Man’s Search for God with

Introduction to the Catholic Faith

Main Reference: I Believe by Fr. Lode Wostyn, CICM
 Course Outline
• Faith and Becoming Human Together
• Faith and Religious Practices
• The Catholic Church and other Christian
Churches
• The Bible: A Guide for my Life
• The Biblical Message: God Offering Salvation
• Christian Faith and Other Religions
 Relating with one’s body, nature, and cosmos
Relating with other persons
Relating with a community, society, institutions, structures
Relating with my culture and history
Relating with my thoughts and actions
Relating with an Ultimate

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Our understanding of who or what is responsible
for all history and its final outcome is varied.

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For religious people, the future of the world is in
the hands of something “mysterious” – a
beyond, a sacred – whom Christianity believes
to be a personal God, the Lord of History.

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For those who believe in God, God is the source
of attitudes of faith and hope. For them, any
search for a good, meaningful, and happy life
that excludes God is, in the least, a partial denial
of the humanness of the human person.
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Who is this stupid god?
 Relating with one’s body, nature, and cosmos
Relating with other persons
ating with a community, society, institutions, structur
Relating with my culture and history
Relating with my thoughts and actions
Relating with an Ultimate

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 We are used to reserving the word faith and hope
for the context of our relationship with an Ultimate,
the Divine. Yet, we will constantly have to keep in
mind that we cannot be religious believers, without
being human believers.

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