Religion Exam Review Flashcards
The interdependence of societies throughout the world because of development in in business, communication, science and ethics.
Globalization
Secular
Of this world, not religious or sacred.
The attitude of accepting reason as the supreme authority in matters of opinion, belief, and conduct.
Rationalism
Based on on experiment and observation opposed to revelation of religion.
Empirical
From the ancient Greek word “Not to know”. A person who believes that God may exist, but that human cannot know with any certainty.
Agnostic
Opposite of Agnostic, also from the ancient Greek word meaning “No God”. A person who does not believe in God or any other higher power or reality.
Atheist
A belief or practice that is contrary to doctrine.
Heresy
A form of religion in which groups or subgroups with a strict interpretation of religious scripture hold those beliefs as absolute authority.
Fundamentalism
A philosophy or worldview that upholds the importance of life, reason, justice, and ethics, and affirms human dignity.
Humanism
4 Classifications of Religion today are…
- Organized Religion
- Religious Movements, sects and cults
- State Religion
- Folk Religion
Leader of the People’s Temple
Jim Jones
Community in Guyana that People’s Temple created
Jonestown
Person created in the image and likeness of God
Human
All human beings (Men, women, children, and although not legally, the unborn)
Person
The science that studies the origin, development, and customs of human beings
Anthropology
Freedom
The power rooted in reason and will to act
Creation
An exchange in goodness
The product of human activity. It includes social development, beliefs, and practices of human beings
Culture
The official compendium of the catholic teaching
Catechism of the Catholic Church
A group of people bound together by a sense of unity
Community
To be brought together
Communion
Solidarity
Unity
Holy Trinity
Father, Son, Holy Spirit
Vocation
Our calling to be transformed into the image of God
Gifts that enrich your identity and help you with your vocation
Talents
Official pastoral letters written by the pope for the people
Encyclical
Genuine sorrow, you have turned away from sin and promise not to sin again
Contrition
A change in the whole person
Conversion
Reconciliation
Healing of a relationship
Penance
turning back to God
The result of being “connected” with God, the source of all that is good
Goodness
A breach of the relationship that god established with creation. It brings disorder into creation. Although we are created to be good we also have free will which allows us to choose evil.
Sin
Objects or gestures that represent more than one specific message or meaning. Means thrown together
Symbol
Church’s official act of worship
Liturgy