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Theology 101
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Know and Love
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Human Perfection Divine Life in Man
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Grace
Gifts
Preternatural
and man.
FALL
Sin a rejection of God and the refusal to accept his love. Shown in disregard for his commandments - Aversio a Deo (turning away from God) - Conversio ad creaturas (turning to creatures)
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and irrevocable choice rejected God and his Kingdom They try to associate human beings with their revolt against God
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Adam = man, mankind, earth, ground The whole human race is in Adam "as one body of one man as the whole tree is in the seed. Original sin, in which all human beings are born, is the state of deprivation of original holiness and justice. It is a sin contracted by us not committed; it is a state of birth and not a personal act. Transmitted by propagation (human reproduction, heredity)
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Baptism erases original sin and turns a man back towards God, but the consequences for nature persist in man spiritual battle: sacraments, prayer, ascetical struggle.
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OS Adam gave bad example. Nature- Man is inherently good. Luther OS Adam radically corrupted our nature and destroyed his freedom. Nature - Man is inherently bad.
"Pecca fortiter, sed crede fortius"
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3:14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, And I will put enmity between thee (serpent) and the woman,
and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
The Woman
Eve/Mary
Her Seed Christ, (he, she, it) Mary, Church Bruise your head Victory over evil
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Protoevangelium
Compendium: Evil would be conquered and that man would be lifted up from his fall. first proclamation of the Messiah and Redeemer The fall would be called a happy fault because it gained for us so great a Redeemer (Liturgy of the Easter Vigil). From Adam, mere fallen man, as head of mankind, to Jesus, a New Adam, who is God himself, as new head of mankind. 4/14/2012
The End