Vocabulary for Religion
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- Theophany
- an appreance or manifestation of God to humans
- Meditation
- A form of prayer where the mind and imagination focus on christ and some of truth of divine revilation with the purpose of applying the lessons we learn to our lies
- atheist
- a person who denies the existence of God
- ____ in prayer caused by a wandering mind, an overeactice imagination, or external noises
- distractions
- omnipotence
- term that means that God is almighty and his power is unliminted
- dogma
- a central truth of revelation that catholics are obliged to believe
- blessed trinity
- the central dogma of the christian faith that there are three divine persons, father, son, and holy spirit in one God
- saint
- a holy one
- Mount Sinai
- place where God gave his love to his chosen peopel through moses
- Charism
- Gift
- Doxology
- The added conclusion to a prayer at mass; A prayer of praise
- praise
- a form of prayer where by we acknowledge God and his goodness and glorify him for who he is
- David
- credited with writing many of the psalms
- charity (love)
- the greatest of all virtues
- doctor of the church
- a church writer of great
- revelation
- God's free gift of self communication
- deism
- the belief that God did create the universe but that he takes no further interest in it
- polytheistic
- religions that believe in multiple Gods
- mental
- this type of prayer typically centers of Jesus
- when we ____ god's name we pray that everyone on earth will regard god as holy
- hallow
- Piety
- A gift of the HOly Spirit through which we show respect to the Lord through praise and worship
- covenant
- the open ended contract of love between God and human beings
- immanence
- a trait of God that refers to God's intimate union with and total prescence to his creation
- Son
- Salvation is a mission attributed to this Divine Person
- The ___ is a privelege prayer for catholics and examplifies many types of prayer
- Eucharist
- revelation
- means unveiling
- the ___ ____ is the prime christian prayer
- lord's prayer
- the desire for God is written in the human ___ , because man is creates by God and for God
- heart
- the Lord's prayer has been called "the ___ of the whole gospel"
- summary
- original sin
- the fallen state of nature into which all generations of people are born into
- theological virtues
- three important virtues bestowed on us at baptism which relate us to God.
- To pray we must be ____ to God
- Open
- religion
- the relationship between God and humans that results in a body of beliefs and a set of practices
- divine providence
- God's loving and watchful guidance over his creatures on their way to their final goal and perfection
- Fortitude
- A gift of the Holy spirit that strength us to follow our own convictions
- first cause
- proof of God's existence relating to the principle that nothing causes itself
- Gabriel
- the angel who announced to mary that she would have Jesus
- magisterium
- the official teaching authority of the church
- concupisence
- an inclination to commit sin that can be found on human desires and appetites as a result of original sin
- Holy Spirit
- Saintification is a mission atributed to the divine person
- contemplation
- wordless prayer whereby a person's mind and heart rests in God's goodness and majesty
- agnostics
- people who claim that God's existence can not be known
- chatecism of the catholic church (CCC)
- a compendium of catholic doctrine on faith and morals
- Blessing
- A prayer that invockes God's care on some person, place, thing, or undertaking
- Father
- Creation is a mission attributed to the Divine Person
- adoration
- prayer that acknowledges that God is God
- the lord's prayer challenges us to____
- share
- After the flood, God made a covenant with ____
- NOAH
- ecumenical council
- a worldwide, official assembly of bishops under the direction of the pope
- Abba
- daddy
- transendance
- a trait of God that refers to God's total otherness and being infinitely beyond and independant of creation
- when we pray for our daily bread, we are really praying for ___ life
- spiritual
- Aquinos
- saint who developed intellectual proof of God's existence based on the works of Aristotle
- monotheistic
- religions that believe that there is only one God