Philosophy Of Religion - Final Vocab

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Belief Vs. Knowlage

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Knowledge comes from reason
Belief connects with Faith
(Both carry Conviction)

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Falsification principle (formulated by...)

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Karl Popper - in order to be a scientific hypothesis it must be falsifiable.

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Blaise Pascal

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Was a mathematician. First to outline the laws of statistics. Sets the wager that we might as well believe because we can neither prove nor disprove religion.

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agnosticism

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The iniblity to know whether there is a God or not.

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Mahdi

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A figure in islam that can arise as a prophet and claim to have the call to raise religion. Islamic form of a prophet.

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Uniformity of nature

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(law) acceptance of notion that what we know about laws here apply everywhere in the universe.

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Soron Kierkegaurd

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Early 19th century. Proposed the idea that reason has nothing to do with faith.

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Essentialist

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Human nature is fixed and permanant

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Existentialist

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We live our lives and therefore define ourselves

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Book "Eithor-Or"

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Kierkegaurds most famous book and doctrine.

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Theology

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Doing justice to God.

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Maya

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Evil is a illusion (Hindu belief)

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Substance

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A reality that can exist in its own right (does not depend on anything else)

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Accedent

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A reality that depends on somthing else.

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Zoroagstrian Parasees

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Once when Iran moved to India

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Karma

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Goes with maya, what happens to us is because of deeds done in previous lives

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Dharma

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essential quality or character, as of the cosmos or one's own nature.

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Determinism

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Opposite of free will

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Intrinsic

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Something that is not possible under any condition

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Conditional

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Something that is possible if we change a variable such as our perspective

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equivical

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word is used with different meanings

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Uunequivical

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word is used consistantly with the same meanings

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St. Augustine

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we were created as perfected beings

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St. Frenaus

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We are made of neither good or evil, we make ourselves by our choices.

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Preternatural gifts

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State of no death, pain, or ignorance. Anglilic state in which we were created.

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Etiology

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Study of causes of diseases

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Mythos

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the underlying system of beliefs, esp. those dealing with supernatural forces, characteristic of a particular cultural group.

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Logos

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Fact

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Bios

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Mere biological life

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Zoe

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Spiritual life

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Teleology

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the study of the evidences of design or purpose in nature

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eschatology

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Theological conception

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Hierophany

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Somthing sacred manifests itself in us

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Sacrament

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Somthing that remains itself but is transmitted into a supernatural reality

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Homoreligousis

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Religous man

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homoprofanus

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Profaine man

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Homogeneity

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All in one place

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Chaos

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Lack of order, lack of ability to know where you are.

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Theophany

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manifestation of God

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Irruption

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Something that breaks in. God's do when they create a secret space

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Axis Mundi

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Becomes the center of the world, connects and supports heaven and earth

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Mesopotamia

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the middle of the rivers

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Traditional layout of a church

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The cross
upper (apse)
middle (transopt)
lower (nave)

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Liturgy

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Celebration of the feasts

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Equinax

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Night is equel to day

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Sacredtime

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circular, neversable, and recoverable

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Anmes

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Through memeory

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Etiology

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Myth that tells us the orgins of things

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Eliade

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Wrote the sacred and the profane.

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C.S. Lewis

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A philosopher who wrote the Devine Omnopotence

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David Ry Griffin

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A philosopher who wrote God in Process

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Antony Flew

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Philosopher, participated in the falsification debate. Connected the principle of falsification to that of religous languege

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R.M. Hare

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philosopher, participated int he falsification debate, Came up with the concept of bliks

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Basil Mitchell

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Philosopher participated int he falsification debate.

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William James

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Philosopher, wrote the will to believe

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Soren Kierkegaard wrote

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Objected and subjective reflection