This document discusses the concept of morality from a Christian perspective. It defines morality as a set of principles for determining right and wrong conduct. Christian morality is a response to God's call revealed through Jesus Christ. Living a moral life upholds human dignity and bears witness to the value of each person. Key aspects of morality include free will, knowledge, principles such as love and service to others, and following divine and natural laws.

1. Morality:

2. A person’s dignity that
he/she acts according to a
knowing and free choice

3. Christian Morality is a
response to the call of
God in Jesus Christ.

4. Called to Serve

5. What is
Morality?A set of principles by
which we can find out if
our conduct, behaviour
and attitudes, are right or
wrong. (Michael Pennock

6. Morale –
How somebody feels emotionally.

7. EAmoral –without moral
standard not caring about
good behaviour.

8. E
Norms – standard pattern of
behaviour.
Jesus is our moral norms

9. E
Moral Norms – criterion for
judging the sort of person
we ought to be and the sort
of action to perform in
faithful response to God’s
call to be loving and holy.

10. EHuman Act – act done with
willingness and knowledge.
The Agent is responsible for his
action.

11. EAgent in deciding –
3 aspects of thinking and willing:
A. Evaluative Knowledge
B. Imagination
C. Affectivity

12. EA. Evaluative Knowledge – the
knowing that influences
making moral judgement.
Personal knowledge
B. Imagination
C. Affectivity

13. EB Imagination – is needed in
applying universal moral
norms to specific actual cases.
A. Affectivity - strong human
passion.

14. E
Essence of Discipleship
Love as expressed through self
sacrifice and service to others.
Self – denial means taking up
the cross and practicing
selflessness.
We grow mature in faith as we
begin to see ourselves in relation
to others.

15. EWhy law and ordinances are
needed in every place.

16. ENatural Law – universal law found
in the structure of life itself.
The law of our nature as human
being.

17. E
Civil Law – particular application
of natural law and the means of
assuring the common good.
Promulgated by civil authority.
The human made laws to govern
our various relationships in the
community.

18. EDivine Law– law of God as
revealed in Sacred Scripture.
Divided in three periods
1. Divine Law – received by Jewish
people before Moses

19. E2. Mosaic Law – which was
initiated in the giving of the ten
commandments to Moses in Mt.
Sinai. (Ten Commandment.

20. E
Ten Commandment – are specific
manifestations of the will of God.
Decalogue and active
sacramental life are necessary
means for motivation responsible
moral decisions and acts.
3. Law of Love – given to us by
Christ.

21. EChurch Law – Particular
application of divine as lived out
in the community, the church.
Expression of Divine law in the
concrete circumstances of
Christian Living.

22. ELaw is intended to practice and
assure inner freedom.

23. EAssignment:
What is Paradox
Give 3 examples of Jesus’
Paradoxical teaching.

24. E
1. Object Chosen
2. End of the view or intention
3. Circumstances of the action.
Morally good acts requires the
goodness of the object, of the
end, and the circumstances
together.

25. EThe Morality of Human Acts:
Acts that are freely chosen in
consequence of judgement of
conscience.
Human Acts are either good or
evil.

26. E
1. Object Chosen – the act of the
will. It is to see if what we
propose to do is morally good
or not. By using our reason
(intellect) we can recognize
and judge which actions
corresponds to the true good.

27. E
2. Intention - resides in the acting
subject.
> It is a movement of the will
toward the end.
> It is concerned with the goal
of the activity.

28. EThe End does not justify the
means.

29. E3. Circumstances including
consequences are secondary
elements of human acts.
Condition affecting situation

30. E1. Act of Man - Act done with
out the control of the will
and awareness of the
intellect.

31. E1. Every Catholic is called to
live a Catholic Moral life.
Meaning we are called to
respond to be loving
person.

32. ELiving a moral life bears
witness to the dignity of the
person

33. E1. Dignity – self respect, to
have worth and value .....

34. 1. Person are open and
relational by nature.

35. 2. Person are conscious
being.
3. Persons are embodied
spirits

36. 4. Person are historical
realities
Pilgrims on the way.
3 kinds of Church
5. Persons are unique, yet
fundamental and equal

37. We created in God’s image
and likeness.
Refers to God-like qualities.
- >Same nature and origin
- >being redeemed by
Christ.

38. 1. Suggestions to consider
before making moral
decision or choice

39. 1. Identify the problem
2. Ask your self
3. Word of God
4. Follow the Love
Commandment
5. Consult others
6. Pray
7. act

40. 1. Moral Discernment – our
ability to know the
difference between right
and wrong and we can
develop this through the
traditional STOP formula

41. Human freedom - is a force
for growth and maturity
in truth and goodness; it
attains its perfection
when directed toward
God, our beatitude.

42. Elements for human Acts
1. Freedom
2. Knowledge

43. Freedom – makes man
responsible for his acts to
the extent that they are
voluntary.

44. Impediments of Freedom
1. Fear
2. Ignorance
a. Invincible
b. Vincible
c. Affected
3. Habit
4. Violence

45. 5. Passions
Kinds of Passion
a. Antecedent –
b. Consequent
6. Inadvertence