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| the science of God as the first cause of being |
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– the science that deals with all beings, insofar as they are beings, insofar as they
exercise an act of existence. (pg. 3) |
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– knowledge that is certain and necessary and which the mind reasons to
by way of conclusions. (pg. 3) |
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a habit that makes a person well or ill-disposed in his operations or human
activity. |
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a scientific proof in which the conclusion must follow with necessity from the
premises but at the same time not be explicitly present in the premises but only implicitly or
potentially. (pg.63,64) |
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| proceeds from the existence of proper cause to the existence of an effect. |
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| proceeds from the existence of an effect to the existence of its proper cause. |
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an agent that exercises its influence over the existence of some other being, the
effect, through an activity that is properly its own, that is to say, through an activity that flows
from its own nature, its own form – an activity that is proportioned to the nature of the agent. |
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an affirmation about being – a judgment; that any finite beings, in order
to be, must have a source of its existence. |
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| a reality which contains the data for the possibility and complete determination of all things. |
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by a thousand qualifications asserting what in the end does not resemble
anything. |
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| unfalsifiable foundational certainties. |
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the doctrine of a union of man with God existing outside God’s
revelation in Jesus Christ. |
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is unbelief, the one great concern of godless man. A human attempt to anticipate
what God in His revelation wills to do and does do. The attempted replacement of the divine
work by a human manufacture. The divine reality offered and manifested to us in revelation is
replaced by a concept of God arbitrarily and willfully evolved by man. |
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represents the first confessional document in which the Evangelical
Church has tackled the problem of natural theology and excludes natural theology from Church
proclamation. (pg. 64) |
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can be recognized only in freedom. All the knowledge we have of persons depends on
whether and how they reveal themselves. Can only be known by willing to make themselves
known. (pg. 28) |
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relates to whatever is on its way to us from the future, which is to say, from what is not
yet visible or perceptible to us. Not supported by experience of things already known to us but
moves beyond imposed and involuntary knowledge. (pg. 35) |
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| The being of entities is not itself an entity, the ontic is the actual thinghood of a being, it actually existing. |
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| why is there something (essents, particular being) rather than nothing? |
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why do we interpret a meaning of things? Why is there the presence of
intelligibility? |
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a theology that serves us, we call the shots. The god of ontotheology serves to
tidy up our explanations of reality, reduces God to an instrumental role as the first cause. |
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a passage from one state of being to another, the act of being in potency insofar
as it is in potency. Passage from being in potency to being in act. All accidental changes, all
substantial changes, the acquirement of any new perfection. |
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beings in which there is an actual distinction between what they are and the
act by which they are. (pg. 76) |
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that in a thing because of which it is said to be perfect (complete or finished) in
some order of being. |
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some proportion or relationship between 2 or more things. These things which are
ordered are either distinct as complete beings or as principles of being. Thus, for example,
matter is ordered to form, substance to accidents, essence to act of existing, nature to
operation, operation to its object, and so forth. |
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