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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. Romans
    Corinth · 67
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  2. 1 Corinthians
    Ephesus · 67
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  3. Matthew
    Antioch · 80
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  4. The Letters
    Caesarea (Cappadocia) · 379
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  5. On the Duties of the Clergy
    Milan · 397
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  6. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  7. Homilies on First Corinthians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  8. A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  9. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Paul's Epistle to the Romans
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  10. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Timothy, Titus, and Philemon
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  11. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  12. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Gospel of St. John
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  13. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Epistle to the Hebrews
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  14. Homilies on Second Corinthians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  15. The Commentary and Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Galatians and Ephesians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  16. The Homilies on the Statues to the People of Antioch
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  17. The Letters of St. Jerome
    Bethlehem · 420
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  18. Expositions on the Book of Psalms
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  19. Letters of St. Augustin
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  20. City of God
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  21. The Confessions
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  22. On Lying
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  23. Against Lying
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  24. On Christian Doctrine
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  25. Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  26. The Book of Pastoral Rule, and Selected Epistles, of Gregory the Great
    Rome · 604
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  27. Selected Epistles of Gregory the Great
    Rome · 604
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  28. Treatise on Man (qq[75]-102)
    Paris · 1274
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  29. Commentary on Galatians
    Wittenberg · 1546
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  30. Book Third. the Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ. the Benefits It Confers, and the Effects Resulting from It
    Geneva · 1564
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  31. Book Fourth. of the Holy Catholic Church
    Geneva · 1564
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  32. Book Second. of the Knowledge of God the Redeemer, in Christ, as First Manifested to the Fathers, Under the Law, and Thereafter to Us Under the Gospel
    Geneva · 1564
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  33. Seventeen Occasional Sermons
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  34. A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, in Three Parts
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  35. a careful and strict inquiry into the prevailing notions of the freedom of will
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  36. Thoughts on the Revival of Religion in New England
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  37. Inquiry Concerning Qualification for Communion
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  38. Misrepresentations Corrected and Truth Vindicated, in Reply to the Rev. Solomon Williams
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  39. A Dissertation on the Nature of True Virtue
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  40. Fifteen Sermons. On Various Subjects
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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