Vocabulary - Religion/Philosophy Flashcards
Debunk = expose the falseness/hollowness of an idea
Puritanical = having or displaying a very strict or censorious moral attitude towards self-indulgence or sex, moralistic, strait-laced, stuffy, prudish
Vicarious = indirect, secondhand, by proxy, surrogate, substitute
Atonement = action of making amends for a wrong or injury
Zealot = a person who is fanatical and uncompromising in pursuit of their religious or political ideas, fanatic, extremist, radical, diehard
Patriarchal = denoting a system of society controlled by men
Rapture = the transporting to heaven of believers at the Second Coming of Christ
Impiety = godlessness, irreverence, unholiness
Precept - a general rule intended to regulate behaviour or thought
Tenet - a principle or belief, especially one of the main principles of a religion or philosophy
Creed - a system of religious belief; a faith
Hardwired = genetically determined
Metaphysics = the branch of philosophy that examines the nature of reality.
(Divine) retribution = punishment inflicted on someone as vengeance for wrong or criminal act
Moral imperialism
(To bestow) redemption = the action of saving or being saved from sin, error or evil
Absolution = formal release from guilt, obligation or punishment / ecclesiastical declaration that a person’s sins have been forgiven
Enslavement is the antonym of emancipation
Iconoclast - a person who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions
Providential - involving divine foresight or intervention, heaven-sent
Acolyte - an assistant or follower
Doctrine of purgatory - intermediate state between Heaven and Hell
Absolve - declare (someone) free from guilt, obligation, or punishment, exonerate, vindicate, acquit
Penance - punishment inflicted on oneself as an outward expression of repentance for wrongdoing.
Tract - a short treatise in pamphlet form, typically on a religious subject (Martin Luther)
Atonement - the action of making amends for a wrong or injury.
Ataraxia - state of serene calmness
Antithetical - directly opposed or contrasted; mutually incompatible. “people whose religious beliefs are antithetical to mine”
Existentialism - a philosophical theory or approach which emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will. While the predominant value of existentialist thought is commonly acknowledged to be freedom, its primary virtue is authenticity. Sartre defined it as ‘the attempt to draw all the consequences from a position of consistent atheism’.
Nihilism - a viewpoint that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is senseless and useless
Fatalism - the belief that all events are predetermined and therefore inevitable; a submissive attitude to events
Supernatural agency
Science flies you to the moon; religion flies you into buildings
