Everything you'll need for the exam- from all the key religions and their beliefs, to issues in today's world and how these tie up with religion. Religious sources of authority are also referenced for use in essay questions!
,Believing In God
Numinous – The feeling of the presence of something greater than you
Conversion – When your life is changed by giving it to God.
Miracle – Something, which seems to break the law of science and makes you
think only God, could have done it.
Prayer – To communicate with God.
Design – Evidence for Gods existence in the design of the world.
Causation – When things are started and seem to have a purpose.
Agnosticism – Not being sure of whether God exists.
Atheism – Believing God does not exist.
Moral Evil – Actions done by humans that cause suffering for example murder.
Natural evil – Things that cause suffering but have nothing to do with humans for
example earthquakes.
Omnipotent – The belief that God is all-powerful.
Benevolent – The belief that God is good/kind.
Omniscient – The belief that God knows everything that has happened and
everything that will happen.
Theodicy – A way of explaining why there is suffering made in a world by a good
all-powerful God.
Matters of Life and Death
Resurrection – After death nothing happens until a time in the future when the
dead will be brought back to life and be given an immortal body.
Immortality of the soul – The belief that humans have a body and soul, which
survives death, and after death enters a spiritual state where God is.
Purgatory – A place where Catholics believe souls go to be made clean of sin.
Heaven – A place of paradise where God rules.
Hell – A place of horrors where the devil rules.
Paranormal – Something strange that cannot be explained for example ghosts.
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, Sanctity of life – Believing that life is special and made by God.
Abortion – The removal of the foetus from the womb before it can survive.
Euthanasia – An easy and gentle death.
Assisted suicide – Providing a seriously ill person with the means to die.
Voluntary euthanasia - The situation where someone is dying in pain asks a
doctor to end his/her life painlessly.
Non-voluntary euthanasia – Ending someone’s life painlessly when they are
unable to ask, but you have a good reason for thinking that they want to.
Contraception – Preventing conception from occurring.
Marriage and the Family
Cohabitation – Living together without being married as if you are married.
Marriage – When a man and a woman are legally united.
Faithfulness - Only having sex with the person you are married to.
Pre marital sex – Sex before marriage.
Promiscuity – Having sex with a number of partners without commitment.
Adultery – An act of sexual intercourse between a married person and someone
they are not married to.
Annulment –The church saying the marriage never happened. One or both of the
couple did not mean their vows.
Re marriage – Marrying again after being divorced from a pervious marriage.
Nuclear family – Mother, father and children living together as a family.
Extended family – Children, parents, and grandparents/aunts/uncles living as a
family.
Re constituted family – Where two sets of children (step brothers and sisters)
become one family when their divorced parents marry each other.
Homosexuality – Sexual attraction to the same sex.
Social Harmony
Equality – Everyone having equal rights regardless of gender/class/race.
Sexism – Discriminating against people because of their gender (being male or
female.)
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