First Set Of Key Words

Question 1

A priori

Answer 1

an argument or type of knowledge based on ideas before or without experience. Knowledge is known prior to experience.

Question 2

epistemology

Answer 2

the study of knowledge/ how we know things

Question 3

form of the good

Answer 3

the source of everything; the form of the forms

Question 4

reason

Answer 4

logical thought as the basis for knowledge, rather than experience or emotions

Question 5

the Republic

Answer 5

Plato’s socratic dialogue concerning justice, order and knowledge. Itncontains the analogy of the cave

Question 6

a posteriori

Answer 6

an argument or type of knowledge that is based on experience. Knowledge is arrived at after (or post) experience

Question 7

inductive reasoning

Answer 7

drawing individual conclusions from generalisations or one-off experiences/ the arrival at a general conclusion through particular experience or facts

Question 8

empiricism

Answer 8

a philosophical theory that all knowledge must be based on senses, experiences and empirical evidence

Question 9

motus

Answer 9

Greek: motion or chanbe

Question 10

telos

Answer 10

Greek: end, aim or purpose

Question 11

form of life

Answer 11

in Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language refers to the historical, sociological, moral and psychological conditions in which language operates and has meaning

Question 12

torah

Answer 12

refers to the Jewish body of law and teaching traditionally believed to have been given to Moses at mount sinai around 1250 BC

Question 13

sermon on the mount

Answer 13

found in Matthew 5-7 and is jesus’ longest discourse on ethics

Question 14

metanoia

Answer 14

the Greek word usually translated as repentance but it also means a radical change of mindset and heart

Question 15

parable of the lost son

Answer 15

one of the several parables Luke collects together in his gospel on the theme of “lost and found”

Question 16

zealots

Answer 16

a first century Jewish political group who wished to rid Palestine of Roman occupation,they often used violent means

Question 17

underside of history

Answer 17

the aspect of history that is forgotten or missed but in fact occupies the largest part of human existence, liberation theologians use it to refer to the marginalised, oppressed and exploited members of society

Question 18

preferential option for the poor

Answer 18

the Christian duty of the privileged to side with the poor in solidarity and act against exploitation and injustice

Question 19

Samaritans

Answer 19

a group of Jews living in Samaria who were regarded by Judean Jews to be racially and religiously impure because they had married foreigners and built their own temple

Question 20

theotokos

Answer 20

the Greek term translated variously as ‘god - bearer’ when referring to Mary, the mother of jesus, widely used today in the eastern churches

Question 21

council of chalcedon

Answer 21

a meeting held in 451 AD in the city of Chalcedon (in modern turkey). The purpose was to reaffirm the central Christian beliefs

Question 22

christology

Answer 22

the area of Christian theology concerned with the nature of Jesus Christ’s relationship God

Question 23

incarnation

Answer 23

Christian teaching that God became flesh through the person of Christ

Question 24

docetic

Answer 24

docetism is the view that although jesus may have appeared to be a full human being, this was only so that God could communicate with humans

Question 25

exegesis

Answer 25

the close analysis and interpretation of a text