{"id":25852,"date":"2010-10-08T12:24:42","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T16:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/10\/4-pillars-of-the-catholic-fait\/"},"modified":"2010-10-08T12:24:42","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T16:24:42","slug":"4-pillars-of-the-catholic-fait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/10\/4-pillars-of-the-catholic-fait\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Pillars of the Catholic Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"

A question was asked of me about the building blocks of the Catholic faith. Is there such a thing? Do Catholics actually have a structure of belief? Well, yes, there are 4 essential building blocks of our life of faith. These 4 areas are the very same areas by which the Catechism of the Catholic is structured.<\/span><\/p>\n


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The 4 Pillars of the Catholic Faith:<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n
-Creed<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n
-10 Commandments<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n
-7 Sacraments<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n
-The Lord’s Prayer (Christian prayer)<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n

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\"Christ<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/span>Catholics believe in revealed
\ntruth. Spirituality needs to be founded on truth otherwise you have nothing.
\nHence creed, code & cult are essential aspects of Catholic Faith.<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n
The study of faith needs two distinctions to understand what’s going with the army of words and ideas associated with theological reflection: fides quae and<\/u> fides
\nqua.  <\/span><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n

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Fides quae<\/b> (“faith which”) is the faith which is held by
\nthe Church through divine revelation or sacred tradition (it is what is considered to be objective, verifiable faith).<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n

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Fides qua<\/b>
\n(“faith by which”) is the faith by which a person is moved to respond
\nto God. A person’s understanding of his or her personal<\/u> relationship
\nto God is spoken of here; here we usually filter what hear of divine revelation; in some instances personal
\nrevelation is located in this type of faith, e.g., the teachings of the saints would be a distinction of fides qua (we’ll say this is subjective faith, a faith known through concrete experience).<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n

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Theologically speaking, a theologian be able to
\ndistinguish between fides quae and fides qua and to always maintain conformity
\nin study and work with fides quae. Only a few theologian have held a personal
\nfaith that has been enlightened enough to illuminate fides quae. The task of
\ntheology is gain a deeper understanding of faith; it is, as St Anselm said:
\nfaith seeking understanding<\/i>. Our study of theology is done on our knees; that
\nis, we study the fact of God and the allied theological sciences from a posture of adoration of
\nGod first, in the sacred Liturgy and second, in personal prayer. <\/span><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n

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The student of
\ntheology takes his or her first presupposition from the position of “faith.” Faith is not a gift of God it is also the<\/u> manner by which we look at
\nreality, it’s the “starting point for a new way -that is, a true way of
\nbecoming aware of reality itself.” Through faith we have access to truth and through we live truth.  <\/span>Without faith in the study of theology
\nwe have mere religious studies.<\/span>
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A question was asked of me about the building blocks of the Catholic faith. Is there such a thing? Do Catholics actually have a structure of belief? Well, yes, there are 4 essential building blocks of our life of faith. These 4 areas are the very same areas by which the Catechism of the Catholic … Continue reading 4 Pillars of the Catholic Faith<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1716,1856,1799],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}