Mod 2- Basic ideas

Question 1

What is a religious belief

Answer 1

is a conviction about an idea central to a religion + expresses a religious truth. They offer particular insights + understandings about life

Question 2

Belief

Answer 2

state of mind in which a person thinks something to be the case, with or without being empirical evidence to prove that something is the case with factual certainity

Question 3

Creed

Answer 3

a profession of faith, something that lists the belief of a group of people

Question 4

The Apostles’ Creed

Answer 4

-Based on the teachings of the first Apostles
-Faithful summary of the apostles’ faith
- Ancient baptismal symbol of the church of Rome
-reps ‘common faith’

Question 5

Nicene Creed

Answer 5

-325AD, emperor Constantine called council of Nicaea
-Aimed to define essential Christian beliefs + statement of these beliefs -> Nicene Creed
-Emphasis importance of the Trinity
-Calls church of believers, 4 qualities: One, Holy, catholic, apostolic
-Not change Apostles’ Creed, but goes in greater detail