Exam Terms To Know Flashcards
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Justice
A fundamental virtue that involves giving each person their due. It’s about fairness, equity, and ensuring everyone is treated with dignity and respect. Promotes harmony and balance in society.
Distributive Justice
Distributing resources and benefits fairly among individuals. Examples include ensuring economic opportunities that are accessible to all, not just a privileged few.
Commutative Justice*
Focusing on fairness in individual interactions and transactions. For example, keeping promises, honoring contracts, and treating others honestly in business and personal relationships.
Compassionate Justice*
Ensuring that all members of society have equal access to opportunities and benefits. For example, advocating for policies that address poverty and inequality.
Catholic Social Teachings
A body of doctrine developed by the Catholic Church on matters of social justice, encompassing principles for the fair and just treatment of all individuals.
Sin
A decision we make that goes against the truth that is God. It is a choice and intentional. It is a refusal to do God’s will; a conscious decision to participate in evil. It is deciding to be less loving than we could be and abusing the freedom God has given us.
Original Sin
A Christian view of the nature of sin in which humanity has existed since the fall of man. It arose from Adam and Eve’s transgression in Eden, a sin of disobedience in eating forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Venial Sin
Committed when you do not observe the standard of moral law without full knowledge or without complete consent. It strains one’s relationship with God. Examples; lying, being disrespectful. Relatively minor sins that can be forgiven through any sacrament in the Church.
Mortal Sin
A sin that puts your soul in jeopardy and breaks your relationship with God. There are 3 conditions necessary; it must be a grave matter, committed with full knowledge, and committed with deliberate consent.
Sin of Commission
Actually doing something wrong, overt sinful acts, a violation of God’s moral laws like the Ten Commandments.
Sin of Omission
Neglecting to do something we should do. Refusing to act for the good of ourselves or others and thus causing harm. For example not reporting a crime you witnessed.
Social Sin
The “sum of countless selfish actions and omissions”, or a “collective blindness”. It resides with a group or community of people. It exists within any structure in society that oppresses human beings, violates human dignity, stifles freedom, and/ or imposes great inequity. The sinfulness of society in which a person was born.
Vice*
Practice or behavior or habit generally considered immoral, depraved, or degrading. In minor usage vice can refer to a fault, negative character trait, a defect, infirmity, or a bad or unhealthy habit. Opposite of virtue.
Virtue*
Positive trait/ quality deemed to be morally good and thus is valued as a foundation and principle and good moral behavior as a human being. Opposite of vice.
Concupiscence*
The human inclination toward sin and evil, a human condition that resulted from original sin and evil stays. Therefore, people must continue to struggle against concupiscence.
Contrition
We must be sorry for our sins
Penance*
We must confess our sins
Absolution*
God’s forgiveness
Grace*
The unmerited and unconditional love of God for humanity, describing God as kind, merciful, and absolutely generous love for us.
Divinization*
Union with God through grace, typically post death.
Synoptic*
The first 3 are the synoptic gospels seen from the same eye) (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John). They share many of the same stories, much of the same language, and most of the same ordering.
Eisegesis*
The process of interpreting the text by injecting one’s own ideas, biases, or assumptions into the passage.
Exegesis
The careful investigation of the original meaning of texts in their historical and literary contexts.
Liturgy
The ritual and worship practices of the Church. Encompasses the structured and organized way Catholics come together to celebrate faith through various ceremonies and rituals. It’s divine worship, the proclamation of the Gospel and active charity. Origin from Greek word “letourgia” meaning “work of the people”.
