Ann Lusch's List: Catholic Theology class

• every person of "morally good will" is living by grace.
• Every person who   seeks, in transcendental grace, to realize the possibilities which God has given,   is living out a "searching" Christology
• Both fundamental and dogmatic theology assume,   whenever they try to give an account of the faith to non-Christians, that the   non-Christian is a person of morally good will. Such a person of good will exists   “in the interior grace of God and in Christ,
• Christians may and must accept the Christology they are already living out, even if it is not a very refined faith, for it is the Christology to which they are implicitly committed. The Christian may understand faith as no more than "one abstract and conceivable possibility among others," but that is (in Rahner's view) enough.
• An   absolute love which gives itself radically and unconditionally to another person,”   says Rahner, “affirms Christ implicitly in faith and love
• our love for another human being expresses an implicit love and faith in Christ
• in death, we are radically powerless.
• When we surrender ourselves to the divine self   in death, we surrender ourselves to the ground of our being.
• Hope is rather the desire for an attainable goal.
• God invites us to see in our future a life which transcends our present   life, a life to which there is already a reliable testimony.
• Human beings find in the man, Jesus, the self-expression of God in its eternal   possibility (
• The human being has a “natural” desire for the   beatific vision

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• What does it mean to come to Mass each Sunday and be called “brothers and sisters” and “dear friends in Christ”? How can we stand as brothers and sisters to people we have never met? How can we live as “dear friends in Christ” with those we dislike or fear?

• Jesus Christ instituted the sacrament of confession on Easter Sunday night
• Receive the   Holy Spirit. For those whose sins you forgive, they are forgiven. For those   whose sins you retain, they are retained" (John 20:19-23).
• Every pope   for the first three hundred years of the Church's history was murdered for the   faith
• In the early Church, Christians were expected to live very holy lives. And   they did. To become Christian meant to expect to become a martyr.
• The emphasis in those days was on confessing mortal sins
• apostasy, adultery, fornication, or willful murder
• All that is necessary, however, is for the sinner to manifest his conscience   in a secret confession to the priests alone

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