This class focuses on the
meaning of Christian Revelation.
The second chapter of the
first part of the Catechism is entitled “God Comes to Meet man.” This chapter
is like the threshold of our entire faith because Christian faith is not just
about believing in God. It is about believing in what God has come to this
earth to tell us. Revelation is a supernatural action, a miracle, to which we
are supposed to answer with an act of faith (which is the object of the third
chapter of the introductory part of the Catechism, “Man’s Response to God”).
God created us and the
world to stay here with us. He is the Emmanuel, “God with us.” Christian Revelation
portrays a very special picture of the world and of creation. The picture of a
nature that is not autonomous—that is not supposed to work or function properly
without God’s supernatural presence and help. The history of revelation is the history
of God’s supernatural interventions in the world and in our hearts since the
very beginning in the garden of Eden. Miracles are a key part of Revelation.
This class also addresses
the so-called “Sources of Revelation,” which are the Sacred Scripture and the Sacred
Tradition, which is the “living transmission” of our faith “accomplished in the
Holy Spirit” (Catechism of the Catholic Church n. 78).
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