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Recognition and worship of more than
one god; conceives of sacred power as being
manifested in diverse forms.
– Sky Gods
– Mother Goddesses
– Sexuality and Naturalism |
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| The belief that all things possess a soul or spirit. |
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The belief in two co-equal and often co-eternal, sacred powers.
– Chinese Yin-Yang
– Cosmic Struggle |
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The doctrine that all that exists is God
and God is all in all. God and nature are
interchangeable terms. |
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The belief that there is only one divine
Being or Reality and that all finite things are simply
modes of appearances of that One—everything in
the cosmos is a unity and is equated with the divine.
Often indistinguishable from pantheism. |
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A belief in one God who creates the world
but who does not intervene directly in its ongoing
functioning. Instead, God allows the world to operate by the natural laws God originally established. |
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An effort to merge pantheism and
deism to speak of God as bi-polar which means
god consisted of both an abstract essence(eternal, absolute, independent, and unchangeable) and a concrete actuality (temporal, relative, dependent, and constantly changing). |
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The belief in one supreme God
while acknowledging that other gods exists. |
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| Belief in one personal, transcendent Creator God. |
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“Humans find themselves overwhelmed by a
sense of our alienation or of our own
weakness and inadequacy, by feelings of
hostility and estrangement, or by a profound disquiet provoked by shame, moral guilt, and failure.” (Livingstone 211-212) |
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The Three R’s of Understanding
and Fixing the Human Problem |
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• Roles
– Confucianism
– Marxism
• Rationalization
– Stoicism
– Psychology
• Religion
– Theravada Buddhism
– Abrahamic Faiths |
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• Defined: “Justifying the ways of God.”
• The Reality of Suffering
• Reconciling the Problem of Evil
– Punishment
– Test
– A Great Mystery
– God is Guilty too
– Freewill |
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– True law is right reason in agreement with
nature; it is of universal application,
unchanging and everlasting; it summons to
duty by its commands, and averts from
wrongdoing by its prohibitions. . . It is wrong
to alter this law or to repeal any part of it. . .
.Neither senate nor people can free us from
its obligation, and we need no one outside
ourselves to expound or interpret it. --Cicero
(106-43 B.C.E.) |
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| Ethics: Foundation of Moral Actions |
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• Natural Law
• Moral Exemplars and Prophets
• Divine Command
– “What makes an action right is simply the fact that it is commanded by God.” --Plato |
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| Blooms Taxonomy of Educational Objectives |
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Basic knowledge -- memorizing facts,, figures and
basic processes..
Secondary comprehension -- understanding and
illustrating the facts..
Application -- generalizing the facts to other
contexts and situations..
Analysis -- understanding why the facts are the
way they are,, breaking problems down..
Synthesis -- making connections between
different elements on your own..
Evaluation -- critically using your knowledge to
ascertain the quality of information.. |
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