1- Flashcards
spiritual movement3s
1. inwards, conscious, intelligent, n free
2upwards, to created to know , love n serve God in this life
3. outwards RELATION w others
T/F ,
4 Spirituality -
- significance tha**t gives meaning and direction toa person’s life **and helps them deal with the vicissitudes of existence. It is associated with thehuman quest for meaning, purpose, selftranscending knowledge, meaningful
relationships, love and a sense of the holy.
-It is the awareness that we have a soul, and acting accordingly
5. Spirit//comes from the word ‘spiritus’ which means breath of
life. Spirit is the unseen force that breathes life into us,
enlivens us gives energy to us. Spirit helps to define the
true, real unique self that is us and confirms our
individuality
- Identity
2DESTINY
3 relEVANCE - t
5 t
acc to summa theologia
1. To read again / to consider carefully
2. to BIND again, a moral virues, religion is the virtue by which we pay vdue to worship
religions VS Spirituality
1 Relego/Relegere
2. religare/reLIgere
Religion// brings together peo. of sim. beliefs n often simi. spirituality, COLLECTIVE, req format
Spirituality// personal, indiv journey, not require a format or tradition, INDIV
Authentic Catholic Spirituality
1. Sees RELIGION and SPIRITUALITY as intimatelylinked rather than opposed to each other. RULES
and RELATIONSHIP go together. A relationship without rules or parameters leads to contempt
and abuse (e.g. 10 Commandments)
2.Acknowledges that there are REVEALED WAYS by which we connect with GOD (e.g.
Sacraments)
3 We now live in a world governed by the DICTATORSHIP
OF RELATIVISM and submerged in a CRISIS OF TRUTH
4 Believes that SPIRITUALITY is not formed byhuman experience alone but by conforming to
a MANUAL – The Word of God.
5- is a belief that theres no absolute truth , only the truths that a particular individual
or culture happen to believe
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5 RELATIVISM
Moral Relativism 5 kinds
1
- refraining from judgement
- moral diversity// accept changes
3 cultural relativism//
4subject values
5/ practical relativism// acting as if the god/poor does not exist
~ OF RELATIVISM
- a form pf moral relativ. that is self-centered, self-indulgent n grounded on convience
- no absolute truth/o affirm Jesus as “the Truth, the Way and the Life” is FUNDAMENTALISM
- no abs right and wrong/If all beliefs are true, then all actions are good
- One is free to just choose which of the
Church’s teachings they will accept as true and follow, abandoning beliefs & practices which do not suit theirtaste or preferences.
- practival relativism
2 Relativism in Faith
3 RELA in MORAL
4.// CAFETERIA CATHOLIciSM
3 theories of truth
1/truth is correspondence to, or with, a fact.
2 Truth is what coheres with the rest of our
knowledge
3/ Truth is what works, or serves our
purposes/when acting upon it
yields satisfactory practical results
- ACc by AQuinas “Adæquatio rei et intellectus” or?
- CORREPONDENCE
- COHERENCE
- PRAGMATIC
- Truthis the equation of mind n thing
3 TRUTH ACC TO THOMAS AQUINAS
- When a person’s thinking conforms to what actually exists in reality and his judgments are based on** thesame reality**
- When a person’s thinking
conforms to what he expresses with words or actions
3highest truth, how the Creator imagined
them even before they were
mad
4 . religo is ?
1/ LOGICAL TRUTH
2/ MoRAL TRUTH
3/ ONTOLOGICAL TRUTH
Verifying the Truth (logical)
Living out the Truth (moral)
Actualizing the Truth of who I am, whose I am,
for whom I am (ontological)
4/ religo= reliance/connection
- What is the Aim of Spirituality?
In Spirituality, the goal is to become fully human united with the divine.
1-3
4 hedone / pleasure (sensual pleasure) is
the ultimate goal of life, man’s highest good &
greatest happiness. Devotion to pleasure and self-gratification as a
way of life
1.1Understanding
1.2Perseverance
1.3 Patience
4 hedonism
T/F
1/Self-interest is the foundation of morality
2/A moral theory that contends all choices either
involve or should involve self-promotion as their sole objective
3/ egoism theory claims every. acts to his/her advan because it serves his or her own
interests.
4 Consumerism is the equation of personal happiness with
the purchase of material possessions and consumption
- Latin: “Misericordia”
o “Misereri – to pity
o “cor” – heart
o Having compassion on someonw with
all one’s heartl to FORGIVE
1-5 .T
t/f
1.** Globalization **that results “to an accelerated
development through space and time” compresses
time, space and consciousness of peoples from different parts of the world
2? as a way pf life, of a social group. is a society’s regularized or standardized design
for living./ inhabit, protect , cultivate w worship, also passsed by enculturation
The Catholic Church’s document “**Dialogue andProclamation” defines what dialogue is all about. It
states:
3/ Firstly, at the purely human level, it means
reciprocal communication, **leading to a common goal or, at a deeper level, to
interpersonal communion.
4, dialogue can be taken as an attitudeof respect and friendship, which permeates orshould permeate all those activities constitutingthe evangelizing mission of the Church. This canappropriately be called “the spirit of dialogue”.
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- CULTURE
3-4 .T
- PROCCESS OF ENGAGEMENT betw Gospel n particular culture
2/ gradual acquisition of charach n norms of a culture/ group/ Adaption of christ liturgy to non-christia
3/** assimilative INTO a culture, not their native, **transitioning from previous lifestyle to new lifesty;e
4/ when thers **cultural exchange bet diff groups of people **, it respects n understand other C while maintaining culture identity
- inculturation
2.ENcultutration
3 Acculturation
4/ INTERCULturation
- a willingness to be taught, n readily accepting n responding to God’s guidance n tecahings of jesus
4 different forms of dialogue
*1/ people strive to live their life in harmony n peace w their neighbors
**2/when people of diff faith work together to act n collaborate for integral dev. liberation **
3/ who deepen each other’s religious heritages n appreciate each others relig va;
4/ experience persons own religion, tradition, prayer, contempla
- Docility
1/1 Dialogue of Life
2/ dialoge of ACTION
3/Dialoge of THEORETICAL EXchange
4/ Dialogue of RELIGIOUS
T/F
- Marriage. humans are nbaturally inclined to “companionship” n atble permanent relkations
- Rationality dictates mankind toward a deliberation n consent,
- MARRIAGE PRODICES **(1, UNITY, 2/enjoyment, 3/ ENHANCEMENT, 4/ PROMOTION **
- a man n woman establish between themselves a partnership of whole life n orderes by its nature
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4. Matrimonal ConveNANT
3 ~ of POVERTY
1/ lack of purpose on life, n sense of hopelessness abt any lasting meaning
2/ totally depend on GOD
3/ Lack of Materials means to meet sufficient basic human stock
in the old testament. ?? 4? land was not to be farmed, debts were to be forgiven every 7TH seventh year
???5? people return to their proper place in the commubityn orig owners were to lay legal claims evry 50th years
- Poverty of the soul
- Poverty of The spirit
- Material poverty
4.Sabbatical Year
5. jubilee year
