Key Terms:
- Will: the part of human nature that makes free choices
- Sin: disobeying the will and commands of God
- Grace: in theologian terms, God's free and undeserved love for humanity, epitomised in the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross
- The Fall: the biblical event where Adam & Eve disobeyed God and ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge, this is also used to refer the imperfect state of humanity.
- Neoplatonism: philosophical thinking arising from the ideas of Plato
- Redeemed: in theologian terms, 'saved' from sin by the sacrifice of Christ
- Concordia: human friendship
- Cupiditas: 'selfish love', a love of material things and of selfish desires
- Caritas: 'generous love', a love for others and of the virtues; the Latin equivalent to the Greek word agape
- Concupiscence: an uncontrollable desire for physical pleasures and material things
- Ecclesia: heavenly society, in comparison to earthly society
- Summon bonum: the highest, most supreme good