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9th Grade
03/14/2011

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1/4/11
"Abandon hope all ye who enter here." from Dantes The Divine Comedy. Words inscribed on the gates of hell.
Definition
WOC
A - if followed by a consonent sound
An - if sounds like a vowel
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1/5/11
CLW - Ecumanism - a movement promoting understanding among various religious groups.
Definition
Alot - wrong
A lot - right
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John Calvinism
Definition
16th century French religious reformaer
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Dante Alighiere
Definition
was a 13th - 14th century Italian poetand his mastorpeice is the Divine Comedy
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Bar Mitzvah
Definition
A Jewish ceremony for boys age 13 and its the beginning of religious responsibility
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Francis of Assisi
Definition
Roman Catholic saint known for simplicity
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"I think, therefore I am."
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Descartes
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Johann Wolfgang van Goethe
Definition
18th century German poet\; his most famous work is Faust.
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Hanukkah
Definition
Jewish festival celebrating 2nd century triumph over the Syrians and rededication of their temple in Jeruselum
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Jihad
Definition
holy war
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Lama
Definition
Buddhist priest
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Natural Law
Definition
docturine that states human affairs should be governed principles
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Niccoli Machiavelli
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Italian political phylosipher of the renaisance, who believed in subordinatling moral principals, author of The Prince.
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Sacrament
Definition
religious ceremony or nite
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Imanual Kant
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18th century German philosipher who focased on understanding the of the limits of human understanding and reasoning
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Omar Khayyam
Definition
12th cntury Persian poet, author of the Rubaiyat.
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Tabula Rasa
Definition
unused, fresh, unmarked latin for blankslate
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Upanishads
Definition
writings sacred to Hinduism
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Vatican
Definition
independent state in the boarders of Rome and the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church
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Wake
Definition
Irish funeral celebration that involves drinking and eating
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yarmulke
Definition
skull cap worn by some Jewish men
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Zeitgiest
Definition
the general moral intelectual and cultural climate of an era, and its German for time spirit
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Theater of the absurd
Definition
plays that stress the illogical or irrational aspects of experience
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Beatrice
Definition
woman, beloved by Dante, whop guides him through paradise in The Divine Comedy.
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Dead Sea Scrolls
Definition
containing most of the Old Testament; found in the late 1940's in a cave near the Dead Sea.
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Mary Baker Eddy
Definition
American Religious Reformer, who founded Christian Science
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Fatalism
Definition
a belief that events are determined by impersonal fate, and cannot be changed by humans.
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Grace
Definition
favor, love, and protectiono of God.
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Idealism
Definition
regaurds the mind, spirit, and ideas as the most fundimental kinds of reality.
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Judaism
Definition
religion based on the teachings of the Torah.
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Macrocosm
Definition
representation of something on a much larger scale.
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"Oh Liberty"
Definition
essay by John Stuart Mill; it defends the liberal idea of political freedom.
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