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Lesson 2

Natural Revelation

God has revealed Himself to us through the created order.

Catechism Connections

Lesson Topics
Creation and Creator
Essential Lessons

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Lesson Vocabulary

  • Gentiles
    :
    (n.): People of non-Jewish ethnicity
  • Messiah
    :
    (n.): The Hebrew word for “anointed one” and the title given to the Savior God promised to the people of Israel.
  • Fathers of the Church
    :
    (n.): The bishops and teachers of the early Church
  • Pagan
    :
    (n.): A person who practices polytheism, or the worship of many gods.
  • Creed
    :
    (n.): A brief summary or profession of our Christian Faith, such as the Nicene Creed and the Apostles’ Creed.
  • Scholasticism
    :
    (n.): An intellectual method originating in medieval Europe that sought to integrate classical philosophy and Christian thought in order to understand and explain revealed truths.
  • Five Proofs for the Existence of God
    :
    (n.): Arguments developed by St. Thomas Aquinas that use human reason and observation of the created world to conclude that God exists. Also called the “five ways.”
  • Ecumenical Council
    :
    (n.): A meeting of all the world’s bishops together in union with the pope.
  • Enlightenment
    :
    (n.): A philosophical movement of the eighteenth century that derived the value of faith and maintained that reason alone leads us to truth and holds the potential to solve the problem of evil.
  • Relativism
    :
    (n.): A dangerous philosophy that says moral principles are a matter of individual preference based on personal experience, socioeconomic status, education, and particular culture, rather than based on absolute objective moral truths. Relativism denies the existence of good and evil and harms our ability choose the good.

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