Philosophy Of Religion Unit 2 Key Words

Question 1

Allah

Answer 1

The god of Islam

Question 2

Anthropomorphic language

Answer 2

Description of god in ‘personal’ terms as though God has human qualities

Question 3

Brahma

Answer 3

Hindu deity responsible for creative power

Question 4

Brahman

Answer 4

The ultimate reality (god) from which everything comes and into which everything will return (Hinduism)

Question 5

Holy spirit

Answer 5

The third person of the holy trinity who is present to inspire Christians (also called the Holy ghost). The gift to believers of the early Church at pentecost. He indwells Christians today and guides and empowers them.

Question 6

Infinite/ Eternal

Answer 6

The idea that God is outside of time and is unbound by its constraints

Question 7

Immanent

Answer 7

The idea that God is involved in the world and everywhere. God is capable of being known as he is present in his creation.

Question 8

Knowable

Answer 8

Able to be known

Question 9

Monotheism

Answer 9

Belief in one god

Question 10

Omnibenevolent

Answer 10

The quality of being all good/loving

Question 11

Omnipotent

Answer 11

The quality of being all powerful. This quality is usually seen as being essential to the nature of God. There is nothing which is beyond God or impossible for him to do.

Question 12

Omnipresent

Answer 12

The quality of being everywhere in the world. Seen as an attribute of God.

Question 13

Omniscient

Answer 13

The quality of being all knowing. Quality seen as essential to the nature of God.

Question 14

Personal god

Answer 14

God is an individual or person with whom people are able to have a relationship or feel close to. If God Is personal, he is ‘knowable’.

Question 15

Polytheism

Answer 15

Belief in more than one god it can be used to refer to people who worship more than one God and is seen as the opposite of monotheistic

Question 16

Qur’an

Answer 16

Muslim holy book

Question 17

Shiva

Answer 17

Hindu deity. The destroyer part of the trimurti ( the 3 most important Hindu god).

Question 18

Transcendent

Answer 18

Comes from the latin prefix trans meaning beyond God is beyond and outside life is on Earth and the universe god is ‘unknowable’ and so cannot be described using anthropomorphic language

Question 19

Trinity

Answer 19

The belief that the three persons of father son and holy spirit are all all distinct but also one being

Question 20

Tawhid

Answer 20

Oneness of God in Islam

Question 21

Unknowable

Answer 21

Cannot be known or understood beyond the limit of our understanding

Question 22

Vishnu

Answer 22

A Hindu deity preserving order and harmony in the universe

Question 23

Incarnate

Answer 23

Chicken on human bodily form