LESSON 6 Flashcards

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the core of Christianity

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the social teaching of the church

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2
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The active agent in the renewal of the Society

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Jesus

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3
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True or False
His proclamation of the Kingdom of God means that certain practices in the community wouldn’t even have to be renewed in order to show to the people that indeed God’s reign is at hand, even if at the same time, it cannot be fully fulfilled in the present.

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False; His proclamation of the Kingdom of God means that certain practices in the community would even have to be renewed in order to show to the people that indeed God’s reign is at hand, even if at the same time, it cannot be fully fulfilled in the present.

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4
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True followers of Christ

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The First Christians

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5
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The Middle Ages remains _______ despite the infamous abuses of some members of the hierarchy and the clergy

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faithful

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6
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Continues to talk about justice and charity for the poor

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Important thinkers in the Middle Ages especially Thomas Aquinas

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The challenge to aid the needy in the community has become more pressing with the emergence of modern ideologies that were brought about mainly by the

a. Middle Ages
b. Industrial Revolution
c. First Christians

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b. Industrial Revolution

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8
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Two ideologies that were both supposedly aimed at improving the conditions of every person’s life

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Capitalism and Socialism

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9
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the modern social encyclicals were Catholic contributions to the talk about _____ ______pointing out especially the important points from these two ideologies.

a. capitalism
b. human flourishing
c. idealogies

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b. Human flourishing

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10
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Nature of Social Thinking

a. Emphasis on the Human person as Imago Dei
b. Celebrates Humanity and our Interconnectedness
c. Promotion of Justice according to God’s Plan
d. All of the above

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d. All of the above

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the conviction that the human person occupies a central role in the creation of God, and that the human person is the only creature that is created in the image and likeness of God, and is the only creature that has the capacity for God.

a. Emphasis on the Human person as Imago Dei
b. Celebrates Humanity and our Interconnectedness
c. Promotion of Justice according to God’s Plan

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a. Emphasis on the Human Person as Imago Dei

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12
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A testimony of God’s love

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the Cross

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13
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A society that wishes and intends to remain at the service of the human being at every level is a society that has the common good – the good of all the people and of the whole society – as its primary goal.

a. Emphasis on the Human person as Imago Dei
b. Celebrates Humanity and our Interconnectedness
c. Promotion of Justice according to God’s Plan

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b. Celebrates Humanity and our Interconnectednes

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God destined the earth and all it contains for all men and peoples so that all created things would be shared fairly by all mankind under the guidance of justice

a. Emphasis on the Human person as Imago Dei
b. Celebrates Humanity and our Interconnectedness
c. Promotion of Justice according to God’s Plan

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c. Promotion of Justice according to God’s Plan

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15
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the most identifying value of the Church’s social teaching, it is what makes us uniquely Christians

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Love

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16
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“the highest and universal criterion of the whole of social ethics.”

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Love

17
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is what makes us able to see the other as a friend, as another self, so that the needs and requirements of others seem as one’s own.

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Love

18
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True or False: Justice presupposes and transcends love. This means that love builds upon justice just like grace builds upon nature.

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False: Love presupposes and transcends justice. This means that love builds upon justice just like grace builds upon nature.

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True or False: However, a world with justice but without love is equally as bad or worse.

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True

20
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Summum ius, summa iniuria

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a Roman maxim mentioned by Cicero. It is a brilliant, ambiguous saying which can be translated, “extreme justice is the greatest injustice,” or an “extreme justice is an extreme wrong.

21
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the form of the virtues, and to socialize it or institutionalize it into social and political charity.

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According to St. Thomas Aquinas, to take love, in his Summa Theologiae

22
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True or False
The Church does not approve the use of violence and the use of arms because it is aware that violence only leads to more violence, which often results only in new forms of oppression.

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True

23
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Violence is a ___, for it goes against the truth, the truth of our humanity.

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lie

24
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Three main ideas of separation of Church from the state:

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  • the state has no official religion
  • the state should not discriminate any religion
  • the church should not control or dominate any religious group, the police or armed unit of the state
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True or False
the Church can encourage its members to pursue their own options to address the situation according to its moral values.

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True

26
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True or False
The distinction between the Church and the State does imply a complete separation

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False; The distinction between the Church and the State does NOT imply a complete separation

27
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Paradigms

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  • way of love and justice
  • way of violence
    -critical collaboration with the state (separation and cooperation)