Theology 11 Midterm
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Free union | people living as husband and wife without the sanction of the law |
| Purity | living chastely by seeking God's will in areas of sexuality |
| Masturbation | self-induced sexual pleasure |
| Infertility | inability to conceive a child |
| Lust | disordered craving for sexual pleasures |
| Adultery | sexual relations with someone other than one's spouse (or an unmarried person with a married person) |
| Abstinence | defined as what a person is not doing; positive choice not to engage in sex outside of marriage |
| Fornication | sex engaged in by unmarried people |
| Modesty | virtue of temperance that applies to how a person speaks, dresses, or conducts himself or herself; protects the intimate center of a person by refusing to unveil what should remain hidden; being respectful of our own sexuality |
| Fidelity | martial faithfulness between husbands and wives that requires saving sex for each other and ask couples to be loyal to each other through good times and bad times |
| Fecundity | ability to produce offspring; a gift proper to marriage, which can allow a husband and wife to participate with God in the creation of new life |
| Gender | The essence of this task is to find out how we look at others |
| Behavior | This element is largely of nurture and deals with the free sexual choice one has made including poor choices, regrets, misdeeds, and misjudgments; free self-determination is one of the goals of sexual growth and integration |
| Magisterium | official teaching office of the church, the pope and the bishops |
| Charity | love of God and love of neighbor as one loves oneself |
| Theological Virtues | three important virtues bestowed on us at Baptism that relates us to God (faith hope and love) |
| Temperance | moderation in controlling our desires for physical pleasure |
| Original sin | consequence of the sin of our first parents |
| Cardinal virtues | four hinge virtues that support moral living |
| Fruits of the Holy Spirit | because of the Holy Spirit, these are evident in a person who is living a Christ-like, moral and upright life |
| Prudence | "right reason in action" concerning the best way to live morally |
| Hope | trust in God's salvation and his bestowal of the graces needed to attain it |
| Faith | belief and personal knowledge of God |
| Justice | giving God and each person his/her due by right |
| Free will | the power, rooted in reason and will, to perform deliberate actions to one's own responsibility |
| Solidarity | Christian virtue of social charity and friendship |
| Dignity | quality of being worthy of esteem or respect |
| Morality | is interested in what we ought to do |
| Character | who I am and who I'm becoming |
| Virtues | firm attitudes, stable dispositions, and habitual perceptions that help us live morally according to reason and faith |
| Gifts of the Holy Spirit | wisdom, understanding, council, fortitude, knowledge, piety, fear of the Lord |
| Dignity | is inherent because it is an essential part of our lives; inviolable because it cannot be violated; inalienable because no one can take it away from us |
| Principle of subsidarity | larger group in society should not interfere with small group in society |
| Ectopic pregnancy | the newly developing embryo gets trapped in a scarred tube and begins to grow in that abnormal location; if undetected this embryo will grow and rupture through the fallopian tube; massive internal bleeding can occur |
| Pap smear | method for early detection of cancer especially of the uterine cervix |
| Values-neutral | involuntary response that cannot tell right from wrong or beneficial from harmful, it rewards all kinds of behaviors without distinction |
| Reward Signal | official term for what dopamine does to us |
| Transformation zone | very sensitive area of cells at the tip of the womb or cervix, vulnerable to STDS |
| Treatment of Chalmydia | when discovered early can be treated with antibiotics, later complications of tubal scarring is extremely difficult to treat |
| Actions of Oxytocin | have to do with the reproduction and the nourishment of and provision for a supportive and protective environment of a child |
| female body uses oxytocin | meaningful or intimate touching with another person (hopefully male), onset of labor in a pregnant woman, breast feeding, NOT EXERCISE |
| Vasopressin | monogamy molecule; neurochemical that helps men to bond during intimate physical contact |
| Gonorrhea | bacterial STD; if detected early, can be treated successfully with antibiotics; men experience symptoms more often then women |
| HIV | spread through exchange of bodily fluids between 1 person and another such as blood, semen, vaginal fluid, and a mother's milk; can be dormant for 10 years; attacks the body's lymphoid or immunity tissues |
| Syphilis | many symptom is the chancre sore, which is a small, round, painless sore or ulcer; occurs mainly on the genitals, but can also appear on the lips and in the mouth; in advanced stages, disease damages the internal organs, including the brain, nerves, and causes dementia and even death |
| HSV-1 | cold sore virus |
| HSV-2 | genital herpes: presents itself with symptoms of genital sores, ulcers, or blisters; while many people are asymptomatic |
| long-term connectedness | One of the results of oxytocin bonding that takes place in the normal male-female relationship is |
| Treatment of HPV | infected areas can be treated by a variety of caustic chemicals, by freezing, by electrically burning, by cutting, or by using a type of laser; follow up treatment is routinely needed because hidden areas are not always detected at first |
| AIDS | End stage of HIV, 100% fatal (quick dearblankpleaseblank: Dear AIDS, despite your name, you're not really helping out that much. Sincerely, Africa) |
| Asymptomatic | showing no symptoms |
| STD | implies a clear medical problem, usually some obvious signs or symptoms |
| STI | when an STD has no signs or symptoms, or has such mild signs & symptoms they can be overlooked; the sexually transmitted virus or bacteria can create "this" which may or may not result in a disease |
| Dopamine | neurochemical that makes a person feel good when doing something exciting or rewarding; making the person feel the need or desire to repeat pleasurable, exciting and rewarding acts |
| Inadvertence | The impediment to freedom that is caused by not paying sufficient attention before we act |
| Inordinate attachment | the impediment to freedom that involves craving something to the point of it owning us |
| The Blessed Trinity | the source of moral law |
| Jesus | fundamental most basic norm of Christian morality on which we should pattern our lives |
| Civil law | particular application of the natural law for the members of a particular society |
| Law | ordinance of reason for the common good, made and promulgated by those who are in charge of the community |
| Natural Law | nothing other than the rational creature's participation in the eternal law;universal and immutable; it applies to all people, in all places, for all time;is implanted in our hearts |
| Old Law | Law of Moses; Ten Commandments; special function is to reveal what is sinful |
| Eternal Law | nothing other than the plan of divine wisdom as directing all acts and movements |
| License | unbridled, excessive, undisciplined freedom that abuses true liberty |
| Passions | the movements of our senses that predispose us to act/not act relation tto something we feel or imagine to be good or evil. |
| Determinists | deny that humans have the power to choose |
| Imputable | accountable |
| Freedom | rooted in both reason and will |
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