Lesson 1: INTRODUCTION TO CHRISTIAN MORALITY

Question 1

derived from the Latin mores meaning “customs,” “habitual ways of doing things.”

Answer 1

Morality

Question 2

is part of Theology that specifies the moral norms derived from the new being that the Christian needs to follow, with the hope of imitating Jesus’ life to the point of
identifying with Him.

Answer 2

Christian Morality

Question 3

Augustine also calls “morality” or “ethics” as _________________

Answer 3

“moral philosophy.”

Question 4

TRUE OR FALSE

happiness is the aim of philosophy
in general.

Answer 4

TRUE

Question 5

TRUE OR FALSE

Morality is not concerned with the ideal

Answer 5

FALSE

Question 6

TRUE OR FALSE

The only purpose of philosophizing is the attainment of happiness.

Answer 6

TRUE

Question 7

concerned with free human conduct.

Answer 7

Morality

Question 8

is concerned with what ought to be (norms).

Answer 8

Morality

Question 9

TRUE OR FALSE

Morality judges right and wrong in the light of what humanity is

Answer 9

TRUE

Question 10

Jesus’ two greatest commandments:

Answer 10

Love God and Love one another.

Question 10

The “Golden Rule” of life

Answer 10

“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”

Question 11

___________________ entire life was a constant search for
happiness.

Answer 11

Augustine

Question 12

This are fleeting objects of the present life – purely human
friendship, sexual gratification, material wealth, fame, which St. Augustine’s calls as?

Answer 12

“human vanity”

Question 13

Augustine pointed God as the highest good

Answer 13

“if we follow
him, we live well and are also happy.”

Question 13

Augustine described ______________________________________
as that which we seek for its own sake, not as a means to
some other end, and which makes one happy

Answer 13

supreme good (summum bonum)

Question 14

Is anything contributing to the full actualization of human potential and the proper development of the human person

Answer 14

Good or moral

Question 15

DIVISION OF ONTIC EVILS:

Answer 15

Physical Evil
Moral Evil

Question 15

Things that frustrate human life and development, and which everyone would consider to be?

Answer 15

Evil

Question 15

This fulfillment of perfection

Answer 15

Good

Question 16

Evil brought about by forces normally beyond human control, e.g. natural disasters, sickness, accident

Answer 16

Physical Evil

Question 17

Evil brought about by the free, unjustified action of other human beings.

Answer 17

Moral Evil

Question 18

from the Greek word onta meaning “real”

Answer 18

Ontic

Question 19

TRUE OR FALSE

Most of the evil in the world is brought on by free, deliberate and
unjustified actions of human beings.

Answer 19

TRUE

Question 20

voluntary and deliberate involvement in the spread of ontic evil.

Answer 20

Moral Evil

Question 21

TRUE OR FALSE

Christian Morality is part of Theology that specifies the moral norms
derived from the new being that the Christian needs to follow, with the
hope of imitating Jesus’ life to the point of identifying with Him.

Answer 21

TRUE

Question 22

TRUE OR FALSE

“Do good and avoid evil”. does not belong to the basic principles of morality.

Answer 22

FALSE