GCSE Good and Evil Key Terms

Principles or standards determining what is right or wrong.

Moral principles that govern a person's behaviour or the conducting of an activity.

To pardon a wrongdoing,to give up resentment and the desire to seek revenge against a wrongdoer.

That which is considered morally right, beneficial and to our advantage.

That which is considered extremely immoral, wicked, and wrong.

The ability to make voluntary choices independently. The belief that nothing is predetermined.

Fairness, where everyone has equal provisions and opportunities.

A penalty given to someone because a crime or wrongdoing that they have done.

Deliberate immoral action, breaking a religious or moral law

Pain or illness caused by injury, pain or loss. Can be emotional, physical, psychological, or spiritual.

An inner voice which helps keep humans on the right track, a sense of right and wrong to help us make the right choices.

The belief that one act brings the greatest good for the greatest number.

Someone who lobbies or pressurises for change

A Christian denomination whose central belief is that every human being contains a reflection and image of God

A religious minister who works in non-religious institutes, such as schools, universities, hospitals and prisons, to provide pastoral care.

A person who supports prisoners on their release from prison, and return into the community.

Punishment through executing the criminal, also known as capital punishment

Showing kindness and compassion

A conviction from a crime being reversed, either because the prisoner was innocent, or there was an error with the trial that led to a conviction.

Accepting an apology, forgiving, and moving forward together in harmony

The blessings listed by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount

Satan or the devil in Islam

Voluntary charity given out of kindness, different to zakah which is compulsory charity.

A result of people acting in a way that is morally wrong.

Events that have nothing to do with humans, and which are to do with the way the world is, cannot be stopped or affected by human actions.

The first sin ever committed, when Eve took the forbidden fruit from the Garden of Eden, the sin that brought sin and evil into the world.

Persistently cruel treatment, often due to race, religion or moral views.

A power or force that determines the future, the idea that the outcome is predetermined or unchangable.

Muslim law based upon the Qur'an

A system of justice that enables criminals to make amends for their behaviour by meeting their victim and apologising.

A philosophy based on the idea that people give meaning to lives through their choices and actions.

Self-indulgence; pleasure seeking

John Howard and Elizabeth Fry were both examples of people who felt that there was injustice in the justice system that needed to be changed.

His view was that humans are born imperfect in their conscious knowledge of God. We must make morally correct choices to become more like God throughout the test of life.

He developed Irenaus's concept of moral imperfection at birth, he coined the term 'epistemic distance' that identifies that humans are born at a distance in knowledge from God. This means that to pass the test of life we must persue the knowledge of God by making moral decisions.

The idea that the set characteristics of God cannot exist at the same time as evil being in existence.