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religion vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| magisterium | the official teaching authority of the church |
| virtues | enable us to live good life and become more like God. the virtues are cardinal and theological |
| vices | a bad habit that inclines us to choose evil |
| cardinal virtues | four hinges that support moral living. prudence justice temperance fortitude |
| nihilism | a philosophy that denies theres any meaning in existence or in religious beliefs. the only thing that matters after life is nothing |
| original sin | consequence of the sins of our first parents |
| free will | the power that allows a person to perform deliberate actions |
| paschal mystery | Gods love and salvation revealed through the life passion and resurrection of Jesus Christ |
| Dignity | the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect. every human has this |
| Beatitudes | an attitude guiding us to follow Jesus more closely. beatitude means happy |
| Kingdom of God | God's peace justice and love proclaimed by Jesus |
| Justification | the Holy Spirits grace that cleanses us from our sins through faith in Jesus and baptism |
| Grace | a free and unearned favor from God |
| sanctifying grace | makes us holy |
| actual grace | God's intervention |
| habitual grace | permanent. a gift from the holy spirit |
| charisms | gifts from the holy spirit given to individual christians to build up church |
| discipleship | mandate of all baptized christians to follow jesus and particiapte |
| discernment | decision making process that attends to implications and consequences of an action choice. |
| prudence | inclines us to lead good, moral lives |
| justice | fairness |
| temperance | the means between extremes. ex) greed vs. abstinence. |
| fortitude | courage, abilitiy to overcome fear in order to do good |
| faith | a belief in jesus and the gospel |
| hope | looking to the coming of God's kingdom |
| love | most celebrated of the theological virtues |
| natural law | God's external law and never changes. permanent and universal |
| evangelical counsels | vows taken to poverty, chastity and obediance |
| imputable | ascribed, attributed, deffinitly linked to a specific accountable person. it means something that someone has that cant be taken away |
| Golden Rule | do unto others what you would want them to do to you |
| moral object | an action you do which suggests whether the action is directed toward the good |
| intention | why,when,where,who,how,motive to action. |
| circumstances | answers to the intention |
| merit | what your owed |
| repentance | metonia. change of mind or heart. turning from your sins. |
| solidarity | christian virtue of social charity and friendship |
| subsidiarity | the principle of catholic social teaching that holds that a higher unit of society should not do what a lower unit can do as well |
| canon law | established rules by catholic church |
| ignorance | not knowing what we should do or not |
| habit | repeated behaviors |
| fear | panic in the face of danger |
| inadvertence | distracted while acting |
| divine law | keeps us on right path, helps us discern right from wrong and indicates what is sinful |