LESSON 6

Question 1

the core of Christianity

Answer 1

the social teaching of the church

Question 2

The active agent in the renewal of the Society

Answer 2

Jesus

Question 3

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.

Answer 3

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.

Question 4

True followers of Christ

Answer 4

The First Christians

Question 5

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

Answer 5

faithful

Question 6

Continues to talk about justice and charity for the poor

Answer 6

Important thinkers in the Middle Ages especially Thomas Aquinas

Question 7

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

Answer 7

b. Industrial Revolution

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Capitalism and Socialism

Question 9

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

Answer 9

b. Human flourishing

Question 10

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

Answer 10

d. All of the above

Question 11

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

Answer 11

a. Emphasis on the Human Person as Imago Dei

Question 12

A testimony of God’s love

Answer 12

the Cross

Question 13

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

Answer 13

b. Celebrates Humanity and our Interconnectednes

Question 14

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

Answer 14

c. Promotion of Justice according to God’s Plan

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Love

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Love

Question 17

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.

Answer 17

Love

Question 18

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

Answer 18

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

Question 19

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

Answer 19

True

Question 20

Summum ius, summa iniuria

Answer 20

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.

Question 21

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

Answer 21

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

Question 22

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.

Answer 22

True

Question 23

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

Answer 23

lie

Question 24

Three main ideas of separation of Church from the state:

Answer 24

• 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

Question 25

True or False
the Church can encourage its members to pursue their own options to address the situation according to its moral values.

Answer 25

True

Question 26

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

Answer 26

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

Question 27

Paradigms

Answer 27

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