Semester 2

Question 0

What does the term sacred mean in relation to the dimensions?

Answer 0

Sacred mean some thing that is treasured and held in high regard.

Question 1

What are the 9 dimensions of religion?

Answer 1

Religious History
Religious Experience
Social Structure
Important Symbols
Sacred Rituals
Moral & Ethical Teachings
Sacred Stories
Central Beliefs
Sacred Texts

Question 2

What is Indigenous religious history?

Answer 2

Stories passed through generations

Question 3

What are Indigenous important symbols regarding religion?

Answer 3

Pictures of specific spirits

Question 4

What are Indigenous sacred stories regarding religion?

Answer 4

Passed through generations by word of mouth

Question 5

What is the Indigenous religious experience?

Answer 5

Coming of age traditions etc.

Question 6

What are Indigenous sacred rituals regarding religion?

Answer 6

Song and dance

Question 7

What are the Indigenous central beliefs in terms of religion?

Answer 7

Spirits, Dreamtime etc.

Question 8

What is the Indigenous social structure regarding religion?

Answer 8

Religious Elders

Question 9

What are the Indigenous moral teachings regarding religions?

Answer 9

Do not kill others

Nature is precious etc.

Question 10

What are the Indigenous sacred texts?

Answer 10

Wall paintings

Question 11

What is the Drawing down the Moon ritual?

Answer 11

A Wiccan ritual where the high priestess enters a trance and requests that the goddess enters her body and speaks through her.

Question 12

What is Eucharist?

Answer 12

A reenactment of the last supper, where the body and blood of Christ is consumed through bread and wine.

Question 13

What are the central beliefs of Wicca?

Answer 13

Wicca is a polytheistic religion that revolves around nature. The main deity is known as the Goddess, but many other ancient Gods/Goddesses can be personally worshiped.

Question 14

What is the religious history of Wicca?

Answer 14

Wicca is a modern form of Paganism which basically means they worship multiple gods. Pagans in the 16th and 17th centuries were persecuted for having a alternate religion to the majority of Europe, it was feared that these people were practicing witchcraft. It wasn’t until the 1950s that the Pagans were truly safe when Gerald Gardiner founded Wicca.

Question 15

What is the religious experience of Wicca?

Answer 15

Wicca follows the seasonal calendar and solstices. There are 8 festivals set at specific times of the year that follow this calendar.

Question 16

What is the social structure of Wicca?

Answer 16

A group of wiccans is called a coven. Each coven is headed by a high priestess.

Question 17

What are the symbols of Wicca?

Answer 17

The most important symbol is the pentagram with each point of the star representing one of: spirit, fire, water, earth or air.

Question 18

What are the moral and ethical teachings of Wicca?

Answer 18

Wiccan’s have two major ethical teachings: the Wiccan rede and the Law of Threefold Return.

Question 19

What is the Law of Threefold Return?

Answer 19

A Wiccan ethical teaching which is basically the idea of karma

Question 20

What is the Wiccan Rede?

Answer 20

A Wiccan teaching that states “If it harms no on, do what you will”.

Question 21

What is a sacred story of Wicca?

Answer 21

A story that is universally agreed on amongst Wiccan’s is The Legend of the Decent of the Goddess.

Question 22

What is the sacred text of Wicca?

Answer 22

The Book of Dark Shadows

Question 23

What is the religious history of Christianity?

Answer 23

Stories are based in the past

Question 24

What is the religious experience of Christianity?

Answer 24

Seasonal calendar (Lent, Advent)

Question 25

What is the social structure of Christianity?

Answer 25

Pope, Archbishops, Bishops, Priests

Question 26

What are the important symbols of Christianity?

Answer 26

Crucifix

Question 27

What are the sacred rituals of Christianity?

Answer 27

Eucharist

Question 28

What are the moral and ethical teachings of Christianity?

Answer 28

10 Commandments

Question 29

What are the sacred stories of Christianity?

Answer 29

Any (You should know this)

Question 30

What are the central beliefs of Christianity?

Answer 30

One God, Jesus is the son of God.

Question 31

What is the sacred text of Christianity?

Answer 31

The Bible

Question 32

What is commitment?

Answer 32

Commitment is the star of being dedicated to a cause or activity.

Question 33

How can commitment influence decisions?

Answer 33

Being committed to a cause or activity might limit the decisions you can make due to spoken or unspoken law.

Question 34

What is a Christian vocation?

Answer 34

A Christian vocation is a "call" from God.

Question 35

What are the four types of Christian Vocations?

Answer 35

Single life Married life Consecrated life Ordained ministry

Question 36

How can we live God's calling for us in our everyday lives?

Answer 36

By loving and serving the Lord through faith, prayer and good deeds.

Question 37

In life, what factors need to be considered when making decisions?

Answer 37

You must weight up the pros and cons for you and anyone the decision may affect, and understand the consequences for your actions.

Question 38

God's calling to us is "love one another as I have loved you." How can this be demonstrated in the single life vocation?

Answer 38

Put your freedom at the service of others in work and prayer.

Question 39

God's calling to us is "love one another as I have loved you." How can this be demonstrated in the married life vocation?

Answer 39

Giving yourself to one another completely and without reservation, no matter the consequences.

Question 40

God's calling to us is "love one another as I have loved you." How can this be demonstrated in the consecrated life vocation?

Answer 40

Follow Christ through vows of chastity, poverty and obedience.

Question 41

God's calling to us is "love one another as I have loved you." How can this be demonstrated in the ordained ministry vocation?

Answer 41

Offer your life completely to God so that he may grant you the honour of standing before others and teaching his words.

Question 42

What factors influence people's faith during the Middle Ages?

Answer 42

Disease, Corruption and legality of religions

Question 43

What is a papal bull?

Answer 43

A letter issued by the pope.

Question 44

What are indulgences?

Answer 44

Forgiveness for as sin in order to avoid punishment

Question 45

What is a relic?

Answer 45

A historical object

Question 46

What were the 95 thesis?

Answer 46

Martin Luther's views on the faults of the church

Question 47

What is excommunication?

Answer 47

A punishment in the form of banishment

Question 48

What is transubstantiation?

Answer 48

How the bread and wine are transformed during the Eucharist

Question 49

Who was Tetzel and what was the task assigned to him by the pope?

Answer 49

John Tetzel was a man famous for selling indulgences to the highest bidder. He was given the task of building St. Peter's Basilica through the sale of indulgences.

Question 50

In what was could you achieve indulgences in the Middle Ages?

Answer 50

Indulgences could be bought with money, goods or services, including the sale of children.

Question 51

What were Martin Luther's concerns about the church?

Answer 51

Corruption of people high up in the church and the sale of indulgences.

Question 52

What did Martin Luther do to show that he was unhappy with the church?

Answer 52

He got his students to nail 95 thesis to the door of the Wittenberg castle church.

Question 53

What were the consequences for Martin Luther's actions?

Answer 53

Luther was excommunicated in1521 and summoned to the city of Worms, but he was rescued by some of his supporters and taken to the safety of Wartburg castle.

Question 54

What religions formed during the reformation? For what reasons?

Answer 54

Calvinism (Disagreed with the Catholic ideas of law and gospel) Lutheranism (Disagreed with the corruption in the Catholic Church) Anglican (Disagreed with the fact that you can't get divorced)

Question 55

When was the Great Schism?

Answer 55

1054

Question 56

What caused the Great Schism?

Answer 56

Language barrier, distance between the east and Rome and different ideas on Eucharist and Holy images.

Question 57

What was the purpose of the council of Trent?

Answer 57

To outline new and old laws concerning the church to make it clear what was and wasn't permitted.

Question 58

Why did the church as a Christian community create so many divisions?

Answer 58

Mistakes were made through corruption so groups of people with new and improved ideas created new religions.