What does the word "apologetics" mean? - ANS- To defend
Who will likely try to talk you out of the Catholic Faith in college? - ANS- Non Believers
and Evangelical Catholics (Fundamentalists)
T/F Some things cannot be know for certain, but we can have a good reasons for
accepting them as true. - ANS- True
The following is a definition for what? "It is the spiritual principle of human beings and
the subject of human consciousness and freedom; it is individual and immortal and
immediately created by God. It does not die with the body, from which it is separated by
death, and with which it will be reunited in the final resurrection" - ANS- Soul
T/F It is reasonable to say that man has no certain knowledge - only opinions - ANS-
False
How do we know that God is a Trinity? - ANS- through divine revelation... he has
revealed it to us
The view that there is an objective reality, a real world, that exists outside of myself and
is not merely of my own creation or in my own mind - but that world cannot be known
with certainty - is the mindset that describes what era? - ANS- Modern Era
If you believe that everything one can know for certain are the things we know by
reason you are a? - ANS- Rationalist
Properly understood, faith is essentially a matter of? - ANS- Handing life over to God
and trusting him with it
Believing there is something we can't see
Who was the 20th century German philosopher who said that we humans "are thrown
into the world by some operation of chance"? - ANS- Martin Heidigger
Is Christianity ... reasonable, obvious, neither, or both? - ANS- Reasonable
, In response to the darkness and despair that has accompanied the present-day mindset
- often called "post-modernism," what Pope began World Youth Day which has attracted
millions of people (5 million in Manila in 1995 and 3 million in Krakow in 2016. - ANS-
Pope John Paul II
Catholics believe that we can discover things about god? - ANS- Faith, reason, and
revelation
things he has created
The expression, Credo ut intelligam- I believe so that I may understand- is associated
with what person? - ANS- St. Augustine
Do scientists ever teach theories that are, in fact, merely scientific opinion? - ANS- Yes
Is it reasonable to accept something as true even though we cannot be absolutely
certain that it is true? - ANS- Yes
Who wrote in his autobiography Confessions, "Late have I loved you - love ever ancient,
ever new?" - ANS- St. Augustine
Paul Ricœr, referred to what three people as "Masters of Suspicion"? - ANS- Sigmund
Freud (sex)
Karl Marx (money)
Friedrich Nietzsche (power)
How many choirs of angels are there? - ANS- 9
Why do some refuse to believe in God? - ANS- Not fashionable, don't want to change,
mad at God, "limited freedom", and doubt
Could a monkey sitting in front of a typewriter, by randomly striking the keys, type the
play Hamlet? - ANS- Yes
If one saw a copy of Hamlet would it be reasonable to conclude that a monkey
produced it by randomly striking keys? - ANS- No
Is it reasonable to say that our universe came into existence by chance? - ANS- No
If God exists and I believe in him, what do I gain and what do I lose after death? - ANS-
Gain everything, Lose nothing
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