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46 Cards in this Set
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What takes place in ritual or in liturgy: enactment, remembrance, and celebration.
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Ceremony
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Some form of moral guideline that seeks to state what a religious community of people stands for in the area of human conduct
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code
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The wide variety of ways in which people use ideas, words, and images to express what matters most for them
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Creed
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The religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. Believe that Jesus Christ is the Messiah, sent by God. They believe that Jesus, by dying and rising from the dead, made up for the sin of Adam and thus redeemed the world, allowing all who believe in him to enter heaven. Rely on the Bible as the inspired word of God
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Christianity
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The belief that a human being embodies two parts, as body and soul.
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Dualism
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Searches sincerely for a deeper understanding, is open to new data and seriously open to other points of view
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Constructive Doubt
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Cynical and even rebellious, rejecting authority and having little respect for the beliefs in question
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Destructive doubt
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The power, being, or realm understood by religious persons to be at the core of existence and to have a transformative effect on their lives and destinies.
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Divine
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The hidden spring of Hindu ethics. The inner structure, or the universal, divine ordering of things that enables all the elements of creation to function together, as a whole.
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Dharma
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The oldest and most loosely organized religion. A multicolored collection of diverse religious traditions, all of them tracing their origins back to the Indus Valley in northern India. The seeds were planted when Aryan invaders from Europe swept into northern India around 1500 B.C.E. A religion that has drawn much of its vitality and vision from having to adjust to other religions
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Hinduism
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Uses dialogue to fashion a new universal religion out of the best ingredients of present religions.
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Syncretism
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Jesus as the one and only Savior and since he is to be found only in the church, everyone outside the church was going to have a rough time knowing God and making it to heaven.
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Exclusivism
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By doing this together, experimenting with each other's different methods of __________, religious persons have claimed that they can sense that there is something similar, if not the same, entering their consciousness through these different ways of _________.
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Meditation
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A danger that people, especially from Europe and the United States, have fallen into: they think they are being open to other religions, when actually they are imposing their own views and their own values on other religions.
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Imperialism
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A philosophical position that holds that since we can never be absolutely sure about truth, we can't really judge each other
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Relativism
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The basic ingredients of this model were formulated in the sixteenth century when the Council of Trent stated that people who had never heard of Jesus and been baptized could still be saved through a "baptism of desire" as long as they followed their consciences and lived moral lives.
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Inclusivism
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As more and more of the "New World" became known to the old world of Europe, and as Christians became aware of the millions of people who through no fault of their own had never known Christ, they had to ask themselves how a God of love could pack off so many people to hell just because they had not been born in Europe. What happened in the sixteenth century that formulated ideas of inclusivism?
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Council of Trent
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These theologians want to continue to affirm the uniqueness and distinctiveness of Jesus as the Savior for all persons, but they want to be open to the possibility that Jesus may not be the Savior for all persons.
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Pluralists
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The aim of unity among all Christian churches throughout the world
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Ecumenism
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Five Pillars of Islam
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1. Pillar of Confession (Shahadah)
2. Pillar of Prayer (Salat) 3. Pillar of Alms-giving (Zakat) 4. Pillar of Fasting (Sawn) 5. Pillar of Pilgrimage (Hajj) |
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Youngest of religions, was born in Saudi Arabia, but now reaches west as far as Spain and in the East to the northern part of India. Muslim faith. Finds its roots in Christianity and is known as an Abrahamic religion. Has one single founder, Muhammad.
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Islam
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A Muslim temple or place of public worship.
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Mosque
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Hinduism practice of the daily worship of God in the form of a particular deity.
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Puja
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A varied human response to transcendent reality or realities, the gods or God or Brahman
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Religion
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A Jewish house of worship, often having facilities for religious instruction
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Synagogue
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Philosophically, that which stands beyond the limits of human experience
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Transcedent
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Jews rest weekly from Friday sundown to Saturday sundown to think back at what Yahweh has done for them and forward to what they will do for Yahweh.
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Sabbath
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Like Christianity and Islam, this religion can trace its origins to one person. Siddhartha Gautama, was born in what is now called today Nepal about 563 B.C.E. He felt that some kind of reform or revitalization was necessary. Realized the truth path was "The Middle Way".
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Buddhism
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The doctrine or belief in more than one god or many gods.
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Polytheism
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"When religion is turned into a tool to serve one's own benefit, or that of one's group, before all else...Religion is used as a means of manipulation".
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Ideology
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Infects ritual or cult. "Ritual is an expression of inner faith, _________ is pressing a divine button".
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Superstition
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Something that takes the place of God or limits God, and no longer points beyond.
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Idolatry
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Corruption of code. "It leads religious believers or their leaders to define religion as primarily a matter of obeying the law, the ethical-legal system the community has agreed upon".
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Legalism
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Siddhartha Gautama, born in Nepal about 562 B.C.E.
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Buddha
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The twenty first Roman Catholic ecumenical council (1962-65) convened by Pope John XXIII. Its 16 documents redefined the nature of the church, gave bishops greater influence in church affairs, and increased lay participation in liturgy.
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Vatican II
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Thomas Merton
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Merton's work reflects a living encounter between the traditions of Christian wisdom and the burning questions of the modern world: war and peace, the quest for meaning in the face of absurdity, and the need for dialogue with religious traditions of the East.
Observed that the Christian life should not be esoteric (cut off from the ordinary struggles and suffering of human life. He valued nature, his friends, and his work. Merton's struggle for peace and justice in the world was integral to his spirituality. |
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H. Richard Niebuhr
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An expert on the structure of faith, proposed that there are five ways in which we arrive at our beliefs.
1. We believe something because we have always believed it. 2. We come to beliefs on the authority of others. 3. We believe things because they are self-evident or obvious. 4. We come to beliefs through persuasive means such as advertising. 5. We come to beliefs through reasoning. "When student and teacher are related to each other as mature beings who trust each other and keep faith with each other, they are at the same time acknowledging each other as selves who are bound to serve a cause that transcends both". |
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Bernard Lonergan
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A Catholic theologian who deeply affected contemporary philosophical and theological thinking, distinguished between essential freedom and effective freedom.
Essential freedom is the radical ability of all human beings to choose among many courses or actions. Effective freedom is limited by many factors: including personal capacity, race, gender, social background, laws, political conditions, to name only a few. |
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Reinhold Niebuhr
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A Presbyterian theologian that argued sin is not so much inherent in human nature as it is inherent in social structures, which shape our individual and communal lives. He believed that institutions were less capable of morality than the individuals who make up those institutions. Unlike individuals, groups have little chance of transcending their own narrow interests.
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Paul Tillich
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A well-known Lutheran theologian referred to faith as "the courage to be". Faith in ourselves and others can give us a resolve to overcome personal limitations as well as obstacles that others place in our way. Insists that doubt is integral to faith, even an indication that faith is indeed vital and growing. Insisted that religion is made up of whatever is one's "Ultimate Concern". Believes that atheist are already living a life of God because such people are already implicity or subconsciously believing in God, because, in order to live a life of love and concern for others, even when it hurts, one must sense that there is a reason to do so.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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A well trained lawyer, politician, devout Hindu that translate the meaning of Hinduism both for those seeking inner peace and for those seeking social revolution. His message was ahimsa which meant not only nonviolence, but also love. To do violence to one another was doing violence to oneself, ultimately to God. He called for the solution to all human conflicts through nonviolence. In 1947, he brought about the nonviolent Indian Revolution against the British colonizers.
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Walter Rauschenbush
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A Social Gospeler who wrote "A Theology for the Social Gospel" that mentions how Jesus was in line with the prophets. Pointed out that we inherit most of our ideas and values from institutions that make up society. Believed that a capitalist society was contrary to Christianity. He believed economic and political institutions could be transformed.
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The Parliament of World Religions
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In 1993, there was a historic meeting in Chicago where over 6500 representatives of most of the world's religions came together to share beliefs and concerns about global problems. The religious leaders agreed that they share the same conviction about social justice and wish to help people. The meeting called for world peace among all people. Documents of this historic meeting include four commitments to:
1.nonviolence and respect for life 2. human solidarity and a just economic order 3. tolerance and a life of truthfulness 4. equal rights and partnership between men and women |
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Dalai Lama
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Known as a Tibetian spiritual God and actual chief and ruler of Tibet. He saw meditation as a means o solve issues and violence and was apart of the Buddhist tradition.
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Abraham Heschel
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A Jewish theologian who suggested that the meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. On the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time. It is a day that ennobles the soul and makes the body wise.
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Global Ethic of Responsibility
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Highlights how each of the five religious communities can help confront and resolve human and ecological crises of our planet and promote a world of greater peace and justice. We can achieve this goal through interreligious dialogue.
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