Religious Studies 1st Quarter Reviewer S.Y 2024 PDF

RELIGIOUS STUDIES 1 1ST QUARTER REVIEWER S.Y 2024 Topic 1: be written, as for Scriptures, other sacred reading. or a meaningful AGNESIAN MUST-KNOWS...

RELIGIOUS STUDIES 1 1ST QUARTER REVIEWER S.Y 2024 Topic 1: be written, as for Scriptures, other sacred reading. or a meaningful AGNESIAN MUST-KNOWS book. It can be spoken word of a learn, love, live the eucharist friend or an experience you have prayer - elevation of one’s hope, had. It can be the visual word from faith, hope, and love to God nature, a moving work of art, or the acts is the basic formula of listened-to-words from a song, play christian prayer - stands for or show. adoration, confession, thanksgiving, and supplication circumscriptive presence - body of Christ ADORATION to give God praise and honor for LECTIO DIVINA who he is as Lord overall “divine reading” a way of being immersed in the CONFESSION Word more personally to honestly deal with sins and a practice of scriptural reading mistakes PREPARATIO THANKSGIVING preparation to verbalize what you're grateful for find a place, decide on a definite in your life and in the world around period of time for prayer, assume a you posture that helps you to pray, choose a short passage, preferably SUPPLICATION from the scripture, and begin to to pray for the needs of others and quiet yourself remembering that yourself you are in the presence of God 5 P’S FOR PRAYER LECTIO Place - choose a place where you reading can be alone with God, or at least take a passage and read it slowly relatively alone, where you can be and reflectively. When you are undisturbed and un-disturbing. struck by a word, phrase or verse, Period - set aside a definite time stop. Repeat it to yourself over and when you can pray daily. Give God over again. You may do this 10 to 20, or even 30 minutes a mentally or you may say it aloud. day; a period exclusively for God What is important is that you relish and you to be together. the words, allowing them to sink in Posture - choose a body posture and be part of you. that is most relaxing and comfortable to you. You may sit, MEDITATIO kneel, re- cline, or lie down. Try reflect several postures until you find one explore why this chosen word is that most helps you to be still meaningful to you. What is inside and pray. happening in your life rightnow that Presence - come slowly and the verse strikesor draws you in a quietly to awareness of God's deeplypersonal way? What is God gentle and loving presence in and telling you in this word? What around you. Beg the Holy Spirit to feelings in you are touched by this be with you during this time of verse? Can you imagine yourself in prayer. this word, as in a scene? Passage - this refers to the, "Word" which you take and relish, stay and reflect on. This word can 1 RELIGIOUS STUDIES 1 1ST QUARTER REVIEWER S.Y 2024 ORATIO Topic 2: pray INTRODUCTION TO THEOLOGY God speaks to you and through His word. Talk to God about this BAD THEOLOGY word, answer Him spontaneously, converse with the Lord as you God is being used in a wrong / would converse with an intimate different context (also about friend. Let your personal religion (in general)). prayer-response arise from your heart. This may be a prayer that THEOLOGY gives thanks to a praise, that asks, knowing God or that begs for forgiveness. rational discourse about God or things divine CONTEMPLATIO the science of God - follows a rest in god specific process, if faith is only Sit in the silence of God’s Word. present it tends to have blind faith Be sill in the presence of the Lord when it should be a combination and simply rest in the between reason and faith overwhelming love He has for you. the relations between God and the Stay quietly for some moments. universe BENEDICTINE HALLMARKS EARLY CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY christ-centeredness - Christ as THE APOSTOLIC ERA the center of our lives and as a the Apostles (our primary source of model of christian living christian faith), chosen by Jesus, silence and good speech - spread His teachings and were refinement in speech and act, be authoritative mindful of what we say (5 seconds rule) EARLY ECUMENICAL COUNCILS stewardship - respect for the gathering of church people way beauty and goodness of creation back then to combat heresy (false as a sacrament of God teachings) hospitality - openness to others Council of Nicaea (325 CE) - obedience - a commitment to Nicene Creed listening and consequent action Council of Ephesus (431 CE) - community - calls for service to Hypostatic Union the common good and respect for Council of Chalcedon (451 CE) - the individual Two Natures of Christ discipline - way toward learning and freedom FORMATION OF THE CHRISTIAN CANON humility - knowledge in self in early Christians’ writings were relation to God, others, and checked and compiled into the creation New Testament Canon service - giving one’s own time to arguments before on what to attend to the needs of others include in the new testament stability - commitment to the daily gnostic gospels - gospels that are life of this place, its heritage, and wrong tradition PATRISTIC THEOLOGY studies early Christian doctrine by the Church Fathers formation of early christian doctrines 2 RELIGIOUS STUDIES 1 1ST QUARTER REVIEWER S.Y 2024 key figures: - role of the pope - inerrancy St. Augustine of Hippo - Original (the Bible "is without error Sin and Problem of Evil or fault in all its teaching") St. Jerome - Translation of the - magisterium - college of Bible bible (the ones who elect St. Athanasius - Defender of the the pope) Divinity of Christ mariology - role of mary SCHOLASTICISM - marian doctrines a philosophical and theological system that dominated medieval APPROACHES TO THEOLOGY European thought, particularly BIBLICAL during the High Middle Ages (11th how what we believe about God is to 17th century) revealed in the scripture about the dark ages in the unfolding revelation of God history/golden age of the church during a particular era CHARACTERISTICS HISTORICAL Rigorous Reasoning discussion of the theology of the Integration of Faith and Reason great theologians over the course Use of Dialectical Method of time - use of Q and A Focus on Authority - pope of Magesterium Key Figures - St. Thomas Aquinas (Summa Theologica - a comprehensive work that explores the nature of God, ethics, and human reason) - St. Anselm of Canterbury (Ontological Argument - based on the notion that the concept of God EXEGETICAL as the greatest being implies that the meaning of scripture from God exists—if not, there could be which our theology is derived something greater, namely an existent greatest being—but this SYSTEMATIC being would be God) biblical + historical + exegetical express what christians are to KEY THEOLOGICAL CONCEPTS believe, do, and be today based on attributes of God: the scripture - Omnipotence (power) - consider logical PRACTICAL THEOLOGY contradiction how we apply our christian beliefs - Omniscience (knowledge) to daily living - he knows our past present doctrine - a particular belief held and future and taught by the christian church - Omnibonum (goodness) a. theology proper - god salvation and atonement b. bibliology - bible - original sin c. anthropology - man in - role of jesus christ relation to god sacraments d. christology - jesus christ authority e. soteriology - redemption/ salvation f. ecclesiology - church 3 RELIGIOUS STUDIES 1 1ST QUARTER REVIEWER S.Y 2024 g. eschatology - last things/the future 3 FUNDAMENTAL MISTAKES Skepticism - extreme doubting is LIMITATIONS OF THEOLOGY the wrong form of skepticism unlike imperfect methods of study healthy skepticism that arrives at inadequate language the truth incomplete knowledge Fideism - extreme faith to the point one becomes an “uto-uto” RELEVANCE OF THEOLOGY Mysticism - bad theology it is more than merely getting to know the doctrines and practices TO BALANCE THESE THREE WE MUST: of the Catholic Church which seem reason - cause of human acts and to have no connection with the the way in which we process our experiences of people today knowledge; the ability to know knowledge of theology may not what is right and wrong only be useful to persons who have institutional functions in the RELATIONSHIP Church but also to ordinary revelation ⇨ God Catholics faith ⇨ us truth Topic 3: 1. Presentation of the NEO-SCHOLASTIC CATHOLICISM Church's official teaching or doctrine. the revision of scholasticism 2. Proofs supporting he doctrine from the Bible and CATHOLIC THEOLOGY leading church authorities / during the 19th and early 20th experience centuries could be generally 3. Speculative elaboration of characterized as predominantly the doctrine. neo- scholastic 4. Practical application. a. sola stigmata - wounds of christ catholic relevance with the a. St. Francis of Assisi (known emergence of empirical science through oral tradition) (any study whose conclusions are b. St. Catherine exclusively derived from concrete, c. Padre Pio verifiable evidence) incorrupt bodies - 24 hours after interpretation of faith (⇨ death the body is still intact universities) ⇨ demands ⇨ eucharistis miracles rationalistic philosophy + protestant interpretaton Topic 4: catholic faith is intelligible to THE SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL people central and distinctive in the reformation of the church; the neo-scholastic theology was the views of the chruch are still the rationalistic description of the same relationship between god and the time in which the church had many people changes sola scriptura - everything is October 9,1958 - Pope Pius XII interpreted by scripture alone dies (created idea of the 2nd sola fide - faith alone and how you vatican council) treat God; in relation to salvation October 28, 1958 - Pope John and faith is not the only thing that XXIII is elected as the supreme matters, it should be faith with pontiff (continued the idea of the action 2nd vatican council) 4 RELIGIOUS STUDIES 1 1ST QUARTER REVIEWER S.Y 2024 embrace technology ECUMENICAL COUNCIL scripture worldwide gathering of bishopes at eucharist the vatican renew the church bishops from different places gathered to talk about the issues of THE DOUBLE MOVEMENT OF VATICAN II the church ad fontes - fidelity to the gospel “modernism” - how will the church - return to the Resources remain relevant in this dynamic - stood for Church’s firm and ever changing world? commitment to remain faithful to the Gospel of 1962 - 1965 Jesus Christ before: aggiornamento - relevant to a. patriarchal - men are people’s experiences superior and the priests’ - imperative because the abuses (verbally and perennial relevance of the sexually) Gospel was no longer b. pastoral - church centered relevance and prists are strict - relevance must be c. the church is exclusive combined with Fidelity (restricted) after: THE 4 PIVOTAL DOCUMENTS a. respects women Lumen Gentium b. people - centered - light of nations c. inculturation (inclusive) - deals with the life of Catholics June 3, 1963 - Pope John XXIII with in the Church itself dies June 21, 1963 - Pope Paul VI is Gaudium Et Spes elected as supreme pontiff and - Joy and Hope continued presiding vatican II, he - pastoral Constitution on the was assassinated because he Church in the Modern World wanted to open the vatican - Relationship of the Church in the archives to the public Contemporary Situation concerning inculturation - evangelization loses much of its Sacrosanctum Concilum force and effectiveness if it does - Sacred Council not take into consideration the - lays out the importance and actual people to whom it is relevance and re-orientation of addressed, if it does not use their worship within Catholicism at the language, their signs and symbols, modern time if it does not answer the questions they ask, and if it dies not have an Dei Verbum impact in their concrete life. - Word of God not new tradition - the discoveries - dogmatic Constitution on Divine of different cultures so that in her Revelation preaching she might spread and -centrality of God-human explain the message of Christ to all relationship in Christian thought. nations - can be regarded as the most important because it deals with the CHANGES relationship between God and universal call to holiness people as well as created realities christian unity (synodality = reconcile ⇨ punishment and excommunication 5 RELIGIOUS STUDIES 1 1ST QUARTER REVIEWER S.Y 2024 which Vatican II already REVELATION - FAITH indicated” How we understand this is crucial to our theologizing Contemporary Human doing theology is the process of Experience carrying out theological reflection, - doing theology becomes articulation and action dynamic and meaningful only if it begins where we are – our present context. - culture is that integrated system of beliefs, values, customs, and institutions which binds society together and gives it a sense of identity, security and continuity. personalist theologies - the - we improve it to make life in pressing questions of human community worthy of our beings were responded by making dignity as human beings use of existentialist and personalist philosophies to emphasize the importance of being human in relationship. theologies of inter-religious dialogue - the faith expressions and interpretations that are many and often varied reminds us of the encompassing love of God. liberation theologies - answers the demand that the faith be more concrete, the demand that the faith be effective, and that it transmits its efficacy to the oppressed gender-sensitive theologies - theology that respects women’s dignity and promotes God’s will. ecological theologies - Theological reflections must include a re-reading and re- interpretation of the “dominion” claimed by human beings over the rest of creation PROCESS OF DOING THEOLOGY the mutual interaction between the Judeo-Christian Tradition and Contemporary Human Experiences give rise to Theology. Judeo-Christian Tradition - this pole reminds us of what was handed down to us through generations - this TRADITION is a handing of life, a point 6