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10 Cards in this Set
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What makes a life experience significant? |
Challenges a person's beliefs or changes their commitment to the religious belief that test the faith. |
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Factors determining response to SLE |
Prior commitment Intensity Context Nature |
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Response to SLE |
Grow or reject the faith New understandings or disillusionment Can trigger a new spiritual odyssey Beliefs can be strengthened or weakened |
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Suffering |
Problem for religion Contradictory of notion of benevolent and compassionate God Why do the righteous suffer and the wicked prosper? |
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Theodicy |
Attempt to justify a compassionate God in light of suffering Tribulations of the righteous and rewards of the wicked in Ethics of our Fathers |
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Retributive suffering |
Divine punishment for past sins |
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Disciplinary suffering |
Intended to correct or warn someone off evil actions |
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Probationary suffering |
To test the depth of a person's faith to God |
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Vicarious suffering |
For the good of someone else Mesirat nefesh |
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Messianic suffering |
Prelude to messianic advent |
