Theology Final Flashcards
An important aspect of human action, a wide range of actions such as worship and prayer.
Means
Keep the Sabbath day holy.
3rd Commandment
Removing real or simulated sexual acts from the intimacy of the partners in order to display them deliberately in film, photographs, or other media for the sexual gratification of others.
Pornography
Marital infidelity in thought or deed, or sexual relations between two partners, at least one of whom is married to another party.
Adultery
Act of saving or rescuing someone from sin or evil through the payment of ransom.
Redemption
A procedure where conception is attempted by placing sperm directly into the uterus through a thin catheter.
Intrauterine Insemination
Jesus Chris, someone who is believed to save others from danger, harm, & sin.
Savior
Virtues that are essential to living a good and moral life.
Honor and Respect
The state of abstaining from sexual activity.
Continence
God’s calling of all people to holiness.
Universal Vocation
Do not idolize any other Gods but God.
1st Commandment
Acquired primarily through our own effort.
Human Virtue
Cannot be transferred to another person, examples being rights or qualities.
Inalienable
The quality of being worthy of honor or respect; possessing great value or worth. Also inheriting the worth & value of human beings & is often associated with the idea of the soul.
Dignity
The neglect or refusal of God’s love in contradiction to the First Commandment. To be this is to lack concern or sympathy and not be personally invested in something one way or the other.
Indifference
Worship of idols.
Idolatry
The practice of taking on multiple wives.
Polygamy
An ordinance of reason promulgated by a proper authority for the common good.
Law
Sexual intercourse between an unmarried man and an unmarried woman.
Fornication
Help given to us by God for the performance of good acts.
Actual Grace
Signs of God’s grace that actually gives the grace they signify. Jesus founded seven: Baptism, Confirmation, Holy Eucharist, Penance and Reconciliation, Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders, and Holy Matrimony.
Sacraments
Refers to the objective nature of an action or behavior, as opposed to its subjective intentions or motives. In many religious traditions, this thing of an action is a key consideration in determining whether the action is morally right or wrong.
Moral Object
Demonstrating one’s belief in the goodness and reliability of others.
Trust
In glass / A procedure whereby a human being is conceived by taking eggs from a woman’s ovaries and combining them with a man’s semen (usually collected by masturbation) in a test tube (this term is Latin for “in glass”), and, after a few days of development, the growing embryos are then implanted in a woman’s uterus or frozen. Extra unwanted fertilized eggs are then destroyed.
In Vitro
An important aspect of human life & is viewed as a way of living in accordance.
Morality
Search out the facts, think about the alternatives & consequences, consult others, and pray to the lord for guidance.
STOP Method
False statement about someone to tarnish their reputation.
Calumny
The profaning or treating unworthily the Sacraments, other liturgical actions, as well as persons, things, or places consecrated to God. This is a grave sin especially when committed against the Eucharist.
Sacrilege
The specific environmental factors surrounding an action, including its consequences. They are secondary qualities of a moral act and cannot change the moral quality of acts themselves (they cannot make an evil act good), but they can reduce or increase one’s culpability and can contribute to increasing or diminishing the objective moral goodness or evil of an action.
Circumstance
Thou shall not commit adultery.
6th Commandment
The means by which God’s law is written on our hearts.
Virtue
Social principle that emphasizes the importance of local decision-making and the decentralization of power in society.
Subsidiarity
A phrase describing the essential purposes of the marital embrace: the unitive purpose (the good of the spouses) and the procreative purpose (the generation and education of children).
Dual Meaning of Human Sexuality
Practice of voluntarily refraining from certain activities or behaviors often for religious or spiritual reasons.
Abstinence
The christian doctrine that there are three persons in one God.
Trinity
A representation of a false god.
Idol
The sum total of social conditions which allow people, either as groups or as individuals, to reach their fulfillment more fully and more easily.
Common Good
The act of giving one’s word falsely or making a promise under oath without intending to keep it. It is a violation of the Second and Eighth Commandments.
Perjury
The act of stealing. In law, the private, unlawful, felonious taking of another person’s goods or movables, with an intent to steal them.
Theft
The free and undeserved gift of a share in God’s own life. It is a stable disposition, which means we remain in this state unless we lose the divine life through mortal sin. We first receive this at Baptism, it is strengthened through the other Sacraments, and restored through the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation.
Sanctifying Grace
Act of creating or altering a document, signature and other item.
Forgery
This refers to a behavior or action that is considered less serious than mortal sin, but still violates a moral law or principle.
Venial Sin
This refers to a behavior or action that violates a moral law or principle, such as the Ten Commandments or the Golden Rule.
Mortal Sin
This refers to a specific behavior or action that is considered morally wrong or offensive to God.
Personal Sin
This refers to the idea that all human beings are born with a sinful nature as a result of the disobedience of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.
Original Sin
Expressing one’s values and beliefs.
Norms
A division caused by differences in belief. Among sins against the First Commandment, this is the refusal of submission to the pope or of communion with the members of the Church subject to him.
Schism
Do not say the Lords name in vain.
2nd Commandment
Refers to the fundamental truths or guide that people use to guide their behavior.
Principles
Honor thy father and mother. (which includes just authority)
4th Commandment
Employs lies and/or deception in order to convince others of the truth of one’s own religion or specific religious claims.
Fraud
An important aspect of the human experience, an opportunity for growth.
Emotions
A phrase that describes the Christian family, the original cell of society where we first learn the Faith.
Domestic Church
The quality of being virtous and is often associated with concepts such as honesty.
Moral Goodness
The obstinate denial after Baptism of a truth which must be believed with divine and Catholic faith.
Heresy
Religious concept that refers to the compassion, forgiveness, and love that is believed to be at the heart of God’s nature.
Divine Mercy
State of being free from external constraints or limitations.
Freedom
The sin of assuming we can save ourselves through our own efforts, or of expecting God’s forgiveness even if we do not repent of our sins and turn back to Him. This breaks the First Commandment.
Presumption
The intentional damaging of someone’s reputation through the spread of falsehoods. This term is typically applied to the media and publications.
Defamation
Thou shall not steal.
7th Commandment
Is often viewed as expressing one’s beliefs.
Authority
Spiritual sloth, or refusing the joy that comes from God and instead feeling repelled by divine goodness.
Acedia
The true integration of sexuality within a person’s bodily and spiritual being. It includes an apprenticeship in self-mastery. Each of us is called to this.
Chastity
The expression and effect of personal sins in social situations and institutions that are contrary to the divine goodness, whereby a society collectively commits itself to destructive ways.
Structural Sin
The state of abstaining from Marriage.
Celibacy
The third person of the Holy trinity.
Holy Spirit
Refers to the state of mind or will behind an action or decision.
Intention
Speech, thought, or action involving contempt, hatred, or defiance against God, His Church, or the saints or other persons or things dedicated to God.
Blasphemy
Those things we legitimately own, including our material possessions and the fruits of our labor. This helps guarantee the freedom and dignity of persons and helps us take care of ourselves and our families.
Property
Absence or rejection of religious belief or practice.
Irreligion
Pope St. John Paul II’s phrase expressing how the human body includes right from the beginning the capacity of expressing love, specifically the love in which the person becomes a gift and by means of this gift fulfills the meaning of his being and existence.
Spousal Meaning of the Body
Thou shall not kill.
5th Commandment
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor goods. (be envious or jealous)
10th Commandment
The practice of artificially impregnating a woman who then carries and delivers the baby (to whom she may or may not be biologically related) in order to then give the baby to an infertile person or couple)
Surrogacy
unfaithfulness.
Infidelity
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s spouse.
9th Commandment
A call from God to a permanent state of life: ordained priesthood, consecrated religious life, or Marriage. All people have this from God in order to love and to be holy.
Vocation
Qualities or characteristics that are seen as fundamental aspects of human nature.
Inherent
Refer to wages that are inadequate or unfair, do not provide workers with a living wage.
Unjust Wages
The reward which God promises and gives to those who love Him and by His grace perform good works. One cannot use this for justification or eternal life, which are the free gift of God; the source of any of this that we have before God is due to the grace of Christ in us.
Merit
Blessing or promise of happiness that is pronounced by Jesus.
Beatitude
The practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own.
Plagiarism
Deliberate stimulation of the genital organs in order to derive sexual pleasure.
Masturbation
Mediators, messengers, and political social leaders.
Graces and Understanding of the effects of Baptism and Confirmation Roles of Priest, Prophet and King
Is a judgment of reason whereby the human person recognizes the moral quality of a concrete act that he is going to perform, is in the process of performing, or has already completed.
Conscience
Goal and aid to live it.
Moral Life
Gifts infused by God into the souls of the faithful to make them capable of acting as His children and meriting eternal life. They are faith, hope, and charity (or love).
Theological Virtue
Principles and ideals that people hold to be important.
Values/Beliefs
Refers to a being that is made up of multiple parts or elements.
Composite Being
Thou shalt not bear false witness against your neighbor. (ex: detraction)
8th Commandment
Ability to understand and connect with the divine.
Intellect
Principles and ideals that people hold to be important.
Beliefs/Values
An authoritarian form of government in which personal freedoms are suppressed by an all-powerful ruler.
Fascism
The practice of artificially impregnating a woman who then carries and delivers the baby (to whom she may or may not be biologically related) in order to then give the baby to an infertile person or couple.
Surrogacy
Ability to make choices and decisions that are not predetermined by factors such as genetics.
Free Will
Using force/violence to protect oneself or others.
Self Defense
Refers to the belief that God became human in the person of Jesus christ.
Incarnation
The free and undeserved gift of His own divine life that God gives us to human person.
Grace
The fair and equitable treatment of all people according to the principles of righteousness.
Justice
