Chapter One Review

Morality with Cbb at Helias High School

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Created: 2011-08-24
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Cardinal Virtues

Prudence

Fortitude

Temperance

Justice

Theological Virtues

Faith

Hope

Love

morality

choosing to love as God loves to better the world; standards by which we judge ACTIONS to be good

free will

power to make decisions and act on our own, to follow God or not;

actions

outward signs of values and interior disposition; what we say, think, and do;

interior disposition

what's in our hearts that ultimately determines our actions;

Fruits of Living the Moral Life

happiness

holiness

justice

What is the moral law?

code to follow God's will; right and wrong;

How does leading a moral life bring us happiness?

fullfillment in God's will for us brings us joy;

How do we truly know God?

by fully choosing for ourselves to love God;

moral law

use to have a morality; from God;

objective morality

universal standard of morality; from God;

subject morality

morality depends on your life and opinion;

What is another way of saying subjective morality?

moral relativism

What is the origin of morality?

God

natural law

unwritten record; sense of reason placed inside everyone by God

Why is moral law objective?

it is not dependent on feelings; it is dependent on God;

What does Original Sin do to our free will?

tarnishes our fee will and make us susceptible to sin

Why is grace neccessary?

to live morally and get to Heaven

What do actions reveal?

intentions of our heart

How is morality related to human dignity?

we are created in God's image;

we have free will;

we can discover true love;

What allows us to do good deeds?

love, free will, and grace

concupiscience

tendency to sin

What makes us human?

our souls

How do the sciences relate to moral law?

sciences tell us facts, but the moral law tells us what we should do with the facts given to us.

What is a soul?

A soul is what distinguishes us from animals; the soul is created at conception by God; the body is enlivened by the soul, and gives the capacitiy for knowledge, acts of faith and love, and supernaterual life;

actual grace

short-term grace from good for specific circumstances;

amorality

attitude not characterized as good or evil;

beatitude

happiness or blessedness; happiness of Heaven; greatest human desire;

christian morality

moral norms to be followed because a Christian is incorporated into Christ through Baptism;

Christian vocation

God's call to everyone to receive grace and become a member of the Mystical Body of Christ;

christianity

set of beliefs, practices, and morals commanded by Jesus Christ

disciple

Latin, meaning "to learn"; follower of Christ;

encyclical

letter written by the pope to all the world's bishops and occasionally to all the faithful;

freedom

power rooted in reason and the will, to act or not to act, and so to perform deliberate actions on one's own responsiblity;

holiness

spiritual perfection or purity; perfection of charity;

immorality

quality, character, or ocnduct in violation of moral law;

infallibility

immunity from error and any possibility of error;

law of Christ

interior law that stems from grace and becomes a norm for imitating Christ

love (charity)

theological virtue by which a Christian loves God above all things

Lumen Gentium

Latin for "Dogmatic Constitution on the Church"; key document from the Second Vatican Council;

magisterium

name give to the teaching authority of the Church

materialism

unhealthy attachment to material goods and wealth

moral theology

makes use of reason to offer jedgments;

nature

essence of a being considered as the principle of its activity and defining its particular characteristics;

new being in Christ

supernatural condition of the baptized

pluralism

existence of a variety of opinions, ideas, or beliefs within human society;

positive morality

moral code that prescribes what ought to be done

reason

intellectual power or faculty that helps us get to some end;

sacred tradition

teaching entrusted by Christ to the Apostles and their successors

sanctifying grace

free and unmerited favor of God given through the sacraments;

secularism

doctrine that morality should be based solely on well-being in the present life, with no thought to life after death;

sermon on the mount

One of Jesus' first and most famous proclamations of the Gospel;

Vatican II

Shorthand for the Second Vatican Council;

Veritatis splendor

Latin for "the Splendor of the Truth"; written by Pope John Paul II; explored fundamental questions about the Church's moral teachings;

virtue

a habitual and firm disposition to do good;

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