| A | B |
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| Devine Assent | The kind of assent that the faithful are required to give to dogmas. |
| Development of dogmas | The principle by which the Church comes to a better understanding of what She has recieved from the apostles |
| Religious Assent | The kind of assent that the faithful are required to give to teachings of the Church that are not infallibly proposed. |
| Process of discovery | The first stage of doctrine development in which a new insight is proposed. |
| Process of Judgement | The second stage in the development of doctrine which involves judgement of a new insight by the magisterium. |
| Infinity | Has no bounds or limitations |
| Omnipotence | Almighty; infinite in power |
| Perfection | Nothing lacking which according to its nature it should posses |
| Eternity | Absolute lack of succession; duration without beginning or end |
| Accident | Does not exist in itself, a modification of something else |
| Mutability | Goes from one condition to another |
| Omniscience | To know all things |
| Immensity | Connotes the absence of spatial limitations |
| Substance | That which exists in itself |
| Rationality | The possesion of intellect and will |
| Relative Perfection | Has a finite nature and possesses all advantages corresponding to that nature |
| Omnipresence | To be simultaneously everywhere in created space |
| Absolute Perfection | Contains all possible excellences and excludes all deficiencies |
| Person | A rational substance |
| Nature | That principle in a thing which makes it be the kind of thing it is |
| Pope Pius VII | This Pope said that there were problems with reconciling the teaching of the Church with the theory of polygenism |
| Conservation | When creation is understood as the act by which God makes something continue to be so long as it exists |
| Posotive Will | When God wills that something be because He wants and desires that it be |
| Permissive Will | When God allows something to be that He does not want or desire |
| Earth | The literal translation of "Adam" from Hebrew |
| Produce | to make something out of some preexisting material |
| Predestination | The belief that God wills from all eternity that some people go to heaven and some go to hell. |
| Spiritual Substance | The definition of an angle according to church dogma |
| Create | To make somehing exist out of nothing at all |
| Finite | another word for limited |
| Messenger | the literal translation for the word "angel" |
| Dualism | The position which holds that the human person is principally a spiritual soul and that the body is not a part of the person |
| Spiritual | Another word for immaterial |
| Life | The root word in Hebrew for "Eve" |
| Concupiscence | Effect of original sin: our reason is no longer in control of our emotions and passions |
| Propagation | Original sin is transmitted from Adam and Eve to the rest of the human race |
| Preternatural | Gifts which are above our nature but not above all finite natures |
| Pride | disordered love of self |
| Evil | "A lack of due order" according to St. Augustine |
| Impassability | The gift of freedom from bodily suffering |
