Religion Exam
Religion 35 Units 1-3 Review for District Assessment Exam
Unit One: Mapping the Ethical Experience
Chapter One: Why Be Ethical?
Four Personal Responses: The experience of the personal response.
The experience of the other.
The experience of obligation
The experience of contrast; this is intolerable.
Ethics: The guiding principles that help us towards goodness. Ethics comes from Greek “ta ethika” having to do with good character. E.g. Justice, compassion
Morality: “Moralitas” having to do with the customs, habits, and manners shaping human life. E.g. Rules, laws, Ten Commandments etc.
Aristotle: Teleological ethics: Having to do with purpose or design. Happiness is not found in the individual but in what is good for the community or society.
The pursuit of happiness is found in the “polis” the city-state. To act ethically is to engage in our capacity to reason as we develop good character. He advocates human excellence. Doctrine of the Mean = moderation for the individual .
Kant: Deontological ethics: Sense of duty. He believes in theoretical and practical reasoning. Goodness is the aim of life. He believes in God, freedom and immortality. God is beyond our reach but His existence allows us to achieve the supreme good. Humans are by nature free. A life beyond the present exists. Kant acts more as an individual than in groups.
Levinas: Relational ethics: Searching for the good through the face of others. We are called to react to “the other” especially those in need. The good is infinite and we search for it through others.
Read Chapter Summary pp 22 text
Chapter Two: You are what you do.
Conceptual Framework of Action: Paul Ricoeur:
1. Who? (agent)
2. What? (the action)
3. Why? (the motive)
4. How? (with what means?)
5. With or against whom?
6. Under what circumstances?
7. With what outcome?
Responsibility: A person is the agent of his actions. This presupposes freedom, knowledge and capacity.
Human freedom= the power to act or not to and the acceptance of responsibility for the consequences.
Naturalism: Our decisions and actions are determined by our (genetics) and we are not responsible for our actions, As Catholics we don’t accept this theory. Naturalism denies the possibility of ethics.
Artificial Intelligence: A principle that proposes that intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to stimulate it.
Mind-Brain Distinction: Catholic tradition does not deny the discoveries of science or the connections between the mind and brain. The human mind is more than the physical functions. The mind has the capacity for freedom, choice, and action. The mind is the heart of human capacity.
Predestination: The belief that God chooses to save some people and condemns the rest. A person can’t change this on there own. As Catholics we don’t accept this view.
Social Determinism: Our actions are determined by others based on culture, race, gender, religion etc. This denies our freedom and as Catholics we don’t believe this to be true.
Rationalism: A philosophical theory that suggests that nothing can be accepted as true unless it can be proven by reason alone.
Freud’s Life and Death instincts. Life Instinct = Eros, Death Instinct = Thanatos
Read Chapter Summary pp 40 text.
Chapter Three: Conscience: The self in search of the good.
Six Aspects of the human person:
The importance of others
The importance of direction in life.
The importance of communication and language.
The importance of character and one’s body.
The importance of conscience.
The importance of the development of one’s conscience.
Narcissism: A disorder marked by self-absorption to the exclusion of others.
Conscience: A voice that calls us to “love and to do what is good and to avoid evil. It is the inner voice that tells us right from wrong. It is our inner sanctuary where we are alone with God whose voice echoes in our depth.
Freud’s views of conscience:
The Id; The unconscious instinctual drives eg hunger, thirst
The Superego: Others views of right/wrong superimposed on us .eg. parents, teachers etc. We act out of a sense of guilt of others.
Ego: Our own views of right and wrong and a willingness to accept responsibility for our choices.
Three Senses of Conscience:
Conscience as Capacity: To know and do good and avoid evil.
Conscience as Process: Knowing how to perceive and thing correctly. Seeking truth and making it one’s own conscience.
Conscience as Judgment: Making a moral judgment by following one’s
Conscience Development:
Develops as you mature and determine you sense of right and wrong
Develops as you take account of and follow the norms, values and commandments.
Develops as you participate in Eucharist and prayer life.
Develops as you grow in the virtue of humility
Symptoms of a misinformed conscience:
Rationalization
Trivialization
Misinformation
End justifies the immoral means.
Means to an end and
Difficult to reason.
Read Chapter Summary pp 60 text
Unit Two: Guided by the Light of Revelation
Chapter Four: The Naming of God and ethics.
Covenant : God’s bond of love that calls to us in our freedom to respond in love. God’s commitment is forever.
Revelation: God makes himself known to us through Jesus, Scriptures and the Holy Spirit.
Moses: Prophet as an infant, raised by Pharaoh’s daughter, identified with Jews. God revealed himself to Moses
Name of God: Holy name of God = YHWH = “I am who is, I am who shall be “
It was revealed to Moses by God.
Moses Mission: To be an intermediary between God and his people. To save the Jews from slavery and lead them into the Promised Land. Moses received the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai.
Decalogue: Ten Commandments: Ten words.
Traits of a Covenant:
Preamble
Historical Prologue
The submission
The Witnesses
The blessings and curses
Structure of a Call Story:
Confrontation with God
Introductory Speech
Imparting of a mission
Objection by the prophet to be.
Reassurance by God
The Sign
Sin: Referred to as transgression from God. It is a turning away from right actions. It is breaking the moral commandments.
Read Chapter Summary pp. 84 text
Chapter Five: Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Interpreting Scripture:
Exegesis (p 87 text). The study of scripture in its original context. It looks at the language, the historical context in which these texts were originally written , the religious traditions etc.
Hermeneutics: The task of interpretation. It is looking at scripture and interpreting it in light of the 21st century.
Matthew’s Gospel: Written in Antioch (Turkey) Approx 90 CE.
It was written for the Jewish people as well as the new Christian followers.
Main message: Jesus is the long awaited Messiah. He is the ultimate teacher (Rabbi). Jesus is the law and the law is love. Jesus is the new Torah. (pp 87-91) textbook. Jesus’ proclaims the fulfillment of the Torah.
Parousia: The second coming of Christ which is to take place at the end of time.
Eschatological: “pertaining to the end time” or “the fullness of time”
Kingdom of God or the Kingdom of heaven: It is not a place but a symbol or metaphor for God. God is not in a far off place but is acting among us here and now.
Sermon on the Mount: The platform for life given to the disciples and us. It is the Old Torah revisited in the light of Jesus’ teachings. It is the heart of Christian teachings based on love of God and love of neighbour. (pp 92-98 textbook)
Grace - God’s self-gift of love in us and our participation in the relationship of love that is the Trinity.
Ethics of the Sermon on the Mount:
Ethics of the Kingdom of God already in our midst but not yet fully revealed.
It is an ethics to “be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect”
Ethics that makes us righteous.
It is an eschatological ethics. Eschatological = pertaining to the end of time or fullness of time.
It is a Gospel ethics.
Read Chapter Summary pp. 106 text.
Chapter Six
Early Formation of the Church: 50 years after Jesus’ death the disciples were loosely organized and they gathered on the day after Sabbath (Sunday) to share in the Bread and Wine as Jesus did at the last supper. They emphasized the organization of the church and translation of Jesus’ words into practices, teachings and moral behaviour.
Role of the Holy Spirit: The promise of the presence of the Holy Spirit to guide the early disciples.
Pentecost – the “birthday” of the Church. When the Holy Spirit descended upon the disciples and gave them courage to preach the gospel “in the streets” regardless of the consequences.
St Paul: Initially he tried to eliminate early Christians and even killed some. He was blinded by light from heaven (Jesus) and became a Christian .After regaining his sight he became the Apostle to the Gentiles and converted many to Christianity. He was a great writer in the early church.
Trinity: God is an eternal exchange of love. This central mystery of the Christian faith: the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Period of Jewish Christianity: AD 30- 130.
Great enthusiasm and joy but difficulties also. The rich pretended to sell all of their belongings and give to church but often didn’t sell everything. They eat the best food at banquets and saved only scraps for poor servants.
The poor Jews received more goods from the Church than did the poor Gentiles. There was the question about what to do with sinners, allow them to stay or get rid of them.
Period of Greek and European Christianity (AD 50-1964)
The first encounter with Greek philosophy. The evangelization of Northern Europe by Irish and Celtic Monks. The encounter with Islam and the rediscovery of Greek philosophy and civilization, Christianity divided. The European empire.
Protestant reformation, first expressed through the “protest” of Martin Luther.
Period of Global Christianity: Twentieth century. Karl Rahner (spoke of True Global Church) that is the Christian church to be found in all countries embracing a great variety of cultures. Global church = catholic = universal
The Church and Moral Teaching:
The Church shapes moral character
The Church guards and maintains moral tradition:
The Church is a community of moral deliberation whenever and wherever moral issues emerge.
Levels of Teaching Authority:
The faithful
Theologians
Priests and pastoral workers
Magisterium consisting of the pope and bishops
Read Chapter Summary pp.124 text.
Unit Three: Building a Civilization of Love
Building a Civilization of Love Learning Guide (as taken from Theology of the Body for Teens textbook).
Agape: The Greek term for unconditional and sacrificial love; the type of love with which God loves us.
Anthropology: The overall study of man and what it means to be a human person.
Birth Control: Normally refers to the general method of preventing pregnancy through various ways of altering or changing the body’s natural state of fertility into a state of infertility.
Contraception: Every action before, during, or after sexual intercourse that deliberately attempts to impede its procreative potential (CCC 2370).
Corporal Works of mercy: These are actions of love that meet the physical needs of others. The seven works include feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, clothing the naked, visiting the sick, visiting the imprisoned, giving drink to the thirsty, and burying the dead. The word “corporal” comes from the Latin word for body.
Encyclical: A letter written by the pope, normally addressed to the bishops of the world (and sometimes to the wider audience of all the faithful), usually intended to teach or clarify a doctrine of the Faith.
Fornication: Having sex outside of marriage.
Free, Total, Faithful and Fruitful:
Free: is love that is not controlled or manipulated by another person or by a disordered desire. No one is forcing you to love. You love freely because you want to.
Total: is love without strings attached that holds nothing back. In total love, you make a gift of yourself to another – total self-donation.
Faithful: Love that is committed. That commitment guides all other actions. You keep your promises once you have made them, no matter how your feelings may change.
Fruitful: Love that is life-giving, because it is free, total, and faithful. It is open to procreation in the physical realm and is life-giving in the spiritual and emotional realm as well.
Humanae Vitae: Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical on human life. It is most famous for its clear and definitive teaching on why contraception is immoral and sinful, explaining that it separates the sexual act from one if its intrinsic purposes: procreation.
Language of the Body: The capability of the body to speak its own language and to communicate without words.
Language of love: Generally speaking, the words that speak truth and compassion. Specifically regarding the body, the truth and totality of self, communicated through the body in sexual intercourse.
Natural Family Planning (NFP): The term referring to various effective, natural, and moral methods for achieving or postponing pregnancy.
One-flesh union: The loving embrace of a married couple through sexual intercourse, in which they become “one flesh” (see Genesis 2:24). The Scriptures teach that this union prefigures the total communion we will have with God in heaven (see Ephesians 5:31-32).
New Evangelization: A term referring to the special need to share the Gospel with new enthusiasm, new methods and new expressions. The new evangelization is not a new Gospel, but it recognizes that as the world changes, the method for sharing the Good News need to change if they are to be effective.
Pornography: The sexually-explicit depiction of persons, in words or images, created in order to cause the arousal of lust on the part of the observer.
Primordial Sacrament: The sacrament of Marriage as it was in the beginning – the original revelation of God’s love in the world.
Sacraments: in the broadest sense this is God’s loving presence made visible in our lives. For example, in marriage, the two people getting married not only receive the sacrament they become a sacrament, a visible sign of God’s love in the world.
Spousal Analogy: The scriptural imagery using the earthly understanding of marriage to convey the power and fidelity of God’s love for humans and Christ’s love for the Church.
Submission: Placing oneself “under the mission” of another, surrendering to someone. In the case of marriage, this means deferring to each other in love. For the wife, it means allowing her husband to love her as Christ loved the Church – to the point of death. In the case of the husband, it means serving his wife and loving her at all costs.
R eligious Studies 35 Final Exam
Written Response Assessment Rubric
Clearly below acceptable standard 1 | Does not meet the acceptable standard 2 | Clearly meets the acceptable standard 3 | Approaches the standard of excellence 4 | Meets the standard of excellence 5 | Mark | |
Written Response #1 | Little or no evidence of answering the question by referring to what was learned from Religious Studies program and personal life experiences. | Some evidence of answering the question by referring to what was learned from Religious Studies program and personal life experiences. | Adequate evidence of answering the question by referring to what was learned from Religious Studies program and personal life experiences. | Evidence of answering the question by referring to what was learned from Religious Studies program and personal life experiences is evident and generally effective. | Evidence of answering the question by referring to what was learned from Religious Studies program and personal life experiences is clearly evident and consistently effective. | /5 |
Written Response #2 | Little or no evidence of answering the question by referring to what was learned from Religious Studies program and personal life experiences. | Some evidence of answering the question by referring to what was learned from Religious Studies program and personal life experiences. | Adequate evidence of answering the question by referring to what was learned from Religious Studies program and personal life experiences. | Evidence of answering the question by referring to what was learned from Religious Studies program and personal life experiences is evident and generally effective. | Evidence of answering the question by referring to what was learned from Religious Studies program and personal life experiences is clearly evident and consistently effective. | /5 |
TOTAL: /10
What the District Assessment Consists Of
Part One: Multiple Choice Questions
50 multiple choice questions taken from the entire course except the World Religions learning guide.
Part Two: Written Component
Choose 2 of 5 questions to respond to. The questions are centered around major themes from the Mapping the Ethical Experience, Building a Civilization of Love and Guided by the Light of Revelation learning guides.
Your responses are to include personal life experience/reflection that is supported by course learnings. For example, if you are responding to a question that is about ethics and morality, a good answer would tie your personal reflection in to the philosophies of Aristotle, Kant and/or Levinas, the three states of conscience, Paul Ricoeur’s conceptual framework for action, symptoms of a misinformed conscience, etc.
Religion 35 Units 1-3 Review for District Assessment Exam
Unit One: Mapping the Ethical Experience
Chapter One: Why Be Ethical?
Four Personal Responses: The experience of the personal response.
The experience of the other.
The experience of obligation
The experience of contrast; this is intolerable.
Ethics: The guiding principles that help us towards goodness. Ethics comes from Greek “ta ethika” having to do with good character. E.g. Justice, compassion
Morality: “Moralitas” having to do with the customs, habits, and manners shaping human life. E.g. Rules, laws, Ten Commandments etc.
Aristotle: Teleological ethics: Having to do with purpose or design. Happiness is not found in the individual but in what is good for the community or society.
The pursuit of happiness is found in the “polis” the city-state. To act ethically is to engage in our capacity to reason as we develop good character. He advocates human excellence. Doctrine of the Mean = moderation for the individual .
Kant: Deontological ethics: Sense of duty. He believes in theoretical and practical reasoning. Goodness is the aim of life. He believes in God, freedom and immortality. God is beyond our reach but His existence allows us to achieve the supreme good. Humans are by nature free. A life beyond the present exists. Kant acts more as an individual than in groups.
Levinas: Relational ethics: Searching for the good through the face of others. We are called to react to “the other” especially those in need. The good is infinite and we search for it through others.
Read Chapter Summary pp 22 text
Chapter Two: You are what you do.
Conceptual Framework of Action: Paul Ricoeur:
1. Who? (agent)
2. What? (the action)
3. Why? (the motive)
4. How? (with what means?)
5. With or against whom?
6. Under what circumstances?
7. With what outcome?
Responsibility: A person is the agent of his actions. This presupposes freedom, knowledge and capacity.
Human freedom= the power to act or not to and the acceptance of responsibility for the consequences.
Naturalism: Our decisions and actions are determined by our (genetics) and we are not responsible for our actions, As Catholics we don’t accept this theory. Naturalism denies the possibility of ethics.
Artificial Intelligence: A principle that proposes that intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to stimulate it.
Mind-Brain Distinction: Catholic tradition does not deny the discoveries of science or the connections between the mind and brain. The human mind is more than the physical functions. The mind has the capacity for freedom, choice, and action. The mind is the heart of human capacity.
Predestination: The belief that God chooses to save some people and condemns the rest. A person can’t change this on there own. As Catholics we don’t accept this view.
Social Determinism: Our actions are determined by others based on culture, race, gender, religion etc. This denies our freedom and as Catholics we don’t believe this to be true.
Rationalism: A philosophical theory that suggests that nothing can be accepted as true unless it can be proven by reason alone.
Freud’s Life and Death instincts. Life Instinct = Eros, Death Instinct = Thanatos
Read Chapter Summary pp 40 text.
Chapter Three: Conscience: The self in search of the good.
Six Aspects of the human person:
The importance of others
The importance of direction in life.
The importance of communication and language.
The importance of character and one’s body.
The importance of conscience.
The importance of the development of one’s conscience.
Narcissism: A disorder marked by self-absorption to the exclusion of others.
Conscience: A voice that calls us to “love and to do what is good and to avoid evil. It is the inner voice that tells us right from wrong. It is our inner sanctuary where we are alone with God whose voice echoes in our depth.
Freud’s views of conscience:
The Id; The unconscious instinctual drives eg hunger, thirst
The Superego: Others views of right/wrong superimposed on us .eg. parents, teachers etc. We act out of a sense of guilt of others.
Ego: Our own views of right and wrong and a willingness to accept responsibility for our choices.
Three Senses of Conscience:
Conscience as Capacity: To know and do good and avoid evil.
Conscience as Process: Knowing how to perceive and thing correctly. Seeking truth and making it one’s own conscience.
Conscience as Judgment: Making a moral judgment by following one’s
Conscience Development:
Develops as you mature and determine you sense of right and wrong
Develops as you take account of and follow the norms, values and commandments.
Develops as you participate in Eucharist and prayer life.
Develops as you grow in the virtue of humility
Symptoms of a misinformed conscience:
Rationalization
Trivialization
Misinformation
End justifies the immoral means.
Means to an end and
Difficult to reason.
Read Chapter Summary pp 60 text
Unit Two: Guided by the Light of Revelation
Chapter Four: The Naming of God and ethics.
Covenant : God’s bond of love that calls to us in our freedom to respond in love. God’s commitment is forever.
Revelation: God makes himself known to us through Jesus, Scriptures and the Holy Spirit.
Moses: Prophet as an infant, raised by Pharaoh’s daughter, identified with Jews. God revealed himself to Moses
Name of God: Holy name of God = YHWH = “I am who is, I am who shall be “
It was revealed to Moses by God.
Moses Mission: To be an intermediary between God and his people. To save the Jews from slavery and lead them into the Promised Land. Moses received the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai.
Decalogue: Ten Commandments: Ten words.
Traits of a Covenant:
Preamble
Historical Prologue
The submission
The Witnesses
The blessings and curses
Structure of a Call Story:
Confrontation with God
Introductory Speech
Imparting of a mission
Objection by the prophet to be.
Reassurance by God
The Sign
Sin: Referred to as transgression from God. It is a turning away from right actions. It is breaking the moral commandments.
Read Chapter Summary pp. 84 text
Chapter Five: Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Interpreting Scripture:
Exegesis (p 87 text). The study of scripture in its original context. It looks at the language, the historical context in which these texts were originally written , the religious traditions etc.
Hermeneutics: The task of interpretation. It is looking at scripture and interpreting it in light of the 21st century.
Matthew’s Gospel: Written in Antioch (Turkey) Approx 90 CE.
It was written for the Jewish people as well as the new Christian followers.
Main message: Jesus is the long awaited Messiah. He is the ultimate teacher (Rabbi). Jesus is the law and the law is love. Jesus is the new Torah. (pp 87-91) textbook. Jesus’ proclaims the fulfillment of the Torah.
Parousia: The second coming of Christ which is to take place at the end of time.
Eschatological: “pertaining to the end time” or “the fullness of time”
Kingdom of God or the Kingdom of heaven: It is not a place but a symbol or metaphor for God. God is not in a far off place but is acting among us here and now.
Sermon on the Mount: The platform for life given to the disciples and us. It is the Old Torah revisited in the light of Jesus’ teachings. It is the heart of Christian teachings based on love of God and love of neighbour. (pp 92-98 textbook)
Grace - God’s self-gift of love in us and our participation in the relationship of love that is the Trinity.
Ethics of the Sermon on the Mount:
Ethics of the Kingdom of God already in our midst but not yet fully revealed.
It is an ethics to “be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect”
Ethics that makes us righteous.
It is an eschatological ethics. Eschatological = pertaining to the end of time or fullness of time.
It is a Gospel ethics.
Read Chapter Summary pp. 106 text.
Chapter Six
Early Formation of the Church: 50 years after Jesus’ death the disciples were loosely organized and they gathered on the day after Sabbath (Sunday) to share in the Bread and Wine as Jesus did at the last supper. They emphasized the organization of the church and translation of Jesus’ words into practices, teachings and moral behaviour.
Role of the Holy Spirit: The promise of the presence of the Holy Spirit to guide the early disciples.
Pentecost – the “birthday” of the Church. When the Holy Spirit descended upon the disciples and gave them courage to preach the gospel “in the streets” regardless of the consequences.
St Paul: Initially he tried to eliminate early Christians and even killed some. He was blinded by light from heaven (Jesus) and became a Christian .After regaining his sight he became the Apostle to the Gentiles and converted many to Christianity. He was a great writer in the early church.
Trinity: God is an eternal exchange of love. This central mystery of the Christian faith: the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
Period of Jewish Christianity: AD 30- 130.
Great enthusiasm and joy but difficulties also. The rich pretended to sell all of their belongings and give to church but often didn’t sell everything. They eat the best food at banquets and saved only scraps for poor servants.
The poor Jews received more goods from the Church than did the poor Gentiles. There was the question about what to do with sinners, allow them to stay or get rid of them.
Period of Greek and European Christianity (AD 50-1964)
The first encounter with Greek philosophy. The evangelization of Northern Europe by Irish and Celtic Monks. The encounter with Islam and the rediscovery of Greek philosophy and civilization, Christianity divided. The European empire.
Protestant reformation, first expressed through the “protest” of Martin Luther.
Period of Global Christianity: Twentieth century. Karl Rahner (spoke of True Global Church) that is the Christian church to be found in all countries embracing a great variety of cultures. Global church = catholic = universal
The Church and Moral Teaching:
The Church shapes moral character
The Church guards and maintains moral tradition:
The Church is a community of moral deliberation whenever and wherever moral issues emerge.
Levels of Teaching Authority:
The faithful
Theologians
Priests and pastoral workers
Magisterium consisting of the pope and bishops
Read Chapter Summary pp.124 text.
Unit Three: Building a Civilization of Love
Building a Civilization of Love Learning Guide (as taken from Theology of the Body for Teens textbook).
Agape: The Greek term for unconditional and sacrificial love; the type of love with which God loves us.
Anthropology: The overall study of man and what it means to be a human person.
Birth Control: Normally refers to the general method of preventing pregnancy through various ways of altering or changing the body’s natural state of fertility into a state of infertility.
Contraception: Every action before, during, or after sexual intercourse that deliberately attempts to impede its procreative potential (CCC 2370).
Corporal Works of mercy: These are actions of love that meet the physical needs of others. The seven works include feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, clothing the naked, visiting the sick, visiting the imprisoned, giving drink to the thirsty, and burying the dead. The word “corporal” comes from the Latin word for body.
Encyclical: A letter written by the pope, normally addressed to the bishops of the world (and sometimes to the wider audience of all the faithful), usually intended to teach or clarify a doctrine of the Faith.
Fornication: Having sex outside of marriage.
Free, Total, Faithful and Fruitful:
Free: is love that is not controlled or manipulated by another person or by a disordered desire. No one is forcing you to love. You love freely because you want to.
Total: is love without strings attached that holds nothing back. In total love, you make a gift of yourself to another – total self-donation.
Faithful: Love that is committed. That commitment guides all other actions. You keep your promises once you have made them, no matter how your feelings may change.
Fruitful: Love that is life-giving, because it is free, total, and faithful. It is open to procreation in the physical realm and is life-giving in the spiritual and emotional realm as well.
Humanae Vitae: Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical on human life. It is most famous for its clear and definitive teaching on why contraception is immoral and sinful, explaining that it separates the sexual act from one if its intrinsic purposes: procreation.
Language of the Body: The capability of the body to speak its own language and to communicate without words.
Language of love: Generally speaking, the words that speak truth and compassion. Specifically regarding the body, the truth and totality of self, communicated through the body in sexual intercourse.
Natural Family Planning (NFP): The term referring to various effective, natural, and moral methods for achieving or postponing pregnancy.
One-flesh union: The loving embrace of a married couple through sexual intercourse, in which they become “one flesh” (see Genesis 2:24). The Scriptures teach that this union prefigures the total communion we will have with God in heaven (see Ephesians 5:31-32).
New Evangelization: A term referring to the special need to share the Gospel with new enthusiasm, new methods and new expressions. The new evangelization is not a new Gospel, but it recognizes that as the world changes, the method for sharing the Good News need to change if they are to be effective.
Pornography: The sexually-explicit depiction of persons, in words or images, created in order to cause the arousal of lust on the part of the observer.
Primordial Sacrament: The sacrament of Marriage as it was in the beginning – the original revelation of God’s love in the world.
Sacraments: in the broadest sense this is God’s loving presence made visible in our lives. For example, in marriage, the two people getting married not only receive the sacrament they become a sacrament, a visible sign of God’s love in the world.
Spousal Analogy: The scriptural imagery using the earthly understanding of marriage to convey the power and fidelity of God’s love for humans and Christ’s love for the Church.
Submission: Placing oneself “under the mission” of another, surrendering to someone. In the case of marriage, this means deferring to each other in love. For the wife, it means allowing her husband to love her as Christ loved the Church – to the point of death. In the case of the husband, it means serving his wife and loving her at all costs.
R eligious Studies 35 Final Exam
Written Response Assessment Rubric
Clearly below acceptable standard 1 | Does not meet the acceptable standard 2 | Clearly meets the acceptable standard 3 | Approaches the standard of excellence 4 | Meets the standard of excellence 5 | Mark | |
Written Response #1 | Little or no evidence of answering the question by referring to what was learned from Religious Studies program and personal life experiences. | Some evidence of answering the question by referring to what was learned from Religious Studies program and personal life experiences. | Adequate evidence of answering the question by referring to what was learned from Religious Studies program and personal life experiences. | Evidence of answering the question by referring to what was learned from Religious Studies program and personal life experiences is evident and generally effective. | Evidence of answering the question by referring to what was learned from Religious Studies program and personal life experiences is clearly evident and consistently effective. | /5 |
Written Response #2 | Little or no evidence of answering the question by referring to what was learned from Religious Studies program and personal life experiences. | Some evidence of answering the question by referring to what was learned from Religious Studies program and personal life experiences. | Adequate evidence of answering the question by referring to what was learned from Religious Studies program and personal life experiences. | Evidence of answering the question by referring to what was learned from Religious Studies program and personal life experiences is evident and generally effective. | Evidence of answering the question by referring to what was learned from Religious Studies program and personal life experiences is clearly evident and consistently effective. | /5 |
TOTAL: /10
What the District Assessment Consists Of
Part One: Multiple Choice Questions
50 multiple choice questions taken from the entire course except the World Religions learning guide.
Part Two: Written Component
Choose 2 of 5 questions to respond to. The questions are centered around major themes from the Mapping the Ethical Experience, Building a Civilization of Love and Guided by the Light of Revelation learning guides.
Your responses are to include personal life experience/reflection that is supported by course learnings. For example, if you are responding to a question that is about ethics and morality, a good answer would tie your personal reflection in to the philosophies of Aristotle, Kant and/or Levinas, the three states of conscience, Paul Ricoeur’s conceptual framework for action, symptoms of a misinformed conscience, etc.
