Spirituality Course 4 - Virtue of Faith (pt 1)

A basic spirituality course to give a foundation to those discerning a vocation to monastic life -- or to anyone interested. Below are: an outline of contents; the reading assignment; and exercises.

OUTLINE OF CONTENTS:
1. Experiential knowledge of God as a familiarity with God's presence
2. A recap and some further points on thinking about God
3. Faith in terms of the fact that our thinking about God needs guidance
4. Revelation and its two categories
5. Faith as infused, personal, and involving trust
6. Other ways of speaking about the contents of Revelation

READING ASSIGNMENT:
1. Dei Verbum, the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation of the Second Vatican Council, nn. 1-10 (online version: https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_c...)
2. Catechism of the Catholic Church, nn. 1812-1816 (online version: https://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_cs...)

EXERCISES:
1. TRUE or FALSE: The experiential knowledge of God, about which we have been speaking, is primarily through the mind, not the senses.
2. TRUE or FALSE: Sometimes this experiential knowledge of God can be felt in the senses.
3. TRUE or FALSE: Since all thoughts about God are limited, none are better than others.
4. TRUE or FALSE: It is more appropriate to say that the beauty in creatures is like God than that God is like the beauty in creatures.
5. TRUE or FALSE: Faith at its core is an intellectual act.
6. TRUE or FALSE: Faith is a human virtue that can be acquired by human effort.
7. TRUE or FALSE: Faith involves trusting God.
8. Give the definition of faith that is used in this video.
9. Name the different ways given in this video of describing what has been revealed by God and is to be believed by us.