Theology Final

God created humans to be immortal and live forever and to live in perfect happiness.

we have been given reason, intellect, and free will.

Recognize God’s will, choose good freely, avoid evil, know the difference.

The intrinsic and permanent respect and worth that we have because we are created in God’s image that cannot be lost or taken.

God has an intimate and personal relationship with humans.

It is good.

A restless heart, questioning mind, and religious nature.

Humans are created to be happy and live forever, to love and to be loved.

Lead us to make moral choices. Lead us to live in relationship with God and others. Make it possible for us to find God’s gift of joy.

Accepting that we are created to recognize and respond to God’s love.

Love without boundaries.

Act as images of God, see others as images of God, and treat them with worth and dignity as images of God.

We should always follow our conscience.

Good.

To respond to God’s grace and live in his loving presence for eternity.

Guiding the direction of our life. Serving as the starting point for our decisions. Helping us to make moral decisions.

Through our whole lives from internal and external forces.

Moral guilt.

Grave matter, full knowledge, and complete consent.

Their image of God was distorted and they became afraid of him.

The duties that God has given us as ways God has called us to respond to his love.

 The response of love that humans are called to give to God.

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

The Sermon on the Mount.

Nonviolence. Love of enemies. Trust in God. Love and mercy, not judgment. Avoiding hypocrisy.

They teach us to place our trust in God not other things, set aside time for prayer, speak God’s name with reverence as part of our relationship.

Children’s duties to their parents and Parents’ duties to their children. Citizens’ duties to the state and Civil authorities’ duties to society. What we owe to all those who guide and supervise us.

Abortion. Healthcare. Weapons of mass destruction. Racism.

It is at the core and center of who we are.

They take our sexuality out of the context for which God created it.

It includes issues that perpetuate poverty - like Unjust wages and destruction of property.

Economic life and activity is meant to serve the needs of people.

Envy. Greed.

Interpreting the events of human history in light of Church teaching.

The Church has the obligation to become involved in economic and social matters.

Immediate loss of the grace of original holiness. Harmony with creation is broken. Death makes its entrance into human history. Harmony of original justice is destroyed.

Passion leading to harming or wanting to harm.

inordinate attachment to goods often leading to injustice.

inordinate desire that leads to wishing harm or rejoicing in another’s misfortune.

 excessive self-esteem and desire to be noticed and honored by others.

inordinate desire for earthly pleasures.

 eating and drinking more than what is necessary.

lack of effort in meeting duties.

The rules providing the norms for order in the visible Church.

The rules providing the norms for order in the visible Church.

Sense of the moral order based on human reason and experience; rational understanding of the moral order expressing the dignity of the human person.

The teaching office or authority of the Church made up of the bishops including the Pope.

Inner sense of right and wrong that enables individuals to discern moral choices freely.

Any free and deliberate act, word, thought or desire that turns away from God’s law of love.

The fallen state or condition of humanity resulting in a tendency to give into temptation because of the sin of the first humans; disobedience against God by the first humans.

The freedom from sin or moral guilt of the first humans before sin.

Cuts us off from God and others and kills our relationships.

Lesser offenses that weaken our relationships.

missing the mark, sinning because we sometimes falter.

Sin resulting from rebellion, defiance, obstinacy.

distortion of our goodness, wickedness, guilt & iniquity.

Inaction, failure to do something we have a duty to do.

Action, sin resulting from an action performed.

The help that God gives us to respond to his call to love.

A firm and habitual disposition to do good.