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What is Agape?

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Christian love that reflects the love of God

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What does Alienation mean?

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Estranging people from what they are meant to be; making a person give up their proper place in society

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Who is an Anonymous Christian?

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Someone who is open to God’s grace but is not a Christian

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What is Anonymous Christianity?

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An institution that is a channel for God’s grace but is not Christianity

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What is the Beatific vision?

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The state of eternal happiness when we come face-to-face with God and exist eternally in his presence

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What does Binary refer to?

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Either one thing or the other; in the case of gender, either male or female

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What is Capitalism?

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The idea that societies do best when operating in a free market with competition and with profit as the central motivation

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What is Cheap grace?

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Grace when it is solely understood as a free gift from God with no obligation on the Christian

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What is Civil disobedience?

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The decision by someone to refuse to accept certain laws or practices of a government, usually in a non-violent way

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What is Communism?

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The idea that a harmonious society is based on the free sharing of all goods and ideas

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What does Concupiscence mean?

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Humanity’s inclination to sin and to be influenced by lust, desires and selfishness

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What is Conscience?

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The inner sense of right and wrong in a person, sometimes described as an internal voice

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What is Costly grace?

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Grace when it is understood as requiring a difficult response from the believer

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What does Dehumanised mean?

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Removing basic humanity or basic human rights from a person

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What is Double predestination?

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The view that God chooses those who go to heaven and also those who go to hell

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What does Ecumenical mean?

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Work towards the unity of Christians or to better relationships between different denominations

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What is Election?

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The idea that God chooses where we go after death

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Kant’s view on homosexual relationships

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Kant would argue that homosexual relationships should be permitted as this allows the persons involved to be treated as an ‘end’ rather than as a means to an end.

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Critique of Kant’s views by neo-Kantians

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Some neo-Kantians suggest that Kant’s views are too dependent on the concept of marriage and propose a ‘contract-based’ agreement for premarital sex.

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Evangelism

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The process of spreading the Christian message.

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Exclusivism

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The belief that only Christians will be saved.

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Exploitation

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Being used as a means to an end, for the purposes of someone else.

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Extra ecclesiam nulla salus

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There is no salvation outside the Church.

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Final judgement

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The judgement of all people at the end of time.

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Grace
God's complete, generous love, given to us though we do not deserve it, seen primarily in his giving of his son, Jesus Christ to save people from their human nature.
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Human nature
The essential sense of what all humans are like; shared characteristics.
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Human will
For Augustine, this was given to humans at creation by God and was used to make choices.
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Inclusivism
The idea that Christianity is the one true faith and the usual way to salvation but it is possible for non-Christians to be saved.
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Infantile
Belonging to the early stage of human development.
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Innate
Natural; something that is simply in us that we do not develop or acquire in some way.
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Instrument for oppression
A tool used to contribute to the oppression of a group.
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Inter-faith dialogue
Conversations between members of different religions, carried out either formally or informally.
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Liberation Theology
The movement in Christianity that focuses first and foremost on problems of poverty and injustice.
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Liberator
Someone who frees a person or group of people.
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Limited election
The view that only a few Christians will be saved.
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Magisterium
The authority that the Catholic Church has to teach, held by the bishops (with the Pope as the leader of the bishops).
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Natural theology
The idea that God can be known through reason and observation of the natural world.
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Neurosis
Mental disorder.
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Non-propositional revelation
The idea that God does not reveal himself through truth statements, so the revelation might need interpretation.
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What is Original Sin?
Used to refer to the first sin of Adam and Eve that is passed on to humans through reproduction.
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What does Orthodoxy mean?
Right beliefs.
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What does Orthopraxis refer to?
Right actions.
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What is an Outcast?
A person on the margins of society and not accepted by the majority.
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What is Particular judgement?
The judgement of individuals at the moment of death.
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What is Patriarchy?
A patriarchal society is one where men have more power than women.
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What is Praxis?
The process through which reflection on theory leads to action.
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What does Predestination mean?
The idea that God chooses specific people to bring them to salvation at all times.
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What is the Preferential option for the poor?
The idea that the needs of the poor must be prioritised.
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What is Propositional revelation?
The idea that God reveals himself in truth statements.
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What is Psychoanalysis?
A system of analysis that says that the conscious life is affected by the unconscious self, formed mainly in infancy and childhood.
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What does Redemption mean?
Having a debt paid off; in Christian contexts, the debt of Original Sin.
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What is Religionless Christianity?
A term used by Bonhoeffer to describe what he thought Christianity should become: free from the trappings of the past and free from the mistaken idea that we need to fill our search for meaning with new beliefs or ideologies.
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What is Revealed theology?
The idea that God gives knowledge of himself directly to people.
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What is Revelation?
God's deliberate showing of aspects of himself to the world.
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What are Rusty swords?
The trappings, especially ethical, of the past that have no place in modern Christianity.
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What does Secular mean?
Worldly or nonreligious.
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What is Secularisation?
The process of a society changing its views to become less closely linked with religious values.
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What is Secularism?
The idea that religious beliefs and institutions should not affect how the state is run; all belief systems are equal in the eyes of the law.
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What is a Seminary?
College where priests are trained.
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What is 'Sin'?
Deliberate wrongdoing
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What is 'Single predestination'?
The view that God chooses those who go to heaven
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What is 'Social cohesion'?
When there is a strong sense of belonging and feeling valued with common aims to promote a peaceful society
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What is 'Solidarity'?
Mutual support for someone or a group of people
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What is 'Spirituality'?
Being concerned with things beyond the material
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What is 'Stewardship'?
The Christian idea that humans must take care of God's creation - God's gift of the planet to us
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What does 'Summum bonum' mean?
The highest good
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What is 'Theological pluralism'?
The view that there are many ways to salvation of which Christianity is one path. In Religious Studies, this tends to be abbreviated to 'pluralism'
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What is 'Transvaluation'?
A change of values, often radical
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What is 'Universalism'?
The idea that all people are saved
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What is 'Unlimited election'?
The view that salvation is offered to everyone but only some will accept the offer and choose to be saved

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