church through the teaching of Christian doctrine in an organic and systematic way to make them disciples of Christ.

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Charism

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a specific gift or grace of the Holy Spirit which directly or indirectly benefits the Church, given in order to help a person live out the Christian life, or to serve the common good in building up the Church.

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Church Fathers

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Church teachers and writers of the early centuries whose teachings are a witness to the Tradition of the Church.

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Consubstantial

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belief that the three persons of the Blessed Trinity- while distinct- are of one and the same substance. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit possess exactly the same nature.

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Economy

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God's activity in creating and governing the world, particularly with regard to His plan for the salvation of the world in the person and work of Jesus Christ.

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Incarnation

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the fact that the Son of God assumed human nature and became man in order to accomplish our salvation in that same human nature. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the second Person of the Trinity, is both true God and true man, not part God and part man.

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Jesus had both human-divine will and intellect. Explain.

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He knows right from wrong and chooses to do right.

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The first ecumenical council of Nicaea AD 325 declared that God the Son is consubstantial with the Father. Where, as Catholics, do we recognize this truth?

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In the Nicene Creed, the formal Profession of Faith in the Trinity recited at Mass

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Mystery

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a divinely revealed truth whose very possibility cannot be rationally conceived before it is revealed and, after revelation, whose inner essence cannot be fully understood by the finite mind.