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