Religion
Religion
Religion
Religion
Religion
100
The ultimate direct self communication of God to the individual person. A person possessing the beatific vision reaches, as a member of redeemed humanity in the communion of saints, perfect salvation in its entirety, i.e. heaven.
What is Beatific vision
100
God's act of removing the guilt and penalty of sin while at the same time declaring a sinner righteous through Christ's atoning sacrifice. In Protestantism, righteousness from God is viewed as being credited to the sinner's account through faith alone, without works.
What is justification
100
If God is infinite, then his law must also be infinite and eternal. In Thomas Aquinas's Treatise on Law, divine law, as opposed to natural law, comes only from revelation or scripture, hence biblical law, and is necessary for human salvation.
What is Eternal Law
100
A body of unchanging moral principles regarded as a basis for all human conduct.
What is Natural Law
100
Also called divine positive law, it is the sum total of all the prescriptions that God has communicated to the human race by way of supernatural revelation. It is, therefore, revealed law as distinct from the knowledge of God's will attainable by human reason alone.
What is Revealed Law
200
Scripture and Tradition are two sources of revelation. Some divine truths are found in the Bible, while others are found in Tradition.
What is Scripture (Old and New Law: Law of Love) and Tradition
200
An ecclesiastical rule or law enacted by a council or other competent authority and, in the Roman Catholic Church, approved by the pope.
What is Church law (canon law and precepts)
200
An immoral act considered to be a transgression against divine law.
What is Sin (venial and mortal sin)
200
A material thing that can be seen and touched.
What is the Catholic definition of Object
200
A thing intended; an aim or plan.
What is an Intention
300
A fact or condition connected with or relevant to an event or action.
What are Circumstances
300
The free and unmerited favor of God, as manifested in the salvation of sinners and the bestowal of blessings.
What is Grace
300
Behavior showing high moral standards, the seventh highest order of the nine-fold celestial hierarchy.
What is Virtue
300
Virtues are gifts from God that lead us to live in a close relationship with him. Virtues are like habits. They need to be practiced; they can be lost if they are neglected. The three most important virtues are called theological virtues because they come from God and lead to God. The cardinal virtues are human virtues, acquired by education and good actions. Cardinal comes from cardo, the Latin word for hinge, meaning “that on which other things depend.”
What are Theological and Cardinal Virtues
300
Sins of commission, is a category of sin describing the things we did and shouldn't have. I committed (commission) a sin when I lied and I shouldn't have. The second, sins of omission, are the category that encompasses the sins of not doing what we should have. We don't think as much about the sin of omission even though it is as pernicious and destructive as anything we could commit. I should have testified because I knew he was innocent, but I didn't out of fear. When we know the right thing to do and don't, that's a sin.
What are Sins of Omission and Commission
400
Justice in terms of the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society.
What is Social Justice
400
We mean not individual sin that has social repercussions, but rather the sin whose subject is society. Sins called ‘institutional’ or ‘structural’ are thus social sins. The Church has resisted accepting the concept of social sin, alleging that all sin supposes the liberty and responsibility of the individual.
What is Social Sin
400
That which is committed every day by every human being. Because we have inherited a sin nature from Adam, we commit individual, personal sins, everything from seemingly innocent untruths to murder. Those who have not placed their faith in Jesus Christ must pay the penalty for these personal sins, as well as inherited and imputed sin.
What is Personal sin
400
A formal examination of the soul or conscience, made usually daily by Jesuits and some other Roman Catholics.
What is The Examen
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