theology chapter 3

Mary Anne Yep

chicago businesswoman who filed a lawsuit against the federal contraceptive mandate

freedom

Good law points out the boundaries to \_______.

living a moral life

Knowing and respecting the law is essential to what?

False

T/F: All civil law doesn't violate the human conscience

1.) Obey

2.) Ignore

3.) Defy

When approaching a law, what three options do you have?

response and ability

What two parts does responsibility have?

responsibility

christian morality in incorporated through what?

We respond to the gift of salvation God offers us through Jesus Christ

What is response?

We have the ability to respond to God in any way we want

What is ability?

We respond affirmatively by accpeting Jesus' victory over sin and death and by treating others as our brothers and sisters

How do we respond to to God's covenant?

enables us to say yes to Jesus' invitation to discipleship and make good moral decisions

What does grace do?

true

T/F: the ability to choose is God's free gift to you

your cooperation with God's grace

What does your "ability" depend on?

God's gift of law

the tension between freedom and responsibility is balanced by what?

using freedom responsibly

living a moral life means what?

civil law

natural law provides the grounding for:

civil law

provides order in the world, guides humans in moral lviing and points out boundaries to freedom

divine law

good law has its roots in:

life and teachings of Jesus

what are the absolute truth and fundamental norm of christian morality?

"love one another as I have loved you" (Jn 15:12)

What is the New Commandment?

justification, grace, and merit

What gifts of Christ justify and cleanse us of our sins?

search for the truth

Human reason enables you to:

be the master of your own actions

free will gives you the ability to:

the ability to love

because you are free, you have the greatest power of all. what is this?

meet God and be with him for all of eternity

the freedom to love enables us to do what?

grace

the free and undeserved help that God gives you to respond to his call to be a child of god; god's favor to you

false

T/F: grace and freedom are opposed.

false

T/F: grace is coercive

false

T/F: grace takes away your ability to choose

true

T/F: freedom and grace are closely related

inner freedom

the more you cooperate with God's grace, the more you grow in what?

justification (mercy)

the gift of grace begins with what?

justification

the gift of the Holy Spirit's grace that cleanses you from your sins through conversion, faith in Jesus, and Baptism

God's own righteousness, and saving passion

What 2 things does justification give you?

actual grace

grace in the moment

sanctifying grace

grace that makes you holy

habitual grace

perfects the soul so that we can be with God

charisms

special graces unique to people that build God's kingdom

sacramental grace

holy grace from the sacraments

baptism

where do we receive our first grace?

through jesus's death, it justifies us being saved

how are we made right with God?

sin

what blocks God's grace?

faith, hope, and charity

justification gives us what theological virtues?

when we allow the HS into our lives, and by cooperating with the gifts god gives us

how can we grow in holiness?

true

T/F: no one can earn or deserve the gift of grace

true

T/F: we must freely respond to the grace God gives us in order to earn it

true

T/F: God creates us with a hunger for goodness and truth, leading us to him

speaking in tongues

what was the charism given to the disciples on pentecost?

graces of state

distinct helps to particular ministries and special ministries in the Church

- we can call god "father"

- we become adopted into the family of God

- we can share in the life of the blessed trinity

- we become an heir of heaven

- we are united to jesus christ

- we can live the way jesus instructed

- the holy spirit can live in us

responding to the gift of grace gives us what gifts?

merit

what is owed to us

false

T/F: strictly speaking, God owes us

the merit of an eternal reward of union with Him

since god has offered us his grace, we are offered what?

dignity

What did we gain at Baptism when we joined the divine family?

grace

what does merit always begin with?

Jesus Christ

What is the source of all merit?

prayer, hope

Living a holy life require \_____, which strengthens you in the virtue of \____.

makes people responsible for their choices, and enables them to grow in truth and holiness.

freedom does what 2 things?

freedom

basis for all of our decisions, allows us to shape our lives

false

T/F: all kinds of your freedom can be taken away

freedom of thought

what freedom can never be taken away?

freedom

the power, rooted in reason and will, to act or not to act, to do this or that, and so to perform deliberate actions in one's own responsibility

grace

freedom to choose well is a product of what?

external freedom

freedom from factors outside yourself that threaten or destroy your power to exercise choice

internal freedom

freedom from interior factors that limit choice

true

T/F: there are certain physical, intellectual, and emotional limits to your freedom

license

unlimited freedom

false

T/F: true freedom is license

license

\______ is excessive, undisciplined freedom that abuses true freedom

Will Durant

"when liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near."

moral relativism

any doctrine or belief that denies the existence of absolute, universal moral truths

study and prayer

what can help fix moral relativism?

82%

Knights of Columbus found that \_____ of 18-29 y/o catholics see morals as relative

sin

abuse of freedom always results in what?

absolute truth

true freedom is based in what?

Jesus

absolute truth is not a position but a person:

Pope Benedict XVI

"Do not be afraid when following Christ leads to misunderstandings and affront."

speak and act

How do you share the absolute truth of Jesus?

Pope Benedict

"Serve Christ in the weakest and most disadvantaged people, especially in your own peers with difficulties."

sinful actions

Impediments to your freedom can limit your culpability for \____ \_____.

responsible for your actions

to the degree that your choices are voluntary, you are:

imputable

if a deed is \_______ to a specific person or entity, then that person can clearly be accountable for it.

consequences

responsibility and freedom go hand in hand because your free choices and actions have \_______.

false

T/F: mistakes are sins

mistakes, sins

mature and honest people take responsibility for both their \_______ and \________.

directly willed

you must accept responsibility for all of your \______ \_____ actions.

ignorance

when a person truly does not know the right way to behave

inadvertence

when a person is not paying attention or distracted

duress

when a person is forced to do something

inordinate attachments

when a person is enslaved to money and other material attachments

habit

when a person's repeated behavior causes this

- ignorance