The Chruch's book which we turn to in Faith which helps us preliminarly answer the questions; How should we live? What kind of world do we live in?
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Genesis
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First book of the Bible. From chapter 1 we not only understand THAT God created, but the sequence in which He created leading to the heirachy of creatures
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Free Will
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The highest kind of motion in all of God's creation. No other created being has Free Will
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intellect
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In addition to free will, God gave us intellect, by which we can discover the order or standard that enables us to ask How should we live? and What kind of universe do we live in? but also how to make sense of these questions. God created order at the very core of our human nature where it reaches its climax as the image and likeness of God.
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Hierachy
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Ranking of creatures of which the head is Man and Woman
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Image and likeness of God
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The form in which humans were created.
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God's transcendence
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God does not have a physical body. He is pure spirit. He is NOT part of the universe. He transcends space and time.
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God's immanence
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God's intimate presence to all that He created such that God is more intimately present to all He created, including man, than creation is to itself.
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Good
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confirms to perfectly to the purpose for which something is created.
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Evil
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The principle in the universe which is opposed to good. Evil does not conform to the purpose for which something is created.
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Temptation
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a desire to do something unwise. Trying to become God
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Aristotle
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Philosopher, through his own understanding was that the universe was the highest order and superior to animal and human creation
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tree of the knowledge of good and evil
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making a specific prohibition not to eat from this tree, placed in the center of the garden for man to make a decision to obey or disobey God
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Theology
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Faith Seeking Understanding
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The main difference between ethics and moral theology is that:
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Ethics is moral reasoning that is applied to faith in moral theology.
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The Triune God is related to moral theology:
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Because He is the creator, redeemer, and sanctifier.
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The story in Genesis 1 of God's creating the heavens and the earth in seven days:
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Teaches that God created both with intelligence and with freedom.
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Is written so that it reflects the order in the universe that God created.
CCC
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Free Will
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the power of the will to determine itself and to act of it's self, without compulsion from within and corecion from without.
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According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, what is God's relationship to His creation?
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God transcends all that He created.
God continues to keep in being all that He creates and brings them to their final end.
God is immanent to His creation: He is intimately present to all that He has created.
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Sin often consists of:
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deficiant will
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Temptation is:
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The pursuit of the knowledge of good and evil independently of God, our creator.
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Creation
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The production by God of material and spiritual things in their whole substance, out of nothing.
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God's transcendence is:
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God is pure Spirit He does not have a physical body
He is NOT part of the universe
God is Pure Spirit God Transcends time and space
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embodied persons
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In human persons, there is an intimate relationship between body and soul so that our bodies are the sacraments of our persons
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original sin
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the first sin of Adam and Eve, lead to concupscience
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nuptial
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ready for self giving/self donation
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Satan
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the chief of fallen angels and enemy of God and humanity, and everything good.
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literal meaning of Scripture
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the meaning carried by the word of the text and intended by the human author and if the is allegorical.
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Spiritual Meaning of Scripture
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Comes from the power of the Holy Spirit and speaks to the text of the Scripture as well as the events and realities about which scripture speaks. This includes events and realities in scriputre in the light of Christ (allegorical), stories of events teaching us to act justlly (moral) and pointing to the kingdom of God (anagolical)
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Concupiscence
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The disorder caused by the effect of original sin.
The insubordination of man’s desires to the dictates of reason and the propensity of human nature to sin as a result of original sin
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Manichaeans
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The Manichaeans held the view that the world we live in is best understood in the light of good and evil, two equal principles at war with each other in terms of spirit (good) vs. matter (evil).
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Dualism
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the view that the world we live in is best understood in the light of good and evil, two equal principles at war with each other in terms of spirit (good) vs. matter (evil).
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principle of non-contradiction
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something cannot both be and not be at the same time in the same respect.
God said let there be light; and there was an elephant.
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objective standard
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he source for commentary from an Objectivist perspective
God created, we did not invent God, and that we presuppose when we go about making sense of our lives.
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physical evil
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A result of original sin
those bad things that happen to us but that do not originate from the will of any person.
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moral evil
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When we choose to do evil
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possibility of evil
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the fact there is darknes evil exists.
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actuality of evil
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the initial cause from the human will caused by original sin
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deficient will
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The willful desire to commit moral evil abusing the gift of free will given to us by God
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tota simul
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God is eternal, God does not live in bits or pieces of time. altogether-all-at-once, like one picture.
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Omnipotent
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Having unlimited power to do anything. God can do anything he chooses.
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provident God
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God is active in our world from the time of creation.
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Essence
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is what makes a thing what it is rather than anything else. Chain cannot be an elephant.
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Exodus
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The mysterious and miraculous nature of God’s redeeming act, the second book of the Bible, which is the inspired testimony to God’s freeing the Hebrew people from slavery to the Egyptians.
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Redeemed
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Return to Original Status God redeemed the Isralites
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Positive Precepts
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Keep holy the Sabbath and Honor your father and mother point to an infinite horizon which means we can never fully accomplish these two goals.
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negative precepts
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The "thou shall nots" of the 10 commandments.
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Define and distinguish between ethics and moral theology.
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Ethics is the activity of moral reasoning. Moral Theology is a special kind of ethics related to theology or theological ethics.
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relations of opposition
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from St Thomas:
the way in which the Father relates to the Son = paternity
is not the same how the Son relates to the Father = filiation
the way the Fr and Son relates to the Holy Spirit =spiration
the way the Holy Spirit relates to the Father and the Son = procession
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Gospel
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inspired testimony of the definitive salvific activty of Jesus Christ, True God and True Man
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discipleship
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The new call by God in response to the Gospel of Jesus Christ including following Him to the cross
1. Professing that Jesus is the messiah 2. accepting the way of the Cross
Discipleship is inseperable from the destiny of Jesus
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Beatitudes
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positive precepts that are a promise of Holiness, of intimacy and friendship with God
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Paschal Mystery
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The suffering, death and resurection of Jesus Christ
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sanctification
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Being made Holy
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justificaiton
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the process of a sinner being made right with God
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Thought word or deed that transgresses God's Commandments
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SIN
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expiation
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The act of making amends for guilt or wrong doing.
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Circumincession
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each Divine Person is totally present in each of the other two Divine persons.
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Ekklesia
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Reference to The Church Being called out
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Primordial sacrament of Christ
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The Church (as the body of Christ)
Christ as the head continues to call out (ekklesia) the church
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Seven Sacraments
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Baptism Confirmation
Eucharist Holy Orders Matrimony Anointing of the Sick Penance
