rs revision - from summary booklet

Question 1

describe liturgical worship

Answer 1

-formal worship led by a priest
-catholic / Anglican / orthodox

Question 2

describe non liturgical worship

Answer 2

-less formal worship
-Quaker / Methodist / baptist

Question 3

describe charismatic worship

Answer 3

-emphasis on experiencing Holy Spirit
-Pentecostal

Question 4

describe the different types of prayer

Answer 4

-adoration
-confession
-supplication (asking god for help)
-thanksgiving
-grace
-praying in spirit (glossalia)
-meditational prayer

Question 5

what is the period leading up to Easter known as?

Answer 5

lent

Question 6

when do orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas?

Answer 6

7 January

Question 7

describe lent

Answer 7

the 40 days before Easter - Christians might give something up to represent Jesus being tempted in the desert

Question 8

describe the sacraments

Answer 8

(catholic)
-baptism
-Eucharist
-confirmation
-confession
-marriage
-holy orders (monks and nuns(

Question 9

name and explain an example of pilgrimage

Answer 9

Lourdes - in France a girl saw a vision of the Virgin Mary - now people believe it is a healing spring

Question 10

describe Holy Week

Answer 10

-Palm Sunday (Jesus enters Jerusalem on a donkey)
-Monday - Jesus turns over tables in the temple
-Maundy Thursday - last supper - Jesus betrayed and arrested
-Good Friday - jesus’s trial on pontius Pilate and crucifixion
-Easter Sunday - resurrection

Question 11

what is ecumenicalism and name an example

Answer 11

-a place aiming to bring Christians together
-taize in france

Question 12

what is the main writing depicting the trinity?

Answer 12

the nicene creed

Question 13

who doesn’t believe in the trinity?

Answer 13

Jehovah’s witnesses

Question 14

describe some Christian responses to the problem of evil

Answer 14

-evil is because of free will
-soul making
-evil = test of faith
-because of the devil

Question 15

name the 4 religious experiences

Answer 15

-conversions (cat stevens)
-mystical experiences
-visions (Mary seen at Lourdes)
-charismatic experiences

Question 16

describe violent attitudes in the bible

Answer 16

-cain killing Abel
-‘thou shalt not kill’
-violence justified in the context of defensive war (‘prepare for war!’)
-violence is never justified
(‘turn the other cheek’)

Question 17

describe religion and politics

Answer 17

-authorities are appointed by god so should be obeyed
-moral obligation to get involved in politics

Question 18

what is liberation theology?

Answer 18

god has the power to change unjust situations but people need to work to enact this change

Question 19

describe the creation story

Answer 19

-let there be light
-sky and sea
-vegetation on land
-sun and moon and stars
-birds and fish
-land animals and humans
-rest

Question 20

describe the irenaean theodicy

Answer 20

soul making - good and evil exist so that humans express free will and learn what is hood

Question 21

describe the Augustinian theodicy

Answer 21

god didn’t create evil - it entered the world during the fall

Question 22

what is eschatology?

Answer 22

the study of heaven and hell

Question 23

name the 6 main Sunni beliefs

Answer 23

-tawhid
-prophethood
-angels
-books
-akhirah- life is at rest
-predestination

Question 24

name the 5 Shi’a roots

Answer 24

-tawhid
-divine justice
-prophethood
-imams
-day of resurrection

Question 25

what is the Sunna?

Answer 25

the example of Muhammad written down

Question 26

what is the Hadith?

Answer 26

the sayings of Muhammad written down

Question 27

describe Shi’a views on divine justice

Answer 27

predestination cannot exist if free will exists

Question 28

describe sunni divine justice

Answer 28

there is no objective right or wrong - what allah does is always right - belief in predestination