| A | B |
|---|
| Agnosticism | not being sure if God exists |
| Atheism | Belief that God does not exist |
| Benevolent | Belief that God is good |
| Causation | the idea that everything has been caused (started off) |
| Design | when things are connected, have a purpose, planned |
| Miracle | something which seems to break a law of science and for which God seems the only explanation |
| Moral evil | actions done by humans that cause suffering |
| Natural evil | things which cause sufferingbut are not linked to human action , earthquakes |
| numinous | the feeling of the presence of somethig greater than yourself, God. |
| omnipotent | Belief that God is all powerful |
| omniscient | The belief that god is all knowing |
| prayer | an attempt to communicate with God |
| catholic upbringing | Lining in a catholic family,school and church |
| Paleys watch | The argument that the world has been designed by God |
| problem suffering | If God is good, all powerful and all knowingwhy is there suffering in the world? |
| petition | a type of prayer, saying sorry asking forgiveness |
| intercession | praying for the needs of others |
| praise | praising God for what he is, not what he does |
| meditation | a form of prayer which tries to understand the nature of God through books, rosary etc |
| catechism | the book that contains the rules, teachings of the catholic church |
| Reason why people are theists | they look at the world and feel that it works in a way that looks designed, for example seasons. There must be a designer this is God |
| People believe in god because of the existence of religion | How can all these people who beleive in religion and god be wrong? |
| The ways a christian responds to suffering | prayer,service, the idea of free will, you can not understand GOds will |
| Reasons why people do not beleive in God | science can explain everything, or will br able to in the future |
| problems with miracles that cause people to become atheists | Why does God not help everyone |
| The reasons catholics beleive in miracles | Jesus performed miracles |
| Modern day miracle | In Dunkirk thousends of troops were trapped but after prayers for calm weather they escaped |
| evangelical council | the vows taken by memebrs of a religious order |
| chastity | vow not to have a family |
| obedience | vow based on Jesus example in the garden of Gethsemane |
| poverty | vow that helps people in a religious order focus on the people that they are helping and understand their needs |
| vocation | calling by God to a specific way of life, job, task |
| Disciple | learner |
| contemplative order | religious order that focuses on prayer and meditation |
| rule | written plan of life for a member of a religious order |
| Example of an active religious community | missionaries of charity |
| Mother Teresa opened these to help | schools for slum children |
| Benedictine monastery today | Abbey of Ampleforth |
| Orare est labore;labore est orare | motto of the Benedictine monks |
| Parable of the good samaritan | Inspired mother Teresa to help eveyone, regardless of their religion |
| Parable of the sheep and goats | Jesus places his self in the place of the poorest in the world in this parable |
| Rosary beads | the way the sisters pray in the streets |
| A religious community who teach | the Benedictine monks |
| List of work Beenedictine monks do | farming, craftwork, retreat, counselling |
| Hermit | a person who wanted to dedicate their life to the faith fully so moved to live in desert |
| Rich Young man | This teaching if Jesus underpins the vow of poverty |
| Corrymeela community | Religious order who work for peace in Ireland |
| abortion | the removal of the foetus from the womens womb before it can survive |
| assisted suicide | providing a seriously ill person with means to commit suicide |
| contraception | preventing conception from occurring |
| conception | the fertisation of the egg by the sperm |
| foetus | bundle of cells |
| euthanasia | an easy and gentle death |
| Heaven | Being with God |
| Hell | Being without God |
| Immortality of the Soul | the idea that thesoul lives on after the death of the body |
| Non-voluntary euthanasia | ending someones life when they are unable to ask, eg switching off a life support machine |
| Paranormal | unexplained things which are thought o have spiritual causes, eg ghosts |
| Purgatory | a place where Catholics beleive souls go after death to be purified |
| Resurrection | the beleif that after death, the body stays in the grave unitl the end of the world when it is raised |
| Sanctity of Life | the belief that life is Holy and belongs to God |
| Voluntary Euthanasia | A patient asks the doctor to end his/her life painlessly |
| catechism | teachings of the Roman Catholc church |
| Vigil | Keeping watch over the dead body |
| discrimination | putting prejudice into actionand treating people diffierently because of their race, gneder, colour class |
| equality | the state of everyone having equal rights regardless of race, gender, colour, class |
| mutli-ethnic society | many different races and cultures living together as one society |
| prejudice | believing some people are inferior or superior without even knowing them |
| Racial harmony | different races, colours living happily together |
| Racism | the beleif that some races are superior to others |
| religious freedom | accepting all religions have an equal right ti co-exist |
| religious pluralism | when a society gives members of any religion the freedom and right to worship |
| sexism | discriminating against people because of their gender |
