Religious education Educas Paper 1

What is a non person human?

Peter singers belief that it is okay to kill humans that are non person humans. This means they are unable to think, feel, hope and choose. Including the severely disabled, newborn babies and unborn foetuses

What is transcendence?

The belief that God is outside of space and time

What is laudato si?

The pope wrote an encyclical about stewardship of creation telling us to care for the world, tackle global warming, change our way of life and economy.

What does ineffable mean?

God is mysterious and cannot be understood by us

What is anthropomorphic?

In Genesis God is portrayed as if he were a human. The word means depicted as having human traits.

What is inspiration?

“God breathed” the belief that the spirit of God guides an individual to act or write what is good and true

What is revelation?

Describes how God makes himself known to human beings.

What does peter singer believe in?

Believes animals have rights and that it’s unfair to privilege humans over them and that human happiness should be prioritised through quality of life

What is the Gaudium et spes?

A 1960s Encyclical that speaks out on building a fairer society through the use of the principles: peace, work, dignity, poor and community

What is Cafod?

Catholic agency for overseas development is an official church charity that aims to make poverty history by providing short term aid (needs) and long term aid(education and wants)

What are the principles of CAFOD?

Common good, preferential option for poor, care for creation, peace, dignity and meaningful work

What does michelangelos creation of Adam show?

• humans are made in the image of god

• Adam makes little effort to connect with God reflecting humans nowadays and original sin

• Adam is free and not connected to God showing how it’s humans free will to believe in him

What is the tree of life mosaic showing?

The doves represent the apple tiles of Jesus, the vines represent Jesus’s messages spreading around earth, the cross is dark contrasting with the bright figure of Jesus, the lamb of God reflects how Jesus sacrifices himself for our sins, contain alpha and omega Greek symbols that represent yh e begging and end of the Greek alphabet showing that God is eternal,

What is inter faith dialogue?

Communication between religions to share positivity between religions

What are the types of evil?

Moral evil: evil caused by human free will

Natural evil: evil caused by nature

Structural evil: evil caused by the way humans have organised society

What is the inconsistent triad?

It is between God being omnibenevolent omniscient and evil existing. How can he be all powerful and all loving and allow evil?

What are the theodicies?

Free will: God gave us free will to let us make our own choices

Make us better: makes us more motivated and compassionate

Contrast of evil: need suffering to appreciate good

How did John mackie disagree with these theologies

Good can be understood without evil, why didn’t God just give us free will between making evil choices and evil can make us worse too?

What did St Augustine believe about evil?

Original sin: “this is our sin and our fault because we were all present in Adam”

Contrast with good: we appreciate good through evil

Evil is a privation of good: the lack of good is evil

How can suffering be endured for the creator good?

Jesus suffered through his persecution to open the gates of heaven (the greater good) and to prove his commitment. He suffered to be closer with god and enter heaven

What are Jewish beliefs about sin and evil?

God did not create evil, humans have equal inclination for either good or evil, humans have free will, humans made evil

What is natural law?

The idea that we all share the same basic human nature so we all have the same natural rights

What is moral authority

The right that someone or something has to instruct us about what behaviour is right or wrong

Catholic beliefs on statues?

We’re allowed to due to prayers of intercession. Can he used as a visual aid to focus for prayer. Not a false idol as it is a real catholic figure. Jesus used the bread and wine to represent himself .

Jewish beliefs on statues?

“You shall no other Gods before me” God is transcendent and beyond human imagining so a statue is a false idol

Explain the beliefs on michelangelos pieta?

• Mary isn’t clinging onto Jesus but is giving him out to the world and has faith and trust in God.

• Mary touched him by the cloth and not his body because his body is holy and he suffered for us

• The bodies are idealised with no sign of torture to show how great they are

What is privation?

The loss or absence of a quality or something that is normally present. Evil is a privat of good

What is incarnation?

The belief that God become man in the person of Jesus. Fully human and fully divine.

What is kenosis?

Where Jesus emptied himself of his divinity to become human. Shows how he was willing to suffer for the greater good.

What are some catholic pilgrimages?

Lordes: has healing properties

Fatima:

What are some Jewish pilgrimages?

Journey to the wailing wall as it is a place of prayer. Increases relationship with god

What is the story of Job?

He experienced suffering from being tormented by the devil and kept his faith in God until becoming complacent after losing so much. God shows him around the universe to humble him.

What is Arianism?

The belief that Jesus is just Gods perfect creature

What is Modalism?

That God just changes mode or forms

What is the importance of the trinity?

Shows that God is one, shows that Jesus and the spirit are both God.

What are the beatitudes?

Attitudes which the Jesus tells his disciples that if they have then they are blessed by god