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6. Aquinas used the concept of Synderesis. What did he mean by this?

  • The ability to grasp our ultimate human nature, to know the primary precepts
  • Synderesis means that people sin sometimes, through ignorance
  • The ability to balance self interest against the needs of others
  • Deriving secondary precepts and applying them to real situations

7. Humanistic Conscience - has 'an intuitive knowledge of what is human and inhuman, what is conductive to life and what is destructive of life'

  • Fromm
  • Piaget
  • Augustine
  • Freud

8. Who said 'had it strength, as it has right; had it power as it has manifest authority, it would absolutely govern the world'?

  • Butler
  • Fromm
  • Newman
  • Piaget

9. Who said 'I shall drink to my conscience, and then the Pope'?

  • Newman
  • Butler
  • St Paul
  • Aquinas

10. Which Theologian taught that conscience is an intuition?

  • St Paul
  • Newman
  • Aquinas
  • Butler

11. Who said, of the Gentiles 'God's law is written in their heart, for their own conscience and thought either accuse them or tell them they are doing right'

  • Aquinas
  • Paul in Romans 2:15
  • Peter in 1 Peter 2:12
  • Jesus in the Gospels Luke and Matthew