Morality Chapter 1 Vocab

Mr Wedwick, Junior Year Academic

Angels

Spiritual creatures, created by God with intelligence and will, who surpass humans in perfection. They are personal and immortal creatures.

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”

concupiscence

Disordered human desires resulting from Original Sin that produce an

inclination to sin, also expressed as “the rebellion of the ‘flesh’ against the ‘spirit’”

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”

nihilism

A philosophy that denies there is any meaning in existence or religious beliefs.A _____ maintains that the only thing that comes after life is nothingness, annihilation

original holiness and original justice

The original state of human beings in their

relationship with God before sin entered the world. Original holiness was the state of

Adam and Eve in which they shared in the divine life. Original justice was their state of

inner harmony, harmony between man and woman, and harmony between the first

couple and all creation

Original Sin

The personal sin of Adam and Eve, the first human beings, by which they

disobeyed God’s commandment and chose their own will over God’s will. As a result,

they lost the grace of original holiness and original justice, they became subject to death,

and sin entered the world. Original Sin also describes the fallen state of human nature,

which affects every person and from which Christ came to redeem the world.

Paschal Mystery

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.

Sin

“An offense against God as well as a fault against reason, truth, and right

conscience” (CCC, Glossary). The basic cause of sin is love for self over love for God. Sin

wounds both human nature and the solidarity of the human race. Sin was most intense

at Christ’s Passion, as witnessed by the hatred of Jesus’ enemies for the Son of God.

However, Christ’s sacrifice on the Cross opened the way for God’s forgiveness and

mercy.

solidarity

The Christian virtue of social charity and friendship

Soul

The name for the innermost spiritual principle of human beings. The soul and

body together form one unique human nature. The soul is created immediately by God.

It is immortal.

subsidiarity

The principle of Catholic social teaching that holds that a higher unit of

society should not do what a lower unit can do as well (or better).

Theological virtues

Three important virtues bestowed on a person at Baptism that

help the person to relate to God: 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), and charity

(love of God and love of neighbor).

Theology of the Body

Pope John Paul II’s integrated vision of the human person—

body, soul, and spirit—which he expressed in a series of 129 Wednesday audiences from

1979 to 1984. Drawing mostly from Scripture, Pope John Paul II taught that the body is

a true gift from God. The talks highlight how sexuality is a beautiful gift from God

intended to be a means for self-giving love.