Religious Studies, Key Words.

Key Words

• Atonement - Reconciliation between God and Humanity.
• Catechism- The official teaching on the Roman Catholic Church.
• Compassion- A feeling of pity which makes one want to help the sufferer.
• Creeds- Statements of Christian belief.
• Faith- firm belief without logical proof.
• Incarnation- the belief that God took human form in Jesus.
• Monothesim- Belief in one God.
• Repentance- the act of being sorry for wrong doing and promising not to do it again.
• Salvation- the act of delivering sin, or saving from evil.
• Trintiy- the belief that God is three in one.
• Unity- God's way of being one.
• Virgin Birth- The belief that Jesus was not conceived through sex.

Key Words

• Anglicain Churches- Churches that are in communion with Church of England.
• Apostolic- The belief that the church can only be understood in the light of the Apostles.
• Bishops- Preists specially chosen by the pope who are responsable for all the churches in a Diocese.
• Catholic- Universal, Worldwide.
• Celibacy- Living without any sexual activity.
• Holy- of, or relating to, God, sacred.
• Laity- all the people in the church who are not chosen as Bishops, Preists or Deacons.
• Magesterium- The pope and the bishops interpreting the Bible abd tradition for Roman Catholics today.
• Nonconformist Churches- Protestant Christians seperated from the Church of England.
• Ordination- Making someone a Preist, Bishop or Deacon by the sacrament of holy orders.
• Orthordox Churches- National Churches which are in union with the Patriarch of Constantinople.(i.e. the Russain Orthordox Church).
• Papacy- The office of the pope.

Key Words

• Absolution- Through the action of the Preist, God grants pardon & peace.
• Chrism- the oil used at Baptism, Confirmation & Ordination.
• Commemoration- The belief that the Eucharist is simply a rememberance of the last supper.
• Contrition- sorrow for the sin commited & deciding not to sin again.
• Holy Week- The week before Easter Sunday.
• Liturgy of the Eucharist- The re-enactment of the Last Supper during which the Bread and Wine are transubstantiated.
• Liturgy of the Word- The Bible readings in the second part of the mass.
• Penance- an action to show your contrition.
• Penitential Rite- the confession & absolution at the beginning of the Mass.
• Rite of Communion- receiving the Body & Blood of Jesus.
• Sacrament- an outward sign through which invisible grave is given to a person by Jesus.
• Transubstantiation- the belief that the Bread & Wine become the Body & Blood of Jesus.