Religious Studies Key Words

All the Key words from AQA:

  • The existence of God
  • The problems of evil and suffering
  • Immortality
  • Miracles

Doesn't include Revelation or science and religion. Sorry!

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  • Created by: Stanier
  • Created on: 13-05-17 19:16
Theist
A person who believes in God.
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Atheist
A person who believes there is no God.
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Agnostic
A person who believes we can not be sure whether God exists.
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Creation
The act by which God brought the Universe into being.
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Religious Experience
An experience people have that make them believe in God.
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Miracle
An event performed by God that appears to break the laws of nature.
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Morality
A system of ethics that distinguishes between right and wrong.
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Conscience
The inner feeling of right and wrong.
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Faith
A commitment to something that goes beyond proof and knowledge.
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Suffering
When people have to face and live with unpleasant events or conditions.
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Evil
The opposite of good. A force or a negative power that is seen as against God.
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Omnipotent
All-powerful. A word used to describe God.
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Benevolent
All-good and All-loving. A word used to describe God.
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Omniscient
All-knowing. A word used to describe God.
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Natural Suffering
Suffering caused by nature. e.g earthquakes or tsunamis.
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Man-made Suffering
Suffering caused by other people. e.g war or crime.
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Karma
What goes around comes around. If you do Good things, Good things will happen. If you do bad things, bad things will happen.
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Impersonal force
The idea evil is a power that draws people to evil.
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Personal Being
The idea evil is a spirit or devil.
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Psychological Phenomenon
The idea evil is something arising from the mind of a person.
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Immortality
Endless life or existence. Such as life after death.
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Heaven and hell
places that people can go after death determined by how good/bad someone is throughout their life.
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Legacy
Something handed down from an ancestor. It is a way of being remembered after death.
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Memory
Being remembered after death by friends/family.
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Soul
The spiritual rather than physical part of humans.
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Resurrection
Rising from the dead or returning to life.
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Akhirah
Muslim idea of life after death.
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Reincarnation
When we are born again after death.
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Rebirth
When we are born again after death but not exactly the same. Often compared to a flame passed from candle to candle.
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Channeling
Communicating with the dead through a medium.
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NDE (Near Death Experience)
Some people who are close to death sometimes have an experience of God or floating.
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Dualism
The belief that there are two parts to a person, the physical and the spiritual.
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Laws of nature
Rules of how nature works according to scientists and scientific knowledge.
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Tradition
Something that has been done for a long time and though to be true.
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Other cards in this set

Card 2

Front

A person who believes there is no God.

Back

Atheist

Card 3

Front

A person who believes we can not be sure whether God exists.

Back

Preview of the back of card 3

Card 4

Front

The act by which God brought the Universe into being.

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

An experience people have that make them believe in God.

Back

Preview of the back of card 5
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