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General Editor: James Socias
The Didache Series

Our Moral Life in Christ:
A Complete Course on Moral Theology

 Chapters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9

Vocabulary by chapter

Part I: Principles of Moral Theology

Chapter 1: Preliminary Notions

Introduction
  1. Christianity is not merely a morality
  2. But Christianity is also a morality
  3. Christianity is a religious morality
  4. Christian morality is a morality of following and imitating Christ
  5. Identification with Christ: Life in Christ
  6. Characteristics of Christian morality
Vocabulary actual grace, Christian morality, Christian vocation, Christianity, disciple, free will, freedom, holiness, humanism, Law of Christ, holiness, love (charity), moral law, morality, New Being in Christ, original sin, negative morality, positive morality, sins of omission, virtue.

Chapter 2. Moral Theology

Introduction
  1. Moral Theology
  2. The moral conduct of man depends on the very concept of man
  3. The Christian concept of man and the effects of Baptism
  4. The specificity of Catholic morality
  5. Man is a social being. Moral requirements of human solidarity.
  6. Sources of moral theology
  7. The Christian and the defense of truth.
Vocabulary amorality, Catholic moral theology, fundamental morality, grace, immorality, infallibility, Magisterium, materialism, moral theology, natural law, original sin, philosophical anthropology, pluralism, revelation, Sacred Tradition, secularism, sociobiology, theological anthropology, theological virtues, Tradition.

Chapter 3 Freedom and the Human Act

Introduction
  1. Importance of the moral life
  2. Man chooses good and evil
  3. The human act, a moral act
  4. Knowledge is a condition for morality
  5. Man is responsible for the good or evil of his free acts
Vocabulary: acts of a human, ascesis, freedom, full knowledge, human act, ignorance, indifferent acts, indirect responsibility, partial knowledge, prudence, responsibility, violence (external).

Chapter 4: The Moral Conscience

Introduction
  1. What is conscience?
  2. Conscience and truth
  3. Formation of conscience.
  4. Means to the formation of conscience
  5. Division of conscience
  6. To act always in accord with right conscience
  7. The Bible appeals to the conscience of man
  8. Proofs for the existence of conscience in every man
  9. The relationship between conscience and law
  10. Distortion and degradation of personal conscience
Vocabulary: antecedent judgment of conscience, autonomous morality, certain conscience, concomitant Judgment of conscience, conscience, consequent judgment of conscience, doubtful conscience, erroneous conscience, heteronomous morality, invincible ignorance, lax conscience, moral rectitude, scrupulous conscience, true conscience, vincible ignorance..

Chapter 5: Ethical Norms. Law

Introduction
  1. Definition of law
  2. Division of kinds of law
  3. Meaning and purpose of law
  4. Just law
  5. Conflicts between conscience and law
Vocabulary: civil law, ecclesiastical law, eternal law, human law, law (just law), moral law, natural law, positive law, unjust law.

Chapter 6: Morality and Action

Introduction
  1. Human acts
  2. Components and the moral choice
  3. The object
  4. The intention or end
  5. Circumstances
  6. The moral categories of good and evil are objective
  7. History shows that certain moral goods and evils are always judged as either good or evil
  8. Some errors derived from ethical relativism.
Vocabulary: consequentialism, circumstances, end (of an action), fundamental option, human acts, moral relativism, object (of an action), proportionalism, rationalism, situation ethics.

Chapter 7: Sin and Conversion

Introduction
  1. Definition of sin
  2. The real meaning of sin in the Bible
  3. Sin as a personal act
  4. The loss of meaning of sin
  5. Division of sin
  6. Cooperation in evil
  7. Effects of sin
  8. Conversion and forgiveness.
  9. The Sacrament of Reconciliation
  10. Justification
  11. Contrition
  12. Conversion
Vocabulary: actual sin, external sin, formal sin, habitual sin, internal sin, material sin, mortal sin, numerical distinction, original sin, secularism (secular humanism), sin, sin of omission, specific distinction, venial sin.

ALL ABOVE WOULD BE STUDIED IN THE THIRD QUARTER

FOURTH QUARTER

Part II: Commandments and Beatitudes

Chapter 8: The Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes

Introduction
  1. The Ten commandments
  2. The code of the Covenant
  3. Ethical content of the Ten Commandments
  4. The Ten Commandments and natural law
  5. The cod of the New Covenant and the Beatitudes
  6. The present moral value of the Decalogue and its relation to the Beatitudes
  7. Development of Christian morality in view o the Ten Commandments
Vocabulary: beatitude, beatitudes, commandment, covenant, decalogue, Israel, New Covenant

Chapter 9: The Social Teaching of the Church

Introduction
  1. The Family
  2. Obligations of National Governments
  3. International Relations
  4. The Role of Women
  5. The Goods of Creation
  6. Love for the Poor
  7. Relations with Those Who are Different
Vocabulary catechist, common good, interdependence, principle of subsidiarity, poverty, racism, social justice, solidarity

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