Christianity (GCSE) WJEC

• Agape


  Christian love, selfless love
• Atonement


  Amends, reparation. In Christianity it is the belief that Jesus' death and resurrection healed the rift between humans and God, thereby opening the way for God and people to be 'at one' again.
• Divine Command Theory


  The belief that something is right because God commands it.
• Holy Spirit


  3rd being of the Trinity who guides the Church. The part of God that is present in the world.
• Incarnation


  From the Latin, meaning "to become flesh," referring to the mystery of Jesus Christ, the divine Son of God, becoming man. In the Incarnation, Jesus Christ became truly man while remaining truly God.
• Inter-faith dialogue


  When members of different communities of faith (different religions) talk together in order to come to a better understanding of their beliefs
• Messiah


  Anointed one. In Christianity, this is Jesus.
• Omnibenevolent


  All-good, an attribute of God.
• omnipotent


  almighty, having unlimited power or authority
• omniscient


  knowing everything; having unlimited awareness or understanding
• Resurrection


  Jesus's rise from the dead
• TrinityFrom the Latin trinus, meaning "threefold," referring to the central mystery of the Christian faith that God exists as a communion of three distinct and interrelated Divine Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
• Ascension


  The "going up" into Heaven of the Risen Christ forty days after his Resurrection.
• Annuciation


  The announcement to Mary that she would be the mother of the Son of God
• prophesy


  predict, foretell, forecast. For example part of the book of Isaiah predicts Jesus coming to earth.
• Denomination


  The name given to the different branches of Christianity.
• Pope


  Head of the Roman Catholic Church, sometimes called the Bishop of Rome.
• Liturgical worship


  A church service that follows a set structure or ritual
• Non-liturgical worship


  A service that does not follow a set text or ritual
• Transubstantiation


  Catholic belief that the bread and wine actually become the body and blood of Christ.
• Consubstantiation


  Catholics hold the dogma of transubstantiation by consecrating the words of the priest during the Mass, the bread and wine become the body and blood of Christ. In opposition, Luther defined consubstantiation, the belief that after the consecration the bread and wine undergo a spiritual change where Christ is really present but the bread and wine aren't transformed.
• diversity

  (n.) difference, variety; a condition of having many different types of forms
• confession

  acknowledging and telling one's sins to a priest
• Forgiveness


  God's merciful pardon for our sins
• eulogy


  a formal speech praising a person who has died during a funeral.
• altar


  the table in a Christian church at which the bread and wine are consecrated in communion services.