A symbolic story describing why things are the way they are
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Category Mistake
Reading one literary form in the Bible as though it were another literary form
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Creationism
A literalist understanding of the origins of the cosmos and human beings, as described in Genesis 1-2
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Cosmology
The study of the cosmos/universe
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Big Bang
The idea that the universe originated in an explosion of light, matter and energy that created time and space
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Cosmogony
Explanations of the beginnings of the cosmos/universe
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Organisms
Living things such as animals, plants, fungi and bacteria
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Providence
God's governanceof the universe
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Evolution
The theory that complex organisms developed from earlier simpler life forms
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Trinity
Tri-Unity, three in one
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Perichoresis
Living in each other in the round dance of love
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Creed
A summary or list of key Christian beliefs
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Analogy
A likeness, a way of saying something indirectly
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Pro-life
Attitudes that are anti-abortion (an unborn's right to live)
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Pro-choice
Attitudes that are pro-abortion (a women's right to choose)
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Sancity of Life
Life belongs to God
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Humanism
An approach which excludes notions of God and eternity from moral decisions
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Speciesism
According more importance to one species than to other life forms
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Utiliterarianism
A measure of morality based on levels of happiness
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Scripture
The inspired collection of writings called the Bible
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Inspired
"God breathed" - the influence of the Holy Spirit on the people who wrote the Scriptures (in this sense we can speak of God as being the ultimate 'author' of Scripture)
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Old Testament
Writings about God and humanity understood principally through the people of Israel
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New Testament
Writings about God and humanity understood through Jesus and the early Church
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Canon of Scripture
The accepted standard list of the books that make up the Bible
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Revelation
God's self-communication to human beings
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Fundamentalist
Someone who tends to read all the different books of the Bible in the same literal way
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Genesis
The first book of the Bible, pondering creation, human beings, sin and covenant
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Ineffable
Beyond adequate description, expression or representation
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Imago Dei
Latin for 'the image of God'
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Free Will
Humans can decide their own actions
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Stewardship
Humans caring for creation
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Dignity
Humans are worthy of respect
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Laudato Si
A letter from Pope Francis in 2015 about our responsibility for the environment
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Universal Destination of Goods
Things that belong to everyone and to future generations
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Michelangelo
Italian artist who lived between 1475 and 1564
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Sistine Chapel
A little chapel within the Vatican City
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Sign
Something that points to something else
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Symbol
A non-verbal sign of something
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Pantokrator
Greek for 'almighty'
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Evangelists
Authors of the four Gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
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Catholic Social Teaching
Church guidance on how society should foster human dignity
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