SAC 1 PREP - RE

Question 1

What is religion? (5 marks)

Answer 1

• organised around beliefs related to the UR
• one god, many gods, spirits, totem, magic, or no god but establishes the types of spirituality
• achieve social cohesion and form identity
• capacity to provide answers to life’s ‘big questions’
• ## reinforce common values and provide support for social standard or behavior of greater community.

Question 2

What is the relationship between Religion and Society? What type of relationship is it? (6 marks)

Answer 2

dynamic relationship
- change overtime across diff cultures and historical contextx
- religion provide ethical principles and moral teachings by promoting act of justice in society
- initiate social changes (strong foundation, shape attitudes)
- religious differences

Question 3

what is the role of religion in society?

Answer 3

1. Through providing ethical principles and moral teachings to support and promote justice in society
2. By defining and protecting the sacred

Question 4

9 aspects

What are Beliefs?

Answer 4

Beliefs are articles of faith about or related to the Ultimate Reality that is accepted by adherents to be true.

eg. Jesus as son of god, Holy trinity, afterlife, resurrection

Question 5

9 aspects

What are ethics?

Answer 5

ideals from which comes all morality including what adherents ‘ought’ to do and compiled into a specific advice or lists of qualities, values or lows.

eg. 10 commandments, CST

Question 6

9 aspects

What are rituals?

Answer 6

religious ceremonies that consist of a series of actions or words that are performed according to a set order.

eg. prayer, baptism, mass

Question 7

9 aspects

What are texts?

Answer 7

compilations of oral and written literature, written with divine authority in the essential beliefs and history of the religious tradition are recorded.

eg. The bible,CCC, non sacred texts

Question 8

9 aspects

What are symbols?

Answer 8

important images or objects that publicly display or help to explain a religious truth. Coveying meaning beyond the obvious.

eg. cross/crucifix, dove

Question 9

What are sacred stories?

Answer 9

stories, such as the lives of past heroes, parables, and folk tales that convey a moral or religious truth.

eg. birth and death of Chris, Gospel stories

Question 10

What is social structure?

Answer 10

the human organisation of a religious tradition to which society should conform, comprising of official and unofficial authority structures, social
justice and outreach programs.

eg. Pope, roles within church (priests, lay people, deacons, archbishop,

Question 11

What are Spaces, Places, Times, Artifacts

Answer 11

the organisation and physical presence of a religious tradition, comprimised of places of worship, calendars of important events and objects of holy significance from the past.

Spaces - Church/Alters, Tab

Places - Vatican/Rome, Jerusalem, Galilee,

Question 12

What is spiritual experience?

Answer 12

a personal encounter with the divine or sacred, most often through prayer, meditation or reflection

eg. Praying, Baptism, Pilgrimages

Question 13

What type of relationship does religion and society have?

Answer 13

A dynamic relationship

Question 14

what is the nature of religion?

5 points

Answer 14

• a set of beliefs or practises acknowleding the presence of the ultimate reality.
• one god, many gods, spirits, totems, magic or no god but establishes types of spirituality.
• achieve social cohesion forming a person’s identity
• answers to life’s big questions
• reinforce common values and provide support for social standard/behaviour of community.

Question 15

What is the purpose of religion?

Answer 15

1. Helps followers make sense of existence
2. Provide answers to existential questions
3. Develop a relationship with a God or many gods
4. Source of social cohesion

Question 16

Explain JEXIII

Answer 16

• Promote justice and ethics which is a part of the moral codes of behaviour, values as a source of social cohesion
• to help people make sense of their existence by offering answers to existential questions that is helpful to adherents
• Adherent’s identity as a community/individual which can be interowven into a culture and form ethnic identity by rites of passages and rituals
• influencies diff societies across time and culture which intiated and supported social change
• inspo for individuals to change direction of their lives

Question 17

What is the nature of religious belief?

Answer 17

Religious beliefs arise from people’s engagement with life and their testing of insights and understandings passed down through generations. These beliefs help shape the traditions worldview and are the fundamental beliefs of the tradition.

Question 18

What is the purpose of religious belief in search for meaning?

give example

Answer 18

• help to shape a worldview
• Provide answers to questions of meaning and purpose
• Help answer the “how” and “why” of life’s mysteries…
• Give answers to life’s existential questions

Question 19

What is the ultimate reality in general?

give example

Answer 19

• A term that denotes the underlying cause of all existence, the foundation of reality, supreme being or even an idle state of existence
• Refers to God as the principal or sole deity in many religions and other belief systems that worship one God or Divine principle.
• For Catholics, Ultimate Reality refers to the Abrahamic God

Question 20

What is the ultimate reality in Roman catholic tradition?

Answer 20

Abrahamic God
- One God who is Triune (three person in one)
- Creator
- Transcendent
- just and merciful
- divine mystery

Omnipotent (all powerful)
Omnipresent (all present)
Omniscient (all knowing)

Question 21

What is the nature of human life in general?

Answer 21

• both good and evil, infinite (soul, divine spark) and finite: free and predestined, sharing divinity, or creative or destructive.
• human existence to purposeful creation

eg. enuma elish

Question 22

What is the nature of human life in Roman catholic tradition?

Answer 22

• Humans are created in the image and likeness of God (imago dei, Genesis 1:27)
• creative
• fragile by nature (ability to studder/die - as christ did)
• to be like God - goodness, compassion, justice

Question 23

What is the purpose of human life in general?

list three

Answer 23

procreation, acting responsibly, being compassionate, attaining salvation, removing attachments to this life and accepting inevitable suffering, submitting to service or various combinations.

Question 24

What is the purpose of human life in the Roman Catholic Tradition?

Answer 24

• co-create, procreate
• act kind, with love (bring KOG on Earth)
• act as Jesus would
• charitable
• have life and have it more abundantly

“Good news of Jesus Christ”
“Love thy neighbour”

Question 25

What is the meaning of suffering?

Answer 25

• Book of Genesis: suffering was NOT a part of God’s initial creation
• sin is a cause of suffering → forgiven in Christianity
• redemptive suffering: part of the mystery of God
• suffering can be seen as a test of faith
• connect to jesus through his sacrifice
• time to reflect
• chance to grow

Question 26

What is the Death and Afterlife in the Roman Catholic Tradition?

Answer 26

meaning can be found in life and in suffering but also in death.
1. Death is not the end (our souls encounter God)
2. Death is a mystery (life after death - Nicene Creed)
3. Death has meaning (restore relationship between God and Humanity)
4. Death is not without hope (Christians have died with him, live with him)

“life is changed, mot ended”

Question 27

What is the relationship between UR + Humanity?

Answer 27

COVENANT
- The covenant forms a binding relationship between God and God’s people
- emphasis on salvation history
- exploration of relationship between God and humankind throughout Juideo-Christian narrative

Question 28

What is the relationship between humans?

Answer 28

KINGDOM OF GOD
- through the actions of the Church, lead by the Pope, that the Kingdom of God becomes a current reality here on earth.
- The coming of the Kingdom depends on the activity of the Church
- Jesus delivered us from sin (rather than oppressors/invading nations) to the promise of eternal life in the Kingdom of God (rather than a political kingdom).

Question 29

What is the relationship between humans and the natural world?

Answer 29

STEWARDSHIP AND PROCREATION
- Christians are called to act as stewards of creation
- less emphasis on “subdue the earth” and more on stewardship (take care) which cares and respects all creatures.
- relationship of Kinship exists among all of God’s creatures

Question 30

What is the role of God as creator?

Answer 30

god created the universe and holds it in existence

• classical Christian understanding = God ‘creates’ the universe in every moment of its existence

Question 31

What is the connection between these beliefs?

Answer 31

• God created the universe and holds it in existence
• God delights in all creatures of the earth → created things are sacred and should be revered
• find God in all things and seek God in all things because of his immanence

Question 32

What is the positive impact of religion in society?

Answer 32

shape people’s worldview and guidleines for morality (10 commandments)

Question 33

What is the negative impact of religion in society?

Answer 33

creating a superiority complex and can engage in violence, war and bombing saying it is the will of god

Question 34

What is the positive impact of society on religion?

Answer 34

provide space and time for religious devotion and help religion stay modern.

Question 35

What is the negative impact of society on religion?

Answer 35

use of media and news by attacking religious beliefs/practises. Stereotypes, discrimination and racism against religion