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I. Moral Agent: The Human Person 682. Christian moral life is simply the call to become loving persons, in the fullness of life-with-others-in-community before God, in imitation of Jesus Christ. The key to moral life, then, is the human person, considered in the light of both reason and faith. All human rights, personal and social, all moral duties and responsibilities, all virtues and moral character __ all depend directly on the answers we give to the questions: who am I as a person in community? as a disciple of Jesus Christ, in his Church? In the words of PCP II: “How to live as Filipino Christians in our situation of lights and shadows”? (PCP II 35)
683. This “sense of the dignity of the human person has been impressing itself more and more deeply on the consciousness of contemporary man” (DH 1). “The inviolable dignity of every human person. . . is the most precious possession of an individual, [whose] value comes not from what a person ‘has’ as much as from what a person ‘is’ ” (CL 37). “Hence the pivotal point of our total presentation will be the human person, whole and entire, body and soul, heart and conscience, mind and will” (GS 3). But just who or what IS the human person according to reason and Christian Faith? 684. Persons in Christ. For Christians, the answer can only be grounded on Jesus Christ himself. “In Christ and through Christ, we have acquired full awareness of our dignity, of the heights to which we are raised, of the surpassing worth of our own humanity, and of the meaning of our existence” (RH 11). “For by his incarnation, the Son of God has united himself in some fashion with every person” (GS 22).
685. Christ reveals how the essential dignity of all persons is grounded directly on their origin, meaning and destiny. We believe all persons are created by God in His image and likeness (cf. Gen 1:26) through our Lord Jesus Christ, “through whom everything was made and through whom we live” (1 Cor 8:6). We believe all
683. This “sense of the dignity of the human person has been impressing itself more and more deeply on the consciousness of contemporary man” (DH 1). “The inviolable dignity of every human person. . . is the most precious possession of an individual, [whose] value comes not from what a person ‘has’ as much as from what a person ‘is’ ” (CL 37). “Hence the pivotal point of our total presentation will be the human person, whole and entire, body and soul, heart and conscience, mind and will” (GS 3). But just who or what IS the human person according to reason and Christian Faith? 684. Persons in Christ. For Christians, the answer can only be grounded on Jesus Christ himself. “In Christ and through Christ, we have acquired full awareness of our dignity, of the heights to which we are raised, of the surpassing worth of our own humanity, and of the meaning of our existence” (RH 11). “For by his incarnation, the Son of God has united himself in some fashion with every person” (GS 22).
685. Christ reveals how the essential dignity of all persons is grounded directly on their origin, meaning and destiny. We believe all persons are created by God in His image and likeness (cf. Gen 1:26) through our Lord Jesus Christ, “through whom everything was made and through whom we live” (1 Cor 8:6). We believe all