Religious Studies GCSE
Suffering
What Suffering means in Religious Studies GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Reference: AQA
The universal experience of suffering and unsatisfactoriness, known in Pali as Dukkha, which includes emotional dissatisfaction and the general unsatisfactoriness of life.
Jesus' initial silence is often linked by Christians to the suffering servant prophecy in Isaiah 53.
Many Christians view persecution as a way to share in the sufferings of Jesus.
Topics that use Suffering
- Christianity - 3.1.2.2 Practices (AQA GCSE)
- Key Beliefs (AQA GCSE)
- Theme G: St Mark’s gospel: the life of Jesus (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Atonement
- Biblical interpretation
- Eucharist
- memorialism
- Resurrection
- Transubstantiation
- Agape
- Agape and Christian charity
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