THEOLOGY AND FAITH

Their relationship and dynamics

Filipino Religiosity
Filipinos typically are
spiritual people
before the conquest
of the spaniards,
native filipino settlers
were already
following a belief
system.

Anitos - refer to the

spirits being worshiped
and adored by our native
filipino ancestors.
(deities, spirits of the
deceased, spirits of
nature)

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STA - God has gifted all human

beings with natural facility to
know him. The human mind has
the capacity to receive Gods selfcommunication. Hence it is but
natural for people to seek God, to
ask questions, and to engage in a
quest for answers. This fusion of
belief in God and the intellectual
activity which attempts to
understand the divine gives rise
to a disciple we now call
THEOLOGY.

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Faith seeking
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LOGY
Greek

Greek

THEOS
God

LOGOS

Word/Discour
se

It involves a critical look at Gods

Word, His self-communication to
humanity.
understanding-expression in
language

God is the OBJECT

and the SUBJECT of
Theology.

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Human words are

insufficient to capture the
TRUTH who is God.

FAITH

When one studies theology it should be

studied from the point of view of Faith
Faith is a Gift from God.
Faith is an excellence(virtue) formed
through Habit.

Three things involved

in faith:
believing in Gods
existence,
recognising Gods
word as truth,
accepting his word
as a rule of life.

THREE DIMENSION OF
FAITH
DOCTRINE

WORSHIP

Believing
Trusting
MIND

HEART

Doing

MORAL

WILL

THE CHRISTIAN FAITH

Five Essential Characteristics
Total and Absolute
Trinitarian
Loving, Maturing and Missionary
Informed and Communitarian
Inculturated

The Catholic Chritian

Faith
FAITH - Believing in God
CHRISTIAN FAITH Believing in the God
revealed by Jesus
CATHOLIC CHRISTIAN
FAITH - Believing that
Christ reveals God to us
in and through the
Catholic Church

EVANGELIZATION

CATECHESIS

THEOLOGY

MEANING

Initial
proclamatio
n of the
Good News

Instruction
on the
Christian
Faith

Attempt to
explain the
teachings of
the Church

PURPOSE

Initial
conversion

Better,
meaningful
Maturity in
relevant
the faith
explanation of
the Faith

ONTOLOGICAL
ARGUMENT of
ANSELM
Anselm of
Canterbury
That than
which nothing
greater can be
conceived.

5 WAYS OF ST. THOMAS

AQUINAS
SUMMA
THEOLOGICA

Quinque Viae
Proofs of Gods
existence that
are purely
concluded from
rationality.

COSMOLOGICAL
ARGUMENTS
Argument from
Motion
Argument from
Efficient Cause
Argument from
Possibility and
Necessity

OTHER ARGUMENTS
Argument
from
Gradation of
Being
Argument
from Design