Week 10: Homework

Reading Assignment:
Read Chapter 11 of Theology and Sanity, “The Created Universe”—pp. 139--151.

Questions:
1. Why did God create a world that is “multitudinous and complex”? (p. 140)

2. Why is the world not “a merely chaotic complexity”? What is it instead? (p. 140)

3. What are the things made in God’s likeness called? What are the rest of the things called? What kind of being is both? (p. 141)

4. How do the Heavens (and everything else) show forth the glory of God? (p. 141)

5. What does Sheed mean when he says that “spirit is more than matter is”? (p. 142)

6. What causes change? (What is change always the result of?) (p. 145).

7. What does it mean to say that created spirit cannot suffer substantial change? What kind of change can created spirit suffer? (p.145)

8. What are the three relations to change? What are the three kinds of duration that correspond to the three relations to change? (pp.145-6)

9. Define contemplation in your own words (pp. 146-7)

10. Is it true that the never was a time when the universe did not exist? Explain. (148)

11. List the truths in the first chapters of Genesis that Sheed says are of “towering importance.” (p.150)

Reflection Questions:
1. Reflect on question 4 above. How is Man different from the rest of creation in showing forth the glory of God?