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Theology Midterm
Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Nihilism | philosophy that denies there is any meaning in existence or in religious beliefs |
Original Sin | 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 |
Solidarity | the Christian virtue of social charity and friendship |
Common Good | the “sum total of social conditions that allow people, either as groups or as individuals, to reach their fulfillment more fully and more easily |
Subsidiarity | the principle of Catholic social teachings that upholds that a higher unit of society should not do what a lower unit can do as well or better. |
Paschal Mystery | God’s love and salvation fully revealed in the life, Passion, Death, Resurrection and Glorification of Jesus Christ |
Discernment | a decision making process that attends to the implications and consequences of an action or choice |
Prudence | the moral virtue that inclines you to discern a good, ethical, and moral life and to choose the means to accomplish it |
Magisterium | the bishops, in union with the pope, who are the living and teaching office of the Church |
Justification | the grace of the Holy Spirit to justify you, that is, to cleanse you from your sins |
Grace | the free and undeserved help that God gives you to become his adoptive son or daughter |
Merit | term that refers to what is “owed” to you based on how you choose to life your life |
Moral relativism | any doctrine or belief that denies the existence of absolute, universal moral truths |
Norm | a guideline or law that can help regulate human freedom toward what is true and good and, therefore, toward God |
Canon law | the official body of rules that provides for good order in the Catholic Church |
Free will | 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 |