CLFORM
Cards (63)
- The fullness of growth however is not in _______. The Actualized human person is the one who transcends the self in the fullness of love.
- Moral life is not only about ______ but more so about doing the good as expressive of loving God and neighbor as oneself.
- In the New Testament, the call to follow the Lord is always understood as a call to progress _____
- “Forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus” (Philem. 3, 13–14)
- writes, “Certainly, in this world, the human spirit is like a boat foolishly fighting against the river’s rush: one is never allowed to stay still, because unless one forges ahead, one will slide back downstream.”
- “To not progress on the way of Life is to regress.”
- “To stand on the way of the Lord is to move backwards.”
- The Lord who leads us on the way expects us to ____, to ____.
- T or F: The call to strive, to grow, is a matter of personal choice, effort and achievement.
- All this actions would be lost on us if we do not understand it as movement _____
- This call to movement, to advance, is the Christian vocation to ____
- _____ enable us not only to avoid imperfection but to do the good in excellence and grace.
- is the most secret core and sanctuary of a person.
- distinguished two very different voices that we hear as adults: the voices of the superego and of the conscience.
- (meaning “that-which-is- above-the-I”) is how psychologists name that voice living in us, which, though a leftover from early childhood years, continues to assert itself throughout our lives.
- moves us to grow.
- conscience “holds us in obedience”—it “summons” us
- conscience _____ that we love God, ourselves, and our neighbors. Conscience _____ that we pursue justice.
- Gaudium et Spes reminds us that by the conscience we will be _____
- “without love all striving for excellence can be liken to a noisy gong, empty in clanging for recognition” (1 Cor 13,1).
- refers to whether the action fulfills the standards of ethics.
- “”Do we love as we strive for the right action? Rightness refers to whether the action fulfills the standards of ethics. Loving people strive to get their actions right but do not always succeed.”
- distrusting human judgment and believing that the root of sin was ignorance, exhorted his students to the virtue of humility and adherence to the law. Actions contrary to the law and its teaching, even though done out of ignorance, were, according to him evil or bad. Thus, if we accept that telling a lie is always wrong, if we lie, regardless of our motivation, we sinned.
- He taught that what mattered was whether we were willfully pursuing in conscience the truth. Thus, if we told a lie in conscience in order to protect a fellow man in difficulty he may call us and our action good.
- later applied St Thomas’ argument on his teaching about the conscience but added that the one who exercises the conscience responsibly, even if it is erroneous, receives merit.
- later the patron saint of moral theologians, developed a new position on erroneous conscience: if a person acted out of love a nd/or charity when committing error, then not only is the person excused, but the person is good.
- the dean of Catholic University in Washington, D.C., wrote that if a person acts out of a loving conscience, though the action is certainly not per se willed by God, “God will reward him for sincerely following his conscience.”
- christian moral life is____
- attitudes
- problems of moral life
- How does christian help us understand this situation? (moral life)
- key to christian moral life
- how do we experience ourselves as persons
- true selves.
- 2 types of authentic human freedom
- whatever opposes our true self- becoming with others in community
- growing as full persons before God and our fellow human persons, in authentic love.
- a human person.
- for discerning moral good and evil, with the feeling of being bound to follow its directive.
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