Approaches to god 2
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alafreniere on December 14, 2010
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 primordial faith | that which all have the capacity to understand, religion builds upon this- we are programmed for something more or somewhere else |
| signal of transcendence | phenomena that occur in this world that seem to point to the existence of another world |
| Idiology | religion for your own common good- terrorist |
| theodicy | term used by theologians in an attempt to reconcile the good of god through the evil of the world. |
| affiliative faith | believe what others tell us till- happens when we are kids with our parents |
| six ways people make a case for god | wonder, moral obligation, our own dissatisfactions, hope, mystical experience, epistemological argument |
| moral obligation | compelled to do the right then when no one is watching- begs the god question |
| epistemological argument | ability to understand the world in which we live |
| language of perfection | the language saint anselm used to talk about go, god is a perfect being nothing greater than him exists |
| fundamental option | big goal that helps us sort out all the smaller goals, direction to god or away from god based on a series of actions or a pattern of life. Rahner says look at this to determine sinfulness |
| religion | that which is most important in life |
| creed/ orthodoxy | what do they believe |
| code/ ortheopoiesis | rules that identify your religion |
| ceremony | a service |
| mechanics of religion | creed code and ceremony |
| universal salvation | everyone has access to the world so everyone has access to god |
| obediental potency | have a potency or potential for god which is made to be fullfilled |
| religious anthropology | study of the human person from a religious outlook, we are made by god so we have to have some god in us |
| peculiar experience | cannot have a direct experience of god need light of glory |
| mediated immediacy | how humans experience god, name used for a religious experience, god uses mediators to tell us we are all god barrers god is in all of us we carry his light but something or someone must show us his presence in use- pregnant woman |
| hierarchy of truths | some beliefs are more important than others |
| theological anthropology | study of human person from a theological/religious perspective, cannot understand humans without connection to god. |
| agape | unconditional self giving not self seeking love, grounded in nature of god |
| deductive methodology | tried to talk about divine human relationship by starting with the divine and trying to impose on humans |
| inductive methodology | divine human relationship by starting with the human |
| sacraments | expressions of the relationship between human and god, connections between what is said and done in church and in daily life |
| cult/ orthopraxis | crucial to act of faith, correlation of theory and practice |
| foundational theology | gave rational for why things were, no longer just facts without reasons, allowed people to question teachings |
| mortal sin | sin that destroys relationship with god |
| venial sin | sin that does not destroy relationship with god |
| empiricist view | view that reduces experience to direct contact witht he world |
| argument for authority | case for using human knowledge to understand god because god is in us |
| ordinary experience | primary experience everyday experiences do not go beyond the external surface of life |
| extraordinary experience | secondary experience, experiences that point to religious existence, depth experience |
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