United States Catholic Catechism for Adults

Index • 567

God’s wisdom and goodness, as revealing: 54 God the Creator as focal point of all the work of creation: 55 goodness of: 54 human beings as summit of: 55-56, 67 human work as collaboration in: 452 imperfection of: 57 knowing God through: 4 new creation in Christ: 56, 59, 364 65, 370, 508 as not “part of” God: 53 as not the result of blind fate or chance: 53 Original Sin and: 66-67, 69-75 as “out of nothing”: 53, 62 purposes and reasons of: 62 reason and (see under Reason) respect for: 424 science and (see under Science) secondary causes: 56 as sustained by God’s Providence: 56 Trinity and: 59, 62 of the visible world: 4, 55-56, 71 see also under God: as Creator; World Creationism: 61 Credo: see under Faith: profession of Creed/Symbol of Faith: 45, 244-45, 508 Apostles’ Creed: 45-46, 53, 93, 298, 500, 504 “formulas” of faith: 42

Beatitudes as summary: xxii Christ as High Priest of: 216 Christ as the definitive covenant of God: 321 the Church and: 219 the Eucharist and: 216, 219 God’s People as bound together by: 485 Old Law and: 323, 325 prayer in: 463, 492 prophets and expectation of: 508 Sacraments and: 170 Sunday worship and: 363 Old Covenant Abraham and the: 14, 18, 113 Decalogue and: 325 formed through God’s revelation: 14 God and the Covenant with His people: 14, 18, 51, 131, 235, 325 Moses and: 14, 18, 131 Noah and: 14, 18 permanent value of: 14 preparation for Christ in the: 18, 122 sabbath as a sign of: 526 our commitment to living the Commandments as flowing from our response to the Covenant we have with God: xxii see also Commandments Covetousness: 439, 441, 444, 447, 449, 455 see also Envy; Greed Creation: 65-75, 508 of angels: 54-55 beginning of the history of salvation: 59, 68 Christ, new creation in: 56, 59, 364-65, 370, 508 Christ’s relationship with: 59, 68, 70-72, 74, 364-65, 370, 508 and evolution: 58-61 God’s plan and: 59 God’s Providence, creation as sustained by: 53, 56

Nicene Creed: 45-47, 53, 521 as permitting us to express and hand on our faith: 500

Cremation: 159-60, 508-9 Cross: 91-93

acceptance of one’s own: 91, 98, 254, 388, 407 effects of the sacrifice of: 75, 85, 92, 96, 100, 114, 129, 235, 252, 264