Religion semester 1 exam 2016

Question 1

Religious Rituals

Answer 1

They use symbolics actions, gestures and words to express and promote what is important about faith.

Example: The sacraments
Baptism
Example: Praying, Eucharist, Genuflect

Question 2

Religious signs and symbols

Answer 2

important to understand what occurs in religious rituals, practices, celebrations and events.

Is used to convey meaning about religious beliefs

Example: The Crucifix

Question 3

Religious practice

Answer 3

recognised ways of doing something religious.
and it can be a style of worship or praying

Examples: Church, Mass on Sunday, saying grace before eating food

Question 4

Religious Teaching

Answer 4

that guide and inform how people respond to religious beliefs

Example: The creation stories
Example: The ten commandments - thou shalt not kill
Example: Jesus 2 commandments

Question 5

Religious Beliefs

Answer 5

convictions about ideas central to religion that expresses a religious truth

Example: The Holy Trinity (God, Jesus, Holy spirit)
Example: Jesus was born of the Virgin Mary
Example: Jesus rose again

Question 6

Questions people ask

Answer 6

why did they have to die
what is our purpose in life
what is the purpose in marriage

Question 7

How people search for meaning

Answer 7

Experiences of creation
Experience of personal mystery

Most significant of all human experiences

Potential to lead a person to question who they are and why they are here. They are deep;y personal and needs to be expressed, is expressible in words alone, can never be understood fully.

Question 8

Questions of the human heart

Answer 8

People have been created to relate to their creator

Question 9

How they find answers to human heart questions

Answer 9

Found through their connection with God

Question 10

Examples of people who have human heart questions

Answer 10

Victor Frankl
Tori Jackson
Michael Clarke

Question 11

2 examples of denominations

Answer 11

Roman Catholic

Protestant

Question 12

Examples leading to the Great Schism

Answer 12

Began to break from the 9th century as the Latin and Greek churches who were already distant grew further apart because of political, cultural, economic and social factors
Became permanent in July 1054

Question 13

Evangelical

Answer 13

Litteral biblical interpretation
Fewer formalised practices
Personal relationship and connection with God
Lessons are drawn directly from the bible

Question 14

Roman Catholic

Answer 14

More metaphorical bible interpretation
Very formalised/ritualistic
Connect with God is facilitated through the church and it’s practices
Lessons drawn from the bible but filtered through church teachings

Question 15

Viktor Frankl

Answer 15

Australian phychiatrist and holocaust survivor.
Best-know for his 1946 book ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’

Watching his friends die, and his family caused him to think about love and his emotions and these linked together created his thoughts for his meaning in life.

Question 16

Secularism

Answer 16

promotes freedom from religion and teachings

Question 17

Atheism

Answer 17

where people do not believe there is a God or live as though there is no God

Question 18

Agnosticism

Answer 18

where people are uncertain about the existence of God, or people’s ability to know if God exists

Question 19

Humanism

Answer 19

based on the understanding that the world itself and human beings reveal all. Human reason is the foundation for every situation and action in the world

Question 20

Creeds

Answer 20

profession of faith, something that lists the beliefs of a group of people.

Are used at baptism, a creed is also recited at most masses around the world.

They are important statements of belief

Question 21

Apostles creed

Answer 21

is from the first apostles and talks of God, Jesus and Basic beliefs. is about what the first christian taught and believed

Question 22

Nicene creed

Answer 22

commonly used in most catholic churches

emphasis the holy trinity in 3 parts and elaborates on simple statements and heresies and is more detailed than the apostles creed.

Question 23

Revelation

Answer 23

is the continuing and dynamic in which God personally communicates with us. When he reveals himself to us

Example: When God made himself known to people when he came out to Abraham and his decedents

Question 24

Where God reaches out through revelation

Answer 24

It is when God reaches out or speaks or guides us through things like the bible, religious signs and symbols, rituals and sacraments . He can also reach out through creation.

Examples: Bible in the OLD TESTAMENT - the creation stories, the covenant etc.

The climax of Gods self-revelation was the life, death and resurrection of Jesus.

Question 25

Denomination / division in the church

Answer 25

range of different groupings. These groupings can be a result of different priorities, interpretations of belief, different approaches to leadership, history, culture or practices.

Question 26

Religion

Answer 26

a gathering of people who share common beliefs about their experiences of God or Gods

Question 27

Disputes in the church

Answer 27

solved through discussion and prayer and they sought guidance from Jesus and the holy spirit

Question 28

Catechism

Answer 28

A summary of beliefs and teachings of Christian religion in the form of questions and answers used for religious instruction

Question 29

Ecumenism

Answer 29

the principle or aim of promoting unity among the world’s Christian Churches.