Religion Unit 1 Review - Christ and Culture

Human

A creation of God that is a mix of divine breath and Earth, having the nature or form of a person; soil

Anthropology

Science that studies the origin, development and customs of human beings.

Physical -> evolution and classification
Cultural -> social development/practices/beliefs

e.g. What is a human being? How are we different?
Where did we come from/evolve from?
How do we think/feel/communicate/celebrate/fashion objects/reshape the world?
How do we order our lives with others?
How do we deal with the unknown?

Answered through fossils and artefacts, observation of humans through varied cultural groups.

Science does a very good job of exploring the basic structure of things and how they work.

Person

in law; someone who is deserving of and entitled to rights and privileges

How Christians use science to understand humans

Christians use science to understand humans in order to reflect the sacred nature of ourselves with God; humans being a mix of earth and divine breath.

The Yahwist

the author of Genesis, lived a millennium before Christ.
called the Yahwist for the name he used for the Lord God
wrote an account of how God created the first human beings and their interactions with God

Genesis 2.4b-24

Humans are a creation of God
Humans are a mix of earth and divine breath
Humans are good
Humans are male and female

Dignity of humans

persons created in the likeness of God
called to happiness and holiness
rational and free
moral beings
capable of passions and feelings
blessed with a conscience
able to sin

Shakespeare

This famous playwright compared humans to angels and Gods.

Persons Case: 1929

legal case regarding women being recognized as persons under law; 1929
“Famous Five” -> Judge Emily Murphy, Henrietta Edwards, Louise McKinney, Nellie McClung, Irene Parlby
Monument located in Ottawa on Parliament Hill

Community

a group of persons bound together by a sense of unity that goes beyond each one of them.

Communion

the trust that comes from the intuitive knowledge that we are safe in the hands of another and we can be safe in the hands of another.

solidarity

strength and fortitude together as one

Trinity

the divine community of persons

Encyclical

official Pastoral letters written by the Pope for all the people of God

social beings, relationships, fulfilling

God created us as ___________________. God planted within us the desire for ______________ that are _________________.

Power of touch and connectedness

babies born prematurely were more likely to thrive if they had more skin-to-skin contact with their parents
sense of security/engages them with human world, begins back and forth communication process.

Jean Vanier

Son of a former Governor General that created homes for people living with intellectual disabilities: L’Arche. Hundreds of these homes now exist.

All humans are sacred
World and individual lives are in the process of evolving
Maturity comes through cooperation, belonging and searching
Human beings must be encouraged to make choices and be responsible for their own lives
In order to make such choices, we need to reflect to seek truth and meaning. To be human means to remain connected to our humanness and to reality.

Goodness

the result of being connected with God, as branches to a vine. God is the source of all that is good.

Sin

The breach of the relationship that God established with creation. To bring a fault or disorder into creation, maiming the work of God.

Disorder

something without order, something that disrupts God’s plan for humans and earth.

good coming from God

Humans, by their name and vocation, are directed toward the ____________________________________.

The Divine Revelation (the Bible)

Tells us that we come from God and are created for eternal life with God. Science and God can coexist together.

Image and likeness

God created human beings in his

nothing can separate them from God’s love

Jamie and Katrina’s son died in a tornado. They learned from reading St. Paul’s letter that...

faults and disorder

Sin brings _____________________ into creation.

knowledge and God-like power; strangers

The story of Adam and Eve explains how sin came into the world. The serpent promised them that if they ate the fruit from the tree of knowledge, they would have __________________. Adam and Eve’s eyes were opened but they did not receive ________________. They suddenly became _____________, see that they are naked and become _______________ before God.