What Kind of a Theologian Are You - Justification?

You know that

"all those things are to be believed with divine and Catholic faith which are contained in the written or orally transmitted word of God, and which the Church, either by a solemn judgment or by her ordinary and universal magisterium, proposes for belief as having been divinely revealed." (Vatican Council I.)

Can you recognize truths which are divine and Catholic faith?

Try the Following Quiz on Justification.

Give yourself 10 points for each of the 10 questions Which you answer correctly. If you score 95-100, give yourself a SCL (summa cum laude); 90-95, a MCL (magna cum laude); 85-90, a CL (cum laude); 80-85, a BP (bene probatus); 70-80, a P (probatus); 1>-70, a NP (non probatus).

[Answer each "a, b, c, d" with Yes or No]
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1. What do we call "a translation from that state wherein man is born a child of the first Adam, to the state of grace and adoption of sons of God through the second Adam, Jesus Christ, our Saviour"?

2. What ecumenical council gave the best exposition of the Catholic doctrine of justification?

3. What did it assign as "the beginning of human salvation, the foundation and root of all justification"?

4. Is it of divine and Catholic faith that "justification is not merely the remission of sins, but also the sanctification and renovation of the interior man by the volun­tary reception of grace and gifts"?

5. a) Can an adult dispose himself for justification?
b) must he?
c) by natural or supernatural acts?

6. Is it heretical to hold that "justifying faith is nothing else but confidence in the divine mercy which remits sins for Christ's sake"?

7. Who said: "Without faith it is impossible to please God. For he that cometh
to God must believe that He is and is a rewarder to them that seek Him"?

8. Is it heretical to maintain that "by faith alone the impious man is justified"?

9. Who said: "If I should have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing"?

10. Is it of divine and Catholic faith that we "receive justice within us...according to each one's proper disposition and co-operation"?
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Answers next Monday...

Adapted from The Queen's Work Magazine, October 1946