Theology 11 Final Quizlet Based On Study Guide With Eliezer Edits Flashcards | Knowt (2024)

-The Divine Logic behind creation

• -It is God’s wisdom organizing and directing all created beings and their movements.

• -In Natural Law terminology, everything has a nature

• -The essence or nature is what a thing is

• -It is natural for humans to be RATIONAL

-The natural law is HUMAN REASON, this is giving norms or commands to what is good, and avoiding evil.

-It is applying human reason to the essence of humanity

• Why do people at times not know the natural law?

-Human intellect has been wounded by original sin and does not perceive truth easily or immediately.

-People might know the natural law, but might have not learned it

• Immorality/illegality

• -That which is wrong and evil (sinful); violates the moral law

• -What is illegal is usually immoral, but not always

• -What is legal is usually moral, but not always

-Law given to us directly by God

-Many of these laws are discoverable by reason but God revealed them so we can be certain about it

-In the New Testament, Jesus reveals a New Law; a new way of life for the disciples; it is a law of freedom

-This takes us to a new level of Holiness

• 1. To stop them from doing evil, hurting themselves and others.

• 2. So that other people can live in peace.

• 3. So that after having been forced to act reasonably for a period of time, they will come to see the benefit of it, become wiser, and choose it freely.

-The Church has authority from Christ to make laws that are binding in conscience on Catholics

-Jesus originally gave the authority to Peter

-The Law that governs the Church is the Canon LAw

1. Attend Mass on Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation

2. Confess grave sins at least once a year

3. Receive communion at least once a year (During Easter)

4. Fast and Abstain on the days appointed

5. Contribute to the support of the church

-Required when you turn 18

-Must fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday

• -Lent Fridays fasting is not required but must be abstinent

-The laws created by the government to bring safety and order

-Authority from Civil Law ultimately comes from God; this could mean that in some cases violating a civil law could be a sin against God

It can happen before, during, or after the action

• Ex:

• Before: “Should I get drunk at the party tonight?”

• During: “Maybe I should not be drinking this (fifth) beer in my hand.”

• After: “Last night I was telling myself that getting drunk was just innocent fun. I now admit that it was wrong.”

1. Perception of principles

2. Application to circ*mstances

3. Moral Judgement

• Examples:

  • Perception of moral principles.

    • -Stealing is wrong

  • Application of principles to particular situations.

    • -Taking this watch out of this store without paying for it, would be stealing.

  • Moral judgment about the act to be performed, or already performed.

    • -If I take this watch, I will be doing something wrong. Hence I must not do this.

For any judgment of conscience, there is an objective and subjective dimension.

1. Objective: conscience can be correct or erroneous

2. Subjective: conscience can be certain or doubtful

Proximate - nearby, inside your head, internal

• -It is “proximate” or close, e.g. the knowledge in me that stealing is wrong.

• -It commands or forbids with authority. This authority comes from outside myself.

Conscience Is: The gift God gave humans to be able to use reason in order to use reason to judge right from wrong

• Conscience is NOT:

  • -A little voice

  • -Gut feeling

  • -A god-like power to create your own rules about right and wrong.

  • -Not “my opinion.”

1. Moral Obligation to form your conscience

2. Always follow a certain conscience

3. Never obey a doubtful conscience

1. To grow in our “perception of moral principles,” that is, our knowledge about which kinds of actions are right, and which are wrong, and why.

2. To improve our skills at applying the moral principles to concrete situations.

• -your top priority

• -the most important part of your life

• -your hope for ultimate happiness and meaning

• -the place where you invest unlimited time, money, energy and attention.

• Pride

• Covetousness/Envy

• Lust

• Anger

• Gluttony

• Greed

• Sloth (lack of effort in loving God)

Mortal - Serious/deadly sin

Venial- any sin that’s not mortal

• -The moral object is grave (or serious) matter.

• -The act is committed with full knowledge.

• -The act is committed with complete consent.

Sin against the holy spirit

-This sin is when you refuse to repent to God

• a sadness or dejection of the will when one finds it difficult to live a spiritual life.

• 1. Self-defense: The war is self-defense against an unjust aggressor, and the damage afflicted by the aggressor is “lasting, grave, and certain”

• 2. Last resort: Diplomacy, negotiations, persuasion, trade restrictions, and embargos must be exhausted before war becomes a moral option

• 3. Probability of success: If defeat is almost certain for a military action, then it is morally wrong to wage a war that will only result in more casualties

• 4. Proportionality: A military response to an attack must not be greater than that required for self-defense (if stones are used, don’t drop a nuke)

• 5. Non-combatants: It is always morally wrong for a military force to target non-combatants and unarmed citizens

• -God is the Master and Giver of life. Our life belongs to him

• -Our lives are not ours to dispose of.

• -Suicide is a sin against self, others, and God

-Is not technically sinful, as it can be used for health reasons

-It is Abortifacient: It can cause micro abortions, stopping the egg from implanting

-Increased risk of Breast cancer

-Placenta Previa - causes a higher chance for miscarriages

-Worse symptoms during pregnancy

• -They are the product of humans

• -Distinct organism after being fertilized

• D-octors treat unborn children as patients

• one of the oldest Christian documents from the Apostolic age that condemns Abortion

• -Man has a right to life “from womb to tomb”

• -Euthanasia, by ending someone’s life who has little to no chance of recovery, and is thought to have a poor quality of life, denies this right

• -Organ removal: Mutilation or disfigurement are contrary to the moral law (At certain times, it may be necessary to remove a limb or organ to save the life of a seriously ill person; such surgery is morally permissible)

• -An organ transplant is allowable when both the donor and the recipient give informed consent, and the physical and psychological dangers and risks are proportional to the benefits

• Adult stem cells and Embryonic stem cells

• How sexual acts can be an offense to God

• To covet someone else’s wife is to sin against chastity and Marriage

• The Ninth Commandment is fulfilled by the virtue of modesty

• The virtue that moderates one’s external appearance (especially in dress), behavior, humility, and studiousness in order to avoid offending God or others to avoid attracting what is unnecessary, and to temper excessive desire for personal distinction. It is the refusal to unveil what should remain hidden and, especially in matters of dress, is ordered to chastity.

1. Sex belongs within a Marriage

2. Love and life

   • -The sharing of love between the spouses and the transmission of life

Marriage is a lifelong conjugal relationship

A term describing the obligations, responsibilities, and interactions between a husband and wife.

Includes Consummation of marriage

• Premarital sex takes the sacred act of love and removes it from the sacrament of marriage

• In vitro fertilization

• Egg/sperm donation

hom*osexuality which violates to procreative and unitive end of sexual activity

• The Church teaches that it is not wrong to feel attracted to members of the same sex however, encouraging or acting on those feelings is sinful

• Sexual identity/orientation is not essential to a person’s true identity

  • Our true identity is found in Jesus

• Sex reassignment surgery

• Transgender surgery, a biological male gets surgical procedures to become a female

• Trial marriage (Cohabitation)

• Boyfriend and girlfriend living together before marriage

Marriage between the baptized is indissoluble

Sacramental marriage remains even if a civil court divorces the couple

If one of the spouses was unable to freely consent to the marriage an annulment can be sought through the Church

The true integration of sexuality within a person’s bodily and spiritual being. It includes an apprenticeship in self-mastery. Each of us is called to chastity.

Moderates our human desire for sexual intimacy

• Natural Family Planning / Fertility Awareness

• The Church encourages the use of Natural Family Planning (NFP):

  • -The general title for the scientific, natural, and moral methods of family planning that can help married couples either achieve or postpone pregnancies and which respect the unitive and procreative nature of the marital embrace.