Conscience
The inner voice that judges right from wrong before the act is done
Conscience is the inner moral faculty by which a person judges the rightness of acts. Paul speaks of it in Romans 2 as a witness written on the heart, Jerome reflected on it, and Aquinas distinguished synderesis, the abiding grasp of first moral principles, from the conscience that applies them to particular choices. Across the Christian tradition, conscience names the place where moral truth meets personal responsibility.
How it traveled
- 1 PeterRome · 64explains
- RomansCorinth · 67explains
- 1 CorinthiansEphesus · 67explains
- 2 CorinthiansPhilippi · 67applies
- 1 TimothyEphesus · 67explains
- HebrewsRome · 67explains
- EphesiansRome · 67applies
- 2 TimothyRome · 67applies
- TitusEphesus · 67explains
- MatthewAntioch · 80explains
- LukeRome · 84explains
- ActsRome · 84applies
- 1 JohnEphesus · 100explains
- JohnEphesus · 100explains
- The First ApologyRome · 165explains
- Against Heresies: Book IVLyons · 202explains
- Apology.— · 220explains
- On Idolatry.— · 220explains
- The Shows, or De Spectaculis.— · 220applies
- The Instructions of Commodianus.— · 220explains
- The First Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians.— · 220applies
- On Repentance.— · 220explains
- On the Veiling of Virgins.— · 220explains
- Book Second.—Commandments— · 220explains
- The Canonical Epistle, with the Commentaries of Theodore Balsamon and John Zonaras.— · 220explains
- On Prayer.— · 220applies
- The Soul's Testimony.— · 220explains
- The Octavius of Minucius Felix.Rome · 250explains
- The Life of Constantine with Orations of Constantine and EusebiusCaesarea · 339explains
- The Church History of EusebiusCaesarea · 339explains
Key passages(20)
Book Third. the Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ. the Benefits It Confers, and the Effects Resulting from It · John Calvin
Treatise on Man (qq[75]-102) · Thomas Aquinas
A Dissertation on the Nature of True Virtue · Jonathan Edwards
A Dissertation on the Nature of True Virtue · Jonathan Edwards
A Dissertation on the Nature of True Virtue · Jonathan Edwards
A Warning to Professors · Jonathan Edwards
Book Fourth. of the Holy Catholic Church · John Calvin
Book Fourth. of the Holy Catholic Church · John Calvin
Five Sermons. On Different Occasions · Jonathan Edwards
Homilies on First Corinthians · John Chrysostom
Seventeen Occasional Sermons · Jonathan Edwards
The Interior Life · Thomas à Kempis
Book Third. the Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ. the Benefits It Confers, and the Effects Resulting from It · John Calvin
Homilies on First Corinthians · John Chrysostom
The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Paul's Epistle to the Romans · John Chrysostom
The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians · John Chrysostom
Homilies on First Corinthians · John Chrysostom
The Homilies on the Statues to the People of Antioch · John Chrysostom