Religion 9- The Moral Law Lesson 1

lesson 1 for religion 9!!

a decree of reason and promulgated by competent authority, for the common good.

law or norm

based on moral vision comprising basic moral values

moral norms

who stated that law was “an ordinance of reason promulgated by competent authority for the sake of common good.”

St. Thomas Aquinas

where does St. Thomas Aquinas recognize four kinds of law?

Summa Theologica

originates from the will of God. It is called _____ because God’s Divine Reason for conceiving the idea of Creation is not subject to time but is ____.

Eternal Law

promulgated by God.

Natural Law

provides criteria for judging who we are and how we should act.

Moral Law

devised by human reason based on the precepts of the natural law and applied

Human Law

derived from eternal law as it appears historically to humans as divine commands.

Divine Law