Moral Theology Test 2 Review

The ________ is what enables humans to reason, know, understand, and make judgments.

• Intellect

• Free Will

• Natural Law

• Culpability

The power, rooted in reason and will, to act or not to act, to choose this or that, and so to perform deliberate actions on one's own responsibility

• Free Will

• Intellect

• Conscience

• Natural Law

A practical judgment of reason that helps a person decide the goodness or evil of an action or attitude. Must be properly formed and then followed.

• Conscience

• Free Will

• Biblical Law

• Positive Freedom

The light of understanding of good and evil that is written on the heart of every human that allows us to understand that proper order of the universe and use that understanding to make moral judgments.

• Natural Law

• Eternal Law

• Free Will

• Conscience

God's understanding of His own goodness. This is the standard of goodness that exists in the mind of God that God uses to create things that share His goodness and judge acts according as good and evil.

• Eternal Law

• Natural Law

• Free Will

• Conscience

The moral law that God revealed to us through inspiring many human authors over centuries.

• Biblical Law

• Natural Law

• Canon Law

• Eternal Law

The law that God first revealed to the Israelites through Moses on Mt. Sinai that governed their society. Is summarized in the 10 Commandments

• Old Law

• New Law

• Canon Law

• Natural Law

The law that is found in the Gospels and revealed to us by Jesus through His teachings (especially the Sermon on the Mount). It is the perfect revealed law.

• New Law

• Old Law

• Natural Law

• Canon Law

The official body of rules that provides for good order in the Catholic Church. Builds upon the law that was revealed by God and applies its teachings to each generation.

• Canon Law

• Natural Law

• Biblical Law

• Eternal Law

Ability to choose success or excellence

• Positive Freedom

• Modern Freedom

• Conscience

• Intellect