Zusammenfassung der Ressource
GCSE RELIGIOUS STUDIES
- DEITY
- The trinity= the father, son, holy spirit.
- God is transcendent,
- Creator, judge and god is a king.
- KEY WORDS:
- Omnibenevolence= all-good
- Omnipotent= all-important
- Omnipresent= all-present
- Omniscient= all-knowing
- Natural selection= genectic differences
between things (Charles darwin)
- Numinous= a mysterious power that
suggests the presence of a spirit or god
- Agnostic= someone who is not sure if
there is a god
- Atheist= someone who does not beiev
in god
- " God made man in his own image"
- Arguments for existence
- Ontological= " than which nothing greater
can be concieved" (Anselm)
- Cosmological= " nothing can come from nothing" (Thomas
Aquinas)
- Teleogical= " if there was no designer it would be
a state" (William paley)
- Moral= basic understanding of right and wrong this
knowledge must of came from god
- Miracles
- Bernadette who had visions
of the virgin mary
- Often performed by god or the
holy spirit
- jesus healing the sick
- moses and the burning bush
- Spiritual
expierience
- Private worship
- Christians often do this by
themselves
- Some christians do this to build a realationship
with God
- Meditate= To empty the mind of thoughts, this is done to
concentrate on prayer
- Prayer= a way of communicating with God
- Public worship
- Often done at church or with other people
e.g. a bible study
- Eucharist= A christian sacrament which commemorates the
last supper
- Sacrament= An outward, physical sign of an inward invisible
grace (god)
- Examples= singing hyms, bible readings and
worship
- Prayer and meditation
- Rosary beads are set on mysteries= Joyful.
sorrowful, glorious, luminous
- Types of prayer= Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving,
Supplication
- LORD'S PRAYER
- Stained glass windows, icons, SISTINE
CHAPEL
- Alpha and omega= jesus is the beginning and end
of all things
- A fish= jesus christ, son of god, saviour
- A dove= a symbol of peace or the holy spirit
- Chi-rho= first two
letters of jesus in
greek
- Cross= jesus crucifixion
- Candles= jesus is the light of the world
- Food and Fasting
- Christmas= celebration of jesus birth
- Easter= jesus rising from the dead
- hot- cross buns
- Pancakes
- End of Life
- Body and soul
- The soul is a non- physical part of the body
- The soul goes to heaven or hell
- Original sin= was brought into the world when eve dis-obyed God
- Life after death
- Christians believe that jesus will
return to the earth
- Judgement day= when god judges the
soul for its life
- Parable of the sheep and
the goat
- The sheep represent angels and goats represents
satan (the devil)
- Purgatory
- Roman catholics believe this is where the soul goes to get
a spirtual cleansing
- Redemption= jesus died to save all christians from
their sins
- Funeral rites
- Christians believe the funeral is mainly for
the bereaved
- " I'am the resurrection and the life"
- Churches face the rising sun of
jerusalem
- " Ashes to ashes, dust to dust" this is said when the
coffin is lowered into the ground
- Good and Evil
- Moral evil
- An evil someone brings upon themselves by their own
behaviour. e.g. discrimination
- Natural evil
- An evil shown through natural disasters e.g.
hurricanes
- Story of job
- God took everything away from job to prove to satan that he will
be faithful to his religion
- Ten commandments
- "do not
murder"
- Conscience= a sense of what is right
and wrong
- Suffering
- Christians believe the more you suffer on earth the more you
have to look forward to in heaven
- A necessary part of
life
- Without suffering we have nothing to
fight for
- Suffering is caused
by sin
- Free will
- choosing what actions
you take
- Original
sin
- everyone is born with this sin it gets
cleansed when a child gets christened
- The fall
- When adam and eve ate the
forbidden fruit
- Religion and
science
- Theories of the
world
- Big Bang= a massive explosion happened
which caused the world to form
- Genesis
- Creation
story
- Arguments of
existence
- Evolution
- Things adapt to their
surroundings over time
- Christians believe god made them
stewards of the world
- Stewardship= to look after gods
creations
- " Be fruitful and increase in number"
- Christians believe animals have no souls
- life is sacred
- Noah and
the ark