click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
RE KEYWORDS 2
Question | Answer |
---|---|
The feeling you get when you are in a great cathedral or look up at the stars and feel there is something much greater than you are | Awe |
Very similar feeling to awe | Numinous |
When your life is changed by giving yourself to god | Conversion |
Gaining direct contact with God in things like visions and trances | Mystical |
Something which seems to break a law of sciences and makes you think that only god could have don | Miracle |
The explosion which scientists believe began the universe | Big Bang |
Actions done by humans which cause suffering | Moral evil |
Things like earthquakes and floods which cause suffering and have nothing to do with humans | Natural evil |
The belief that god is good/kind | Benevolent |
The belief that god is all powerful and can do anything | Omnipotent |
The belief that God knows everything that has happened and that is going to happen | Omniscient |
Living together without being married | Cohabitation |
A married person having sex with someone other than their marriage partner | Adultery |
The legal ending of a marriage | Divorce |
Marriage to one partner only | Monogamy |
Marriage to more than one partner at a time | Polygamy |
Being married to only one person at a time, but divorcing and remarrying several times | Serial Monogamy |
Mother, father and children living as a unit | Nuclear family |
Grandparents/aunts/uncles living as a unit mother, father and children: or living very close and having a lot of contact | Extended family |
Where there has been a separation divorce or death and only one of the parents is involved in bringing up the children | One-Parent family |
Being sexually attracted to members of the same sex | Homosexuality |
Being sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex | Heterosexuality |