RE Religion and Life Christianity Unit 2
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Agnosticism | not being sure whether God exists |
| Atheism | believing that God does not exist |
| Conversion | when your life is changed by giving yourself to God |
| Free Will | the idea that human beings are free to make their own choices |
| Miracle | somethingwhich seemsto break a law of science and makes you think only God couldhave done it |
| Moral evil | actions done by humans which cause suffering |
| Natural evil | things which cause suffering but have nothing to do with humans |
| Numinous | the feeling of the presence of something greater than you |
| Omni-benevolent | the belief that God is all-good |
| Omnipotent | the belief that God is all-powerful |
| Omniscient | the belief that God knows everything that has happened and everything that is going to happen |
| Prayer | an attempt to contact God,usually through words |
| Abortion | the removal of a foetus from the womb before it can survive |
| Assisted suicide | providing a seriously ill person with the means to commit suicide |
| Euthanasia | the painless killing of someone dying from a painful disease |
| Immortality of the soul | the idea that the soul lives on after the death of the body |
| Near-death experience | when someone about to die has an out-of-body experience |
| Non-voluntary Euthanasia | ending somone's life painlessly when they are unable to ask, but you have a good reason for thinking they would want you to do so |
| Paranormal | unexplained things which are thought to have spiritual causes, e.g. ghosts, mediums |
| Quality of life | the idea that life must have some benefits for it to be worth living |
| Reincarnation | the belief that, after death, souls are reborn in a new body |
| Resurrection | the belief that, after death the body stays in the grave until the end of the world when it is raised |
| Sanctity of life | the belief that life is holy and belongs to God |
| Voluntary Euthanasia | ending life painlessly when someone in great pain asks for death |
| Adultery | a sexual act between a married person and someone other than their marriage partner |
| Civil partnership | a legal ceremony giving a homosexual couple the same legal rights as a husband and wife |
| Cohabitation | living together without being married |
| Contraception | intentionally preventing pregnancy from occuring |
| Faithfulness | staying with your marriage partner and only having sex with them |
| Homosexuality | sexual attraction to the same sex |
| Nuclear family | mother, father and children living as a unit |
| Pre-marital sex | sex before marriage |
| Procreation | making a new life |
| Promiscuity | having sex with a number of partners without commitment |
| Re-constituted family | where two sets of children (stepbrothers and stepsisters) become one family when their divorced parents marry each other |
| Re-marriage | marrying again after being divorced from a previous marriage |
| Community Cohesion | a common vision and shared sense of belonging for all groups in society |
| Discrimination | treating people less favourably because of their ethnicity/gender/colour/sexuality/age/class |
| Ethnic minority | a member of an ethnic group (race) which is much smaller than the majority group |
| Interfaith marriages | marriage where the husband and wife are from different religions |
| Multi-ethnic society | many different races and cultures living together in one society |
| Multi-faith society | many different religions living together in one society |
| Prejudice | believing some people are inferior without even knowing them |
| Racial Harmony | different races/colours living together happily |
| Racism | the belief that some races are superior to others |
| Religious freedom | the right to practise your religion and change your religion |
| Religious pluralism | accepting all religions as having an equal right to coexist |
| Sexism | discriminating against poeple because of their gender (being male or female) |
| Inclusivism | the belief that other religions should be respected and that their religion may contain some truth so people of other religions can go to Heaven |
| Exclusivism | the belief that only one religion has a truth so they should try and convert others and that only people of this religion will go to Heaven |
| Polytheism | the belief in more than one God |
| Monotheism | the belief that there is only one God |
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