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Review On Veritatis Splendor (Moral Teachings of The Church Vs Revisionism)

The document summarizes key differences between Catholic Church teaching and revisionist views on moral theology. The Church teaches that: 1) God alone determines what is good and evil, while revisionism says individuals can decide; 2) God's law protects freedom, while revisionism sees a conflict with freedom; and 3) conscience expresses objective moral truth, not autonomous decisions. Revisionism claims one can reject specific commands and still be good through an initial choice for charity. The Church says all freely committed mortal sins reject God's law.

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Review On Veritatis Splendor (Moral Teachings of The Church Vs Revisionism)

The document summarizes key differences between Catholic Church teaching and revisionist views on moral theology. The Church teaches that: 1) God alone determines what is good and evil, while revisionism says individuals can decide; 2) God's law protects freedom, while revisionism sees a conflict with freedom; and 3) conscience expresses objective moral truth, not autonomous decisions. Revisionism claims one can reject specific commands and still be good through an initial choice for charity. The Church says all freely committed mortal sins reject God's law.

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Review on Veritatis Splendor

(Moral Teachings of the Church vs Revisionism)

CHURCH TEACHING REVISIONISM

FREEDOM AND LAW • The power to decide what is good • Grant to individuals or social
and what is evil does not belong to groups the right to determine
man, but to God alone (VS 35). (God what is good or evil (VS 35)
as author of Moral Law) (Human reason as basis of
• God’s law does not reduce, much morality)
less do away with human freedom; • Centre upon an alleged conflict
rather it protects and promotes that between freedom and law (VS
freedom (VS 35). 35)

CONSCIENCE AND TRUTH • The relationship between man’s • Conscience expresses itself
freedom and God’s law is most through “decisions” which
deeply lived out in the “heart” of the measure the maturity and
person, in his moral conscience (VS responsibility of judgments by
54). liberation of the conscience from
• Consciences expresses itself in acts objective truth, in favor of an
of “judgments” which reflect the alleged autonomy in personal
truth about the good (VS 61). decisions (VS 61).

FUNDAMENTAL CHOICE • With every freely committed mortal • By virtue of a primordial option
AND SPECIFIC KINDS OF sin, he offends God as the giver of for charity, that individual could
BEHAVIOR the law and as a result becomes continue to be morally good,
guilty with regard to the entire law; persevere in God’s grace and
even if he perseveres in faith, he attain salvation, even if certain of
loses “sanctifying grace”, “charity” his specific kinds of behavior
and “eternal happiness” (VS 68). were deliberately and gravely
contrary to God’s commandments
as set forth by the Church (VS
68).

THE MORAL ACT • The morality of acts is defined by the • An act which, by contradicting a
relationship of man’s freedom with universal negative norm, directly
the authentic good. This good is violates goods considered as
established, as the eternal law, by “pre-moral” could be qualified as
Divine Wisdom which orders every morally acceptable if the
being towards its end: this eternal intention of the subject is
law is known by man’s natural focused, in accordance with a
reason (hence it is “natural law”), and “responsible” assessment of the
- in an integral and perfect way - by goods involved in the concrete
God’s supernatural Revelation action, on the moral valued
(hence it is called “divine law”) (VS judged to be decisive in the
72). situation (VS 75).

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