Divine Vocabulary
This is the doctrine or system by which actions are judged to be good or evil.
What is Morality?
This refers not to personal sin but to the disastrous fallen state of mankind into which each individual is born.
What is Original Sin?
This Latin phrase offers that man is made in the 'image and likeness' of God.
What is the 'Imago Dei'?
At the beginning of the Parable of the Prodigal/Lost Son, one character demands this from his Father.
What is his inheritance?
This is the subset of Theology that makes use of reason to offer practical judgments, under the guidance of divine revelation, in order to direct human acts towards their supernatural end: God.
What is the Moral Theology?
These are three traits classically attributed to God.
What is Omnipotence (being All-Powerful), Omniscience (being All-Knowing/Ever-Present), and Omnibenevolence (being All-Loving).
St. Patrick used this natural object to explain the mystery of the Trinity.
What is a Shamrock?
What is throwing him a feast?
These are the ethical norms, authored and revealed by God, and safeguarded by the Church, imposing obligations on the conscience of each person.
What is the Moral Law?
These three traits speak to how we're made in God's 'image and likeness.'
What are the traits of free will, the ability to reason, and the capacity for love?
These three images of God are inadequate for explaining His relationship with us, because it makes Him to be impersonal.
What are the images of being distant, a lawgiver, and a judge?
What is 'enter the banquet for the celebration?'
This Latin phrase describes the idea that, just as God created man, man's ultimate destiny is to return to God.
What is 'Exitus et Reditus?'
This is the fullness of revelation of God.
Who is Jesus?
St. Augustine explained the Trinity by way of analogy, comparing the very Persons of God to this.
A lover, the act of loving, and one's beloved.
Ironically, despite his initial good fortune, the Unmerciful Servant decides to do this to a fellow servant.
What is 'demand restitution for an even smaller amount than what he originally owed?'
This is a habitual and firm disposition to do the good. Aristotle described it as 'the mean between two extremes.'
What is virtue?
Since God's love continues where any 'reasonable' human love would cease, St. Alphonsus Liguori referred to divine love as this.
(God's) "craziness"
Dorotheos of Gaza explains the importance of loving both God and neighbor using this object.
What is a Compass?
According to the Parable of the Unmerciful Servant, we will be judged in this way.
What is 'by the compassion and mercy we show others?'