Religion semester 1 exam 2016 Flashcards
Religious Rituals
They use symbolics actions, gestures and words to express and promote what is important about faith.
Example: The sacraments
Baptism
Example: Praying, Eucharist, Genuflect
Religious signs and symbols
important to understand what occurs in religious rituals, practices, celebrations and events.
Is used to convey meaning about religious beliefs
Example: The Crucifix
Religious practice
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
Religious Teaching
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
Religious Beliefs
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
Questions people ask
why did they have to die
what is our purpose in life
what is the purpose in marriage
How people search for meaning
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.
Questions of the human heart
People have been created to relate to their creator
How they find answers to human heart questions
Found through their connection with God
Examples of people who have human heart questions
Victor Frankl
Tori Jackson
Michael Clarke
2 examples of denominations
Roman Catholic
Protestant
Examples leading to the Great Schism
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
Evangelical
Litteral biblical interpretation
Fewer formalised practices
Personal relationship and connection with God
Lessons are drawn directly from the bible
Roman Catholic
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
Viktor Frankl
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.
Secularism
promotes freedom from religion and teachings
Atheism
where people do not believe there is a God or live as though there is no God
Agnosticism
where people are uncertain about the existence of God, or people’s ability to know if God exists
Humanism
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
Creeds
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
Apostles creed
is from the first apostles and talks of God, Jesus and Basic beliefs. is about what the first christian taught and believed
Nicene creed
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.
Revelation
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
Where God reaches out through revelation
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.
Denomination / division in the church
range of different groupings. These groupings can be a result of different priorities, interpretations of belief, different approaches to leadership, history, culture or practices.
Religion
a gathering of people who share common beliefs about their experiences of God or Gods
Disputes in the church
solved through discussion and prayer and they sought guidance from Jesus and the holy spirit
Catechism
A summary of beliefs and teachings of Christian religion in the form of questions and answers used for religious instruction
Ecumenism
the principle or aim of promoting unity among the world’s Christian Churches.
