The Spirit & The Bride

The Origin of Evil in the Fall of the Angels, and Creation of Man and Woman

Dr. Schreck asks why, if God is all good and all powerful, does evil exist? This begins with sin of Lucifer and the angels who followed his example in rebellion against God. The summit of God's creation in the material order is the human person, bearing God's "image and likeness" and created for communion with God and others. He also unpacks what the Church learns about the human person and God's revealed plan for the human race from the Book of Genesis.
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Creation: A Sign and Fruit of God's Love

Dr. Alan Schreck explores the meaning and purpose of all that exists apart from God—creation—which is a sign and fruit of God’s goodness and love.
He discusses what God reveals about creation, beginning with the visible, material order as presented in Genesis and the highest intelligent immaterial beings—the angels.
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The Revelation and Mystery of the Blessed Trinity and God as Love

Dr. Alan Schreck explores what the Catholic Church teaches about the central mystery of our faith: the Blessed Trinity. What does it mean that God is one, and yet “three” or triune?
He also discusses the most important, central attribute or perfection of God: that “God is love” (1 Jn 4:8).
 
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The Creeds Express the Church's Faith: "I Believe in God, the Father Almighty..."

Faith is a personal response to God and God’s revelation. The creeds, which are part of Sacred Tradition, present a necessary summary of what we believe, or the faith of the Church.
The first article speaks of God, who is One and Spirit. But he is also a personal God who Jesus addressed—and taught us to know and address—as “Father.”
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God's Revelation as a Tripod of Truth, and Faith as Our Response

Dr. Schreck describes the relationship of Scripture, Tradition, and the Church’s Magisterium and how each is essential to receive the truths God has revealed. Our only adequate response to this revelation is faith, so he also discusses the nature of faith and how we can grow in faith in God and his revealed truth.
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God's Revelation in Sacred Scripture: Part 2

Dr. Schreck describes the Catholic teaching on the interpretation of Sacred Scripture and the essential role of the Magisterium, the teaching office of the Church, in the proper interpretation and proclamation of God’s revealed truth. He also addresses the meaning and purpose of “private revelations.”
Finally, the Catholic Church has urged all the faithful to prayerfully read and study the Bible, especially in recent years, and an abundance of resources are available to promote this study. As St. Jerome famously taught, “Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ.”
 
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God's Revelation in Sacred Scripture: Part 1

Dr. Schreck continues to explore God’s revelation, focusing on the Word of God in the Bible.
He discusses the nature and importance of the Old and New Testaments, their relationship, and how the writings in these testaments came to be included in the canon of Scripture. He then addresses what it means that the Bible is “inspired” and “inerrant” (or without error).
 
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God's Revelation in Sacred Tradition and the Magisterium's Role

God’s revelation was handed on by Jesus and his apostles through Sacred Scripture (the Bible) and Sacred Tradition. But what is this Tradition, and how does it come to us?
Dr. Schreck explores that question, highlighting the role of the teaching office of the Church—the Magisterium—in handing on, safeguarding, and authoritatively interpreting God’s revealed truth in Sacred Scripture and Tradition.
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How God Reveals Himself

Dr. Alan Schreck reviews how God has revealed himself through the material order (or “natural revelation”) and how God as creator has been confirmed by scientific discoveries in the past 100 years.
He also talks about God’s direct revelation in history (or “divine revelation”)—from God’s manifestation in word and deed to the Hebrew people to his entering into history in fullness in Jesus, the climax of God’s self-revelation.
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The Foundations of Catholic Belief: God, Revelation, and Faith

Dr. Alan Schreck starts to unfold the riches of the Catholic faith with the opening sections of his Essential Catholic Catechism.  
The story of God’s saving plan of love and redemption of the human race begins with these foundational truths: There is a God. This God reveals himself first in all he has created. And the only suitable human response is faith—believing in God who is real and who cannot deceive, as he is truth and goodness.
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