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What is an ontology - Answers A belief about the nature of existence/being itself
In what ways is the ontology espoused by the CTT sacramental - Answers In that it believes that all of
reality is a surface that opens to an always arriving depth
In what ways is the ontology espouses by the CTT also analogical - Answers in that it believes that the
whole of reality is a depth of unity, whose emergence on the surface requires a diversity of beings
Which of the following is the best characterization of sacramentology - Answers it is an account of the
way in which the things of the visible world open to an invisible world
What does Augustine contend is the proper relationship between understanding and belief - Answers
One must first believe in order to then understand
Which of the following best describes the doctrine of the incarnation, a primary principle in the CTT -
Answers it identifies the assumption of a complete human nature, uncultured, historical and bound to
suffering, by the second person of the trinity, the son, the one who is sent
which of the following accurately articulates how a developmental hermeneutic informs the doctrine of
the incarnation - Answers the idea that God does not randomly enter time, but develops the world over
time in order to prepare it for Gods eventual entry
what is one primary reason that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is written in 4 different variations - Answers
Because like Christ, His gospel is pleromatic, arriving from the divine depths, and so requires diverse
profiles to do it justice
What axiom in its most fundamental meaning sums up how God's unearned redemptive action and the
church's prayerful and grateful response have provided essential teaching moments in the life of the
community, and what is its contemporary corollary (Duffy)? - Answers The law of praying establishes the
law of belief; that God continues to teach the church through its sacramental practice
Who said "God became a bearer of flesh so that we might become bearers of the spirit" - Answers
Athanasius
According to Jesus in his Bread of Life speech, who is the only one who has "seen the Father" - Answers
The one who is from God: The son
Which of the following is false with respect to what Jesus says about his flesh and blood - Answers His
flesh is a metaphor for Justice, and his blood is a symbol of charity
What was the reaction of many of Jesus' followers the Jesus' claims about his flesh and blood - Answers
They said this saying is hard, and asked who could accept it before many of them left
, According to Paul, what happens to a person who east the body and drinks the blood of the lord in an
unworthy manner - Answers They shall be guilty of the body and blood of the lord, eating and drinking
their own judgement
which of the following accurately articulates the phenomenon of transubstantiation - Answers The
substance of the bread and wine become the body and blood of christ, while the accidents of the bread
and wine remain
Which of the following best describes the substantives approach to religion - Answers Religion is defined
for what it is based upon its beliefs about the nature of reality
what is one problematic aspect of the substantives/essentialist accounts of religion - Answers it stands
as the most powerful critique of secular modernity/ the liberal tradition, making it a threat to the
modern world
According to Cavanaugh, what is the primary problem with trying to define religion in the way the
secular modernity/the liberal tradition does? - Answers Once the definition of religion is expanded to
include all those things such scholars want to include, it becomes difficult to exclude all the things they
want to exclude
Why is trying to use a 2-tier approach to defining religion, based on a distinction between
nature/supernature, human/superhuman, empirical/superempirical, etc. ineffective? - Answers The
distinctions remain fundamentally bound up with Western ideas, and all values by their nature are
superempirical.
What is the problem with trying to define religion by using some criteria like transcendence, God, the
supernatural, etc.? - Answers It ends up with circular reasoning, aka, question begging since it involves a
premise that assumes the truth of the conclusion without evidence.
Which of the following best describes the nature of the Bible as understood by the Catholic Tradition? -
Answers Like Jesus, the Bible is incarnation—both human and divine—as the Word of God expressed in
human language.
What sort of theory of reading does one get when one considers the Bible, as Bono does, as a narrative
of Love and growth? - Answers That every book of the Bible should be read in the same way as every
other book in order to understand that Love.
What holds the highest teaching authority in the Catholic Tradition? - Answers a council of all Catholic
bishops in the world in union with the Bishop of Rome (the pope)
What does it mean to say that the Catholic tradition emphasizes diversity when it comes to Biblical
hermeneutics? - Answers That since God's speaking exceeds any one perspective, no single
interpretation can exhaust the meaning of the whole, which is a symphony of voices, a many-in-one and
a one-in-many
What is an ontology - Answers A belief about the nature of existence/being itself
In what ways is the ontology espoused by the CTT sacramental - Answers In that it believes that all of
reality is a surface that opens to an always arriving depth
In what ways is the ontology espouses by the CTT also analogical - Answers in that it believes that the
whole of reality is a depth of unity, whose emergence on the surface requires a diversity of beings
Which of the following is the best characterization of sacramentology - Answers it is an account of the
way in which the things of the visible world open to an invisible world
What does Augustine contend is the proper relationship between understanding and belief - Answers
One must first believe in order to then understand
Which of the following best describes the doctrine of the incarnation, a primary principle in the CTT -
Answers it identifies the assumption of a complete human nature, uncultured, historical and bound to
suffering, by the second person of the trinity, the son, the one who is sent
which of the following accurately articulates how a developmental hermeneutic informs the doctrine of
the incarnation - Answers the idea that God does not randomly enter time, but develops the world over
time in order to prepare it for Gods eventual entry
what is one primary reason that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is written in 4 different variations - Answers
Because like Christ, His gospel is pleromatic, arriving from the divine depths, and so requires diverse
profiles to do it justice
What axiom in its most fundamental meaning sums up how God's unearned redemptive action and the
church's prayerful and grateful response have provided essential teaching moments in the life of the
community, and what is its contemporary corollary (Duffy)? - Answers The law of praying establishes the
law of belief; that God continues to teach the church through its sacramental practice
Who said "God became a bearer of flesh so that we might become bearers of the spirit" - Answers
Athanasius
According to Jesus in his Bread of Life speech, who is the only one who has "seen the Father" - Answers
The one who is from God: The son
Which of the following is false with respect to what Jesus says about his flesh and blood - Answers His
flesh is a metaphor for Justice, and his blood is a symbol of charity
What was the reaction of many of Jesus' followers the Jesus' claims about his flesh and blood - Answers
They said this saying is hard, and asked who could accept it before many of them left
, According to Paul, what happens to a person who east the body and drinks the blood of the lord in an
unworthy manner - Answers They shall be guilty of the body and blood of the lord, eating and drinking
their own judgement
which of the following accurately articulates the phenomenon of transubstantiation - Answers The
substance of the bread and wine become the body and blood of christ, while the accidents of the bread
and wine remain
Which of the following best describes the substantives approach to religion - Answers Religion is defined
for what it is based upon its beliefs about the nature of reality
what is one problematic aspect of the substantives/essentialist accounts of religion - Answers it stands
as the most powerful critique of secular modernity/ the liberal tradition, making it a threat to the
modern world
According to Cavanaugh, what is the primary problem with trying to define religion in the way the
secular modernity/the liberal tradition does? - Answers Once the definition of religion is expanded to
include all those things such scholars want to include, it becomes difficult to exclude all the things they
want to exclude
Why is trying to use a 2-tier approach to defining religion, based on a distinction between
nature/supernature, human/superhuman, empirical/superempirical, etc. ineffective? - Answers The
distinctions remain fundamentally bound up with Western ideas, and all values by their nature are
superempirical.
What is the problem with trying to define religion by using some criteria like transcendence, God, the
supernatural, etc.? - Answers It ends up with circular reasoning, aka, question begging since it involves a
premise that assumes the truth of the conclusion without evidence.
Which of the following best describes the nature of the Bible as understood by the Catholic Tradition? -
Answers Like Jesus, the Bible is incarnation—both human and divine—as the Word of God expressed in
human language.
What sort of theory of reading does one get when one considers the Bible, as Bono does, as a narrative
of Love and growth? - Answers That every book of the Bible should be read in the same way as every
other book in order to understand that Love.
What holds the highest teaching authority in the Catholic Tradition? - Answers a council of all Catholic
bishops in the world in union with the Bishop of Rome (the pope)
What does it mean to say that the Catholic tradition emphasizes diversity when it comes to Biblical
hermeneutics? - Answers That since God's speaking exceeds any one perspective, no single
interpretation can exhaust the meaning of the whole, which is a symphony of voices, a many-in-one and
a one-in-many
