Religion Midterm 2005
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- Acts of a human
- Acts accomplished without knowledge or deliberation
- Conscience
- A judgement of reason through which a person can identify the quality of an act
- Infallibility
- The inability for the Magisterium to make errors in teachings of faith and morals
- Human Acts
- An act performed with knowledge and free will
- Human Law
- Law given by human authority whether civil or ecclesiastical
- Just Law
- A rule given by a human that corresponds with God's law and is given for the common good by one who seeks for the common good
- Amorality
- An attitude that lacks in moral orientation whether good or evil
- Christian Vocation
- God's call for a person to be part of his Holy Family
- Pluralism
- The existence of a variety of oppinions. A pluralism in social customs and moral principals is acceptable as long as it does not contradict God's Law
- Sanctifying Grace
- The share in the Devine life infused into us at Baptism
- Free Will
- A free gift from God to make possible the free choice to love God
- Humanism
- Belief that there is no God and humans are the highest level of existence
- Holiness
- The free dedication of oneself to God
- Responsibility
- The demand for an account of one's actions before authority, oneself, and God
- Natural Law
- A person's participation in God's plan and the life of grace offered to Christians which transfroms the life of the individual
- Rationalism
- Rejects supernatural beings where reason is the sole source of energy
- Freedom
- The power rooted in reason and will to do someting or not to given us by God
- Christianity
- The way of life that Jesus Christ lived in word and action
- Sacred Tradition
- The word of God entrusted to the apostles and their successors by Christ to transmit to every generation of Christians
- Erroneous Conscience
- Conscience that does not correspond with the norm
- Secularism
- Rejects any form of religious faith or worship
- Lax Conscience
- Judges acts on poor grounds. It judges a mortal sin as venial and a venial sin as no sin at all
- Actual Grace
- Supernatural help from God to do good and to save our souls
- Scrupulous Conscience
- Judeges an act to be evil when in fact it is not
- Original Sin
- The sin committed by Adam and Eve which brought sin into the world
- Theological Virtues
- Faith, hope, and charity; virtues infused into the soul at Baptism to help us to share in God's devine life
- Prudence
- The ability to make and carry out good moral decisions
- Materialism
- Believes that matter is the only realisty and pleasure is the greatest good
- Universality
- The ability to apply to everyone
- Civil Law
- the law promulgated by civil authority
- Moral Law
- Objective standards offered by God and taught by the Church
- Immorality
- BEhavior that goes against moral norms
- Ecclesiastical Law
- The law that directs the life and worship of the Church
- Immutability
- Not changing
- Violence
- The coercion of an external force against a person's will
- Ignorance
- The lack of required knowledge
- Sins of Ommission
- A failure to perform acts required by the positive precept
- Virtue
- A habitual and firm disposition to do good and avoid evil
- Revelation
- Revealed truths about God in Sacred Scripture and Tradition
- Magisterium
- The teaching office of the Church
- Object of An Action
- A good toward which the action directs itself
- Fundamental Option
- The decision of whether to orient one's existence toward the good or evil
- Eternal Law
- God's wisdom as manifested in all acts or movements
- End of an Action
- The first goal of the intention, the purpose pursued in it
- Circumstance of an Action
- The conditions under which an act is performed. The circumstance can increase or lessen the seriousness of an act, but they cannot make an intrinsically evil act good
- Moral Relevatism
- The belief that morality changes with each situation
- Disciple
- a follower of Christ
- Charity
- The greatest virtue which is to love Christ, one's neighbor, and oneself
- Full Knowledge
- The knowledge of the merit of sinfulness of an action