Developments in Religious thoughts- keywords Flashcards
K if gods existence-What is faith?
Voulantary commitment to a belief without the need for complete evidence to support it
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What is Empricisim?
A way of knowing that depends on the five senses
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What is Natural Theology?
Drawing conclusions about the nature and activity of God by using reason and observing the world
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What is Protestantism?
A form of Christianity which rejects the authority of the Catholic Church and places greater emphasis on the Bible and on personal faith
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What is Revelation?
‘uncovering’. In theological terms, this is when God chooses to let himself be known
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What is Revealed Theology?
When God reveals himself to people through other people/things
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What is immediate Revelation?
Where someone is given direct knowledge of God
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What is Mediate Revelation?
Where someone gains knowledge of God in a secondary, non-direct way
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What is the Grace of God?
God’s unconditional and undeserved gifts
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What is Wisdom Literature?
A genre of writing from the ancient world, teaching about wisdom and virtue. In the Bible, books such as Proverbs and Job are classified as wisdom literature.
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What is meant by the term ‘son of God’?
a term for Jesus that emphasises he is God incarnate, one of the three persons of the trinity
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What does Liberator mean?
a general term for someone who frees a people or group
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What does Rabbi mean?
a Jewish teacher, often associated with having followers
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What does Hypostatic Union mean?
the belief that Christ is both fully God and fully human, indivisible, two natures untied in one person
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What does Homoousios mean?
of the same substance or of the same being
P of Jesus- what does word mean?
from the Greek logos, another name for the second person of the Trinity, used at the beginning of Johns Gospel to describe the incarnation which existed from the beginning, of one substance with and equal to God the father.
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What does redemption mean?
the action of saving or being saved from sin, error or evil
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What does incarnation mean?
God born as a human being, in Jesus Christ
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What does Zealot mean?
a member of the Jewish political/military movement that fought against Rome in the first century AD
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What does Messiah mean?
in Christianity, the word is associated with Jesus Christ, who is believed to be the Son of God and the Saviour. In Judaism, the word is associated with individuals who rose up against oppression, the people of Israel.
Augustine’s human nature- What is will?
The aprt of human nature that makes free choices
Augustine’s human nature- What is sin?
Disobeying the will and commands of God
Augustine’s human nature- What is grace?
In theological terms, God’s free and undeserved love for humanity, epitomised in the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross.
Augustine’s human nature- What is The Fall?
The biblical event in which Adam and Eve disobeyed God’s command and ate the fruit from the forbidden tree in the Garden of Eden; also used to refer to the imperfect state of humanity
Augustine’s human nature- What is Neoplatonism?
Philosophical thinking arising from the ideas of Plato
Augustine’s human nature- What is the Redeemed?
In theological terms, ‘saved’ from sin by the sacrifice of Christ
Augustine’s human nautre- What is Concordia?
Human friendship
Augustine’s human nature- What is Cupidtas?
‘Selfish love’, a love of worldly things and selfish desires
Augusitne’s human nature- What is Caritas?
‘Generous love’, a love of others and of the virtues; the latin equivalent of the Greek word ‘agape’.
Agustine’s human nature- What is concupiscence?
Uncontrollable desire for physical pleasures and mateiral things
Agustine’s human nature- What is Ecclesia?
Heavenly society, in contrast with earthly society
Augustine’s human nature- What is the Summum bonum?
The highest, most supreme good
Death and the afterlife- What is the disembodied existence?
Existing without a physical body
Death and the afterlife- What is resurrection?
Living on after death in a glorified physical form in a new realm
Death and the afterlife- What is the Beatific Vision?
A face-to-face encounter with God
Death and the afterlife- What is purgatory?
A place where people go, temporarily, after death to be cleansed of sin before they are fit to live with God.
Death and the afterlife- What is election?
Theologically, it is predestination, chosen by God for heaven or hell.
Death and the afterlife- What is limited election?
The view that God chooses only a small number of people for heaven.
Death and the afterlife- What is Original Sin?
A state of wrongdoing in which people are born (according to some Christians) because of the sin of Adam and Eve.
Death and the afterlife- What is unlimited election?
The view that all people are called to salvation but only a few will be saved
Death and the afterlife- What is Universalism?
The view that all people will be saved.
Death and the afterlife- What is a parable?
A story told to highlight a moral message
Death and the afterlife- What is Particular Judgement?
Judgement for each person at the point of death
Death and the afterlife- What is Parousia?
Used in Christianity, to refer to the Second Coming of Christ
CMP- What is the Bible/Scripture?
The collection or canon of books in the Bible which containthe revelation of God
CMP- What is Church tradition?
The traditions of how Christian life in community works, in worship, practical moral life and prayer, and the teaching and reflection of the Chruch handed down across time.
CMP- What is Sacred tradition?
The idea that the revelation of Jesus Christ is communicated in two ways. In addition to Scripture, it is communicated through the apostolic and authoritative teaching of the Church councils and the Pope.
CMP- What is Agape love?
Unconditional love, the only ethical norm in situationism
CMA- What is discipleship?
Following the life, example and teaching of Jesus
CMA- What is Cheap Grace?
Grace that is offered freely, but is recieved without any change in the recipient, and ultimately is false as it does not save
CMA- What is Costly Grace?
Grace followed by obedience to God’s command and discipleship
CMA- What is passion?
Jesus’ sufferings at the end of his life
CMA- What is solidarity?
An altruistic commitment to stand alongside and be with those less fortunate, the opressed, those who suffer.
