Key words

• Disembodied experience

  existing without a physical body
• Resurrection

  Living on after death in a glorified physical form in a new realm
• Beatific vision

  a face-to-face encounter with God
• Purgatory

  A place where people go, temporarily, after death to be cleansed of sin before they are fit to live with God
• Election (in a theological sense)

  predestination, chosen by God for heaven or hell
• Limited election

  the view that God chooses only a small number of people for heaven
• Original sin

  a state of wrongdoing in which people are called to salvation but only a few will be saved
• Unlimited election

  the view that all people are called to salvation but only a few will be saved
• Universalism

  the view that all people will be saved
• Parable

  a story told to highlight a moral message
• Particular judgement

  judgement for each person at the point of death
• Parousia

  used in Christianity to refer to the Second Coming of Christ