CST 1st Midterm His creation

> God exists even without the universe

I. THEISM vs DEISM, PANTHEISM,
PANENTHEISM Deism
Theism - God exists
- Deity is transcendent > God created the universe and it scientific
> separate from creation and moral laws in a state of perfection
- Deity is immanent > belives that after creation, God no longer
> deity created the universe and is still interfered with His creation because the
active in nature today universe did not need God to keep it
- Miracles exist functioning (since it’s perfect)
> suspends the laws of nature from time to - God is transcendent
time in order to generate miracles > He is separate from creation
- Prayer is useful > He is above creation
> prayer as a means of personal - God is ​not ​ immanent
communication with the deity, offering > God does not currently work in nature
thanks and asking for special favors > the only time God worked in nature was
- deity has infinite attributes during the creation
> omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresent, - Miracles don’t happen
all-loving > they never happened; neither in biblical
- 5 Types of Theism times nor at present
1. Duotheism - Prayer is not useful
- existence of 2 deities who are often > even if God were listening, He would not
pretty much equal in power act
- aka Ditheism, Bitheism
2. Henotheism Panentheism
- many deities accompanies by many - Deity is immanent
subservient (subordinate) deities > the deity is an inner “Presence and
3. Monotheism Power” that is is within the universe and
- belief in a single deity everything in it
- usually male - Deity is transcendent
4. Trinity > even though the deity is infused within the
- 3 persons within a single deity universe and everything in it, part of the
- a version of monotheism deity is external to the universe
- what Christians/Catholics believe in - How Panentheism associates God with the
- How Theism associates God with the universe
universe

- sees that there is no God without the universe

since the universe is part of what makes God
whole
> God does not exist without the universe
- sees God and the universe as two separate
entities, but shows that God still connects with
Pantheism Person
- Deity is ​not​ transcendent - Jesus, through the incarnation, was both
> it has no aspect that is beyond the completely human and completely divine
universe - “mercy is entering into the chaos of another”
- Deity is immanent > God showed mercy by coming down to
> deity created the universe and is active in Earth and experiencing human life
nature today - God came at a time when we were not
- may be permanently beyond our ability to prepared
perceive and conceptualize - Jesus came as our savior and redeemer to
save us from our sins so that we may have
transcendent immanent Miracles Salvation
/prayer
The Person of Jesus Through His Incarnation
Theism ✓ ✓ ✓
- truly man and truly God
Deism ✓ - God becoming man
Panentheis ✓ ✓
- salvation = liberty from sin and death
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“The salvation offered in its fullness to men in
Pantheism ✓
Jesus Christ… is salvation for all people and of the
whole person: it is universal and integral salvation”
God’s Participation
Universal Salvation
Theistic Religions Transcendence Immanence in - the doctrine that all sinful and alienated
Humanity human souls will be reconciled to God
Judaism Yaweh Prophets and because of divine love and mercy
Kings - all people will end up in heaven
Islam Allah Prophets
Integral Salvation
Christianity God Jesus - salvation that embraces our whole being and
our whole life
- Judaism and Islam believe that God - Salvation provided by Christ is for us as
participates/participated in creation/humanity whole persons, addressing the integrity of our
through prophets/the Messiah personhood
- Christianity believes that God himself assumed
human nature in Jesus Christ and walked among III. SCRIPTURES AND TRADITION: WORD OF
us through the incarnation GOD
How Does God Continue to Relate With His People
II. INCARNATION AND THE PERSON OF JESUS in the Present Time?
CHRIST - God continues to speak to us through the
Incarnation Word of God (Scripture and Tradition)
- God assumed human nature through Jesus
so that we will feel His presence Sources Of Faith
- “​who, though he was in the form of God, did - Scripture and Tradition are to be treated as
not count equality with God a thing to be God’s Word
Grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form - Scripture and Tradition are not to be taken
of a servant, being made in human likeness” separately
- God experiences what it is to be a human - the two of them form one depository of our
 faith - believed that salvation was only for members
- Scripture of the Church and followers of Christ
> basically the Bible
> it is the speech of God as it is put down in Vatican II
writing under the breath of the Holy Spirit - inclusive; universal
- Tradition - believes that salvation is for all people since
> transmits in its entirety the word of God God loves all of us equally, including those
> it is transmitted to the successors of the who don’t believe in Him
Apostles so that, enlightened by the Holy
Spirit, they may faithfully preserve, V. ELEMENTS OF CST
expound, and spread it abroad by their 1. Principles for Reflection
preaching - fixed and unchanging
which has been entrusted to the apostles - most authoritative
by Christ the Lord and the Holy Spirit
> the first generation of Christians did not 2. Criteria for Judgment
yet have a written New Testament, and - can vary for different times and places
the New Testament itself demonstrates - societies are different from one another,
the process of living tradition always changing
> Four Traditions promulgated in Vatican
Council II are part of Sacred Tradition 3. Guidelines for Action
> 3 Stages - depends on judgments made with information
1. Jesus Ministry available at the time
2. Oral Tradition - helps us connect general principles and the
3. Written Tradition (Gospels) need for action guidelines in specific
> Ex. of Traditions (unwritten) situations
1. Baptism as initiating sacrament
2. Councils for making major decisions VI. SEE-JUDGE-ACT
3. Veneration of Saints * just a summary, refer to the yellow handout from sir
4. Mary’s special role in the Church Montecillo
- pastoral cycle that has become a prominent
Role Of Bishops way of reading the signs of the times and
- the mission of the 12 apostles was passed engaging in action for justice in a way that is
down to the ministry of the Bishops transformative
> Apostolic succession - proposed by Belgian Cardinal Joseph Cardijn
- the Bishops act in the place of Apostles (1882-1967)
- only a bishop has the authority to confer the - affirmed by Pope John XXIII in Mater et
sacrament of holy orders Magistra
- have the role of preserving the basic truths of - See, Judge, Act is a necessary means for
our faith embedded within them education in freedom in its fullest sense,
- To the Diocese which leads to interior freedom
> his authority is not limited to the Diocese
- To the Universal Church See
> a bishop is responsible for the universal - reviewing the concrete situation
Church together with other bishops - seeing, hearing, and experiencing, the lived
IV. VATICAN I and VATICAN II reality of individuals and communities
Vatican I - observing the situation and gathering “data’
- more exclusive - like data collection for research
Judge
- analyzing the situation
- making an informed judgment
- 2 Key Parts
1. Social Analysis
- asking why is this happening?
- what factors affected it?
- considers economic, political, social,
historical, and cultural factors
2. Theological Reflection
- articulate these elements in the social
teachings of the Church
- gaining new insights and meanings
- relate the situation to religious
tradition

Act
- planning and carrying out actions that are
meant to transform the social structures that
contribute to the suffering and injustice
- what can/will you do to change what’s wrong?

VII. READINGS
> Catholic Social Teachings in the Digital Age
> Concluding Reflections by Anthony Gooley
> Pastoral Constitution of the Church in the Modern
World
> Role of the Church in the Modern World

VIII. Read up on the ff:

> Killings in the Visayas since July 22 up to present
> Garbage disposal/dumpsite problems in Cebu
City and Cebu Province