Morality Unit 1 Vocab Review

8. ability to understand what it means to be in right relationship with God, other people, the world, and ourselves
9. achieved through living virtuously – or what you might describe as being good. This word can also be translated to "happiness"
10. view that societies define their own moral truths
11. The Church’s living teaching office, which consists of all bishops, in communion with the Pope.
12. seat of human consciousness and freedom.
14. study of moral thought and moral language
15. The gift from God that allows human beings to choose from among various actions, for which we are held accountable. It is the basis for moral responsibility.
16. philosopher who believed happiness consists in achieving, through the course of a whole lifetime, all the goods — health, wealth, knowledge, friends, etc. — that lead to the perfection of human nature and to the enrichment of human life.
17. to make holy
19. The process by which God frees us from sin and sanctifies us.

1. established by God and is a rational expression of eternal law.
2. solemn agreement between human beings or between God and a human being in which mutual commitments are made
3. "interior voice" leading people to understand themselves as responsible for their actions, and prompts them to do good and avoid evil
4. The name given to the official body of laws which provide good order in the visible body of the Church.
5. Our vocation as Christians, the goal of our existence.
6. The pattern of specific salvific events in human history that reveal God’s presence and saving actions.
7. The work of salvation accomplished by Jesus Christ mainly through his life, Passion, death, Resurrection, and Ascension.
9. The order in creation that reflects God’s will and purpose; it is eternal because it is always true and never changes
13. God’s reward to those who love him and follow Christ’s Law of Love
18. perfects the Old Law and brings it to fulfillment. Also called the Law of Love