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Theology Midterm
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Catholic Morality Draws on three sources of knowledge (list all three) | Human reason (God given intellect) Human experience(the collective Wisdom of others, living and dead) Divine revelation (the teachings of God as found in Sacred Scripture and the Sacred Tradition of the Church) |
| God endowed you with Godlike qualities (list all four) | To think To choose To love To relate to others in community |
| How do you respect the dignity of others? (list all five) | You acknowledge their existence by greeting them You act with consideration and courtesy You accept others as individuals despite their differences from you You refrain from prejudice You develop a mindset that all people are siblings in christ |
| List the three theological virtues | Faith Hope Charity/love |
| VOCAB: Nihilism | VOCAB: philosophy that denies there is any meany in existence or in religious beliefs |
| VOCAB: Original Sin | VOCAB: the consequence of the sin of our first parents |
| VOCAB: Free will | VOCAB: the power, rooted in reason and will, to act or not to act, to do this or that, and so to perform deliberate actions on one’s own responsibility |
| VOCAB: Solidairty | VOCAB: the Christian virtue of social charity and friendship |
| VOCAB: Common good | VOCAB: the “sum total of social conditions that allow people, either as groups or as individuals, to reach their fulfillment more fully and more easily |
| VOCAB: Subsidiarity | VOCAB: the principle of Catholic social teachings that upholds that a higher unit of society should not do what a lower unit can do as well or better |
| VOCAB: Paschal Mystery | VOCAB: God’s love and salvation fully revealed in the life, Passion, Death, Resurrection and Glorification of Jesus Christ |
| VOCAB: Discernment | VOCAB: a decision making process that attends to the implications and consequences of an action or choice |
| VOCAB: Prudence | VOCAB: the moral virtue that inclines you to discern a good, ethical, and moral life and to choose the means to accomplish it |
| VOCAB: Magisterium | VOCAB: the bishops, in union with the pope, who are the living and teaching office of the Church |
| VOCAB: Justification | VOCAB: the grace of the Holy Spirit to justify you, that is, to cleanse you from your sins |
| VOCAB: Grace | VOCAB: the free and undeserved help that God gives you to become his adoptive son or daughter |
| VOCAB: Merit | VOCAB: term that refers to what is “owed” to you based on how you choose to life your life |
| VOCAB: Moral relativism | VOCAB: any doctrine or belief that denies the existence of absolute, universal moral truths |
| VOCAB: Norm | VOCAB: a guideline or law that can help regulate human freedom toward what is true and good and, therefore, toward God |
| VOCAB: Canon law | VOCAB: the official body of rules that provides for good order in the Catholic Church |
| List the five precepts of the church | Attend mass on sundays and holy days of obligations and rest Confess your sins once at least a year Receive the Eucharist at least once during Easter Observe days of fasting and abstinence Help to provide the needs of the church |
| Impediments of Freedom (list all 5) | Ignorance Inadvertance Duress Inordinate attachments Habit |