Review Material, Articles 10, 1-4 Flashcards
6 BFHS Core Values
- Spirituality
- Respect
- Integrity
- Stewardship
- Mercy
- Excellence
Definition of Religion
- -Religare (Latin):
- To bind back together again
- Restoring ones relationship to God
3 Views of Religion Today
- Fundamentalist
- Reductionist
- Sacramental
Fundamentalist
- Affirms that ones own religion is the absolute and only truth
- Radicalized understanding of Religion (ISIS)
Reductionist
- Religion is a social or psychological construct
- Clashes with Fundamentalism
Sacramental
- Sees the sacred in the world
- God and his creations are sacred and should be treated accordingly
- Own dignity and worth
Four Ways of Understanding Faith
- Assent
- Trust
- Faithfulness
- Vision
Faith
-Belief in and personal knowledge of God
Faith as Assent
- Agreement
- Giving ones mental agreement to a proposition in terms of believing that a claim or statement is true
Faith as Trust
- Truthfulness to our relationship with God
- Everything will be okay
Faith as Faithfulness
- Faith as a faithfulness to our relationship with God
- No doubt in our relationship
Faith as Vision
- Seeing the whole and seeing what is
- Seeing the world as life giving and nourishing
- Faith as a way of seeing
- Everything is interrelated and interconnected
“Credo”
-I believe in, to have faith in
What should Justice demand?
-“The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance”- John Rawls
Rawls’ Thought Experiment (Conclusion Made)
- Equality of freedom to the greatest extent possible
- People can do whatever they want so long as what they do does not interfere with other people’s ability to do whatever they want
- Equality of freedom to the greatest extent possible
- Social and economic inequality are acceptable provided:
- They provide a benefit to the least advantaged members of society
- The offices and positions with higher social and economic status are open and have provided equal opportunity of attainment to all members of society
- Social and economic inequality are acceptable provided:
Magisterium
-The Church’s living teaching office, which consists of all bishops, in communion with the Bishop of Rome, the Pope
Cardinal Virtues
- Based on the Latin word for “pivot”
- Four virtues that are viewed as pivotal or essential for full Christian living: prudence, Justice, fortitude, and temperance
Virtue
-A habitual and firm disposition to do good
Justice
- The Cardinal virtue concerned with the rights and duties within relationships
- The commitment, as well as the actions and attitudes that flow from the summit meant, to ensure that all persons- particularly people who are poor and oppressed- receive what is due to them
Commutative Justice
- Justice that calls for fairness in agreements and contracts between individuals
- An equal exchange of goods, money, or services
- Ex: paying for a sandwich and expecting you receive the sandwich
Legal Justice
- The social responsibilities that citizens owe their country and society
- Ex: Serving your country in the military if they draft
Distributive Justice
- The responsibility hat society has for safeguarding essential human rights and ensuring the just distribution of the earth’s resources, with special regard for those people whose basic needs are going unmet
- Ex: Fair wages
Social Justice
- The defense of human dignity by ensuring that essential human needs are met and that essential human rights are protected for all people
- Ex: Sexism
Genocide
-The systematic and planned extermination of an entire ethnic, religious, political, or cultural group of people
Original Holiness
-The original state of human beings in their relationship with God, sharing in the divine life in full communion with him
Original Justice
-The state of complete harmony of our first parents with themselves, with each other, and with all of creation
Common good
- The good that is collectively shared by a number of people and that is beneficial for all members of a given community
- Social conditions that allow for all citizens of the earth, individuals and families, to meet basic needs and achieve fulfillment promote the common good
The Fall
- Also called the Fall from Grace
- the biblical revelation about the origins of sin and evil in the world
- expressed figuratively in the account of Adam and Eve in Genesis
Original Sin
- The sin by which the first human’s disobeyed God and thereby lost original holiness and became subject to death
- Transmitted to every person born into the world, except Mary and Jesus
Divine Revelation
- God’s self-communication through which he makes known the mystery of his divine plan
- a gift accomplished by the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit through the words and deeds of salvation history
- most fully realized in the Passion, death, Resurrection, and Ascension of Jesus Christ
Scripture
Generally, the term for any sacred writing
-For Christians, the Old and New Testaments that make up the Bible and are recognized as the Word of God
Tradition
- The word (from the Latin meaning “to hand on”) refers to the process of passing on the Gospel message
- began with the oral communication of the Gospel by the Apostles
- written down in the Scriptures
- handed down and lived out in the life of the Church
- interpreted by the bishops of the Church in union with the Pope under the guidance of the Holy Spirit
Salvation History
- The pattern of specific salvific events in human history in which God clearly reveals his presence and saving actions
- Salvation was accomplished once and for all through Jesus Christ, a truth foreshadowed and revealed throughout the Old Testament
Covenant
-A solemn agreement between human beings or between God and a human being in which mutual commitments are made
Old Law
-Divine Law revealed in the Old Testament, summarized in the Ten Commandments
-Also called the Law of Moses
It is succeeded by the New Law of the Gospels
New Law
- Divine Law revealed in the New Testament through the life and teaching of Jesus Christ and through the witness and teaching of the Apostles
- The New Law perfects the Old Law and brings it to fulfillment
- Also called the Law of Love
