Christ and Culture

4. God created man and women together and willed each for the other.
8. "Do unto others what you would have them do unto you"
9. objects or gestures that express a specific message or meaning.
10. one of many institutions that wield power in society.
11. God became human and dwelt personally - in the flesh - among us in Jesus of Nazareth.
12. the aggressive or unjust use of power or force to hurt others.
14. the force and energy to be creative in response to life.
16. like an adoption agreement in which God agrees to love, feed, care for and protects the Chosen People.
17. an awareness of one's own worth.
21. the day of the Lord, the day that Jesus rose from the dead.
23. our relationship with God whom we cannot see, hear, taste, smell, touch.
24. in the power of the Holy Spirit, makes the risen Christ alive in history until he comes again.
25. the expectation that if I do something for someone else, this person will at some point do something for me.
27. people that don't know if God exists. They prefer to remain indifferent.
30. God communicates God's-self to humankind in stages: through creation itself, through covenants and through the prophets.
31. story that compares something we don't know with something that we do know.
32. another name for the isolation of the self in Western culture.
33. the result of being "connected" with God, as branches to a vine.

1. something that exists between people or between people and God.
2. Jesus invites us to love (agape) one another. He invites us to live a life of generosity.
3. effective signs of grace.
5. worldly, not religious or sacred; living in the world.
6. the virtue that gives each person his or her due in the distribution of good.
7. stabilized and take on a lasting form of social structures.
9. cannot happen without the other. The other is essential for me to be a self.
13. the close bond that exists between human beings, whether as friends or as associates.
15. a system of symbols and rituals.
18. the Church's official act of worship.
19. things in society that we are entitled to.
20. Catholics call it the temple of the Holy Spirit.
22. holy persons in Israel who were spokespersons for God.
26. the denial of God's existence
28. the Church proclaims that we are made whole through faith in God.
29. using our power for the benefit and wellbeing of others, for the common good.
33. God's kind, merciful and absolutely generous love for us.
34. bring a fault or disorder into creation, maiming the work of God.