religion ch 8

Participation

Voluntary involvement in social interaction

Personal Responsibility

accountability for one’s actions and consequences

Marriage

Union between one man and one woman

Social Construct

an idea that has been created and accepted by the people in a society

State of Nature

When individuals sacrifice their liberty to the State for their protection

State

A politically organized body under a system of government

domestic church

A family as a unit of society

evangelists

Someone who shares the gospel and the good news with others

Virtue

A habitual and firm disposition to do the good

utilitarianism

an ethical theory that the morality of an act is determined by the material benefit and happiness it brings

relativism

a philosophy that believes moral principle is based off individual preference

human rights

Liberties that we need in order to fulfill the moral responsibilities of our human nature

flourish

to develop healthily for the fulfillment of one’s nature