SAC 1 PREP - RE Flashcards
What is religion? (5 marks)
- 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.
What is the relationship between Religion and Society? What type of relationship is it? (6 marks)
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
what is the role of religion in society?
- Through providing ethical principles and moral teachings to support and promote justice in society
- By defining and protecting the sacred
9 aspects
What are Beliefs?
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
9 aspects
What are ethics?
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
9 aspects
What are rituals?
religious ceremonies that consist of a series of actions or words that are performed according to a set order.
eg. prayer, baptism, mass
9 aspects
What are texts?
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
9 aspects
What are symbols?
important images or objects that publicly display or help to explain a religious truth. Coveying meaning beyond the obvious.
eg. cross/crucifix, dove
What are sacred stories?
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
What is social structure?
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,
What are Spaces, Places, Times, Artifacts
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,
What is spiritual experience?
a personal encounter with the divine or sacred, most often through prayer, meditation or reflection
eg. Praying, Baptism, Pilgrimages
What type of relationship does religion and society have?
A dynamic relationship
what is the nature of religion?
5 points
- 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.
What is the purpose of religion?
- Helps followers make sense of existence
- Provide answers to existential questions
- Develop a relationship with a God or many gods
- Source of social cohesion
Explain JEXIII
- 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
What is the nature of religious belief?
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.
What is the purpose of religious belief in search for meaning?
give example
- 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
What is the ultimate reality in general?
give example
- 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
What is the ultimate reality in Roman catholic tradition?
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)
What is the nature of human life in general?
- 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
What is the nature of human life in Roman catholic tradition?
- 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
What is the purpose of human life in general?
list three
procreation, acting responsibly, being compassionate, attaining salvation, removing attachments to this life and accepting inevitable suffering, submitting to service or various combinations.
What is the purpose of human life in the Roman Catholic Tradition?
- 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”
