CFE REVIEWER

CHRISTIAN MORALITY – Can guide individuals in navigating modern ethical challenges,

fostering empathy, and promoting social justice.
- Highlighting the RELEVANCE OF CHRISTIAN MORALITY, in addressing current
social issues,
- Explores how CHRISTIAN MORAL PRINCIPLES can serve as a guide in navigating
these challenges.
- Focuses on how to APPLY TIMELESS CHRISTIAN VALUES/VIRTUES to address
issues.
- Christian Morality is NURTURING OUR RELATIONSHIPS WIT GOD AND
OTHERS.
- Christian Morality deals with positive/negative things in life.
2 VIRTUES: KIND & RESPECT
SOCIAL ISSUES:
1. Social Media and Digital Ethics
2. Environmental Stewardship
3. Global Inequality
4. Technology Advancements
5. Bioethics
6. Cultural Sensitivity
7. Economic Ethics
8. Healthcare Dilemmas
9. Political Engagement
10. Family and Relationship
11. Educational Ethics
12. Gender and Sexuality
13. Criminal Justice
14. Medical Ethics
15. Moral Implications of Scientific Advances
KEY WORDS: (MIXED OF SCENARIO 1, 2 AND 3.)
BEATITUDES – “Blessed”
STEWARDSHIP – “Taga-pangalaga, We humans manage.”
ONLINE INTERACTIONS – We encounter as we dominated by soc med.
VULNERABLE – PWDs, Seniors, New Borns.
HONESTY & KINDNESS – What we need in social media.
STRONG SENSE OF SELF - You know yourself. (Strength and Weakness)
ADVERSE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT – Negative Evil Impact.
SUSTAINABILITY – Life long, sustained development.
LAUDATO SI’ – By Pope Francis, Responsibility of Christians
CONFLICT – Problematic & Chaotic

THE GIFT OF HUMAN DIGNITY:

 The inalienable human dignity is rooted in God’s profound love.
 Dignity is to have a moral duty to respect, defend and promote others’ well-being.
 People of God are stewards entrusted with recognizing and valuing others dignity.
 Human Dignity is a gift of God that comprises love and being a person with human
dignity.
 Even with value (dignity) we still need to learn to love ourselves and love others.
THE GIFT OF FREEDOM:
 Talks about the understanding of Freedom, superficial and authentic, by stating how
people use their ability to decide.
 Authentic Freedom is “to do the good”.
 Superficial Freedom is “doing what I want.”
 Not a private possession.
 Exceptional signs of the image of God.
CONSCIENCE:
 Almost everything we learn about morality is found from people we gradually learn
about the moral truth.
 The law in our hearts written by God.
 Most secret and sanctuary of man.
THREE SENSES OF CONSIENCE (BY TIMOTHY E. O’CONNELL):
 SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY – The inner drive to do the good.
 SENSE OF JUDGEMENT – The search for objective moral values.
 SENSE OF EXERCISE – Evaluation of Action
 All 3 tell people to do the right thing.

TYPES OF CONSCIENCE:
  LAX CONSCIENCE – Not employing process of conscientious decision-making.
 ERRONEOUS CONSCIENCE – Follows a process of conscious decision-making but
makes the wrong choice.
 INFORMED CONSCIENCE – Educated and developed through constant use and
examination.
MORE KEY NOTES:
 GOD’S COVENANT – A contract or agreement.
 COVENANT – Basic and constant motif in the whole of the Old Testament.
 CHRISTIAN MORALITY - Nurturing our relationship with God and others in the way
we respond.
 GOD’S KINGDOM - Present
 CHRISTIAN MORALITY – Becoming fully human, guided by Christian tradition and
the life and person of Jesus of Nazareth.
BERNARD HARING:
- Christian life must be understood as a response to God’s self-offer in Christ.
LODE WOSTYN:
- Christian morality is the careful, systematic examination of the life and person should
impinge upon our moral lives.
JAMES M. GUSTAFSON:
- We look to Christ as the model of the sort of person we ought to become and the sort of
actions we ought to perform as a full response of faith.
SDG 3: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL 3
- “Good health and well-being”
- “To ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.”
BASIC ELEMENTS OF CHRISTIAN MORALITY:
 HUMAN DIGNITY
 FREEDOM
 CONSCIENCE
 REALITY
 MEANING OF SIN

THE REALITY OF SIN:

- SHADOW ON HUMAN EXPERIENCE
 - DEPARTURE FROM GOODNESS
- STAIN ON THE SOUL
- MANIFESTATION THROUGH ACTIONS
- DISSONANCE IN CONSCIENCE
- IMPACT ON RELATIONSHIPS
- BEYOND THEOLOGICAL CONCEPT
- FACET OF HUMAN CONDITION
3 CONCEPTS OF SIN:
1. “MISSING THE MARK” or “HARDNESS OF HEART” Focuses on the offense
inflicted.
TWO BASIC KINDS OF SIN:
 SINS OF COMMISSION – Doing what we should not.
 SIN OF OMISSION – Not doing what we should do.
2. DEPRAVITY AND PERVERSITY – Defect of character.
3. REBELLION AND TRANSGRESSION – A sin as a conscious choice. (Doing what’s
wrong.)