Religion Cosmology Test

Classical Paradigm

- ancient greek worldview - knowledge and meaning came from gods - over time looked to nature and power of reasdon reinforced by Christian images of God and the universe - God provided us everything we need and we must explore to understand it

Ultimate Realtity

- anything experienced and sought that is intimately related to and somehow greater than the human experience

Eschatology

- branch of theology concerned with final events of humankind - concerns death, end of the world, and humanity

Paradigm

- concepts, beliefs, and perspective through which we see the world - determines what we are able to see

Religion

- cultural language used to share and communicate faith and spirituality

Western/ Modern worldview

- embrace reality that see or think they want to see - non-rational ways of knowing are considered regressive - science discusses complexities and awe of universe and existence

Explain the difference between mythos and logos and which is more important

- mythos:: deals with myth and looks back to origins of society and directs people's attention to the eternal universe - logos: rational and scientific thought that enables men and women to function in the world; pracitcal - Both equally important because they have separate jobs

Agnosticism

- one personally does not know if there is a god or not

Sacred

- set aside as having unique intimate value and is a relfection of anything transcendent

Field of vision

- wwhatever is beyond our _________ is beyond our horizons and therefore not part of our understanding

Monotheism

belief in only one God

Morality

codes of personal conduct particularly in relation to others and generally put forward by a society

Mysticism

communing or uniting with the divine, usually through inward contemplation

Atheism

denial of the existence of God - often depends on the image of god that is being denied

what is the difference between faith and belief

faith: relationship or experience with the divine that often involves deeply emotional investment and trust belief: habit of mind in which personal trust or confidence is placed in something or someone

Tenet

principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true

Theism

view that creation came from a Creator who is personal and distinct from creation

Deism

view that recognizes that there is a creator while rejecting any idea of personal relations with the creator

Pre-modern Paradigm

- Age of faith and superstition - medieval worldview - knowledge from authority - Universe is seen as one: what happens on earth is a reflection of what happens in the heavens

Cosmology

A person or group's understanding of the nature of the universe and how things work

Modern Paradigm

Age of Reason and Empiricism - 17th century through today - age of analysis, individualism, mechanism - nature is valued from point of view of economic benefit for humans

Spirituality

Our relationship with the Divine along with the component of human experience and emotions

Antitheism

any rejection or opposition to god

Transcendence

overcoming of the normal limitations imposed by human condition

Ethics

rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or particualr group

Creed

set of officially authorized, concise statements of beleif

Myth

story that tends to answer mystery questions and serves as a vehicle for sacred truth

Spiritual perfection

the complete fullfillment of spiritual potential - acheived in this life or the next

Theology

the study of God

Revelation

the transmission of the divine will to human beings - through myths, prables, religious experience