Year 10: religion&society Flashcards
Decalogue
The Ten Commandments
The church
The community of Christians (with a small c, it means a Christians place of worship)
Conscience
An inner feeling of the rightness and wrongness of an action
Situation ethics
The idea that Christians should base moral decisions on what is the most loving thing to do.
Human rights
The rights and freedoms to which everyone is entitled.
Democratic processes
The ways in which all citizens can take part in the government
Electoral processes
The ways in which voting is organised
Political party
A group which tries to be elected into power on its polices.
Pressure group
A group formed to influence government policy on a particular issue.
Golden rule
The teaching of Jesus that you should treat others as you would like them to treat you.
Social change
The way in which society has changed and is changing (and also the possibilities for future change).
Global warming
The increase in the temperature of the earths atmosphere (thought to be caused by the greenhouse effect)
Natural resource
Naturally occurring materials, such as oil and fertile land, which can be used by humans.
Conservation
Protecting and preserving natural resources and the environment.
Creation
The act of creating the universe, or the universe which has been created.
Environment
The surroundings in which plants and animals live and on which they depend to live.
Stewardship
Looking after something so it can can be passed on to the next generation
Artificial insemination
Injecting semen into the uterus by artificial means.
Embryo
A fertilised egg in the first eight weeks after conception.
Infertility
Not being able to have children.
IVF
The method of fertilising a human egg in a test tube.
Surrogacy
An arrangement whereby a women bears a child on behalf of another women or when an egg is fertilised by the man through IVF and then implanted into m the women’s uterus.
Organ donation
Giving organs to be used in transplant surgery.
Bible
The holy book of Christians
