Lesson 2

Question 1

free act of will whereby one turns from God, the highest and immutable good, to some created thing, the goodness of which is deficient by comparison

Answer 1

Sin

Question 2

focuses on the offense inflicted on another by failing to meet one’s covenant obligation

Answer 2

Missing the mark

Question 3

refer to the defect of character or disorder that weighs the sinner down

Answer 3

Depravity and perversity

Question 4

pictures sin as a conscious choice, which destroys positive relationships

Answer 4

Rebellion and transgression

Question 5

manifests certain shifts of emphasis in its conception of sin

Answer 5

Old Testament

Question 6

authors identified Christ as the suffering servant who has come to “justify many, bearing the guilt”

Answer 6

New Testament

Question 7

acknowledges that the harmful effects of individual, personal sin can crystallize into structures that affect people.

Answer 7

Social sin

Question 8

dehumanizing trends and patterns of behaviors that make up the various socio-economic and political institutions.

Answer 8

first level

Question 9

symbols, ideologies, and stereotypes that are “operative in the imagination and fostered by society, that legitimate and reinforce the unjust situation”.

Answer 9

second level

Question 10

“false consciousness” and values distortion created through these patterns and symbols.

Answer 10

third level

Question 11

collective action and decision that are the consequences of the false consciousness.

Answer 11

fourth level

Question 12

is particularly detrimental to the community because, not only does it affect people and the relationships among people, but it also affects people’s relationship with God.

Answer 12

Social sin

Question 13

the freedom to choose certain things over others.

Answer 13

Categorical freedom

Question 14

it is where one makes the fundamental “yes” or “no” to God, which is understood to be a person’s fundamental option.

Answer 14

Transcendental freedom

Question 15

makes it difficult to make choices that orient people toward God, as the structures align the values and “sets up a strong tendency to choose lesser values or to act against authentic values”

Answer 15

Social sin

Question 16

would describe this as a process of externalization, objectivation, and internalization: “Society is a human product. Society is an objective reality. Man is a social product.”

Answer 16

Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann

Question 17

those which allow for human flourishing and the flourishing of creation, rather than enable sinfulness.

Answer 17

Structures of Grace

Question 18

He notes that the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church argues that structures of sin should be “purified and transformed into structures of solidarity through the creation or appropriate modification of laws, market regulations, and judicial systems.”

Answer 18

Kevin Ahern