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Monism
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the view that everything is ultimately composed of some kind of material “stuff”
Including: spiritual or immateral |
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Dualism
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a theory that considers reality to consist of two irreducible elements or modes
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Epistemology
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knowledge itself
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Hermeneutic
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means the fine art of interpretation
What do we do with sayings like “the Lamb of God” though it means that jesus’ name is symbolically that he is the sacrifice to take away our sins... we can not take the scripture too literally or else we’ll be mislead |
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Cosmology
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the studies of the physical universe
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Ontology
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is the greek word for "being"
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Ethics**
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Ethics is concerned with the question. “how should we live?
ETHICS IS THE STUDY OF “proper attitudes and behaviors towards others”. The “others” in question can be |
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Theology
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“category of the ultimate”
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Inclusive Monotheism
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•“Your Zeus is my Jupiter;” “Your Allah is my YHWH;” “your YHWH is my El.”
Henotheism That it sought not to identify gods, but to absorb them. The lesser gods could express qualities of their parents, the higher gods, was an old idea that found expression in more than one way. |
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Exclusive Monotheism
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•"Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.” (Deuteronomy 6:4,
ESV) denies the exsistence or validity of other deities and appearrs in seceral varities |
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Panentheism
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The view that God permeates the world but, unlike pantheism, God is not identical to the world.
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Pantheism
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The view that everything is God and God is everything; usually includes the motion that the "all" is ultimately impersonal. Derived from two Greek terms: Pan (all) and theos ("God")
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Polytheism
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is the belief of multiple deities also usually assembled into a pantheon of gods and goddesses, along with their oen mythologies and rituals
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Henotheism
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the worship of one god without denying the other
**•“I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God...” (Exodus 6:7, ESV) |
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Atheism
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is the generic term for any position that 'explicitly rejects the existence of any sort of "transcedent reality" ' besides the physical universe
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Soteriology
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Concerned with what various religious traditions have to say about the topic of "Salvation/Liberation Realization"
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Creation
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Theistic cosmology starts with the declaration that "the world is a creation"
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Theological Realism
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•“God’s existence is completely independent of human cognition.”
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•Theological Nominalists
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God is the symbol or me we give to our experience or understanding of Ultimate mystery, Ultimate power, Ultimate Being. But God does not exist as some self-existing entity.
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Human Nature
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The “doctrine of humanity” involves such issues as: •The nature of human nature: good? bad? blank slate? mixed? “Original sin?” •Human Ontology: physicalist? body/soul dualism? “spirited bodies?” (Nancey Murphy) |
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Sin
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Found in most religions but originally from abrahamic traditions also known as "a violation of relationship" that "brings unnecessary violence into the world."
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Cosmological Arguement
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The argument for the exsitence of God in which it is maintained that since there is a cosmos which exists, it must have been cased by something -- GOD
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Teleogical Argument
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An arguemt for the existence of God on the observation of design order, or purpose exhibited in the world
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Ontological Arguement
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A prior arguement in which it is logically impossible that God does not exist
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Rituals/ sacraments
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include rites of passage, rites of marriage, and rites of ordination
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experiential & emotion
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Auditory, Visual, Mysticism, Revelation
this is effected within a religious person |
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rationalism
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the philosophical position that claims that the most important kind of knowledge derives from the use of reason
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Empiricist
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knowledge from experience
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Idealism
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theory that believes in ultimate nature of reality is based of of mind and idea
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realism
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that entitles of a certain type an objective reality
the belief that reality exists indepentantly |
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The Ethical & Legal Dimension
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involves looking to a religion and its authorities and teaching for guidance about how to live in the world
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The Social Dimension
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religions have a HUGE socio-cultural dimention that influences our behavior
this is also the understanding that there are roles within a tradition |
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The Material Dimension
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Belief in statues, clothing, buildings for worship
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Mystery
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When we are fascinated with the thought that we are not familiar with the world and we are intrigued by the things we do not know about.
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