Theology 3 Chapter 8
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 abortifacients | chemical substances or mechanical devices that inhibit a fertilized egg's ability to attach itself to the lining of the uterus, thereby destorying the human zygote |
| adultery | sexual relations between a married person and one to whom hee or she is not married. |
| chastity | the moral virtue that is directed toward the positive integration of sexuality within a person by moderating the sexual appetite |
| complementarity | refers to the compatible and mutually beneficial relationship between man and woman according to the original plan of God |
| conception/fertilization | the union of sperm and egg that creates a new life |
| conjugal act/marital act | the genital sexual act proper to marriage an embodiment of the permanent union of the husband and wife |
| continence | self-restraint of the sexual appetite either by abstinence or moderation. By extension, self-restraint of other appetites |
| contraception | any of a number of barrier or chemical measures used to prevent pregnancy which would result from sexual intercourse |
| divorce | a civil dissolution of a marriage |
| embryo | refers to an unborn child in the first several weeks of life |
| eroticism | the use of sexually arousing imager in literatrue or art |
| fetus | an unborn child |
| fornication | pre-marital intercourse and other sexual acts |
| hedonism | the theory of ethics in which pleasure is regarded as the chief good and evil of every action |
| humanae vitae | Pope Paul VI's 1968 encyclical that reaffirmed and beautifully explained the Catholic Church's condemnation of contraception |
| indissolubility | the quality of an entity such that it cannot be divided into its elements. this quality of the Sacrement of Matrimony means the union of marriage cannot be broken except by the death of a spouse |
| in vitro fertilization | morally objectionable fertility technique of fertilizing a woman's egg with a man's sperm in the laboratory and then implanting the fertilized egg into a woman's uterus |
| in vivo fertilization | the quality of an entity that it cannot be divided into its elements. this quality of a sacramental and consummated marriage means the union of marriage cannot be broken exept by the death of a spouse |
| lust | sensuous appetite or desire; usually sexual in nature |
| masturbation | the deliberate stimulation of the genital organs in order to derive sexual pleasure |
| matrimony | the Sacrament by which a man and a woman are joined in an intimate union of life and love. |
| modesty | moderation, freedom from exaggeration, and self-control. |
| natural family planning | any of several church-approved methods by which a couple may regulate conception by studying the sgins of the woman's cycle of fertility |
| polygamy | attempted marriage between more than two people at the same time. Refers to a man attempting marriage with more than one wife |
| pornography | an offense against the virtue of chastity and the sacrament of matrimonny; the expression or suggestion of an obsece or unchaste subjects in literature or art. this consists in a removal of sexual acts from the intimacy of a married couple in order to display them to third parties |
| procreative | one of the purposes of marriage and the marital act; indicates the openness to producing children |
| puritanical | a perspective that considers all sexual passions and attractions to be sinful and attributes them to Original Sin |
| sexuality | the possession of sexual powers and capability of sexual feeling |
| theology of the body | a body of teaching by Pope John Paul II on the dignity of the human person and the complemtarity of men and women |
| unitive | one of the purpes of marriage and the marital act, it refers to the loving sacramental bond between husband and wife and mirrors the unity of christ and his church |
| zygote | a newly fertilized egg before its implantation in the uterus |
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