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Religion Mid-Term
Relgion Mid-Term Vocab
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Religious Studies
11th Grade
01/11/2010

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Immutability
Definition
unchanging
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Eternal Law
Definition
God's Wisdom as manifested in all acts and movements
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Natural Law
Definition
The part of eternal law that applies to the rational creature
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Acts of Humans
Definition
Acts that do not involve the intellect and will (i.e breathing,sneezing)
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Consequentialism
Definition
An ethical system that determines good and evil from the consequences that follow an act
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Fundamental Option
Definition
the free and responsible choice a person makes to orien, in a radical manner, his whole existence in a moral direction toward good or evil
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Moral Relativism
Definition
The belief that htere are no absolute truths, and that morality changes with each new situation
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Proportionalism
Definition
An ethical system that deduces the moral value of an act from the proportion of good and evil acts
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Rationalism
Definition
The doctrine that rejects supernatural revelation and makes reason the sole source of knowledge
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Situation Ethics
Definition
An ethical theory that derives good and evil from the circumstances that accompany the acting agent
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Attrition
Definition
Imperfect contrition resulting from being sorry for sins due to fear of God's Punishment
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Contrition
Definition
Sincere sorrow for having offended God and hatred for the sins we have commited, with a firm purpose of sinning no more
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External Sin
Definition
Sin by word or action
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Formal Sin
Definition
Sin that is freely commited, always involves full knowledge of the evil of the action being committed and freedom to do or avoid the action
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Habitual Sin
Definition
The permanent state of culpability caused by the frequent commission of actual sins
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Material Sin
Definition
An action that is sinful but does not admit culpability because of ignorance
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Numerical Distinction
Definition
The concrete number of acts that are committed contrary to a virtue or precept
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Sin of Commission
Definition
A choice to do an evil act
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Sin of Omission
Definition
A failure to perform some act required by a positive precept (i.e missing Sunday Mass)
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Specific Distinction
Definition
Categorization of sins according to the specific virtues they violate
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Lax Conscience
Definition
conscience that formulates moral judgments on insufficient grounds. It judges mortal sins as venial and venial as no sins at all
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moral rectitude
Definition
correctness of method of judgement
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heteronomous morality
Definition
absolute dependence of conscience on laws
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conscience
Definition
is a judgement of reason whereby the human person recognizes the moral quality of a concrete act
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Autonomous Morality
Definition
belief that conscience is the only moral authority
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civil law
Definition
promulgated by civil authority
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actual grace
Definition
supernatural help from god to do good and avoid evil to enable us to save our souls
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free will
Definition
a gift from god to make possible the free choice to love God.
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humanism
Definition
a moral system that denies belief in God and views humanity as the highest form of existence
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sanctifying grace
Definition
the share in the divine life of God infused into us at Baptism.
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Positive Morality
Definition
a moral code the prescribes what ought to be done
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Catholic moral theology
Definition
science enabling the human mind to make correct moral choices guided by principles set forth by the Magisterium
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Fundamental morality
Definition
part of moral theology studying the nature of a moral act and conditions that make a concrete action moral
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Grace
Definition
free gift of God’s own life that God makes to each person in Baptism; it is infused into the soul by the Holy Spirit to heal it of sin and to sanctify it
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Materialism
Definition
belief that matter is the only reality and everything can be explained only in terms of matter, and that comfort, pleasure, and/or wealth are the only or highest goods and values
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Moral theology
Definition
science which accepts and examines divine revelation while at the same time responding to the demands of human reason
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Pluralism
Definition
existence of a variety of opinions or ideas within human society, some of which may contradict others; in the application of moral principles and social customs, it is valid as long as it does not contradict God’s revelation and sound reason
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Revelation
Definition
truths about God and his will which he has communicated freely to humanity by means of Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition
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Sacred Tradition
Definition
Word of God entrusted to the apostles and their successors by Christ and the Holy Spirit, and transmitted by their teaching to each generation of Christians
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Theological virtues
Definition
virtues infused in the soul at Baptism enabling each person to share in the divine nature of God – the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; in Catholic theology, there are three: faith, hope, and charity
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Tradition
Definition
those truths passed from generation to generation in oral or written form
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Freedom
Definition
the power a person has over his own acts
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Indifferent acts
Definition
actions which have no moral value in themselves, but depend on intention and circumstances surrounding them for moral value
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Prudence
Definition
ability to make and carry out correct moral decisions
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