Chapter Four
Jesus: Revealing God in Humanity
Pgs. 87-109 Who Is This Man?
1. How did Peter answer Jesus’ question, “Who do you say that I am?”
2. What Christian belief is expressed in the doctrine of the incarnation?
3. Using the images from the parable of Juan, tell why God became human in Jesus.
4. Give the quotes from the Gospel of John and from Paul’s Letter to the Philippians that express the mystery God’s becoming human in Jesus.
5. What does it mean when we say that Jesus is fully human?
6. What does it mean when we say that Jesus is fully divine?
7. How was Jesus' idea of the Kingdom of God different from what people expected the Kingdom to be?
8. How did Jesus address God? What name for God did Jesus use that indicated his imtimate, personal sense of Sonship?
9. What powerful message about God did Jesus preach and live by his example?
10. Give five examples from the text of the upside-down values of the Kingdom of God.
11. Briefly summarize the various responses to Jesus people had in his time.
Most important queston of the chapter:
How would you answer Jesus’ question, “Who do you say that I am?”
Vocabulary:
* Incarnation * parable * synagogue *doctrine *grace *dogma * Kingdom of God
* Abba * Immaculate Conception * Annunciation * Beatitudes * Apostles * Kingdom of God
Some key review questions
• Man, being human nature, cannot know sacred mystery (divine nature) unless that sacred mystery chooses to reveal and share sacred mystery with man.
(a) What do we call this disclosure of sacred mystery to human beings?
(b) Our belief is that God did choose to do this. When and where and with whom do we believe that God clearly and completely tells us who He is and what He wants?
(c) What do we call this great gift of God’s life and love poured out to us?
• Reproduce the chart we’ve been using to describe man’s existential situation, how he gets answers to the problems of human existence, and role of faith and religion (and Christianity) in his quest to live a good life.
• Our prayer for this week Likrat Shabat, squarely puts the responsibility for the pains and sufferings of people on whose shoulders?
These are more formal definitions of words you learned in this class and in these readings. Definitions from “Concise Catholic Dictionary for Parents and Religion Teachers” by Reynolds and Rosemary Ekstrom.
(a)______________________is God’s free, unmerited, loving gift of his own life and presence to people. Through a loving and open response to this gift persons are transformed and share in God’s life and love. They become more and more like Jesus Christ. This latter “becoming more and more like Jesus Christ” is called (b) _________, a vocabulary word from our first quarter.
(c)____________________is official Church teaching. The word is often used to designate the entire body of church teaching as in Catholic (same word). The term comes from the Latin docere, which means teaching or instruction. These are derived from scripture, from the faith life of the church communities, from traditional beliefs and moral practices. They are defined and proclaimed, authentically and authoritatively, by the the Magisterium of the church. These center on truths revealed to and cherished by the followers of Jesus Christ.
from John Hardin, S.J. Modern Catholic Dictionary
(d) __________________The union of the divine nature of the Son of God with the human nature in the person of Jesus Christ. The Son of God assumed our flesh, body and soul and dwelled among us like one of us in order to redeem us.
(e) __________________ A short story based on a familiar experience used to teach a spiritual lesson. It resembles the fable and the allegory.