HCHS Religion II Vocab.
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HCHS Mrs. Sacks Religion II Vocab. & Key People
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Hope | is to believe in the possibility that what one wants can actually happen |
| Individualism | believes that each person should take responsibility for his or her own life, and that when people fail to take responsibility for themselves, others should not be expected to help them |
| Enlightened Self-interest | The realization that by helping others we are really helping ourselves in the end |
| Compassion | A feeling of life-giving closeness and protective care |
| Love | is to will the good for another |
| Selfishness | seeking things for oneself in a way that ignores the good of others and causes suffering |
| Human dignity | the basic goodness of human beings that comes from always being loved by God |
| heaven | the state of the perfect communion with the Holy Trinity |
| Free Will | the ability to choose what to do |
| Original Sin | from Adam & Eve; the rejection of their humanity as created in God's image; born into |
| Pope Leo XIII | encyclical On the Condition of Labor - Rerum Novarum (Latin) |
| Pope John Paul II | Encyclical On Human Work (Laborem Exercens) All who are able ave the right to work and duty to work, regardless of race, gender... |
| Soljunre Truth | Spoke out for rights for women |
| Dr. Abraham Maslow | 1. Physical Needs 2. Safety Needs 3. Love Needs 4. Self-Esteem Needs 5. Self-Actualization Needs |
| Gandhi | love your enemy |
| Al Gore | Global Warming |
| Free Will | the ability to choose what to do |
| Original Sin | from Adam & Eve; the rejection of the humanity as created in God's image; born into |
| Grace | transforming love of God |
| Shema | the confession of faith made in Jewish religious practice |
| Prophets | A person called by God to help and guide "his people" |
| Justice | the established of living relationships among human beings, God, and creation so that life can flourish in the way God intended |
| Injustice | is a condition in which people have put obstacles in the way of loving relationships, thus preventing life from flourishing as God |
| Incarnation | the Son of God becoming human in the person of Jesus Christ |
| The Kingdom of God | The way things are when love is more important than anything else in people's lives |
| Beatitudes | in the Bible, one of the sayings of Jesus Christ in the Sermon on the mount about the 8 groups of people who will receive blessing in heaven |
| Catholic Social Teaching | the teaching of the Church that examines human society in light of the Gospel and Church Tradition for the purpose of guiding Christians as they carry on the mission of Jesus in the world |
| Signs of the Times | the church's responses to the world flows out of its interpretation of those realities |
| Rerum Novarum | Pope Leo XIII - the suffering of poor people, cooperation between groups, the dignity of work, the role of the state and so on |
| Liberalist | rights and autonomy together with limited government and the ownership of private property, |
| Industrial Revolution | the shift from a farming and craft trade economy to an economy based on factory products |
| Capital | those who own the means of producing goods |
| Capitalism | the new economic system un to whihc a few own the means of production for their own profit and workers work for what ever they can get |
| Natural Law | god-given need for creation, including human beings to follow what God intended it to be |
| Just Wage | an amount sufficient to provide a decent life for a worker's whole family |
| Unions | organization associations to negotiate working conditions |
| Participation | the right and responsibility of all people to participate in all aspects of human society |
| Marginalized | those who are not able to fully participate in society; forced outside the main group |
| Common good | the social condition that allows all people in a community to reach their full human beings and fulfill their human dignity |
| Subsidiarity | governments and large organizations exots only to sever the good of human beings, families, and communities |
| CST - 1 | The Life and Dignity of the Human Person |
| CST - 2 | The Call to Family, Community, and Participation |
| CST - 3 | Rights and Responsibility |
| CST - 4 | The Option for the Poor and Vulnerable |
| CST - 5 | The Dignity of Work and Rights of Workers |
| CST - 6 | Solidarity |
| Survival Rights | rights necessary for people to be able to live |
| Trivial Rights | rights to those things necessary for people to fully realize their God-given Talent |
| Responsibilities | rights are limited by this |
| CST - 7 | Care for God's Creation |
| Option for the Poor & Vulnerable | the choice to put the needs of societys most poor & vulnerable members 1st among all |
| Dignity of Work | the value that work has because its supports humanlife and contirbutes to human dignity |
| Rights of Workers | nessary for dignified work |
| Solidarity | a constant commitment ot the common good, based on the belief that "we are all responsible for all" |
| Care for God's Creation | to live their fiath in relationship with all of creation by protecting the health of people and the planet |
| Parxis | living according to one's beliefs not just private but in a way that affets the world |
| Awareness | seeing, hearing and knowing the world in a spirit of friendship as God does |
| World view | basic belief the guides the way someone relates to the world |
| Respect | to look again; |
| Reign of God | a world view which peace, justice and goodness bring abundant life to everyone |
| Analysis | the process of understanding how people's lives are affected by therelationships that shape the society in which they live |
| Interdependent | depend on one another fro our existence |
| Relationship Map | like a road map, shows the connections between people that shape any society |
| Social Structures | patterns of relationships that shape any society |
| Structure of Sin | individual decisions also contribute to the social structure that block justice |
| Power | the God-given ability everyone has to affect their own lives, others and world |
| Power Over | belief that humans are the source of their own power and recalls the Original Sin of Adam and Eve |
| Power With | a love centered world view that understands that God is the source of all power |
| Action | to change athe situtation in a way that allows all people involved to experience the good life that the Creator planned for them |
| Direct Action | occurs on the level of individual relationships; usually aimed at meetinf an immediate need |
| Social Action | occurs on the level of social structures and attempts to change the behavior of society; instutes a way the promotes justiceCon |
| Retributive justice | this approach to criminal justice in which the emphasis is on hurting the offender |
| Conception | Sperm meets egg |
| The Culture of Death | views human life as separate from God, who is its source |
| The Culture of Life | we are images of God and met to return to God |
| Enthanasia | intentional killing |
| Informed Consent | requires abortion clinics to tell clients about what an abortion involves |
| Restorative Justice | focuses on restoring the good that has been harmed by criminal activity for the victims, the community and the offender |
| Stereotypoe | when our view of a person or group is based on inaccurate or incomplete knowldge |
| Prejudice | an attitude of hostility directed at whole groups of people |
| Discrimination | deny individuals or groups the right to participate in the community |
| Racism | personal sin and social disorder rooted in the belief that one race is superior to another |
| Wage Gap | diff. between the Rich & Poor |
| Work | any sustained effort expended for a purpose |
| Toil | difficult, challenging and wearing |
| Livelihood | work that provides the basic needs of life |
| Means of production | a way of producing goods & service |
| Subjective aspects of work | what the worker experience |
| Objective aspects of work | what the worker produces |
| Indirect employer | any institution that regulates what employers may do |
| Globalization of the economy | nations economies are increasingly tied together by interdependent relationships |
| Poverty | experience pf not having the basic things one needs to live a full and dignified life |
| The Cycle of Poverty | the lack of bsic resources creates barriers that prevent people from obtaining those resources |
| Chronic Hunger | never have enough food to give the body the nutrients needed to grow and maintain itself properly |
| Starvation | when the body doesn't receive enough calories to maintain itself |
| Malnutrition | gettinf enough cals. to prevent your body from feeding on itself, but the diet of a malnourished oerson is extremely limited, often consisting of just three or four foods |
| Food insecure | the household did not have consistent access to enough food for active, healty, lives for all household members at all times during the year |
| Literally Homeless | those without shelter |
| Hidden Homeless | people whose poverty prevents them from living in true homes |
| Refugees | people who are displaced from their homes by wars or political |
| Development | transforming the stuctures of society so that all people rich and poor are able to fulfill their human potential and live dignified lives |
| Economics | the way societies produce, manage and distribute material wealth |
| Living Simply | to live in a way that values the sacredness of ourselves, others, and God's creation more than materials |
| Living Crazily | lifestyle that emphasizes having over being |
| Poverty of Being | prevents us from developing our full potential as images of God |
| Universal destination of goods | concept that all the resources of the earth are intended for all people |
| Catholic Relief Service | an international poverty-fighting organization; US Bishops - 1943 |
| integrity of creation | the way creation many interdependent relationships fir together |
| subsistence farming | that is, small-time farming that meets only the basic needs of a family |
| Global Climate Change | relatively rapid worldwide changes in temp. and precipitation |
| Power Over The Earth | The earth has no value by itself; the earth is owned by whomever has the power to take it; the earth is a limitless resource |
| Sacramental | it reveals the presence of God in a visible and tangible way |
| Sustainable Economic Practice | practices that reduce current stresses on natural systems and are consistent with sound environmental policy in the ling term |
| environmental accounting | seeks to include the value of the environment in making economic decisions |
| Taking the Earth into Account | Hidden economic value; value life, and as a gift from God |
| violence | any human action that causes harm to the life or dignity of another person |
| institutional violence | violence that occurs as a result of unjust social structures |
| spirit of violence | one act of violence leads to another |
| conflict | disagreement between people or groups |
| The Spiral of Violence | 1. Basic injustice; 2. Violent response; 3. Violent counterresponses 4. Escalating violence 5. More injustice |
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