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I. Our Desire and Capacity for God
A. Desire for God is Natural
1. St Augustine “restless hearts” (YC 3)
2. Created by God for God - our purpose
3. Free will
B. Search for God who wants to be known (YC 7)
God wants to be known (YC 7)
1. Effort of Human Intellect
gift of reason (DV: “God, the first principle and last end of all things can be known with certainty from the created world by the natural light of human reason.”)
(YC 3)
(YC 3; St Albert the Great)
created God’s image (YC 4)
2. Correct will (YC 5) (why some deny God)
3. Upright heart
4. Witness of others
5. Ways to come to know God (YC 6 “Truth”)
Open to truth and beauty
Recognize moral goodness
Freedom
Voice of Conscience
Longing for the infinite
Longing for happiness
C. Need for Revelation
ation
Some realities exceed our understanding especially those of moral and religious truths.
Religion: definitions from Websters, CA, YC 3-5, Thesaurus, OSV Encyclopedia, Oxford Etymology,
D. Jesus: Full and Final Revelation
Mystery of God, Mystery of human persons definitively disclosed
Jesus reveals what fully human means
To “find yourself” must give yourself to God and Others
Adopted sons & daughters makes us heirs to divine happiness
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Divine Revelation Initiative of Gods love
A. Revelation of God
Initiative of Gods love
Gradual - prepared humanity to accept by stages
Full Revelation: His Son - Jesus
Enables us to respond - a gift
B. OT Revelation
(YC 8)
The Covenants
Creation () Manifestation to Adam & Eve
Creation () Manifestation to Adam & Eve
First Covenant - a couple
spoke to them
sin unable to thwart God’s plan
2nd Covenant: Noah ; a family
divine economy
covenant: solemn promise/agreement; exchange of persons
economy: theological term meaning God’s activity in the world
3rd Abraham - a tribe
gather the scattered human race into a family of faith
4th Moses- a nation
free a people from Egyptian slavery
5th David - a kingdom
6th Jesus- a world
C. New Testament - New Covenant
(YC 9-10)
Full revelation; “If you have seen me.....” (DV 4; cf ; ; CCC 66)
Gospel source of all saving truth (CCC 75)
D. Revelation has 3 Dimensions
(YC 11-13)
1. Holy Scriptures 46 OT, 27 NT (YC 14-16)
unity of the two testaments
Church did not add books to Bible but others did subtract
2. Tradition - living communication (YC 12)
life force from 4,000 years of faith experience
in partnership with Scripture
3. Magisterium - teaching authority of the Church
(YC 11-13) Why we hand on the faith
authority flows from Jesus to Apostles, handed on to Bishops in concert with the Pope
task of authentic intrepretation of Scripture
Dogmas: Truths of divine revelation
required to adhere
hierarchy of truths top two
paschal mystery
revelation of God in Christ
E. Church is servant of Revelation
The faithful as a whole
The three dimensions (Scripture, Tradition, Magisterium) are interconnected
Bishops successors to Apostles have teaching authority
Baptized give Holy Spirit to instruct and guide
private revelations are not in deposit of faith
some the Church recognizes but not all
if private revelation contradicts church teaching it cannot be accepted
See CCC
III.
The Life of Faith
III.
The Life of Faith
A. The Nature of Faith
Faith: the assent given in trust and obedience to truth
Allows human persons to submit completely and give assent of intellect and will to God (YC 20)
personal commitment
free assent
relationship
Obedience of faith (Obedience means “to listen to” “to heed”)
Act of the intellect (YC 23)
a gift of grace
authentically human
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