Avenues to Moral Truth
Resources for truth in Moral Theology are many and varied, but they prominently include these four categories.
What are the categories of:
The Living Catholic Moral Tradition
Sacred Scripture
Natural Law
The Magisterium
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This is a term for what God makes known about Himself and His will through a supernatural intervention in history.
The Church distinguishes Capital-T Tradition from a way of thinking, behaving, or doing something that has been used by a particular group for a long time, otherwise known as this.
What is lowercase-t 'tradition'?
This is the restoration of man from the bondage of sin to the liberty of the children of God through the satisfactions and merits of Christ.
This South American country is home to the world’s largest Catholic statue, Christ the Redeemer.
What is Brazil?
This is the collection of all holy and inspired writings officially and solemnly recognized in the Christian canon. They are written through the instrument of human hands but authored by God.
What is Sacred Scripture?
These are promises of Christ concerning happiness or blessedness as proclaimed in the Sermon on the Mount. They are considered basic qualities of Christian holiness.
What are the Beatitudes?
This is an especially prominent monument (or witness) to Tradition.
What is Sacred Scripture?
This is a radical reorientation of the whole life away from sin and evil, and toward God. This change of heart is a central element of Christ’s preaching, of the Church’s ministry of evangelization, and of the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation.
What is Conversion?
The Catholic martyr St. Thomas Moore was martyred in this country following his clash with King Henry VIII.
What is England?
This is the living transmission of the message of the Gospel in the Church.
What is Sacred Tradition?
Jesus' command that "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind...And...You shall love your neighbor as yourself...'" is known as this.
What is the Twofold Commandment?
________ and _______ make up a single deposit of the word of God, which is entrusted to the Church.
What are Tradition and Scripture?
These are norms which “relate to our character with its virtue and vices.” These norms do not tell us what to do, but rather who we should be.
What are Formal Norms?
The Catholic cathedral of Notre-Dame is located in this capital city.
What is Paris?
This is the living, teaching office of the Church, whose task it is to give as authentic interpretation of the word of God, whether in its written form (Sacred Scripture), or in the form of Tradition.
What is the Magisterium?
This is a Greek term meaning “ten words.”
What is the 'Decalogue'?
Sacred Tradition includes all all of what this group received, ‘whether from the lips of Christ, from his way of life and his works, or by coming to know it through the prompting of the Holy Spirit.’
Who are the Apostles?
These are norms which are “particular, behavioral, specific, and concrete.” (e.g. ‘Do not steal.’)
What are Material Norms?
The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, the largest Catholic church in North America, is located in this U.S. capital.
What is Washington, D.C.?
This refers to the participation of man in the plan of God in relation to human life and action, insofar as the mind can understand it.
What is the Natural Law?
These are the three characteristics identified with Scripture?
What is it to be:
• Inerrant
• Infallible
• Inspired
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The word 'Tradition' comes from the Latin word, "traditio," meaning this.
What is, "to hand down" or "to hand on"?
This is a Greek term which literally means repentance or penance; it refers to a change of heart from sin to the practice of virtue.
What is metanoia?
The Marian apparition known as 'Our Lady of Lourdes' occurred in this European country in 1858.
What is France?