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Chapter 1 Review
Theology Study Guide
Question | Answer |
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What are the sources of morality? | Human Reason; Human Experience; Divine Revelation |
What are our godlike qualities? | To think; to choose; to love; to relate to others in community |
How can we be stuarts of the Earth? | Picking up litter |
Why doesn't human dignity have to be earned? | It is inherent; It in inalienable; It is inviolable |
How do we respect the human dignity of others? | Refraining from prejudice; Accepting others as individuals despite our differences; Acting with consideration and courtesy; Acknowledging their existence by greeting and listening to them |
“An offense against God as well as fault against reason, truth, and right conscience;” The basic cause of sin is love for self over love for God; wounds both human nature and solidarity of the human race; | Sin |
The Christian virtue of social charity and friendship | Solidarity |
The saving love of God most fully revealed in the life and especially the Passion, Death, Resurrection, and glorious Ascension of his Son, Jesus Christ | Paschal Mystery |
important virtues bestowed on a person at Baptism that help the person relate to God; they are faith, hope, and charity | Theological Virtues |
Faith | belief in and personal knowledge of God |
Hope | trust in God’s salvation and in his gift of the graces needed to attain it |
Charity | love of God and love of neighbor |
The principle of Catholic social teaching that holds that a higher unit of society should not do what a lower unit can do well or better | Subsidarity |
The “sum total of social conditions that allow people, either as groups or as individuals, to reach their fulfillment more fully and easily” (CCC, 1906) | Common Good |
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 | Free Will |