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29 Cards in this Set
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Moral Theology
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Our response to God
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Nature
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What something is
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Person
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Who someone is
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Body
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Material element of human nature
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Soul
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Spiritual element within us
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Intellect
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Naturally inclined to know the Truth
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Will
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naturally inclined to love the true good
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Emotions
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naturally inclined to desire the bodily good
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Perfect happiness
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perfect knowledge of the perfect God
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Supernatural happiness
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When goods are loved out of love of God, we contemplate the goodness of God in our love of the created good
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Natural happiness
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obtained through contemplating and loving the natural goodness contained in created goods
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Three essential elements for happiness
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Contemplating the good that you have; loving the goods that you have; having goods to contemplate, esp. God
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Heteronomy (rule of another)
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the belief that God arbitrarily sets rules and enforces them
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Autonomy (self rule)
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the belief that people make their own truth
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Participated theonomy
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humans are moved as free rational subjects that can participate in God's knowledge, love, and freedom
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Internal principles of acts
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the powers of the soul and habits that perfect them
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Exterior principles
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Law and grace
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Law
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an ordinance of reason, for the common good, made by proper authority and promulgated
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Eternal Law
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the Eternal Reason of God that moves all things to their proper end
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Divine Law
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Given to humans supernaturally through divine revelation and the promptings of the Holy Spirit
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Old Law
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The Old covenant, esp. the 10 commandments
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New Law
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the grace of the Holy Spirit and the written word of the Gospels
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Natural Law
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Our reason's natural participation in eternal law
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Human Law
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Laws made by humans to establish order on earth
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Grace
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unmerited supernatural gifts that are given to us thorugh Christ's death and resurrection
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Uncreated grace
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the gift of God himself
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Created grace
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changes taking place in us that make us holy
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Sanctifying grace
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when God makes us like God by allowing us to participate in divine nature
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Actual grace
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the movement of the Holy Spirit
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