Vocabulary Chapter 1

The capacity for wisdom, which is based on the ability to think clearly and come to correct answers to specific problems. The intellectual ability to know truth: to comprehend, infer, or think in an orderly way.

• reason

• paradox

• openness

• complementarity

According to Father James Brent, “an all-embracing understanding of reality as a whole in light of ultimate causes, especially in light of the end or goal of all things.”

• complementarity

• reason

• wisdom

• faith

An act and disposition of the mind and will marked by the entrustment of one’s whole self to God and the new path of knowing that it makes possible.

• reason

• wisdom

• faith

• openness

The practice of faith in prayer, worship, and daily life.

• reason

• faith

• wisdom

• religion

“ A diverse unity”; a complex collection of very different things that are all connected in some real way; the sum total of all beings that are unchangeable and material.

• universe

• openness

• paradox

• religion

 Approaching the physical universe according to its internal rules and patterns to explain how it works.

• Why Questions (theology)

• How questions: (science)

• paradox

• openness

Approaching the universe according to what the whole system of the universe means.

• How questions (science)

• Why questions (theology)

• openness

• religion

A method of revealing how the universe works by formulating questions, carrying out investigations, analyzing and interpreting data, and constructing explanations.

• Hypothesis

• Theory

• Scientific method

• Order

 A proposition set forth as an explanation for the occurrence of some specified group of phenomena.

• Openness

• Scientific Method

• Hypothesis

• Order

A hypothesis that survives many challenges and becomes well tested and well developed as an explanation of material realities.

• Theory

• Hypothesis

• Order

• Scientific Method